Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-06-26
Agritmltmral.
Letter From Vermont.


Nh Editor 1.-The Impromptu Farmer.
tlnb met at II A NJ, May %. The reg
lar business Of the meeting was the discu,
SION OF the question :. What is the most or,
htable use to- which skinned milk can r
put? -
he chairman, On calling the meeting I
order, remarked that this assignment ha
been made by the special request of Mr.. &
and 1t was expected that he would open ii.
discussion.
MIR Soon after / commenced dair
farming. it became question of much inter
est to me, how L should most proftably die
pose OF the SKINNED milk of nv dairy q
thirty five cows found all nv neighbur
ieedinS theirs To swine, but | had earl
conceived an intense dislike for the filth
brutes, determined on making some otf,c
disposition of my milk | was fully Stoke,
and bad no Occa, ion to feed calves, but tn
idea of feeding it to nv mich cows occurrec
To me a. feasible; whereupon | incurred o
everybody in the whole circle of nv acauaiu
tancc- and wrote 10 the Country GeufLer,a7
newspaper, for information in regard +,
whether theattempt had ever been made upor
any considerable scale thus to utilize tn,
SKINNED milk. Failing to get any positiy
information, and meeting only ridicule from
my neighbors, | determined 20 try a series OF
experiments, the details of which woulj
ar IN
To say that L can get more than % per c,nt
more Tor my mIIk led to my mich cows, tina
IN any other way that have ever known -,
Its being used
Sir ID How do you induce YOUR cows To
eat or drink the milk? tried to do some
thing IN that way after conversation eith
you last year bat. | could not get mine Ia
touch 1t and gave the JOB up for bad
Mr. G-l always pot my cows in stan
ilFf.fs sxr-lts l.. 81
each OF EN- a tub, made by 81 ING n flour
barrel in two, in which | put each cows
allowance Of sour milk IT, us ia not unfre
Iuentiy the case with cow unaccust mod
To eating milk, she does not readily take t.
It, put into 1t small quantity of bran
shorts cOrEmeal or potatoes, something thai
she Will eat, sometimes sailing it, humoriny
her taste In any way that occurs to me. and
perseUere till she doe. cat it have meyer
failed
Mr.. In the season of flush feed what
inc in the amount of butter do vn,,
realize from feeding all the milk
Dir G--I snOw | get an increase of D
per cent In the am unit of milk, but do not
estimate the increase in butter quite 81 HIGH
pr 'bably about ~ per cent. is high enough.
Mr. B.-ilas It never occurred TO YOU that
lee ling sour Iced % COWS is repugnant to Their
natural tastes and habits, and is likely to re
suit IN INJURY To the health Of the animal?
Dir. G--I have now COWS that have eaten
milk more than four wears, and given mill
almost the year round, never going dry more.
than two or three weeks. whose health. con-
-tItutIon. and milking qualities are no in
the least I'm Jared and my experience through
'ut has o. en- that COWS more healthfuI
and every way better for the sour milk diet.
Tine Chairman Mr. . has a method If
using up ur milk, somewhat peculiar to
himself, and we hope to hear his views.
Mr. Q--l feed all my SKINNED milk and
much grain to calves for the shambles. but
have made no comparisons. and pt no &C !
counts and am not prepared to take any MARI
IN this discussion
The Chairmin.-At what age does the
butcher take your calves?
Mr. Q--That depends on circumstances
We begin to sell them at five or SIX weeks
old. and keep reducing the number through
the season. rarely keeping any longer than
eight or nine months, though in one instance.
we fed one thirteen months. and very pr,lta-
bly, too
MIR w Il have listened with much inter
est to the discussion, and am not prepared
to tempt to contrOvert the gentlemen's the
cries, but cannot but think them but out ,
srosths OF the Yankee fashion of farming.
which Is 10 get all you can off the farm, and .
pay as little back as possible.
Now expect to live and die Oh my farm.
and give IL my youngest son when | am
done with it. and cannot but respect that
Invctcrate worker that disgusts neigibor
q. tine hog | do not underst stand that any
gentleman present has kept Il =. black and
white = account with his sour milk and IL
appears 10 me TO he pretty nearly all guess
work alter all Now 1 want the privilege OF
guessing once or twice. / guess, to begin
with that | can make pound of pork and
Il POUND of lard with the same quantity OF /
milk that neighbJr g. makes his pound q,
butter
Now admitting his percentage of increase
To be correct, In an avefsge dairy he cannot
count over one pound of butter IA week for
the entire season, which gives to me in ad
tiitIon To my pound of pork, and pound of I
lard whole week work of my most Profit
able worker, the manure maker which t. me
IL worth more than the pound of butter {
But there Is another view of the subect that
has not been mentioned here In some 10
'ditIes SKINNED milk cheese are prufitabIy
mad. and IN my peregrinations last year, / !
run upon an institution called q Creamery !,
factory for making butter and skinned. or I
rather churncd milk cheese {
he Dodus operaads is to bring in the milk. a
night ami mornin :, any cheese fact nv !
and - set 1t IL hours, when it is churned I
without having been SKINNED, and the hut j
tcrmIlk is at once drawn off and made IN
into cheese
Were 1t not that cannot dispense with :
my manure maker, | should adopt this last 1
method of using up the milk. b
The hour having expired, the further dis /
.uSsIOn of this subject was made the special a
rider for four weeks from to day..-PIough-
gtdn- I