The Columbus journal., 1881-11-16
To Dairyne0. q.

Ihe folloWlug rules ana sug ges'
tons we clip from the Fremont
Tribune. They are a part of cir
culsr issued by the Creamery Asso-
citation at Fremont, and will com.
mend themselves to all who are in
the business of making butter, az
being sensible and timely. The
sooner the men and women of Ne.
braska, reduce their keeping Of cows
for butter making to a scientific
basis, the more profitable will thai
business be:
RULES.
/. Do not send to the creamery
too soon milk from cows which have
recently calved. Never under any
circumstances think of saving the
milk from a COW until the calf is at
least five days old.
2. Do not send to the creamery
milk from cows in any way diseased
or MANNED. It is unwholesome and
unfit for food therefore unjust to
the purchasers and consumers of our
butter and cheese.
3. Under no circumstances allow
q single cow of your dairy MIXED
till the stables have been well clean
ed and sll dirt or other substances
entirely removed from the cows
udder.
a. Never bring or send milk to
the creamery which has not been
strained. During the fall and win
ter milk should be strained twice.
Once as soon ss drawn from the
COW, using a strainer pail. The Sec
ond time through a strsiner fitted to
the top of your milk cans.
5. Never beat or scold your COW s
when milking them. Don't allow
them to be worried by dogs or over
driven and excited when out of the
barn. If you do, the milk will be
injured and the amount given by
them much less.
6. Loud talking should never be
INDUCED, but prohibited entirely
while milking. Perfect quiet added
to kindness will greatly increase the
production Of milk in any dairy.
z. Feed your cows freely with
corn-sta!ks, millet, corn and oats
ground together or corn or meal
mixed with shorts; the better you
feed the greater the flow of milk.
The best dsirymen feed highest.
Don't forget this! Grain fed to
milch cows viii usually add to the
value of the milk product twice the
sum the grain would bring if sold on
the market.
s. We shall reserve the right to
fix a different price for milk from
dairies with half starved, poorly
sheltered, or shsbbily treated cows,
for they cannot give a good quality
of milk unless they are fairly cared
for.
9. Provide good warm stables for
your milch cows, and during the
winter keep them housed the most
of the time. This treatment will
save you large amount of feed,
besides add much to the flow of the
milk.
10. Feed your cows regularly.
III. Water your dairy just as reg
ulsrly as you feed them.
IL. Milk every COW with the
same regularity as the sun rises and
sets. Do not think of beginning to
milk at five o'clock one morning,
and the next morning at seven.
Such irregularity lessons the amount
of milk, therefore will be very un-
profitable.
Ii. Please insist on cleanliness,
kindness and regularity; these are
three cardinal virtues in dairying.
IA. Never allow your milk to re-
main over night in the milk barn or
in any other unwholesome place, for
nothing absorbs impurities sooner
than milk or craau
10. During winter never allow
your milk to freeze. IL must be
kept in the house over night, and
while taking it to the creamery il
must be protected by covering the
cans with blankets, for prime butter
and cheese cannot be made from
milk and cream which have been
frozen.
l6. Use tin milk pals. Wooden
pals are unfit for dairy purposes.
IL. Wash and scald all cans ev-
cry day as soon as they are returned
from the creamery, and once a week
scour the inside of every can thor
oughly with salt, taking particular
pains to clesr the seams and edges.
is. All milk pals aud strsiners
must be washed twice a day (when
used) and thoroughly scslded once
day. Milk pals must not be left
in the barn over night.
l9. Dairymen accepting our third
proposition will be expected to keep
their milk in a proper place at all
times protecting it from impure sur
rounding and from the heat in the
summer and the cold during the
winter, which can be done with but
little expense,