Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14
DAIRY DOTS.

Never feed whole grain to the COWS,
it paws we'll to have it ground.
When you get a good cow, keep her
and raise her heifer calves.
Beware of fat cows. They are gener-
ally better for beef than for milk and
butter.
If YOU expect your COWS 10 give a
large flow OF milk. give them food that
conducive to milk secretion.
Do not look for superlatively good
beef. but. or and milk animal in the same
cow-it is inc Dmpatib.e with the DEGREES
of nature.
Do moi forget to handle the uider
of Young heifers before they have their
first calf, it certainly makes them gen.
tie.
There is nothing that makes better
Winter feed for COWS than cabbage; and
no other green crop can be kept mors
easily.
Always keep convenient in the stable
q little mutton tallow or vaseline to use
| when the cows teats show signs of
cracking.
Milk, butter, cheese and calves are all
the legitimate progeny of cow. What
animal gives a more diversified source
| of income?
| If YOU keep cows for making butter,
test each ones milk separately, and sec
if she is performing the work for which
you keep her.
A coed cow is one that leeps up her
fioy of milk through all kind of wealth
er. Great number attempt to dry
themselves up as soon as Winter sets
in.
The Winters production of milk and
butter lays the best if properly managed
l-something that can be said of but few
occupations except dairying.
A putrid carcass po!luting the air of a
posture will spoil not only the milk OF
the COWS running there, but also the
entire contents of the vat into which
the tainted milk is poured at the fac
tory.
The cause of milk sickness, says Mr.
BENJAMIN Spradlin, of Kentucky is Lc.
bella, which is eaten by the animals
Lohelia, after it fas so far matured as to
produc, seed, will invariably produce
milk sickness after it is eaten.
The necessity of having suitable
place for keeping the milk is felt at nc
time more than during freezing wealth
er. Frozen milk will not make gooC
butter, nor will the cream rise proper
ly.
From the milk records of the Mich
igan State Farm the average anrua
yield Of six short horns was 5,ll'
bounds; of six Ayrshires 3,525 pounds
and of two Jerseys, 4,949 pounds.
But few farmers through the countr,
, use ice in the dairy, vet good butter i
made with difficulty in summer wIthou
4 its aid, and especially is it useful in get
q ting the butter to market in good condi
ton. A good supply of ice should b
, put up for use in the dairy.
: Goffart, the inventor of the ensilag
, system, says that he does not hold tha
: better made from ensilage is as goo
n as wnen on fresh maize, but Will
4 Winter butter is always inferior TO tn:
: made in Summer, that from ensilage
{. of butter quality than that from an
:. other feed.
n Heating the milk slightly cluses ii
10 cream to rise more rapidly at this Sc,
s. son, and this will make the butter CON
'e more quickly and be OF better qualit
r Much of the inferiority of winter butt,
e. is due to the fact that the cream ris
n slowly and fuagus forms oil it before
i is churned. Stirring the cream a littl
IS at least once day, is very importal
v where only one cow it kept and IL
y. cream is long time accumulating
quantity sufficient for churning. q
less this is done TIC butter viii be a
to have a bitter taste.