The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-08-23
THE DAIRY.

Whoeyer> places much dependence
on the strainer for securing clean milk
viii never make gilt-edged butter. Al
lowing. dirt to get into the milk and
then depending on the strainer to get it
out Is very poor apology for cleanli-
ness More or less of the dirt, especially
everything of soluble nature, and some
that is net, will find its way through the
meshes of the strainer.
Bran is favorite grain for feeding
Tor milk; it increases the flow of milk,
but adds little to its butter properties.
Buckwheat bran or ground buckwheat
will increase the flow of milk more than
any other grain with which we are ac-
quaintsd, and it makes the poorest milk
that a COW can be made to yield; it has
no good qualities under the head of milk.
Massachusetts Ploughnld,s.
Cows must have plenty of good
water to drink. The quality of the
drinking water of the COWS affects tie
milk seriously. The quality of the
drinking water about the spring house
must be as clean as it can be possibly.
Milk is the great absorber of all odors,
and of all kinds of exhalations. So
cream and butter are absorbing continu-
ally every odor and exhalation that may
be spread in the atmosphere around
them
In regard to the value. of quart of
milk. in the summer season with abun-
dant herbage, cows naturally coming IN
along in April, the farmers can sell milk
and make money at it at two cents q
quart, and with the competition and the
surplus in the milk market, very few
farmers, whether making that milk into
butter or cheese, or selling it, can realize
: more than two cents; but when the same
dairy has shrunk up in October, your
milk will bring more than two cents
made into cheese or butter one year with
another, and the milk will sell for more
than that in the market. As quick as
Won strike November and begin to feed
from your barns, the milk will cost the
farmer more than two cents.
When You attempt to make gilt
edged butter and think yo u can make it
easily, YOU will find that the path is a
narrow one that you have got to tread;
YOU have got to have good cows, you have
got to see that those COWS are well
fed; you have got to see that those cows
are miIked at the proper time and
in proper way a kindly
way. Do you suppose those cows.
If beaten with the milking stool
and klckeQ ana IraSneu aTOunu
and chased by a dog, are going to give
You the milk that will make your high
priced butter? In the human subject,
any undue excitement on the part of the
mother, irregularity in diet, everything
of that kind results in sleepless night
with the babe just so sure as the cows
are abused or fed on improper mater
ials, Just So sure that milk is more or less
deteriorated by the process and just so
far rendered unfit for human food in its
best condition.
Unless you feed some grain you viii
find it very difficult to keep the supply
of milk and the thrift of your cows du-
ring the winfer season. Predicting milk
for the market as considered to be an
improving one to the farms. Farms in
Duchess Coun.y within my knowledge
We're largely grain farms until within
forty wears. and they had become very
much reduced in their productiveHess.
Some of the finest lands in the State of
New York. and they are as good as any
in the United States, had become very
much reduced by the system of ctlltiva-
ting grain and selling it. They intro
duced the system of selling milk, send
ing 1t to New York, and instead OF being
sellers of grain they became buyers of
grain, and the productive capacity of
those farms, farm after farm, j. double
to-day what it was thirty or forty years
ago; they are restored to the tartihty
which they formerly possessed.-T. L.
Gold,. an Neto ERglGnd Farmer.