The ranch., December 01, 1902, Page 9, Image 9

About The ranch. (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914

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trict can be taken as a reliable basis
for the whole country, and we see no
reason why they may not, the shrink
age for the month of October is less
than 3,600 tubs as compared with the
same month in 1901.
The number of retail licenses taken
out in the Chicago office from July 1
to October 31 was 2,446, while the en
tire number for the whole of last year
was 2,452. —New York Produce Re
view.
Milk-Condensery Prices.
Mr. E. B. Willey, who travels for
one of San Francisco's creamery sup
ply houses, is a native of New Berlin,
New York, where is located one of
the plants of the Borden Condensed
Milk Company. He has recently re
ceived from there an account of what
the dairymen receive for their milk
from the condensry people, says San
Francisco Dairy Produce. In October
last the price was $1.45 per hundred
pounds; November, $1.55; December,
$1.65; January, $1.65; February, $1.50,
and March $I.4o—an average of $1.53
for these winter months.
In 1895 the Borden Condensed Milk
Company put in a condensery at that
place, which at that time had 950 in
habitants. The population has increas
ed to 1,450 at the present time, the
growth of population being attributed
almost wholly to the condensery. The
supply of milk has increased every
year since the factory was established.
The concern not only condenses the
milk, but also manufactures the cans
in which the product is put. The plant
rovers ten acres. In the flush of the
season it obtains milk from 400 dairy
men and gives employment to 200 per
sons, and pays out as much as $50,000
per month to dairymen and employes.
The largest amount of milk received
in one day was 216,094 pounds. It took
10 barrels of sugar to sweeten this
amount and 45,000 pounds of coal to
condense it.
COMPOSITION OF LINSEED MEAL.
As is well known, flax is valuable not
only for the oil products that are ob
tained from it, but also for the meal
which is left after the oil has been re
moved. A bulletin from the Minnesota
station says that the composi
tion of linseed meal varies ac
cording to the thoroughness with
which the oil has been removed
from the seeds . When the oil
is extracted with chemicals, as is the
case with the new process oil meal,
very little fat is left in the product.
On the other hand, when the oil is
extracted with pressure, leaving what
is known as old process oil meal, the
product contains from 7 to 8 per cent,
of fat.
The average composition of twelve
samples of oil meal used in various
feeding experiments at the station
showed that about 7 per cent, of fat
or oil was the usual amount present.
In some cases the fat left in the meal
was as high as 9 per cent, and in one
case it was as low as 5 per cent.
The average amount of protein in
the oil meal is 32.50 per cent. It is
this constituent or nutriment which
gives the high value to the oil meal.
The oil meal is a very concentrated
protein food. It is valuable because it
furnishes such a large amount of ma
terial for replenishing the waste tis
sues of the body, the construction of
muscles, and the stimulation of milk
production. Nearly a third of the
weight of the oil meal is this vital nu-
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triment known as protein. In the
making of oil practically all of the pro
tein of the flax seed is recovered in the
oil meal. In fact the oil meal is richer
in protein than the original oil seeds,
because the forty pounds of oil meal
contains all of the protein in the origi
nal sixty pounds or bushel of flax
peed.
The amount of fiber in linseed meal
ranges from 7.20 to 9.7 per cent, 8.5
per cent, being about the average,
which is larger than the fiber in wheat
bran, but is not quite as large as the
amount in shorts. As a rul- 1 there is
less than 10 per cent, of water in lin
seed meal. The amount of ash is about
5.25 per cent., while the amount ol
carbohydrate compounds ranges from
40 to 45 per cent.
There is a factory at Portland,
which has been in successful opera
tion for several years, which supplies
linseed oil meal of high quality—the
Portland Linseed Oil Works.
Running The Hand Separator.
Those who use the hand separators
should take a few lessons from the
hurdy-gurdy or hand organ men, to
learn to keep a rotary motion and
keep up the speed until the end.
Many will start off rapidly, but soon
tire and go more slowly. Others can
put out their strength when pushing
forward and downward, but fail when
they are pulling the handle toward
them or lifting up. If one has a
dozen or more cows we think it will
pay to use the gasoline engine. Al
though we have not tried them, what
we have read gives us a high opinion
of them. No trouble to start or stop
them any more than to light a match
or blow one out. No waiting to get
up steam, and it is said that the later
styles will give regular speed that is
not easily to be obtained by hand
power or by tread power.—Massachu
setts Plowman.
There are different kinds of success.
There is the success that brings with
it the seared soul —the success which
is achieved by wolfish greed and vul
pine cunning—the success which
makes honest men uneasy or indignant
in its presence. Then there is the oth
er kind of success —the success which
comes as the reward of keen insight,
of sagacity, of resolution, of address,
combined with unflinching rectitude
of behavior, public and private.—Theo
dore Roosevelt.
If you can't be a booster for The
Ranch, be a knocker; advertise us
somehow.
THE RANCH.
BETTER TALK TO US
when you are ready to ship your cream.
We have a proposition that will be of
advantage to every dairyman within
two hundred and fifty miles of Seattle.
Ours is the ideal system, with modern,
up-to-date cream-gathering and butter
making equipment. We have the
best butter market in the West. We
guarantee to get you more for your
butter than you will be paid for it at
home. No pan-skimming. No churn
ing. No drudgery for the women
folks. You keep the skim-milk. We
pay spot cash twice a month.
H. I. Weinstein & Co., Seattle
Successors to the Meadowbrook Co.
CREAMERY SUPPLIES
We have everything for the creamery
and dairy. We have the most com
plete stock on the Coast North of San
Francisco. Then you know we have
been doing business a long while now
and you can feel pretty sure that you
will get about the right treatment in the
way of goods and prices. Things
come as ordered.
Merz Dairy Supply Company
SEATTLE, WASH.
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