River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-21

III the Creamery Gathering System.
by the term Of shortage, as used BY creamery
men. We mean that in buying q certain quality
of cream, which has been supposed to make d
given quantity Of butter and ii fails to do sd
we say We are short on butter; or, in other
words we bought cream enough To make Sc
many pounds Of butter, according to the stand
ard rules and il failed to make it,
He said the shortage
reported IN Iowa for the year 1882 was 4 PEI
cent on all tho butter manufactured by the
cream gathering creapisries running on the
gauge, where have no doubt that it was fully
as much for 1888 IN Minnesota. What is The
! remedy for the creanley man. [ know of acme
that can De adopted and deal justly with each
patron except the test chuTn plan He conclu-
ded by saying that unless the manufacturing
shortage shall be done away, cream-buylng il
afailure in Minnesota.
w. b Straight did not wish the idea to go
abroad that the shrlnkage was due to difference
IN cream instead Of the amount Of milk turned
INTO cream Mr. johnson Of Illinois asked foI
instructions how TO secure uniform skininilng.
Z Mr.. Mchmstry answered.
fy having milk SKINNED daily by same per
son and at same hour of day. He collected
cream for his creamery every second or third
4 day. Used a preservatiye, which the gatherer
! adds as no proeures tho cream, which holds
back the cream from mature aeldity Ripen-
4 ing cream thickens as il grows sour; sweet
cream is thin Butter from small clrurnings
I does not granulate as well or as rapidly as that
/ from larger Cummings. open my cream jars
| and stir cream frequently and leave exposed to
I air. for the reason that the cream takes up oxy-
gen. which affords finer favor to the butter.
! President Hoard stated that!
/ One of the secrets Of scream shortage" was
4 the effect of the churn on cream. kn the sea
4 son Of succulent food the churn receives Its
due proportion of butter. by feeding roots,
+ ensilage and succnlent food the churn VIII dc
7 it's work with profit Farmers who allow their
/ hay to ripen too much and grow woody are de.
nying to tho ehuln the proper returns its Should
4 receive
/ President Hoard then read prize essay read
4 by d. w. Carter, at the Wisconsin Dalrymen {
1 association. The essay was replete with Yall-
4 able suggestions
/ H. b. Gurler, Of De Kalb, Ill, then read a
! paper on the COW, the calf, and the Pig.
/ These animals naturally go together in dairy
/ ing. Have raised them IN order OF their mn
+ portance IN the new parts of the West In
4 Illinois / would read COW, pig, calf The COW,
if properly cared for IL the most profitable ami
! nal on the farm. When commenced dairying
/ my cows would average only 100 pounds u
/ butter annually. / began to test milk.
1 learned that the COW which produced forty
! pounds of milk per day, produced one pound
4 Of butter per day. that the COW giving II
/ pounds per day produced more butter than the
4 COW that gave 40 pounds of milk per day; |
4 sold off improbable cows and found had
some that would not pay for the feed they
/ paying for their feed Changed from snm-
4 mer to winter dairylng and
/ increased butter yield in few years from l3l
1 to 1G6 pounds per COW, and the profit above
/ price of feed was an inerfase from Sl9 to 80
per COW, an increase of 200 per cent For the
4 year ending Jan j. 1885, | received 81. % 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
4 kept an accurate account of feed consumed by
ia Inir af st month
I grain feed, S42; hay, $2l.70. Total cost feed,
/ CO 20 Cows produced 200 pounds milk,
4 worth Sl50 per 100 pounds or Sll5.50, leaving
I a surplus after paying feed Of sol 50. Have
/ checked abortion by the use OF bone meal fed
4 to the COWS with their salt feed one-fouru
4 bone meal three-fourths salt The calf Is an
1 important animal with the dairyman, but there
4 is little profit in growing a steer
In the pig is little profit give the follow
4 ing comparison of my most successful pig
I feeding with that Of my most successful cali
/ feeding:
Feb ~. 1881, Two grade Durham calves about
4 FIVE months old weighed I32 pounds March Isl
/ they weighed 767 pounds, a gain Of 50 pounds
4 in seven days; gain each per day, l-2pounds
They were fed as follows;
$50 lbs skim milk at 25c. .................s q
4 A lbs corn meal; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS <.
4 20 lbs Of hay at S10per ton.....,.......... 81
Total feed expense. ...............S *
Cost per pound, 7-10cents, to compare witt
4 the following:
/ June 81, 423 pounds, gain in thirteen days o.
/ 96 pounds They were fed 439 pounds Of SKIN
! milk aud 2l7 pounds Of corn Creehtlng TIN
4 milk WITH g 2 pounds per 100 would make 2
/ 1-2 pounds increase from 60 pounds of shelleS
4 corn Figuring the milk at - cents per lU
f pounds and the corn at 30 cents per bashe
4 [rlarket price at hme) the pork cost 2-Z1-lU
/ cents per pound.
/ In the evening it is estimated that sixteel
hundred people were in the opera house Tht
exercises consisted of an excellent musical pro
! gramme and sprightly, well written, prac
I teal paper by Mrs Curiies embodying her ex
4 perience in butter making But my own ex
perienee is to furnish good warm stable
warm their milk, feed a little bran and Short
or oats every day, and have rack and keep
/ filed with your sweetest and best hay, keel
their stables clean, and they will have nothing
\ to do but grow.
With regard to feeding mich cows, l consid.
er mixed bran and shorts, corn pumpkins, ano
4 plenty of good sweet hay, as the best class OF
I food, together with plenty Of pure water: ane
/ 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 14th the first business was
i the reading of paper by Hon Ill
i ram Smith of Sheboygan Falls, Wis.
i He said Prof T. Stewart, the best authority on
+ cattle feeding, gives as standard ration for
/ mich cows, daily, q pounds of dry organic
/ substance, and this ration should consist OF Z
I l-2 pounds albuminoids. IL IL pounds of car
/ Donates and 40-100 fat. Thirty pounds of hay
will produce the dry substance, but will be
/ deficient in albuninOlds and fat; 30 pounds OF
hay at $40 per ton costs 10 CENTS much bet
! ter ration, consisting of corn fodder l0pounds,
/ bay 5 ponds bran pounds malt sprouts )
pounds corn meal ) pounds, and oil meal
pounds will cost no more than the hay, and Is
worth more as a feed and three times more for
manureal value. Modern dairymen are learn
ing that cows coming into milk IN the fail or
early winter bring in much larger revenue
than summer dairying.
The reading of this paper was followed by a
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, MINI, on the subject Minnesota as a
dairy state. This is omphatically a grass
growing state Wild grass grows abundantly.
1t was the home of the buffalo long before the
white men settled here. The writer thought
Minnesota an oat state and thought oats the
best crop farmers could raise. He mentioned
the erroneous idea that costly barns are re-
auired for the proper care of stock in winter.
There is no necessity for an expensive
building--a stable with good roof, and sizes
viii battened on inside and well
banked wifi itsep 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 Yentlla-
tionare important requisites. Windows should
be on the south and east YentilatoIs should
be placed in the roof SO foul air may escape.
Plenty of good water should be within conyen-
lent distance of the barn Another OK jectonls
that the feeding season in this state is too long
This is a mistake. Make the cattle debtors for
abundant feed and creditors for plenty Of good
butter and cheese furnished in n turn. The
kew to success is good feeding a Minnesota
winter gives a wonderful appetite and faculty
to convert food into milk.
The committee appointed by Judge Blanch-
ard to report an organization OF a butter board
of trade. to be located at Mankato, to be entl-
tied the Butter Board OF Southwestern Mime
sofa was announced to be composed as follows;
Col Clark w. Thompson, Faribault county,
Mimi. z. j. Clark, Chippewa county Mimi /;
g. Il. Marvin, Omated county, Mimi u. q
Huntingdon Cottonwood, county, MINI. j. O.
Noe, Blue Earth county, MINI, Recess.
O. r. Beach followed with q paper on the
subject is DairyinS Better Business for a
Farmer Of New Country Than Grain Rals-
ing?n The speaker began by contrasting the
farmers of Wisconsin under the wheat raising
system with that they now enjoy in the bust
ness Of dairying The dairying is a more GER
tain business than grain growing One obJec-
ton to grain growing is that profits are nearly,
| if not entirely, consumed in shipping and plac-
ing it in the market The labor in dairying Is
light, and extends through the entire year, IN
utter contrast to grain growing
J. c. Lombard of Chicago followed Win
/ paper on Legislative Control OF Railroads,
which presented III a foreible manner the raIl-
road side Of the question
ssThe Progress Of Dairying in Wisconsin
/ was the subject Of paper read by D. W. Cur
it's Of Fort Atkinson, Wis. The state Is pecu-
/ liarly sslRpted to dairying Astounding in tame
/ grasses good pasturage, pure spring water