The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-07-16
THE DAIRY.

When a cow loses one OF her teats
It does not follow that her actual value
Is impaired, except as it may make
milking more difficult. After the milk
veins have become accustomed to the,
change, all the milk secreted will go to-
three teats as well as to four. Losing a
teat is an indication that cow is or has
been great milker, and may therefore
be worth more than one that has never
had any such difficulty.
Mrs. S. w. WILDER, of Michigan,
says she thinks a little less science and
little more common sense will make
deal more gilt-edged butter. When
dairymen realize thatpoorcows making
white butter will not pay, and change
them for better ones, and then feed richer
food and more of it-that containing
the elements of good butter-there will
be no demand for butter-color. .E
The Utica Herald tells of a dairy
man who was troubled with the smell
of garlic or wild onions in the milk.
To obviate this he put the COWS in the
stable at about three O'clock each aft
ernoon, and fed them on hay and gave
grain as usual. The result was as he
anticipated. A rest of three hours al
lowed all the scent to pass off in other
secretiens, thoughpreviously it favored
both milk and butter. 49,, ~;
Col. F. D. Curtis says that the
fancy dairymen, by allowing their cream
to sour too much before churning, have
made their product simply limitation
eleomargarine." f" "They have" he
says, s'invited the public palate -es-
pecially in the cities-with, eheir rich
made, buttermilk-favored butter, and
created market for eleomargarine
compounds, and now they are running
a neck -and-neck race with the oleomar-
garine manufacturers"
The Live Stock Indicator says a
farmer who bought COW which neither
he nor his men could milk, found he
could make her profitable to suckle
calves, which were very high priced
that season. Her own calf sold for fif-
teen dollars. Then another was left for
her to rear, and broughttwelve dollars.
During the season the farmer sold six.
ty-fve dollars worth of calves reared or
the kicking COW, fed her few dollars
worth of meal and turned her off fol
beef the following winter. This plan il
well adapted for large dairy where 9
lumber of COWS calve in succession.
The advantage of having a breed
Of COWS that are useful for milk ant
butter as well as beef is very great
Its equivalent in dollars and cents il
shown by Western stocknan, who
figures up in this way: Interest on val
ue of cow at z per cent, $10.50; weal
of COW at 10per cent, $15; feeding COW
for the season, $27.30; share of cost O
bull, 81; interest on three acres of lan(
at 6 per cent, $7.20; total, $50, which
is the value of the calf when dropped
Where, then, is the profit if calf is fet
for two years at q cost of $50 and il
sold as steer, weighing 1900 pounds
at7 cents pound on footp Here seem
to be a loss of $14 at least, not count
ing the expense of attendance. But i
I thecow made 300 pounds of butter, o
/ 900 pounds of cheese, in the year. be
sides rearing the calf, there would b
\ $75 to 60 to her credit, which twoul
leave the account showing $61 profit
A COW that is only good forli rearing
calf, it is very clear, cannot be wort
: more than $75, and vet some such COW
. have been sold for thousands.-M J
} Times.