The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
THE DAIRY.

When a COW loses one of her teats
it does not follow that her actual value
is impaired, except as it may make
milking more difficult. After the milk
veins have become accustomed to the
change, all the milk secreted will go to
three teats as we'll as to four. Losing a
teat is an indication that COW is or has
been a great mixer, and may therefore
be worth more than one that has never
had any such difficulty.
Mrs. S. w. WILDER, of Michigan,
says she thinks little less science and
a little more common sense will make
deal more gilt-edged butter. When
dairymen realize thatpoor COWS making
white butter will not pay, and change
them for better ones. and then feed richer
food and more of it-that containing
the elements of good butter-there will
be no demand for butter-color.
The Utica Herald tells of a dairy
man who was 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 aft
ernoon, and fed them on hay and gave
grain as usual. The result was as he
anticipated. A rest of three hours al
lowed all the scent to pass off in other
secretiens, though previously it favored
both milk and butter.
Col. F. ID. Curtis says that the
fancy dairymen, by allowing their cream
to sour too much before churning, have
made their product simply Limitation
eleomargarine." ''They have" he
says, ''invited the public palate -es-
pecially in the cities-with their rich.
made, buttermilk-ilavored butter, and
created a market for eleomarganne
compounds, and now they are running
a neck-and-neck race with the oleomar-
garine manufacturers"
The Lire Stock Indicator says a
farmer who bought a COW which neither
he nor his men could milk, found he
could make her profitable to suckle
calves, which were very high priced
that season. Her own calf sold for fif-
teen dollars. Then another was left for
her to rear, and brought twelve dollars.
During the season the farmer sold six
tv-hve dollars worth of calves reared on
the kicking cow, fed her few dollars
worth of meal and turned her off for
beef the following winter This plan is
well adapted for a large dairy where a
number of COWS calve in succession.
The advantage of having breed
of cows that are useful for milk and
butter as well as beef is very great.
Its equivalent in dollars and cents is
shown by Western stockman, who
figures up in this way: Interest on val
lie of COW at per cent, $1,000; wear
of cow at 1Oper cent, Sl5; feeding COW
for the season, 1927. 80; share of cost of
bull, 81; interest on three acres of land
at per cent, 1920; total, $50, which
is the value of the calf when dropped.
Where, then, is the profit if calf is fed
for two years at cost of $50 and is
sold as steer, weighing 1900 pounds,
at 7 cents pound on foot? Here seems
to be loss of Sl4 at least, not count
ing the expense of attendance. But if
the cow made 800 pounds of butter, or
900 pounds of cheeseoin the year, be-
sides rearing the calf, there would be
S75 to 90 to her credit, which would
leave the account showing Sol profit.
A COW that is only good for rearing a
calf, it is very clear, cannot be worth
more than $75, and yet some such COWS
have been sold for thousands.-M Y.
Times.