The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-07-02
THE DAIRY.

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some grain are what the cows want
now and these are essential to Sc
cure the best results.
The richness of milk increases
with latitude-the further north we
go. the richer we find the milk, so
says an exchange.
The milking should be done as
quietly, gentlyf and rapidly as pos
sible. A noisy and slow mixer
will soon ruin the most gentle of
cows.
1t is said that COWS that are fed
little grain in connection with
their pasture yield larger proper
ton of cream in their milk, and
always make hard butter, even in
warm weather.
A well-flled ice-house will be
very handy to the dairyman just
now, and unless there is one, good
butter will be very difficult, if not
impossible, to market during the
next three months.
A good cows always bears the
marks of her excellence about her,
in form, in color, or in the shape
and size of her udder. A good
Judge can tell, almost at a glance,
from these points, whether a COW
has any merit or not for the dairy.
Milk is easily tainted by expo
sure to any foul air, gases, Odors,
etc, and butter will even become
rancid much sooner when exposed
to the air than when packed air
tight. 1t is well to keep this in
mind and perhaps it may help to
avoid rancid butter.
Dairy COWS to be profitable must
have grain, and some practical dal-
rymen claim that is is better to sell
part Of the hay to buy grain, if it
cannot be obtained any other way.
1t IS further claimed that a COW
will do better if she consumes two
pounds of hay and one pound of
niddling than she will to consume
four ponds of hay alone.
Don't milk q troublesome cow
but turn a calf or two to her and
let them do the.milking. An average
COW will raise four calves to yea
age during a season, and these
calves will bring $40 to $50. This
is often more than can be made
from her milk. The same policy
would pay farmers situated at q
distance from market. AS rule it
: will pay them better to let their
cows raise calves than to make but
ter and cheese to sell.
Every farmers family should be
supplied with good and pure cheese
yet on the tables of many farmers
it never appears except as a luxury
This is a mistake. Every commu-
nifty of farmers should make an
earnest effort to supply themselves
with cheese of their own making
,, By little combination this could
easily be done, and many farmers
families enjoy the luxury of good
cheese, made from milk which
would otherwise be fed to the pigs
A good deal apprehension has
,, been felt by dairymen, says an ex'
change, concerning the competition
of lard butter; but as it appears by
the following item, new enemy
has appeared which may prove very
formidable, if cheapness of produc-
ton alone will render it so. Of
course most of our readers under
stand that vaseline is one of the
products of petroleum, being
obtained from the residuum left
left in the retorts after the kerosene
oil, nsptha and lighter products OF
petroleum have been removed. The
thought of eating the stuff is not
very pleasant.
J., The Jersey cow Princess I'd for
whom is claimed a butter yield of
/, as lbs. 124 OF. OF butter in seven
DAYS, was fed during the test %
quarts of ground oats, 10 quarts of
pea meal, two quarts of linseed oil
cake, one quart of bran, and what
beets, carrots and clover hay she
would eat. Any COW that Can eat
that much and make as large but
ter yield at the same time must
surely be wonderful animal, Most
animals would have all they could
do to carry that amount of proven
der, without doing anything else
that is it would clog their diges-
tive apparatus and is a dangerous
experiment to try on valuable an
imal.