The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-23
THE DAIRY.

This Is worth repeating. Prof.
Brown, of the Ontario model farm says:
-'An average COW for dairy purposes
should give twenty pounds Of milk per
day during 200 days every year; eight
pounds of cream from every 100 pounds
Of milk; forty-five pounds of butter
from every 100 pounds of cream; and
fully ten pounds Of cheese from every
100 pounds OF milk"
DIR. Caldwell gives oatmeal the
preference over grains for milch cows,
whereas the Country Gentleman re-
marks that the experience Of many
farmers who feed for cream and butter
do not agree that it is any better than
cornmeal, even II as good, especially
for butter In the winter, that from oats
being comparatively white. Mix the
two and have feed good enough for
any dairy. y
AN interesting experiment, show
ing the evil effects OF worry on the
quality of a cows milk, is reported by
the Connecticut Experimental Station.
A new COW was bought and turned in
with a strange herd. She had been
recommended rs a rich mixer, but her
milk yielded no cream. On analysis
it showed solids, per cent, ll.ZS; fat.
per cent, ZIG. This COW had. been u
pet and when put by herself the milk
showed, solids, per cent, 1908, and
fat, per cent, 5.5l. This Is remark
able exhibit. american DaIryndn.
There is an essence of truth in this:
alt is from the diaries where the belief
exists that cream can be bewitched, and
over the doors of which horseshOes are
nailed for luck, that much of the poor
butter comes" ''It is only when all
natural conditions are spontaneously
favorable that such people ever make
good butter" And, alas! how seldom
they find the elements all favorable.
and how often these people spoil agood
thing, that could in such favorable
times almost make itself, by some bad
practice that no amountof warning can
induce them TO abandon. Frequently
the butter will be almost perfect up to
the middle process of working, and il
they would only let II alone there would
be an almost perfect article; but no,
that everlasting paddle must go on
sliding over the butter until the last
vestige Of grain has left it and nothing
but slick mass of grease remains.
Working by rule is good principle,
but sometimes there is more rule than
principle, Just as the old darky said
about the rule that every dog has his
day. Sometimes there are more dogs
than days.-Erchdnge.
How many cows should be the task
for milkerp 1t Is commonly stated
from six TO ten, and "the writer" says
that one summer he was one Of three
mixers in herd Of fifty cows, and he
is convinced that five mixers could
have obtained twenty per cent more
milk. In every dairy there are seasons
of extra milk yields. and also Of extra
dry cows, so that IL Is hard to state ex-
actly what ''task" should be. Some
of the best handled dairies we have ever
seen had but five mixers TO q hundred
cows, but they were mixers as were
mixers, and Of course at no one time
were all the cows giving milk, while,
Uice Uersa, so to speak, we have seen six
mixers fail with one COW. Much de-
pends upon the men and the COWS. A
man could milk nearly twice as many
Jerseys as he could Holsteins-t that is,
we mean Dutch or Friesian cattle. We
say let every man work according TO
his capacity and his cows, but do not
crowd him so that he will slight any Of
them. Above all, as we have often re-
marked before, put the best mixer to
che meanest cows. The reverse Of this
rule will not work.-The Dairy.