Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-03-25
THE DAIRY.

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\ --Gentlcness, and gentleness only,
will overcome a vicious, turbulent dis
position In n COW. Shouting at her,
kicking or otherwise maltreating her,
will never nienu Yer manners; but It Is
d bad creature Indeed that win not yield
to persevering gentleness of treatment.
1t Is worth while to remember that
gentle treatment and rapid and close
milking will tend to the greatest devel-
opmenI Of the milk In cows, while the
opposite practices will have the effect
with kind treatment and careful milk
ing there must be an abundance of the
best feed provided, If the best results
are desired. .oiHcI dhpo io
I'm reply to a correspondent who
asked If 1t would he advisable to build
an ice-house with milk-room attached,
and have the drain from the ice pass
through the milk-room the Rural NeW
Yorker says: Your plan will not work.
Many persons have tried IL and all have
failed. 1t wastes the ice and does not
cool the milk. Your best plan is to set
your milk in deep pals, in cistern, a
trough or pool covered from the air,
and use tho ice in the usual manner to
cool the milk directly. A water tight
box is easily made of plank for this pur-
pose. 1t would require many times
more ice to cool the air of a milk-room
than to cool the milk itself. Fifty
pounds of ice will cool 200 pounds Of
milk to forty-five degrees in close
non. conducting box or refrigerator
The box should be lined with tin. t,
-Dairying during the season of 1881
promises well from the outlook at pres
ent, especially in the northwest. In
Wisconsin cheese will be the main prod
uct of the dairy, although not few
factories will adopt the plan of making
outer. If not through the entire season
they will as soon as the cheese season
closes. A number of new factories will
be erected in various portions Of the
State. In Iowa butter will be the prod
uct, and from reports the make for 1881
will greatly exceed that of 1880, when
the product reached fully 50,000,000
pounds. In Illinois a few new cream
cries will be erected and butter and
cheese will both be produced as former
ly. In none of tho foregoing States can
much cheese be. found at present and
the opening of spring will give good
market, especially for the better class
of goods Utica (N, y Herald. q, ,
-Withgood management soiling may
be made very profitable practice. No
dairy can well be managed without it,
excepting where land is very cheap and
one has abundance of grass and pasture.
One COW has been kept on an acre the
year round by q. good system of soiling,
but it is very easy to keep COW on an
acre and a. half or two acres. The crops
usually grown are winter rye or wheat
for the first green fodder to be cut in
May and June; clover and grass to be
cut in June and July; oats, or oats and
peas, to be cut in July and August; corn
to be cut in August and up to Novem-
ber, with Hungarian grass or millet if
need be; then mangels for fall and
winter feed with dry corn fodder and
hay until the rye comes again the next
spring. 1t is necessary to plant the
crops for cutting at intervals so as to
have them fresh and not too ripe. ,2D
Marks of good milch COW are a
thin and hollow neck, light fore-quar-
ters, with little dewlap, u well-rounded
chest, broad loins and hips, and not
showing indications of putting on fat.
The hide should be thin aud mellow.
hairs fine and tail small. But especially
the udder should be full and sound, vet
thin to the touch, and should be of equal
size and substance throughout. If it
shows more behind than before it is
deemed sign of the milk falling off
soon after calving, and if it feels coarse
and lumpy the bag will be found not to
contain large quantity. The leafs
should stand square, at equal distance,
and should neither be very large nor
very thick towards the udder, but nearly
equal, yet tapering. Another very ma
terial consideration is the temper, for
kindly COWS will not only give less
trouble than those of an opposite dispo-
sition, but they give generally greater
quantity of milk, and from parting with
it more readily they are less subject to
fall off in their milking. I.I. mt