The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-08-19
Highly Inter esting Facts About
M iIk

The time and manner of milking must
affect the product. 1t is we'll known that
the first drawn from the udder is not so
rich as the last. This is probably because
the thinner materials have the best chance
to escape, leaving the larger globules to
/ come last. Mornings milk is ALWAYS
better than that obtained in the evening.
One milking each day gives richer milk
than twice milking, but less in quantity.
AS milk is an animal secretion manufac-
tured by the cow, it must be evident that
whatever worries, frets or torments the
COW or renders her uneasy or uncomfort-
able, will certainly lessen the quantity and
affect the composition of her milk.
AS to the chemistry of milk, pasturage
and feeding in general must exert great
influence. The adaptations of food for
cattle is comparatively new subject for
investigation. A few years ago we heard
nothing of oil meal, cotton-seed meal, the
succulent roots and vegetables. and the
exact adaptation of foods to the end in
view. Now all this is changed.
Let no one doubt that the first fresh
sweetness of summer pasturage yields
larger and better percentage than any
other food. l still believe in the silo. /
will say, with all candor, after having used
ensllage for four years, that | believe in
SuccClent green corn from the silo, and
fail to find any evil effects therefrom.
After the most critical examination, | be-
lleve that ensilage is friend to the
farmer. believe it has not been proven
to damage milk, butter or cheese. The
most delicate tests that milk and butter
have been subjected to have failed to dis
cover the least injurious product where
good ensilage was used.
1T is true OF ensilage az of all other kinds
of food. if the material is poor the product
of the COW will be defective. ! am satisfied
that the use of immatured, sowed corn is
damage to milk. 1t renders it indigesti-
BILE. Many IA child in autumn has paid the
penalty for using such milk with it's life.
Why hurry in the use of fodder corn when
a few weeks more growth will triple it's
value ?
All annual plants aim to prepare ma
5erial for their seed. When corn is tas-
'elled and the ears begin to grow the corn
stalk is full of that rich saccharine matter
which presently will be deposited in the per
'ected ear. -Four hundred loads of such
,orn.cut into half-inch pieces, were de-
posted last fall in the silos which built.
The time will come when there will he no
N fo f1,n oil, ,f
green food for cattle than there now is as
20 the utility of canned food for the use
If man.
Perfection in dairying is in securing
inished results. but will never besobtana-
DE except at the price of utmost care all
llong the line of production. If there is
me man, from the first to the last, lack
ng intelligence or conscience we have to
,ay for it in the markets of the world
Profit and progress must go hand in
land in this business of dairying. That
farmer and farmers wife who put their
cattle in clean. warm. well ventilated
stables, who handle the milk with clesn
hands and the best appreciation of its nice
|usceptibilities, who.- in short. are ts9y, are
becoming refined and ad-
yancing in civilisation at the same time
hat they are reaping the largest profits
rom their business. That farmer actually
either rises or falls in manhood in proper
ion as humal sentiments control him in
The treatment Of his cattle, or harsh or bru-
al conduct rertiDrs them uncomfortable
md unproductive and their milk fevelish
md unwhOlesome.-Prof EdaUdrds at the
Velo York dairyme,' s meeting.