The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-02-21

} lose flesK .Doe1 not hy ID obtain al there i
in COW hone year; Keeps his COWS longer
keeps his cows up to regular quantity, because
when COWS once slacken up one cannot bring
them back to original quantity.
H r. Hoard of Montevideo, Mimi, in papal
: on skim milk farming, compared wheat ant
dairy farming. Showed the cost of raising
wheatin upper mississippi valley, and statet
that In his county about 100000 bushels Of
wheat are raised annually, bringing in Chicago
about $500,0O0 1t costs $3.50, 600 to send this
wheat to market, leaving about $40 net pro-
ceeds to each farmer. Tho speaker felt sure
the result would be much better If farmers
would turn their attention to dairying instead
Q l: Dexter Of Chicago followed with a paper
On Organizations for the Promotion of Special
Objects" with special reference I'd Congratulations
Vice President P. A. McKinstry Of winneba-
go City, Mimi, read paper entitled ''Shortage
in the Creamery Gathering System"
BY the term Of shortage, as used by creamery
men, we mean that in buying certain quality
of cream, which has been supposed to make .
given quantity OF butter, and it fails to do so,
we say we are short on butter; or, in p;her
words, we bought cream enough to make SO
ard rrses, and II failed to make it
reported in Iowa for the year 1882 Vas 4 per
cent On all the butter manufactured by the
cream gathering creameries running on the
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as much for 1883 in Minnesota. What is the
remedy for the creamey man? IRnow Of none
that can be adopted and deal Justly with each
patron except the test churn plan, He conclu-
ded by saying that unless the manufacturing
shortage shall be done away, creamrbuying is
| afailure in Minnesota.
w. b. Straight did not wish the idea to 60
abroad that the shrlnkage was due to difference
in cream instead of the amount of milk turned
into cream Mr.. johnson of Illinois asked for
instructions how to secure uniform Swimming
Mr.. Mckinstry answered.
By having milk SKINNED daily by same per-
son and at same hour of day. He collected
cream for his creamery every second or third
day. Used a preservative, which the gatherer
adds as he procures the cream, which holds
back the cream from mature acidity. Ripen-
ing cream thickens as 1t grows sour; sweet
cream is thin. Butter from small Cummings
does not grandlate as well or as rapidly as that
from larger Cummings. l open my cream jars
air, for the reason that the cream takes up oxy-
gen, which affords finer flavor to the butter
| President Hoard stated that:
One of the secrets of "cream shortage" was
| the effect of the churn ON cream. In the sea-
4 son of succulent food the churn receives its
due proportion of butter. By feeding roots,
ensilage and succulent food the churn will do
! its work with profit Farmers who allow their
| hay to ripen too much and grow woody are de-
nying to the churn the proper returns its should
receive. t1 wa as
President Hoard then read prize essay read
by d. W. Carter, at the Wisconsin Dairymen's
association. The essay was replete with valu-
able suggestions
II. B. Gurler, of De Kalb, ILL.,, then read q
paper on the COW, the calf, and the pig
These animals naturally so together in dairy
ing. Have raised them in order of their i'm
! portance in the new parts of the West In
Illinois would read COW, pig, calf. The COW,
If properly cared for is the most profitable ami
NAL on the farm. When Icommenced dairying
my cows would average only $50 pounds of
butter annually. l began to test milk
learned that the cow which produced forty
| pounds of milk per day, produced one pound
of butter per day, that the COW giving Is
pounds per day produced more butter than the
| COW that gave 40 pounds of milk per day. /
sold off Improbable cows and found 1 had
some that would not pay for the feed they
consumed; others would pay $50 after
paying for their feed. Changed from sum
me ero, .os to S,..o winter 1s dairying and md
to 166 pounds per COW, and the profit above
/ price of feed was an increase from SIS to $45
| per cow, an increase of 200 per cent. For the
| year ending JAM 1, 1880, I received s.. % worth
of milk for every dollars worth of feed con-
sumed by my COWS. We have one patron that
we paid $500 per COW last year. One patron
Kept an accurate account of feed consumed by
his dairy of fourteen cows last month. For
| grain feed, $42; hay, $21.70 Total cost feed,
63.70 Cows produced 7,700 pounds milk,
worth s1.5O per 100 pounds or $11350, leaving
a surplus after paying feed of $3.50 Have
| checked abortion by the use of bone meal fed
| to the cows with their salt I feed one-fOurth
bone meal, three-fourths salt The calf is an
| important animal with the dairyman, but there
is little profit in growing steer.
In the pig is little profit. I give the follow
ing comparison of my most successful pig
/ feeding with that of my most successful calf
| feeding:
| Feb %, 1881, two grade Durham calves about
| five months old, weighed 732 pounds; March LIST
| they weighed 767 pounds, gain of SIS pounds
| in seven days; gain each per day, LIZ pounds.
They were fed as follows:
| 2S0 lbs skim milk at 25c. 20
A lbs corn meal. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. %
70 lbs of hay at $10per ton. ............... IS
Total feed expense ............$4 so
Cost per pound, 8 ITO CENTS to compare with
/ the following:
June S, 1878, pigs weighed 1927 pounds:
June q, 423 pounds, a gain in thirteen days of
96 pounds. They were fed 439 pounds of skim
milk and 217 pounds of corn. Crediting the
milk with LIZ pounds per 1O0 would make %
| lag pounds increase from go pounds of shelled
| corn. Figuring the milk at % cents per 100
| pounds and the corn at 30 cents per bushel
(market price at time) the pork cost 2-27-100
cents per pound.
In the evening it is estimated that sixteen
| hundred people were in the opera house The
exercises consisted of an excellent musical pro-
| gramme, and sprightly, well written, prac-
| teal paper by Mrs. Curries embodying her ex-
| perience in butter making. But my own ex-
| perience is to furnish a good warm stable,
warm their milk, feed a little bran and shorts
or oats every day, and have a rack and keep it
| filed with your sweetest and best hay, keep
their stables clean, and they will have nothing
| to do but grow
With regard to feeding mich COWS, consid-
and
plenty of good, sweet hay, as the best class Of
| food, together with plenty of pure water: and
don't let your cattle stand around in the yard,
with their backs bumped up like rainbow,
during snow storms and billiards..
On Thursday the 18th the first business was
the reading of a paper by Hon. Hi
ram Smith of Sheboygan Falls, Wis
He said Prof. e. Stewart, the best authority on
cattle feeding, gives as a standard ration for
milch COWS, daily, "A pounds Of dry organic
substance, and this ration should consist Of 2
LIZ pounds albuminoids, 12 1-2 pounds of car
Donates and 40-1OO fat Thirty pounds of hay
will produce the dry substance but will be
deficient in albuminoids and fat; 30 pounds of
hay at 80 per ton costs Is cents; much bet
ter ration consisting of corn fodder 10 pounds,
hay 5 pounds, bran pounds, malt sprouts 5
pounds, corn meal 3 pounds, and oil meal 2
pounds, will cost no more than the hay, and is
worth more as feed and three times more for
manureal value. Modern dairymen are learn
ing that COWS coming into milk in the fall or
early winter bring in a much larger revenue
than summer dairying.
The reading of this paper was followed by q
spirited and vigorous discussion of the sub
ject and . rapid fire of questions and re-
plies.
The second paper was that Of O. G. Grigg Of
Camden, Mimi, on the subject Minnesota as
dairy state. This is emphatioally q grass
growing state. Wild grass grows abundantly
It was the home of the buffalo long before the
white men settled here, The writer thought
Minnesota an oat state aud thought oats the
best crop farmers could raise. He mentioned
the erroneous idea that costly barns are re-
quired for the proper care of stock in winter.
There is no necessity for an expensive
building-a stable with good roof, and sides
will battened on inside and well
banked, will keep stock comfortably through
our winters. When the thermometer showed
the temperature to be 80 deg below zero out
side, the speaker found the temperature inside
his stable "a deg above Light and ventila-
ton are important requisites Windows should
be on the south and east. Ventilators should
be placed in the roof, so foul air may escape
Plenty of good water should be within conven-
lent distance of the barn. Another objectionis
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