The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-03
THE DAIRY.

frofessor Atwater states that the best
ranon for COW in fun fiow of milk ia
iOo parts Of corn meal (by weight, eighty
parts bran, and sixty-five parts decorti-
Gated (huskless) cotton-seed meal.
"A roam Jersey short-horn (cros,-
nreedl now belonging to General How
ard, OF Buffalo, N. Y, Is reported to have
given ], ,7S7 pounds of milk in one month,
and to have yielded 213 pounds of butter
N seven days Her feed was grass and
tour quarts Of ground corn and oats
daily. This is extraordinary. If true.
AT recent meeting of the Dairy
Association at Rutland, VT, achemist
claimed that the salt found in ocean or
saltrspring water has a greater power of
killing the germs that create rancidity
IN butter than has pure salt, hence he
recommended It for the preservation of
butter.
-Concerning milch cows, the Ameri-
con Agricssiturtst says: Those to come
IN soon should be watched, and the
udder bathed with cold water on the
frst appearance of heat or hardness. If
any trouble with the udder occurs at
calving, it is best to let the calf nurse
otherwise remove the offspring at once,
and feed it by hand. The importance
Of raising calves from superior cows
only cannot be teo strongly enforced.
By \ constant selection Of the best the
dairy may be greatly improved. 1t is
not well to turn the cattle out to grass at
the first appearance of green in the
pastures The change from dry hay to
green food should be q gradual one"
AT the recent meeting of the Iowa
Butter and Cheese Association the fol-
lowing resolution, after careful consid-
Grafton. was adopted rs the standard for
the measurement of cream: Resolved
that it requires one hundred and thirteen
cubic inches of cream or milk when set
twenty-four hours, and set in deep set
ting cans, to make one pound Of butter,
the measurement of cream should be as
follows: For cans twelve inches in di-
ameter one inch depth of cream; for
cans eight inches in diameter two and
one-fourth inches depth of cream, and
for cans eight and one-haf inches in di-
ameter two inches depth of cream to
make a pound Of butter. The milk to
be set in q temperature not below fifty
f, degrees nor above sixty degrees Fahren-
heit, and not less than twenty -four hours
before being SKINNED. The standard Of
measurement shall be rs here recited,
and it is recommended that all cans be
made to conform TO these dimensions.
The measure for cream does not in any
way apply to the shallow setting system.
From the addresses of the President
of the Western Dairymen's Associa-
ton, Hon. w. ID. Hoard, given before
that body at its annual meeting recent
ly, we condense the following; Taking
the four States Of Illinois, Iowa, Wis
consin and Minnesota, we fined that in
1870 they contained. all told. 1, ,4S0, ,973
cows. OF this number Wisconsin had
308, SIG, Illinois $40, S21, Iowa SOS, 81
and Minnesota 121, ,467, In 1880 the
number Of cows had increased to
2,4S4,O1s. OF this number Wisconsin
: had AIS, ,S4Z. Illinois $50, 913. Iowa s24,-
! IS7. Minnesota 275,545. The increase
in the four States is 72 per cent, ni-
/. nois S5 per cent, lows Isl per cent,
and Minnesota 121 per cent He found
from data deemed fairly reasonable that
the average production per COW in 1870,
reckoned in cash, amounted to about
$25. Measured by this SUN the total
productive value of the cow in the four
States mentioned in that year, was
SS5, ,999, 40S. In 1880 the productive
value per cow was about S35, owing to
the greater dissemination of dairy
knowledge and better prices received
Measured by this sum we find that the
COWS of Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and
Minnesota earned in 1880 the vast sum
$50. $50. 665.