Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-03-11
The Boscobel Farmers Institute.
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.

CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
Mr.. Kennels, of Crawford County,
read a paper on dairying. He is fol-
lowing with success the methods ne
learned by reading the writings of the
most advanced dsirymen of the state.
Mr.. A. l.. Snyder, of Mt. Hope, read
a.paper of which the Milwaukee Senti-
mel saws:
A young man with = big straight
purpose in him, read the first article he
ever wrote, and in it told some facts
that the dairy world can't hear and
heed too soon. He has been operating a
creamery on the per-guage-of-cream
system for few years, or until last
spring, when he put in the churning
and reducing to oil test By the per-
guage test, the cream of the three chief
breeds was mixed and paid for per 113
cubic inches, to-wit, the Shorthorns,
Jerseys and Holsteins, and the money
pro rated by the guage. The new and
certain test soon showed that guage
of Shorthorn cream yielded 100 per
cent, or 10 ounces TO guage, Jersey
cream, 20 ounces, and Holstein cream
II ounces of butter
As he said, there was high kicking"
on the part of the Holstein men, and,
at first, they disputed the reliability of
the test. but as they could do no better
with their own churns on the farm, and
the demonstration came not so much
III. f,,o
the cream as from the per cent. of
butter fat or absolute oil, they acqui.
esced and took the real butter value of
their cream. He said it proved to him
that his Shorthorn patrons in years
gone by had received their just dues,
but that the Holstein cows have had
their shortage made up by the Jerseys.
The creamery man came out even if
there were as many Jerseys as Holstein
guages or pounds of cream, but if the
amounts were unequal he either lost or
gained in his yield of butter. The oil
test gave every man his due, and fair
sample was taken every time the cream
was taken from the farm. Business
can be done on the basis of Justice
Injustice must come to an end, he had
found, in operating creamery.
Discussions on churns. churning, and
sailing and selling butter followed. and
it was as apparent there as elsewhere
that it is about the toughest thing to do
to make the dash-churn, scrub-cow and
country-store-selling butter producers
comprehend why it is that our better
dairymen can keep double the cows
they can per acre, make them produce
double the pounds of butter per COW,
and get double the price per pound for
it. But many are trying to learn, and
no subject takes deeper hold on any
crowd, than an airing of the better
methods.
j. A. Curtis, the well-known Patch
Grove farmer and writer. then read q
paper on potatoes. which we printed
last week.
A paper written by w. II. Rose, OF
Boscobel, on poultry, was read. He
said that twenty hens could be raised
to s months old on 81 worth of corn
that it was not good to put large flocks
in the same pen, that material to make
shells must be fed-that clover hay
soaked is good for them, and that the
rooms should be about 10x12 feet, and
kept clean. If fed right and kept
warm, hen will lay in winter as
naturally as in summer.
Mr.. Hoard read letter from an Hi
nois hog grower, who had convinced
himself that hog cholera is simply
measles, and that, treated as tina,
disease is in children, saved almost al
attacked.
FACTS ABOUT BEE-KEEPING.
E. Pike read an interesting article OF
Bookkeeping, and showed it to be al
industry more easily understood thar
many others, and quite profitable t.
engage in. The frame in hives ha,
come to stay, as it solved the problem
of cheap production and easy empty
ing of the comb to be retiled. 1t seem
there are scrubs and thoroughbred
among bees, and that some dealer
practice the butterine rascality by put
ting seven spurious queens an invoic'
of ten bees.
In the evening (Friday) Mr.. C. A
Hatch continued the discussion of tn
bee question in plain, familiar wa,
that was interesting to all, and toll
many curious facts.
Below we give Mr.. Adams's essay
which we mentioned last week.