Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-22
DAIRY NOTES.

region unless 1t can raise the succulent
tame grasses, and produce a plenty
Of the rich cereals, such as corn, oats
and faxseed.
No DAIRY products are made in Brazil,
and butter sells high. Americans have
shipped butter to Brazil, but it does not
command as high price as that from
Denmark or France.
PEoF. ATwATER states that the best
ration for a COW in full flow of milk is
100 parts of corn meal (by weight, 80
parts bran, and IS parts decorticated
(huskless) cotton-seed meal.
MILK production is partially under
the control of the will of the COW; hence
she should be trained to habits of affec-
ton for her mixer, SO that her will shall
accord with the demands for milk.
At meeting of the Dairy Association
at Rutland, VT, chemist claimed that
the salt found in ocean or salt-spring
water has a greater power of killing the
germs that create rancidity in butter
than has pure salt; hence he recon-
mcnded it for the preservation of butter.
COTTON SEED meal is heating and slim
ulating, and should be fed cautiously to
COWS in milk, and never before they
come in. When there is not an active
flow of milk, and also before parturition,
much cotton-seed meal tends to thick
ening and infammatory state of the I'D
Ger, and leads to garget. It always re-
quires more cautious feeding than oil
meal.
We have remarked that butter was
abnormally high, and out OF all pro-
portion with meat and grain, and that
from sheer scarcity it was higher in the
United States than in European coun-
tries. We have an absolute proof of the
truth Of these remarks in the fact that
recently large and enterprising dealer
in butter in New York city has been i'm
porting fine butter from Holland and
selling it in New York at profit
National SSeGE Journal
CONCERNING mich COWS, the An,eri-
can AgricatlturiSt says: Those to" come
in" soon should be watched and the I'D
der bathed with cold water on the first
appearance of heat OF 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
hy hand. The Importance of raising
calves from superior COWS only cannot
he too strongly enforced By q constant
selection Of the best the dairy may be
greatly improved. It is not well to turn
the cattle out to grass at the first ap-
pearance of green in the pastures. The
change from dry hay to green food
should be a gradual one."
4 LARGE proportion Of the COWS owned
by farmers, says the ZoeOa State Regis-
hT, go dry four or five months in the
year. This has grown out of bad prac-
tice and careless breeding. Until lately
milk has been of such little value that
the amount q COW would give was con-
sidered Of no consequence; and the
sooner she went dry, especially in the
winter, the better. It was this indifer-
ence that has nearly bred all of the milk
out Of short horns. Now, when milk is
tie equal item with any other quality of
tia COW, it seems strange that it should
ever have been neglected. The great
error heretofore entertained, and even
by too many practiced yet, Of letting
COWS go dry through the winter, to get
clear of milking and feeding, and allow
ing the COWS to starve through the win
ter, is not only cruel, but the very worst
of economy. There is nothing which
pays better than keeping COW comfort
able and feeding her literally the whole
year. And if she is fed she ought to be
UO4IS3 SOmOVl14hS W pay 1Ol utI h0ep.
Besides, no other season of the year is
there so much time to care for them,
nor is there any time when butter and
cream are in such demand. Danish
from your mind the idea that you can
NOT afford to highly feed COW through
tie winter just for her milk. II q COW
is to give milk enough to pay for Der
keeping IN summer she must be well fed
through the winter. Half star7e COW
IN winter and il takes the entire season
OF the succulent grass fer her to recover
the flesh she lost in winter, and she never
attains to her full flow of milk. It is
not so much the fault of the COWS that
they are poor mixers as it is want of
regularity of full feed all through the
year. A half-fed COW is very expensive
animal. 4 well-fed one is the most pro-
fitable agent on the farm. A COW should
not go dry exceeding five or six weeks
IN the year. Practice, feed and care
Will bring the COWS up to this. No other
plan or practice will pay. And we wish