Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16
THE DAIRY.

"A Vermont dairyman says o young
:alf should be fed three times day.
Overlooking at long intervals, and es-
,ecially with cold food, kill good
many valuable calves.
Why is it that Canada makes the
BEST cheese in the country and the poor
,st butter? The creamery system is
almost unknown in the Dominion, but
cheese factories flourish like q green
bay horse.
An Orange County. N. Y, dairy
man has tested the matter, and found
that his milk, sold at three cents per
quart, was as good as butter-allow-
ing twelve quarts of milk for a pound
of buttcr-at twenty-eight cents per
pound.
The best butter the country pro-
duces is made in Iowa, If we may be-
lieve the Boston Commercial Bulletin,
which gives this reason: ''Corn, which
is raised in the West so abundautly, is
freely fed to the cows; this produces.
better milk than hay or mixed food, and
this in turn produces better and finer
butter. Notwithstanding corn is worth
more to the Western farmer than it
was even few years ago, he continues
to feed his cows literally with it, and
obtains higher price for his butter"
The Utica Herald tells of dairy
man who is troubled with the smell of
garlic or wild onions in the milk. To
obviate this, he put the COWS in the
stable at about three o'clock each after
noon, and fed thea on hay and gave
grain as usual. The result was all he
anticipated. A rest of three hours al
lowed the scent to pass off in other
secretions, though previously it favored
both milk and butter. This is an old
remedy and a good one, though not al
ways completely successful.
Many agricultural papers are now
advocating what they call artificial
souring of cream, as though it was
something new. If not new, it is, how
ever, an excellent practice, for it is
generally conceded that slightly sour
cream makes a better butter, all things
considered, than perfectly sweet cream,
and it is far better to hasten this sour
ing by the addition of sour cream than
to wait the delay necessary for this
change to come about in the natural
way. Provided the proper conditions
can be had the quicker the cream gets
into the churn the better. Every hour
lost takes that much life out of the
cream.-The Ddiryman.
The Holstein cow Echo, belonging
to Mr.. F. c. Stevens, of Attica, New
York, has made a wonderful record. In
March she produced 1914 pounds of
milk, which made total for the 307
days she has been in milk of 20, 1891
pounds. She has still fifty-eight days
to go to complete her years record.
She is now giving from tiftynine to
sixtytwo pounds a day. and her owner
thinks he can safely calculate on her
producing over 5000 pounds before her
time is up, or a total of over $4,000
pounds for the year. l. is needless to
ay that she beats the record.
An experienced dairyman gives his
views upon the conditions necessary to
the best butter as follows: Perhaps
the soil of mans farm is low, springy
and wet; then the feed will be sour,
and you can not get good butter out of
that, either dairy or creamery. The
flavor of the butter depends largely on
the flavor of the feed. In order to
make fine butter in the winter time the
utmost cleanliness must be observed:
must wash the cows udder in warm
water and dry with cloth. If the at
mosphere is bad your milk will be
tainted. 1t depends upon circumstances
whether it is safe to set your milk down
in an improperly cleaned or an i'm.
properly ventilated stable. AS soon as
the milk comes to the exact tempera-
ture of the surrounding air, it absorbs
the impurity therein.
"A correspondent of the Countrg
Gentleman remarks: 'Heifers that
breed young generally make the best
cows at maturity. If a heifer has q
small bag when she calves, it will in
crease with age, and when she is al
middle age she is altogether better than
one that is kept back until she is a COW
before she breeds. One three years old
before she breeds may do well the first
season, but never does well again. The
young heifer will begin small and dc
best at maturity. These conclusions
are arrived ut after more than fifty
years practical experience. l have
known heifer to drop healthy cali
three days before she was twelve
months old, and she had no unusual
trouble, and was as well and healthy as
any COW. | am the owner of a COW
that dropped her first calf at seventeen
months old, and was always small OF
her age. She has always done well,
and never needed the aid of veterinary
surgeon"
"A correspondent tells the Countr,
Gentleman that in getting together a
herd for the dairy, the aim in the start
should be to secure good mixers,
whether by purchase or breeding. Some
cows lack in richness of milk; the but
ter made from some milk is white and
frothy, or otherwise Objectionable.
None of this kind is wanted, as it is
sure to tell in the general make; quail
ty, in particular, must not be i'm
paired. In order to ascertain the con.
dition of the milk each cow should be
tested, and where found lacking the
COW should be discarded This is very
little trouble, and, once done, will do
for the lifetime of the herd, which NAV
be extended fifteen years with uudimin-
ished usefulness. TO keep in the herd
during this time several cows of a low
standard of milk is constant drain
upon the profit, if not an absolute loss
The Importance, then, of beginning
with a good herd is apparent.
Feed or Breed.