The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-02-26
ent, of feeding value.


DAIRY MATTERS
The Dairy Department of the Cen
tennial exhibition bids fair to be one of
the most interesting branches thereof
The American Dairymen's Association
has caused plan to be drawn up for a
combined cheese factory and creamery
at the Exhibition, and $1,000 was
pledged on the spot towards carrying
out the object, and at other meetings
throughout the dairy districts, contri-
buttons are being made for the same
purpose and among other evidences of
zeal in behalf of this project, Colonel
Sprague, at the American Associations
meeting, pledged donation OF all the
scales that might be needed for weigh
ing the product of the factory, from the
counter size, suitable for single cheese,
to the hay scales for weighing whole
loads.
The Vermont Dairymen's Assoca-
TONS late meeting was chiefly occupied
with paper on breeding by Hon Harris
Lewis, of Herkimer He presented
some of the qualities and characteristics
of the various breeds Of stock in alpha
betical order OF Attorneys, he said
that for the food consumed they produced
the best and largest quantity Of butter
produced by any breed; but for general
use this breed is not so valuable as
some other breeds. They are chiefly
valuable as butter producers. The
Devon is the most beautiful breed we
have The cows always keep in good
order, and they are so perfectly bred
that they are race rather than breed
They are very valuable in the produc-
ton of working cattle The milk Of
the Devon ranks next to the Jersey
Herefords are not extraordinary as milk
ers, but they produce perhaps the hest
working cattle in the world. AS beef
producers they rank next to the Dcvons
For the food consumed the Avrshires
will produce the greatest amount Of
milk of any breed, and it is of full ordiu-
ary quality. The Holsteins, as mixers,
are not 80 certain as the Ayrshires.
They are unreliable. They require a
large amount of food to keep them in
condition, but the milk contains very
small cream globules which are slow to
rise hence the Holstein milk will bear
transportation better than the milk of
any other cow.
There was a general discussion of
the effect which stagnant pools, carron
and decayed vegetable matter are sup
posed to produce upon milk, and thereby
upon the butter and cheese product
1t was believed that the inhalation Of
putrescent germs by cattle produces
faint in milk. Prof L. 3. Arnold was
asked to express his opinion upon that
topic. He responded as follows:
These are prominent causes Of tainted
milk, but they are not the chief causes.
Some observers have even gone so far
as to assert that carrion and stagnant
water did not at all serve to faint milk.
But actual experiments, certified to by
many witnesses, prove that these agents
injure the quality of milk. The Profes-
sor related an instance in which de-
caying horse in pasture tainted the
milk of an entire herd The horse was
buried and there was no more faint
When first drawn from the COW, there
may not be perceptible odor, but the
faint may be developed in infected milk
during transportation to the factory
A putrefactive ferment is imbihed by
the COW. Cheese made from tainted
milk taints the breath, and the ferment
goes on in the system. 1t is not safe
to permit decayng matter to lie in or
near a pasture, because the seeds of
disease, both in man and beast, are
scattered broadcast. Cows often feed