Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22
Dairy Items.


The Secretary of the State Board
of Agriculture of the State OF lllionois,
publishes an official list of the cheese
factories and creameries in the State,
and figures the number to be 400.
"A Philadelphiaman has perfected
an invention whereby sour krout can
be boiled in the house without any of
the inmates smelling it. The inven-
ton consists of a small liver-like pad
of Limberger cheese Worn under the
nose.
Milking in the barnyard, says an
exchange, is an old fashion that should
be abandoned. 1t is inconvenient and
unclean. Itshould 90 with the wooden
pail and the hairy butter and never be
heard of any more; gone and forgot
ten too. 1t is wonder that any farm
err would permit it, and still more a
wonaer that any farmers wives or
daughters would consent TO it.
Now IS the time to begin making
preparations for furnishing cream to
the creamery next season. Don't let
a good cow or heifer leave the coun-
try. Divide your meadows up, so that
YOU can have good pasturage for your
cows the season through 1t don't
pay to ship hay anymore. Pasture
large portion of your meadows, and
thus convert your grass into butter
and enrich your land. a good milch
cow vii yield you 81 per month by
selling your cream to the creamery.
The following is a Southern mans
method of feeding a cow-''f you
want a large yield OF rich milk give
your cows every day water slightly
warmed and sailed, in which bran has
been stirred at the rate OF one quart
or two gallons of water. By this
daily practice the cow will give fifty
two per cent more milk Immediately
under the effect of it, and she will be
come so attached to the diet as to re
fuse to drink clear water unless very
thirsty. The amount of this drink
necessary is an ordinary pailful at
time-morning, noon and night.
While the Jersey breeders are
giving so much attention to the
quantity of butter, their favorite pro
duce, tits to be hoped they will not
fail to impress upon the public mind
the fact in relation to its quality If
a cow can produce fourteen pounds of
butter per week. worth say 81 20, the
fact is worth making known. If she
can produce ten pounds per week.
which, because of its superior lelicacy
of flavor and pleasing aroma and APP
pearance will sell readily for AZ cents
per pound, surely the fact is also
worth proclalming.
Hon Geo. f. Lord, of Elgin, keeps
100 COWS in 300 acres of land, and
has not raised pound of hay for
years. The corn is sowed in drills
10 feet apart, and about the time it
blooms it is cut with a self-raking
reaper, cutting one row at a time, the
machine throwing it off in gavels.
When sufficiently wilted it is bound
and set in large shocks and allowed
to cure standing on the ground until
winter sets in, when it is hauled to
the barn. He secures a yield of
about seven ton of cured fodder to the
acre, worth as much as the best hay.
He is one Of the most successful dairy
men in Illinois,
Mr.. j. A. Smith in the Cedar
burg News talks right to the point in
the following:
Judging from the way the vast
majority of the dairy farmers produce
milk. we should have to- conclude
that the most of them think we are
'gassing" when we aver that COWS
can be kept right up to full flow of
milk Qess of course, the natural de
crease caused by gestation) by a per-
sistent liberal feeding: Hence these
stubborn things called facts, are al
ways in point We gave, not long
since, the reward made by Mr. Geo.
B. Ingersolls n COWS, from Aug 9th
to Sept 9th, 80 days, the time en-
braced in one sale, showing they gave
over % lbs. per COW, daily. We now
give from the same u COWS, the re
cord of the next 81 days, to October
Is, which was %, sos lbs or 80 63-100
lbs per day per cow.
We have patrons with just as good
cows, with Just as good farms,
naturally, but have not been used to
dairylng so long, that did not average
the same day, II lbs. per COW The
most successful dairy farmers are
those who never sell the coarse grains
raised, but are often buying, till they
get their farms to a high state of fer
tility. The skeptical farmers say
they doit becamse they are rich; but
the bottom truth is, they are rich be
cause they dc it.