The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-29

ApsOlute are necessities Tor excellent butter,
Impurities absorbed in private farm dwellings
are injurious. The milk should be cooled To-
sixty degrees in Eve hours Milk heats quick
~ and cools slowly; IL gals. milk
cooled from 20 to 60, loso one pint
ons hundred pounds Of milk contains one
makes a good butter, but does not keep. To
give tho graining quality a small degree of ac-
csdity is ilecessaryj too much destroys it Sol
ldlty Is important in packing and ~neatness is
speaker recommended the use of Higgins salt.
LOUD SEQ no advantage in sailing in brine.
Uses q little more than a pound Of salt to sew
enteen pounds of butter. He (Curtis) takes
about one hour and a halft to cilnrn, work and
pack his butter. Recommended coloring but
must be skinned sweet and ac-
cidity obtained afterward. Places water
around cans to height of milk. Churns at six
ty-two degrees. He feeds his cows well, salts
stock three times a week; fences off bad water,
giving COWS only such water as he would drink
himself. During drouth use corn fodder,
nlpkl etc, never allowing the COWS to
iose flesh. Does not try to obtain all there is
keeps his COWS up to regular quantity, because
when COWS once slacke1l mp one cannot bring
them back to original quantity.
II, =. Hoard OF Monteyideo, MINI, in d paper
dairy farming. Showed the cost of raising
wheat in upper Mississippi valley, and stated
that in his county about Go0,UD bushels of
wheat are raised annually, bringing liz Chicago
about s5o0,0uo It costs $4,000 to send this
wheat to market, leaving about $40 net pro
ceeds to each farmer. The speaker felt sure
the result would be much butter if farmers
wonld turn their attention to dairying instead.
9. +. Dexter of Chicago followed with a paper
on Organizations fort he Promotion of Special
Objects with special reference to organizations
of the dairy interest.
Vice President l. a. McKinstry of Winneba-
so City, Mimi, read a paper entitled Shortage
in the Creamery Gathering System"
By the term OF shortage, as used by eamer
men, we mean tlatlin buying a certain quality
of cream, which has been supposed to make q
given quantity Of butter, and it fails to do SO,
we say We are short on butter; or, in other
many pounds Of butter, according to the stand
ard rules, and it failed to make it.
lie said the shortage
reported in Iowa for tho year 1889 was 4 per
cent on all the butter manufactured by the
cream-gathering creameries running on the
gauge, where l have no doubt that it was fully
as much for 1888 in Minnesota. What is the
remedy for the creamoy man? 1know of none
that can be adopted and deal justly with each
patron except the test chnrn plan. He conclu-
ded by saying that unloss the manufacturing
shortage shall be done away, cream-buying is
a failure in Minnesota.
w. g. Straight did not wish the idea to go
abroad that tie shrinkage was due to difference
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INTO cream Mr.. johnson of Illinois asked for
instructions hosy to secure uniform %skimn,ing.
Air. Mcklnstry answered.:
by having milk SKINNED daily by same per-
son and at same hour of day. He collected
cream for his creamery every second or third
day. Used n preventative, which the gatlerer
adds as he pIoelres the cream, which holds
back the cream from mature acidity. R;pen-
ing cream thiGsens rs it grows. sour; sweet
cream is thin. Butter from small ~churnings
does not srannlate aswell or as rapidly as that
from larger ~chSyrnings. open my cream jars
and stir cream frequently and leave exposed to
air. for the reason that The creamt takes up oxy-
gen., which affords q finer flavor to the butter.
President Hoard stated that:
One of the secrets OF 'cream shortage" was
the effect of the churn on cream. In the sea
son of succulcnt food the churn receives its
dn" proportion of butter. BY feeding roots,
eiisliage and succulent food the churnw will do
its work with profit. Farmers who allow their
Kay to lipen too much and grow woody are de-
nyingt to the churnt the proper returns its should
receive.
President Hoard then read q prize ESSAY read
by I. W. Garter, at the Wisconsin Dairymen's
association. The essaygwas replcte with valu-
able suggestions.
II. d. Gurler, Of 10 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 im-
portance in the new parts of the West. In
illinois would read COW, pig, calf. The COW,
II properly cared for is the most profitable ami
NAL on the farm. When Icommenced dnirying
my cows would average only $50 pounds of
butter annually. l began to test nilk. l
learned that the COW which produced forty
pounds OF milk per day, produced one pound
pounds per day produced more butter than the
COW that gave 10 pounds of milk per day. I
sold off Improbable COWS and found / had
some that would not pay for the feed they
consumed; others would pay 500 after
I naylDu for. THAR, cnaJ .fyhopCaI from St,p,
increased butter yield in q few years from $50
to lB pounds per COW, and the profit above
price of feed was an increase from $l5 to S45
per COW, an increase Of 200 per cent. For the
year ending Jan. !, 1880, 1 received SO. % worth
of milk for every dollaf's worth of feed con-
sumed by my cows. We,have one patron that
we paid SS7.t9 per cow last year. Ono patron
his dairy of fourteen cnwsI last month For
grain feed, 442; hay, s2l. 70. Total cost feed,
63 ~. 0 produced 400 pounds milk,
worth s1.5o per 100 pounds or Sis. 50, leaving
q surplus after paying feed Of ,s51.s. Have
to the cows with their salt. I feed one-fcuTth
bono meal, three-fonrths salt. The calf is an
important animal with the. dairyman, but there
ID little profit in growing n steer.
In the pig Is little profit. give the follow
ing comparison of my most successful pig
feeding with that of my most successful calf
feeding:
Feb. %, 1881, two grade Durham calves about
fve months old, weighed 73s pounds; March LIST
they weighed 767 pounds, q gain of % pounds
IN seven days; gain each per day, 21-2pounds.
They, were fed as follows:
2SO lbs skim milk Mt 225c 70
81 lbs corn meal 25
Total feed expense 49,. 80
Cost per pound, 3 7-1o cents, to compare with
the following:
1 ~ 80, . m 1850 u @ -.E--z.1.-1 M ----.a
June q, 1923 pounds, a gain in thirteen days Of
Wpounds. They were fed 439 pounds of skim
milk with s 1-2 pounds per loowould make a7
LIZ pounds increase from 60 pounds of shelled
corn. Figuring the milk at % cents per 100
pounds and the corn at 80 cents per bushel
market price at timc) the pork cost 2-27-1O0
cents per pound.
In the evening it is estimated that sixteen
hundred people were in the opera house. The
exercises consisted of an excellent musical pro-
gramme, and o sprightly, well written, prac-
teal paper by Mrs. Curries embodying her ex-
perience in butter making. But my own ex-
peElenee is 70 furnish a good warm stable,
or oats every day, and have a rack and keep it
filled with your sweetest and best hay. keep
their stables clean, aid they will have nothing
to do but grow.
or mixed bran and shorts, corn, pumpkins, and
plenty of good, sweet hay, rs the best class of
food, together with plenty of pure water: and
don't let your cattle stand around in the yard,
With their backs bumped up like a rainbow,
daring snow storms and billiards..
On Thursday the 14th the first business was
the reading of q paper by Hon. Hi
ram Smith of fheboygan Falls, Wis.
He said Prof +. Stewart, the best authority on
cattle feeding, gives as a standard ration for
milch cows, daily, p pounds OF dry organic
substance, and this ration should consist Of 2
1-2 pounds albuminoids, IL 1-2 pounds of car
Donates and 40-lM fat. Thirty pounds of hay
will produce the dry substance, but will be
deficient in albuminoids and fat; 80 pounds of
hay at $40 per ton costs Is cents; n much bet