The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-19
THE DAIRY.

"A writer in Farming World advises
farmers to get small pals, make agoods
even grade of butter, put name and the
name of dairy on each pail and ship to-
some reliable commission merchant on
trial. In few weeks, if you produce
really meritorous article, there will
be demand for all you can produce,
and it will pay, too. :
When the temperature is too high
or too low there is difficulty in getting
the butter; in the one case it is too soft
to adhere and is beaten into still finer
emulsion and remains in the churn q
foaming. creamy mass; in the other
case extremely fine grains of butter are
formed, but no amount of churning
Will unite these minute grains into
lumps.-N 7. Times.
Variety conduces to health. An
animal is no more fitted for subsisting
on single article of food than man.
When kept upon one kind only it soon
begins to reject it, eating only when
compelled by hunger digestion is
best effected when all the demands for
food are complied with. The greater
the variety the more rapid the progress
of the animal.-Fdrn,. Field and Stock
man.
One of the principal reasons why
Canadian dairymen turned their atten-
ton to making cheese. was their fail
ure to make butter that could be ex-
ported at profit. says the Procisioner.
Putting all their cream into cheese is.
therefore. the principal reason why Ca
madam cheese, through its superiority,
is rapidly BUSTING. in foreign markets,
its rival made in the United States.
The rate of depreciation in the
value of cow from four years to ten
is figured by some dairymen at four
dollars year. That is, if cow is
worth forty dollars when four years old
her carcass would be worth say sixteen
dollars for beef when ten years old.
This, however. needs to be taken with
some grains of allowance A great
many cows if sound and healthy are as
profitable at ten and twelve wears of
age as they ever were.-Hoard's Dairy
man.
The centrifugal process for washing
butter, which has been patented in
Germany. is said to give promise of
valuable assistance in the creamery or
dairy. The machine consists of q re-
vOlving perforated drum lined with a
linen sack. in which is placed the
butter. The rapid motion throws off
the buttermilk, after which spray of
water is introduced and the revolutions
continued until the granulated butteris
dry. every particle of water being re,
mOved.-Turt. Field and Farm.
1t takes an average three gallons
of milk to yield one pound of butter.
writes correspondent of the Rural
World. When butter sells at eighteen
cents per pound. allowing for package,
commissions and other incidentals the
farmer will have about four cents a
gallon for his milk. Bntter sold for
twenty-five cents per pound would net
the farmer about six cents per gallon
for milk. OF course it can not be pro-
cured at that rate if the value of the
cow, feed, care and labor are taken
into the account. But when when we
consider the fact that large quantities,
amounting to tens of thousands of
pounds. have been bought by dealers
at from eight to ten cents per pound.
how much does the farmer get for his
milk, or what is the profit of the cream
cry company which has contracted to
pay the farmer eight cents per gallon?
Echo answers show much ."