The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-03-07
THE DAIRY.

A good COW is one that keeps up
her flow of milk through all kinds of
weather. Great numbers attempt TO
dry themselves up as soon as winter
.ets in.
But few farmers through the coun-
try use ice in their dairy, yet good but
ter is made with difficulty in summer
without its aid, and especially is it use
tul in getting the butter to market in
good condition. A good supply of ice
should be put up for use in the dairy.
-Leaky teats are prevented by in
serting a short wooden plug in the open
ing. Ihave never seen evil results from
this practice. ! have used such a plug
also to distend an opening too small,
and make the COW to milk more easily.
The plug should be cleaned every time,
and be used for month or more. - The
Dairy'nan.
One of the most successful of Hi
nois dairymen keeps one hundred cows,
but never raises a pound of hay. He
feeds his cattle on corn fodder, cut when
in blossom. bound and set up till cured,
or till winter, when it is removed to the
barn. He gets seven tons of this dry
fodder to the acre, and claims it is
worth as much as the best of hay.
"A great deal of butter is injured in
quality before the milk is brought from
the barn or stable. If poor butter is the
result, the housewife or dairymaid is not
the one to hold responsible. If cows are
well bedded, and the mixer uses due
care, there will be much fewer COM
plants of ill-favored butter.-Elgin
Adpocate.
The careful dairyman will deter
mine beyond doubt whether his cows
are yielding profitable amount of milk;
if not, he weeds them out. Many a
careless man never knows, seems hardly
to care, whether some of his cows
are profitable to keep or not. In
this, however, lies the profitableness
or unprofitableness of the bust
ness. Now is a good time to get rid of
the inferior ones. 1t certainly will not
pay to feed them through the long win
ter before us--E1change.
OF the use of oat meal for cows,
says dairy writer, mention is not often
made in this country, but when spoken
of it is always with praise. That it is
better than corn meal there can be no
doubt; it is richer in both albuminoids
and fat, and the usefulness of the two
nutriments, and especially the former,
for making milk, is shown not only by
the results of numerous careful expert
ments but by the acknowledged useful
ness of oilcake meal. Where this meal
is used freely there would be less use
for oat meal; but under some circum-
stances it might be advantageously SUBJ
stituted for the bran in the favorite nix-
ture for cows of Indian meal and bran.
To show how cold weather affects
cows an intelligent dairy farmer men
tons a ease where a herd of cows, which
had usually been supplied from troughs
and pipes in the stalls, were, on account
of an obstruction in the pipes, obliged
to be turned out twice a day, while the
weather was cold, TO be watered in the
yard. The quantity of milk instantly
decreased. and in three days the falling
off became very considerable. After
the pipes were mended, and the cows
again watered as before, in their stalls,
the flow of milk returned. Cows when
giving milk are more sensitive to the
cold than when they are dry, and ex-
posture to severe cold interferes with the
secretion of milk-F'0rn1 and Field.