The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-21
The Dairy.

The Dairy.
AT the annual meeting of the Western
Reserve Dairymens Association the fol
lowing resolution was discussed:
Resoleed That the Dairy interests Of Ohio
could best be promoted by postponing the open
ing of factories until May LIST.
Upon this 'oint the convention was about
evenly div d. While one party contend
ed tor the old land marks, the other urged
the theory of higher prices for the later
cheese. The postponing of opening until
May first may be summed up in the fol-
lowing extract from letter from j. IL.
+ Real of Philadelphia: "Stock now on
hand will naturally command high price
if it is known that the cheese producing
seahon will open three weeks later than
usual. The productions will then COM
mand higher price from the start, for, in
stead of being manufactured from hay
milk, improperly cured, skinned to a
greater or less degree, it will be made from
grass milk and can be better cured. 1t
will prevent the food of poor cheese that
always has the effect of lowering the prices
of June and July cheese, for nothing af-
fects the value of tho cheese of those
months, as the April cheese, and the milk
made into poor cheese in April can be fed
with fully as much benefit after skimming,
to calves, hogs and the like"
The arguments brought forward to re-
flute this, were that the cows came in early,
that the over supply of butter would send
prices down, and that cows If properly fed
would give milk that would make strictly
prime cheese, and finally, the patrons and
factorymen could not agree in the matter
and it would never be otherwise than
Tt,,oh ra ~ hoe 81.
If no agreement could be made, could not
a uniform system of skimming be adopted
SO as to insure certain grade of milk? 1t
was fact that every one had his way of
skimming, and one would set deep and an
other shallow, one would set as MIXED,
another would swarm up the milk; one
would skim with saucer, and another
with an "honest SKINNER" so that the
milk received from twenty farms, would
exhibit about as many grades. The fac
torymen would be very lenient in the mat
ter, for they feared to offend patrons. The
subject was taken up again at later hour,
and after long discussion, the convention
placed itself upon the record as favoring
later opening of factories; also as taking
almost unanimous ground against the prac-
tice of making every other day cheese; or
of making cheese composed of less than
one half new milk, a position that will be
effective abroad and perhaps will do some
thing towards correcting the evils of three
to seven milking cheese.
Last year the question was mooted about
utilizing whey as fertilizer, and thus do
away with the shrinking question" that so
troubles many a factory man and his i'm
mediate neighbors. Colonel Harris had
during the year studied up the question,
an! he reported rather unfavorably, for he
found that whey only contained one per
cent. of matter that was of any value,
while the 93 per cent. of water was not
worth nearly so much as rain water of equal
quantity. He thought its chief mission
would remain, as it always had been, ''to
get up a stencil" The gentleman who had
tried it, found that sour whey would kill
plants, SO that the discussion of this ques-
ton ceased.
Underground curing houses, can they
be introduced into Ohio with profit" brought
out the fact that of some five or six that had
been built in Ohio, not one is now in use,
and the result had been here, the same as
in Wisconsin. There, when introduced,
the owners "eould see profit" in them. but
they proved of about as much value as
the last quotations of Terre Haute railroad
stock.
The Garrettsville convention has always
been accustomed to go behind butter and
cheese, and to discuss radical principles.
The crops, feeding of cows, and kindred
matters that lie at the foundation of the
milk supply, always Tt ceives share of at
tention here, and so the "Feeding of Po-
tatoes" was brought up. This section of
the Reserve abounds with potatoes, which
owing to the great supply, are well nigh
worthless. Many farmers therefore are
feeding largely with them. Several farm
ers had thoroughly tried them, and found
them very valuable. They invariably pro-
duced an increased flow of milk, and gen
eral gain in flesh. They were valuable for
fattening purposes. A little meal added to
them had ~ effect of producing butter OF
higher co,or. In the fall when the grass
eros becomes frost-bitten they proved espec-
tally valuable.
Screen feeds for summer feeding" was
one of the best conducted discussions of the
day. The drouth and other causes have
combined to injure the pastures and mead
ows of Ohio, detracting fully one-half from
their value, and "soiling" has become an
important question. Mr.. Taylor had tried
clover, but it did not raise the guam ity of
the milk az he desired, Sweet corn fodder
field corn was of but little value. For fall
feeding carrots are very nutritious. Mr..
Nichols would recommend the evergreen
variety of sweet corn, and would SOW
broadcast. If desired for winter feeding,
he would store II in mows rather than
leave it IN the field to bleach and spoil. He
favored early sowing and limited seed, as
then the stalks bear small ears that added
to the quality. Mr.. Nichols was an advo-
cate of Hungarian grass. 1t was great
producer. and was in quality better than
hay, was easily raised, and was not
more exhaustive crop than corn. The
feeding of cabbage was also advocated,
one man affirming that no vegetable that
he knew of would return so much milk,
and cows liked il. The most serious OBJ
lection against It's being thus used was its
value as q food for human beings, and its
high price, a price that would be in all
probability maintained many years. Your
correspondent finds in Hungarian grass a
valuable food. He feeds it largely to his
dairy, and occasionally gives his horses a
feed of it. Fed five COWS, he found it
good milk producer, especially in the early
winter, and il is a good flesh producer. He
sows about 20 quarts per acre, mows II with