Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-06-06
THE DAIRY.


done at night or early in the morning.
when the air is the coolest.
"A Vermont dairyman says a young
calf should be fed three times a day.
Over feeding at long intervals, and es-
pecially with cold feed, kills o good
many valuable calves.
While milk is standing for cream
to rise, the purity of the cream, and
consequently the fine flavor and keep
ing of the butter, will be injured if the
surface of the cream is exposed freely
to air much warmer than the cream.
Unless you are able and willing to
personally superiutend the scalding of
your milk pans; il would be better to
use earthenware. Nothing but boiling
water and plenty of it will remove the
germs of disease that Turk in the half.
washed tin vessels.
Nothing is more susceptible to for.
eign matter than bad butter. liza farmer
is not sure OF this let him place pound
or so OF butter near piece of ordinary
soap, or few onions, and exclude the
air for few days, and he will be con-
vinced.
In turning cows to pasture early in
the spring they are very sure to eat too
much of the young grass and bring ON
the scours. This can be guarded against
by putting the cows up at night and
letting them stand to hay.
Stick pin right here-that while
a first-class mixer and a first-class beef
animal may not be combined in one
animal, it will be many years before
the western dairymen will forget to
look at the size of the cow.-Dairy
Farmer.
I'm answer to question as to what
is the best grain food for mich COWS;
Professor Arnold recommends four
parts of bran, two parts of corn meal
and one part of linseed oil meal as
having given him the best results in
proportion to cost of any dry food that
he has ever used.
MIR. Victor NJ. Drake tells how he
represses devotion to perpetual motion
on the part of self-sucking COWS: "Tit
short. and apply aloes to the teats i'm.
mediately after milking. The pungent
bitter taste of the drug. after one OF
two applications will general effect a
cure. Keep up the treatment for several
days, for fear the appetite for milk
will return"
1t seems to be pretty well accepted
as true, the statement made at the
meeting of the Northwestern Dairymen's
Association; that 6ne-third of the cows
now in use in the diaries of the country
are Improbable, one-third just pay for
their board and bed, while the other
third must make up the losses on the
first third and make something over to
keep the dairymen out of the poor house.
"A suggestion worth It's weight in
gold (taking ten pounds as a standard)
is this: If you can command strong
stream of water through a hose when
the butter comes in granules, draw of
the buttermilk and turn this stream on
the butter. 1t must make the butter
milk fly, and wash the butter much
better than it could be done by turn
ing the churn or working dasher in
it.-AmerEcdn DatryntGn.
1T is pleasant to have to record an
instance in which due credit for re-:
sponsiveness to good feeding is given
10 the much despised native cow.
When a native COW can yield milk con.
tanning nine per cent. of butter or one
pound of butter for five quarts eleven
pounds) of milk it goes to prove that a
COW Is COW after all, and that cows
are made of one blood about rs much
as men are or more so. Indeed, cOws
quite frequently have the advantage OF
men in this respect, and are far more
respectable and honest in returning
good for good and often good for evil.
N Y. Times.
There is hardly any point in the
management of dairy cows of more i'm.
portance than that of having them reg.
ularly fed. If there is one thing on
earth that a cow remembers better than
another 1t is the hour that her feed is
due. If she has good Normal appe.
tite she will grow restless and anxious
as the hour approaches, and this state
of mind is said to be very injurious
upon the quality of the milk. If they
are loose, under such circumstances,
they are certain to begin hooking one
another. 1t is a very bad habit for
hands to get into, and keeping regular
hours should be impressed upon them.
When one man gets behind it is certain
to delay every other man on the place
WHcIc lHeTo Is CUSJOuldTy system I'D
vogue; if the feeding Is delayed the
hiking must be also, and that sets
back the hour for setting away the milk
and washing the utensils, and so the
first delay works mischief all round
american DairyDtan.
Major Alvord is doing some giant
labor in trying to induce the dairymen
of his country to raise instead of buy
ing their cows. The main point of his
argument is the great danger of i'm.
porting into their nelghborhood the dis
eases of other States by this buying
system. He says while all may not be-
lieve in the stories about cows that
average their weight in milk every
month, or butter In q year; but BIZ
halving this yield, we come within the
limits of what can be economically at
tanned. Then he well says, as a rule
where ten COWS are now kept, the same
food and care, or less, given to seven
better animals would give better results.
Generally the seven can be selected
from the ten or their offspring, but no
such improvement is possible under the
trade system. This is q little doubtful;
''the only safe method of steady, sure,
profitable Improvement Is to form q
permanent herd. and maintain and en-.
large it by its own increase iudiciously
handled.-Erchange.