The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-08
THE DAIRY.

GRASSES. The grasses best for the
production of milk are those that are
fine and sweet. The grasses that grow
on swampy land are poor for cows that
are giving milk. The native grasses of
the high prairies are tolerably good,
but the short cultivated grasses are bet
ter.
SALT AND BRAN.-A French chemist
reports that water made slightly salt,
and to which, when boiling, bran in the
proportion of one quart to every gallon
has been added, has been found in a
series of experiments to increase the
yield of milk 25 per cent, if given to
the COWS as their ordinary drink.
HOUSE THE Cows.-Good stables are
necessary for the protection of dairy
COWS. Some stock-raisers say that there
is no economy in protecting animals in
tended for the butcher, but no dairy
man thinks that it is profitable to allow
mich COWS to be exposed to storms and
the cold that prevail in northern lati-
tudes where dairying is most profitable.
MORE THAN GRAss.-Those COWS which
are published as giving in one season
$50, $50 or $40 worth of cream, says the
Des Moines Register, have not done
that by being fed only on the grass Of
the pasture during the whole season,
when pastures were dry and the grass
tough. Nor does it pay to keep any
cows that way. TO produce such flow
of rich milk they must have rich and
succulent food to manufacture it from.
1t is the worst of folly and darkest igno-
rance to keep a cow on poor, dry past
ure, without the coolest and purest wa
ter, and then expect a copious yield of
rich milk. No practice can be more
short-sighted and unreasonable. If ar
rangements have not been already made
for keeping the COWS in full flow it is not
too late yet. And without this prepara-
ton COWS never have and never will pay.
And those who do not provide proper
healthy, succulent food for all seasons of
the year have no right to have profta-
BILE dairy. With a plenty of food of
milk-producing quality, backed by good
COWS and proper care, this branch of
husbar dry will soon demonstrate that it
has no superior for financial success.
CREAMERY BUTTER.--The question is
often asked why creamery butter brings
higher price in the market than the
single dairy products, and correspond
ent of the IoaOa Homestead answers ii
as follows "The milk of cooperative
creamery is all set alike, and under as
nearly similar conditions as possible. As
this applies to every patron, uniformity
must result, thing that cannot be en-
joined upon a like number of farm but
ter-makers. Then each uses a system Of
cans alike, matter that could not be
found in farm dairies. Cream is the one
thing the farmer is after, rather than a
quantity of milk, good or poor and the
receipts of the factory being based upon
the farmers own cream result, and de-
termined by measuring it each day,
every effort will be exerted to make 9
fine showing, and the shortest road tc
reach this result is by extra care and
feeding the COWS so that a higher grade
of cream must follow. Competition will
cause the farmer to strive for higt
attainments, and, as there is no way te
dilute or to add to the cream 80 as tt
make it appear to be more than actually
exists, the whole drift comes to aid il
making fine cream, and fine cream is the
first step in securing fine butter. Thus
it will be seen that the cream from any
given number of dairies will, if set in {
uniform way, and its quantity (and ,
large showing Of cream means improved
quality gathered by one man who seel
each day that the directions are compiled
with, result in producing better butte,
than can be made at home, when the
now considered necessary apparatus ii
wanting in the greater number of cases.
Now, this cream gathered and taken te
q central station. where every facility
exists to turn out a uniform and one
grade product, and shipped to marke
and eaten within fortnight, at leas
before it has parted with its delightful
aroma, maintains superiority over tht
miscellaneous dairy butter, and mus
bring larger price, and be sought aftel
by our city relatives in preference to the
lower grade"