Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-13
Dairy Notes.

The ChlllIcOthe Mo creamery paid
the farmers $500 in October for cream.
and is paying 20 cents for the cream
that makes a pound of butter, and
takes it at the farmers door.
The Holstein COW, Echo, owned by
Fred @. Stephens, of Attica, n. Y,
has just completed years milk re-
cord, which makes showing of 49,
100. 1-2 pounds. This is lis pounds
more than that of the famous COW
Aggie Echo is 10 years old and
weighs 1, 500 pounds
In Illinois there are 412 butter and
cheese factories, most of which are
/ situated in the northern counties of
the State. In McHenry County there
are fifty-one: in Kane forty-three;
the next highest number is in Du
Page County.
The Jersey COW, Nancy Lee, has
the following record: Gave 1, 430
/ pounds ounces of milk in thirty-one
days. There was made from this
milk, 95 pounds A. ounces of but
ter In one day her milk made
pounds q ounces of butter; in seven
days 26 pounds 81 ounces.
One days milk of Coomassie,
amounting to 26g qts, was set aside
and the cream churned, produced 3
1 lbs T. OF. of butter. She was 12k
years old and four months in milk
This result seems to show that tho old
COW retains all her vigor and dairy
( power.
Green County, Wisconsin, is the
American Limburg In that county
there are forty eight Limburger cheese
I factories, using nearly 200, 600 pounds
of milk daily, the produce of 1855
cows and making u, 1873 pounds of
cheese each day. Sixty thousand
pounds of milk are also used daily in
4 twenty Swiss cheese. There are also
sexen American cheese factories us
/ ing 1900 cows and 10000 pounds of
milk, and making daily 1900 pounds
of cheese.
There is paragraph going the
rounds of the news papers to the eff
feet that great butter COWS are great
eaters. We do not believe a word of
this. Every COW eats feed enough to
make several tunes the quantity of
butter she does make. In our own
experience, without weighing the
feed bat simply judging of the
amount each COW in the herd ate, we
came emphatically to the conclusion
that the poormilkers ate, if anything,
more than the good ones. Is it not,
after all, simplya question of assimila-
ton with a board margin Of waste
with even the best of them2
4 well known dairyman once made
an address at dairyman's meeting
with the quaint title, Treat your COW
as you would lady" This is worthy
of being made staple aphorism of
the dairy, for it conveys a great
truth. Politeness, and if it is impolite
and unkind to swear at a lady, to say
nothing of Gsing violence, it is equal
! ly unkind to use a a COW, which is
naturally kind, gentle, ard docile, in
such a manner Cows are exceeding
ly sagacious, and know as much of
mans language as a dog does. They
are very soon excited and terrified by
abusive language, and equally sooth
ed by gentle words. When dairy
mans calves, and heifers, and cows
will come up and crowd around him
in the field to be gently spoken to and
petted, you will see a kind, good
natured, wise owner; and if you IL
vestigate you will find him a good
butter or cheese maker with a. deSir-
able profitable business. Kindness is
a virtue. and virtue is its own re-
ward.
Fifteen and ten-cent butter is thus
referred to by a correspondent of the
Cedarburg News: If an architect
and builder should say to a man who
wanted a fine building put up, that he
never used a line, lever, plumb,
square or rule he probably wouldn't
get the job even of the most ignorant.
But it is no more absurd to attempt
the use of the proper tools, than to
attempt to make uniformly fine butter
or cheese without the use of the Their
mometer But that is the way the
most of ten-cent and shilling butter
is made. The mass Of the butter sold
goes for half price, year in and year
out, and at all seasons OF the year,
largely caused by being churned at
the wrong temperature, by persons
too stingy or to stupid to invest 80
cents for a good thermometer, A
variation of five degrees from the
standard spoils, or greatly injuries,
either butter or cheese, while it is com
mon to not guess within ten or fifteen
degrees, when feeling the tempera-
ture with the hand. The uncon-
scious condition Of the body, and the
state of the atmosphere, and our ex-
posure to great heat or cold, leads
even experts astray. Unlike most
men, a good Thermometer never lies. -
And unlike most men. when it does
lie, it lies only very little, and does
but little harm