The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-06-07
THE DAIRY.

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lone at night or early in the morning,
when the air is the coolest.
"A Vermont dairyman says young
,alf should be fed three times a day.
over feeding at long intervals, and es-
oecially with cold feed, kills a good
many valuable calves.
In turning cows to pasture early in
he spring they are very sure to eat too
much of the young grass and bring on
he sco"rs. This can be guarded against
BY putting the cows up at night and
citing them stand to hay.
While milk is standing for cream
% rise, the purity of the cream, and
consequently the fine flavor and keep
NC of the butter, will be injured if the
surface of the cream is exposed freely
20 air much warmer than the cream.
Unless you are able and willing to
personally superintend the scalding of
7our milk pans, it would be better to
use earthenware. Nothing but boiling
water and plenty of it will remove the
germs of disease that lurk in the half
washed tin vessels.
In answer to a 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.
Mr.. Victor NJ Drake tells how he
represses devotion to perpetual motion
on the part of self-sucking cows: "Tie
short, and apply aloes to the teats i'm
mediately after milking. The pungent
bitter taste of the drug, after one or
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 one-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 its weight in
gold 0aking ten pounds as 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 OF working a dasher in
it.-An1ericdn Ddirynl0aa.
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 COW remembers better than
another it 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
where there is customary system in
vogue; if the feeding is delayed the
milking 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
Anlerica12 Dairyn1Qa.
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 neighborhood 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 year; but by
halving this yield, we come within the
limits of what can be economically at
tanned. Then he well says, as rule
where ten COWS are now kept, the same
food and care, or less, given to seven
better animals would give betterresults
Generally the seven can be selected
from the ten or their offspring, but no
such Improvement is possible under the
trade system. This is little doubtful;
1.-the only safe method of steady, sure,
profitable improvement is to form a
permanent herd, and maintain and en-
large it by its own increase judiciously
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