The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-03-26
THE DAIRY.

The fat ceW, as a rule, is DeIter
for the block that the dairy.
An ice-house and good milk
house are necessary adjuncts of ev-
cry well ordered farm.
1t is more profitable to feed the
milk to the calves or pigs than to
make fifteen cent butter.
The farmers COW should be well
bred, of large size, a good
breeder, and give generous guam
tity of rich milk.
The best cow for the dairy is not
necessarily a thoroughbred; it is
the one that yields the most milk
or butter.
A New York dairyman says he is
convinced that every bushel of
windfall apples fed to his cows is
worth pound Of cheese.
Corn-fodder is the best and
cheapest feed to keep up the sup
ply of milk throughout the dry
autumn months. This will need
attention soon.
An English dairyman says he
keeps kicking COW quiet at milk
ing time by simply placing just
over her loins a cloth wet with cold
water"
Pure water-and no other kind
should be tolerated under any cir
cumstances-should be supplied to
the COWS, all they will drink, three
times a day.
Oil-meal in the dairy is objected
to by many expert handlers of fan
cy hutter, on the ground that when
used as 3 cow-feed the butter pro-
duced has tendency to become
quite soft.
Which pays the best---butter,
cheese or milk? How many dairy
men know? This is an important
peint to decide, and every dairy
man Should know which is the
most profitable for him to produce;
yet we fear very few of them really
know.
Professor II. Munk, a worker of
some eminence lie agricultural
chemistry, says that moderate mus
cular exercise on the part of cows
increases the yield of milk, but
that violent motion binders the pro-
cess OF milk secretion. Dairy
farmers may turn his remarks to
profit.
A correspondent of the N. Y.
Tribune thus tells how to milk a
kicking COW: The cow is first tied
fast by the head, in the stable.
Now take a strap that, when buck
led together, will form a circle of
about eight inches, step by the
side of the COW, bend up her right
foot till it touches the body and
slip on the strap over the knee to
hold it in position. The cow is
now SO fixed that she is helpless,
and 1t is impossible fer her to kick.
But to relieve her, so that she
might stand at ease while being
MIXED, now take a small rope OF
sufficient length, and with a slip
knot bring it around both hind
legs above the gambrels, draw the
rope tight and fasten itsto some
thing in the rear; then let down the
fore foot by taking off the strap.
The COW may struggle at first, but
will soon give up, and you can milk
IN safety. After a little practice
the strap and rope can be adjusted
ia minute.
A correspondent of an exchange
says: "Our cows give more milk
when fed on ensilage than when
fed on hay, with the same amount
of grain; az evidence of this, our
COWS fell off five gallons of milk per
day in three days after the ensilage
was exhausted, and this WAS not
caused by any change of tempera-
ture or severe storms. These then
are some of the conclusions we
have come to, without of course
paying as much attention to the
subject to make them of much sci
entitic value, but some of these may
do to put down as facts. viz: That
from 10 to Is tons of green corn is
about the average yield of one acre !;
that the feeding value of this fod-
der, onsilaged, is two and half to
three tons to one of hay; that cat
tie do better and will gain more in
weight whom fed on ensilage than
when fed Oh hay; that COWS
give milk, and the cream
cream and butter will be more like
grass butter when fed on ensilage;
that calves do exceedingly well
when fed on it. In short, we be-
lieVe in ensilage, and have put
down 100 tons again this season
but we have never used anything
but corn for this purpose"