Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-01
Canada Dairyman.

Our neighbors of Western Ontario,
have just held a very successful conyen-
ton, which vas participated in by dele
cations from all parts of the country,
not a few from the United States.
Among the valuable hints thrown out
we select the following as particularly
applicable to Buchanan Co. farmers.
/. Mr.. Beal, of New York, said, that
while almost all other enterprises were
in a depressed state, d%airying continued
to be prosperous" We may remark
that this will always be the case, for
two reasons: Good butter and cheese
will al,oays be in great demand, and
there is S o much labor, skill and care
required to produce it, that there is
scarcely a reasonable fear that over pro-
duction will ever occur. 1t is not like
the ordinary speculative interests, in
which capital can be massed with large
dividends, and no constant, personal,
watchful care, involving ceaseless vigi-
lance and untiring industry. On the
contrary, it is one of the slow, steady
but sure mills in which a patient, per-
%sistent, care-taking toiler can grind out
a good support and a solid fortune. W.
can safely assure our friends that, of
%gilt-edged butter and first class cheese,
there never will be an over production.
2. Prof. Arnold said that experience
thus far, established the white oak
butter package as the best. Stone has
been used to advantage when we'll glazed.
Tin would do, if a pure article, but both
these articles are difficult to obtain free
from imperfection and impurities. The
package should be first soaked in cold
brine, then in boiling hot brine.
3. On the number of pounds of milk
it takes to make a pound of cheese,
much comment was made. 1t was re-
marked that when factories sold their
cheese at the age of 20 or 30 days, it
would weigh more, and hence, show a
better yield. Again, it was remarked
that better feed made better milk, which
would also require less pounds of it to
make a pound of cheese, and it was fur
Their shown that the kind of COWS kept
had something to do with it. An in
stance was quoted regarding a dairy in
Maine, in which a pound of cured
cheese was made from less than nine
pounds of milk. An investigation
showed that there was a large proper
ton Of Jersey cows. The general av-
erage is over ten pounds of milk for a
pound of cheese, and twenty-five for a
pound of butter.
4. Shade trees were suggested flank
ing pastures and roads, so that cows
could keep cool and comfortable.
5. a paper was read, from c. w.
Horn, of Ohio, in which he ably set
forth the advantages of selecting and
breeding better cows. This is a topic
that should be not only considered, but
acted on by every farmer. This shows
why of two farmers, with equally good
land and facilities, one will make dou-
BILE of the other. OF the standard to be
set for good cows, we must speak in a
separate article. Not one farmer in ten
knows what a good COW is.
G.. On the breeding of dairy cattle
there was a diversity of opinion One
was very slrong for the Ayrshire, 9th
ers for Short-horns, and others for
Holsteins. This shows that there are
good mixers in all classes. The point
for the dairyman, is the milk, butter
and cheese, and incidentally the beef,
not the show or the fat.
Seldom do we find so much of value
in the proceedings of such conventions.
They grow better from year to year, and
should be held in every county and dis
trict.