The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-18
THE DAIRY.

Butter Inspector Howe, of Chicago,
is pushing the work of prosecuting deal
ers in adulterated butter quite success
fully. He has been able to secure sew
eral convictions. The frauds are gen.
orally fined about twenty-five dollars
and costs and almost always insist on
having jury in the case.
"A roam Jersey short-horn COW, be-
longing to General Howard, of Buffalo,
N, T., is reported by Hank Comstock to
have given 1,787 pounds of milk in one
month last spring, and making twenty
one and three-quarters pounds of butter
in seven days. Her feed was grass and
four quarts of ground corn and oats daily.
Judge McCrary, of the United States
Court, has decided that SUIT for in
fringement of the Cooley creamer patent
can not be maintained, as the alleged in
vention sis void for want of novelty and
by prior use." A similar decision has
been rendered in New York in relation
to drive wells. An appeal has been taken
in both eases to the United States Su-
preme Court.
Canada has become more emphatic
ally dairy country than the United
States. With a population of 5000, 900,
they manufacture annually 10000, 900
pounds of cheese, equal to twelve pounds
per capita, while we, with 50,000,000
make 00,000.000, or six pounds per
capita. With population not exceed
ing one-tenth of ours, their exports of
butter are about one-haf as great as
ours. -
The value of the butter product of
the country is about five times that of
cheese, but only three per cent. of it
is as yet shipped abroad, while thirty
per cent. of the cheese goes there.
American dairymen have unquestion-
ably succeeded remarkably in pleasing
the palates of the English with their
cheese, and in continental countries,
even in noted dairy districts like Holland
and Belgium, American cheese is offered
the traveller. No packing of butter has
as yet been able to bring the American
maker into really serious competition
with the French and other continental
makers. The English like fresh butter.
The shipments from New York, mainly
to ports in Great Britain, from May l,
1881. to January II, 1882, were $685.
4S2 pounds, to 23,906, 205 for the CORE
spending period last year.
Brewers grains have no i'll effect
upon the milk; on the contrary, they pro-
duce milk abundantly and of very good
quality. But they will not make good
butter. 1t is best to feed them with some
corn meal; half bushel of grains twice
day, with two quarts of meal, is the
quantity fed by many experienced milk
dairymen. Cows do very well kept in
stable and roomy yard the whole
year round, and fed by soiling. Cows
cannot be pastured properly where land
is worth 500 per acre, and soiling, either
wholly or partially, must be resorted to.
By soiling ten COWS can be kept easily
on twenty acres of land, and where it is
in real good condition one acre will sup
port one COW through the year, because
two and sometimes three crops can be
grown on the same ground in the same
season. Half bushel of bran a day
would be too expensive a feed at the
present price of bran; it would be cheaper
to feed cut hay or corn-fodder, wetted
and mixed with two quarts of bran and
two quarts of corn meal, twice day. In
soiling a large quantity of manure is
made, which is one of its greatest adj
Yantages. N. Y. Times.