Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-02-03
Winter Dairying.

n OUTSIDE of the great dairy Localities
of this country are thousands OF diaries
whose chief revenue is the supply Oh
butter, and as this butter has to be put
into the market in competition wit h the
celebrated creamery brands, it is to the
ADVANTAGE Of the small producer to de-
vote every energy to making q prime,
uniform class of goods, and one that
will stand the scrutiny of inspection.
1t seems to be an excepted fact that
the great dairy districts will not, tor
years, if ever, change their season,
but will " dairy it'' in the summer, and
in the winter the cows will beta IN the
past, non-producers; and with this very
fact comes the small dairyman's golden
.opportunity to make his butter in the
winter and early spring when there is
no surplus of dairy products, and cor
respondingly high prices for these pro-
dnetions; and at the time when the
markets are filed by the great dairies'
let mis- COWS go dry, and recuperate Tor
the winters campaign, or feed the
small mess that they will giYesto calves
and hogs. For the small dairyman to
let his COWS calve in October, supply
himself with abundance of the best and
most easily assimilated foods, warm
STABLES and abundant bedding for the
cows and the sale of the winters but
ter will by far exceed the amount de-
rived from the summer income. Ha
It would be useless for any one to at
temnf this change without an almost
Total abandonment Of old-time ideas and
apparatus, even including a thorough
overhauling of the barn, for these new
lreno7ations and !inoVatiOns are impera-
tive to insure success. rE1
Two radical reforms must be institu-
ted in this change, and in the manufact-
nre of butter, the process is one OF uni
versal application, and il has no features
peculiar to any location, for the same
rule will work equallYrwel in Vermont
or Texas. .......
The barn must be put in clean pre-
sentable shape and kept SO warm that
t6ere shall abe no demands made upon
The food given to produce the flow OF
milk to counteract the cold, and if the
stable is not so protected that tenn
Derature above freezing can be main
fained there will not be full success. A
freezinp temperature in q stable is new
er a profitable one in any respect, and
A few hours extra work in banking up,
battening cracks, doubling floors, ETC.,
win make the stable more as 1t should
be. and the saving of feed alone will
Tooyo than cOmnensate for the labor, and
the feed which would have otherwise
Uoneto keep the animal life from freezing
will 90 to the production Of milk. There
is but little danger Of making stable
SO tight as to prevent sufficient Ventlla-
tion: and if the stable is kept thoroughly
clean and dry bedding and absorbents
used. there will beno foul Odols to con-
taminate the milk Or impair the health
of the stock. E 81 Il g.f
Forwinter dairying the old time level
plank floors will have to be abandoned
and the platform adopted. The pres
ent floor, if sound and tight, may be re-
tanned. The most inexpensive way to
remedy this is to lay down a5xlO inch
stick Of timber four feet eight inches
| from the stanchi0ns and fill-this space
with pounded stone and wet sand.
The floor beyond should be made
water tight il possible, then long
straw from the horse stalls, litter Of any
kind, dry sand and anything handy
which will absorb liquids may be scat
tered behind the cows; and if the stables
are cleaned daily it will be impossible
for lurking Odors to exist, and by SO iaI
we have our first reform inaugurated
for the making Of prime article OF
winter er.2J6hn Could, E1 Mary
land Farmer.
An insane physician poisoned two
men to death at Lyon, Mimi, before
his malady was discovered.
The entire loss of the German armies