The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-03-31
THE DAIRY.

-Gentleness. and gentleness only.
will overcome vicious. turbulent dis
position In q COW. Shouting at her,
kicking or otherwise maltreating her,
will never mend her manners; but it il
q bad creature indeed that will 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.
opment of the milk in cows, while the
opposite practices will have the effect
Of materially reducing the quantity. But
with kind treatment and careful milk
ing there must be an abundance of the
best feed provided, If the best results
are desired.
I'm reply to . correspondent who
asked If it would be advisable to build
an ice-house with milk-room attached,
and have the drain from the ice pass
through the milk-room the Rural Ne,o
Yorker says: Your plan will not work.
Many persons have tried it 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 q cistern, a
trough or pool covered from the air,
and use the 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 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.
-Dairying during the season of 1881
promises we'll from the outlook at pres
ent, especially in the northwest In
Wisconsin cheese will be the main prod
uct of the dairy, although not a few
factories will adopt the plan of making
butter, 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 so, 1000, 600
pounds. In Illinois q few new cream
cries will be erected and butter and
cheese will both be produced as former
ly. In none of the 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.-Ufica IN. Y Herald.
With good 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 a cow on an
acre and a-half or two acres. The crops
usually grown are winter rye or wheat
for the trst 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-
Der 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.
Marks of a good milch COW are a
thin and hollow neck, light fore-quar-
ters, with little dewlap, well-rounded
chest, broad loins and hips, and not
showing indications of putting ON fat.
The hide should be thin aud mellow.
mars nne ana tail small. but especially
the udder should be full and sound, yet
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 of
soon after calving, and if it feels coarse
and lumpy the bag will be found not to
contain a large quantity. The teats
should stand square, at equal distance,
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very thick towards the udder. but nearly
equal, yet tapering. Another very ma
terial consideration is the temper. for
aDdy S.n S mot an only ssa
quantity of milk. and from parting with
it more readily they are less subject to
fall of In their milking.