Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-22

sixty degrees in five hours. Milk heats quick
" and eools slowly; 10 gals. milk
cooled from 90 to Cd lose enc pint.
One hundred pounds Of milk contains one
pound more sugar than butter Sweet cream
makes good butter, but does not keep. ia
give the graining quality d small degree Of &C.
eidity is necessary; too much destroys it Sol
idlty is important in packing and neatness is
one of the best points to be attained. The
speaker recommended the use Of Higgins salt
Could see no advantage in sailing in brine
Uses a little more than pound Of salt to sew
about one hour and a half to cnurn, work and
pack his butter. Recommended co1oring hut
ter. I'D In cans set in water milk
must be SKINNED sweet and &C
cidity obtained afterward i Places water
around cans to height Of milk Churns at ak
ty-tWo degrees. He feeds his COWS well, salts
stock three times week fences off bad water,
giving COWS only such water as he would drink
himself. During drouth use corn fodder,
pumpkins, ETC., never allowing the COWS to
lose flesh. Does not try to obtain all there is
in COW in one year; Keeps his COWS longer;
Keeps has COWS up to regular quantity, because
them back to original quantity.
! d: H. Hoard of Montevideo, Mimi, in paper
on skim milk farming, compared wheat and
dairy farming. Showed the cost of raising
Wheaton upper Mississippi valley, and stated
that IN his county about 100000 bushels of
about $500, COO. It costs $l5o, go e send this
wheat to market, leaving about $40 net pro-
ceeds to each farmer. The speaker felt sure
the result would be much better if farmers
would turn their attention to dairying instead
G. +. Dexter'0f Chicago followed with paper
ton organizations for the Promotion of Special
Objects" with special reference to organizations
of the dairyinterest
Vice President P. A. McKinstry of Winneba-
80 City, Mimi, read paper entitled Shortage
IN the Creamery Gathering System" /. S, =
BY the term Of shortage, as used by creamery
men, we mean that in buying g certain quality
OF cream, which has been supposedto make q
given quantity of butter, and it fails to do SO,
we say we are short on butter; or, in other
words, we'bought cream enough to make SO
many pounds Of butter, according to the stand
ard rules, and it failed to make it.
he said the shortage
cent. on all the butter manufactured by the
cream gathering creameries running ,on the
gauge, where have no doubt that it was fully
as much for 1888 in Minnesota. What is the
remedy for the creamey man? T know Of none
that can be adopted and deal justly with each
patron except the test chuln plan. He conc1u-
ded by saying that unless the manufacturing
shortage shall be done away, cream buying is
failure inrMinnesota
w. B. Straight did not wish the idea to go
abroad that the sh1inkage was due to difference
in cream instead of the amount of milk turned
into cream. Mr.. johnson of Illinois asked for
instructions how to secure uniform Swimming.
Mr.. Mckinstly answered.
By having milk skinned daily by same per-
son and at same hour of day. He collected
cream Tor his creamery every second or third
day. Used a preservative, which the gatherer
adds az he procures the cream, which holds
back the cream from mature acidity. Ripen-
n -
cream is thin. Butter from small churnings
does not sranulate as well or as rapidly as that
from larger Cummings open my cream jars
and Stir cream frequently and leave exposed to
air, for the reason thatthe cream takes up oxy-
gen, which affords a finer flavor to the butter.
President Hoard stated that:
One OF the secrets OF scream shortage" was
the effect of the churn on cream. In the sea-
son OF succrllent food the churn receives it's
dra proportion of butter. By feeding roots,
ensllage and succulent food the churn will do
it's work with profit. Farmers who allow their
hay to ripen too much and grow woody are de-
nylng to- the churn the proper returns its should
receive.
President Hoard then read a prize essay read
by D. W. Garter, at the Wisconsin Dairy1nens
association. The essay was replete with valu-
able suggestions
H. B.:Gurler, of De Kalb, III, then read a
paper on the COW, the calf, and the pig.
ing: Have raised them Il order Of their iS my
portance IN the new parts Of the West. In
Illinois would read COW, pig, calf The cow,
if properly cared for is the most profitable ami
NAL on the farm. When commenced dairying
my COWS would average only $50 pounds Of
learned that the COW which produced forty
of butter per day, that the COW giving Is
pounds per day produced more butter than the
COW that gave 40 pounds Of milk per day., I
sold off Improbable COWS and found I had
some that would not pay for the feed they
paying for their feed Changed from sum
@ butter yed ina few yesrs from 1so
to l66 pounds per COW, and the profit above
price OF feed was an increase from SIS to SIS
per COW, an increase Of 200 per cent. For the
year ending Jan. 1, 1880, I received 81 % worth
of milk for every dollars worth of feed con
sumed by my cows. We, have one patron that
we paid sS7W per COW lastyear. One patron
kept al accurate account of feed consumed by
his dairy of fourteen COWS last month. For
grain feed 50; hay, $21-70. Total cost feed,
63. 20: Cows produced 7,700 pounds milk,
worth 81 50 per 100 pounds or $113.5O, leaving
a surplus after paying feed of $3.50 Have
checked abortion by the use of bone meal fed
to the cows>with their salt. feed one-fourth
bono meal, three fourths salt. The calf is an
important animal with the dairyman, but there
is little profit in growing steer
In the pig. is little profit I give the follow
ing comparison Of my most successful pig
feeding with that of my. most successful calf
feeding: ~ - -.
Feb. 20, 1881, two grade Durham calves about
five months old, weighed 1872 pounds; March LIST
they weighed 767 pounds, a gain of IS pounds
IN IN seven days; gain each per day, 1-2 pounds.
They were fed as follows:
$50 lbs skim milk at 25c 4 ~
a. lbs corn meal. Is
10 lbs of hay ct $1Oper ton ................ IS
Total feed expense. 80
Cost per pound, ITO cents, to compare with
the following: y. =.
Junes, 1878, pigs weighed 1921 pounds:
June n, 1928 pounds, a gain in thirteen days Of
So pounds They were fed 439 pounds of skim
milk and III pounds of corn. Crediting the
milk with 6 10 pounds per 100 would make 81
1-2 pounds increase from 60 pounds of shelled
corn. Figuring the milk at Is cents per 100
pounds, and the corn at 80 cents per bushel
market price at time) the pork cost 2-27-1O0
cents per pound. .i.Es, = . Nv ;
In the evening it is estimated that sixteen
hundred people were in the opera house. The
exercises consisted Of an excellent musical pro-
gramnle, and q sprigghtly, well, written, prac-
tlcal paper BY Mrs. Curries embodying her ex-
perience in butter making But my own ex-
perience is to furnish good warm stable,
warm their milk, feed a little bran and shorts
or oats every day, and have rack and keep it
filled with your sweetest and best hay, keep
their stables clean, and they viii have nothing
to do but gnew. kali, .5..5.. n :
With regaad to feeding nnileh COWS, consid.
er mixed bran and shorts, corn, pumpkins, and
plenty of geed, sweet hay, as the best class Of
food, together with plenty of pure water: and
don't let yanr cattle stand around in the yard,
with their backs bumped up like arainbow,
during snow storms and billiards..
On Thursday the 14th the first business was
the reading Of paper by Hon. Hi
He said Prof T. Stewart, the best authority on
cattle feeding, gives as q standard ration for
mich COWS, daily "a pounds Of dry organic
substance, and this ration should consii,t of 2
10 pounds albnninoids, 10 q pounds Of car
Donates and 4o-l0o fat, Thirty pounds of hay
viii produce the dry substance, but will be