Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-07

Ouu-uutu more luhu WAS luIutIlN sup
posed. The cows stomach is not a com
plete strainer, that separates all good from
all bad and all kinds Of food and drink
cannot be given TO a COW with full expect
ancy that she can from it give an absolute
~ pure milk The COW seems to have lit
tie power to kill by digestion the bacteria
or minute life that exists in stagnant wa
ter. These. alive and well to considerable
numbers, actually pass into the milk, and
in many instances are the real agents that
do the the damage 10 butter and cheese.
But, after ALL this does not answer our
friends inquiry. Who can
An item in an Eastern dairy column says,
This will be glad news to the dairymen
inventors are at work on machine that
will husk the corn and shred the fodder at
the same time" Wherein is this any i'm
provement over the silo The fodder in
any case has to be carted to the barn. The
silo takes it in without any division of grain
and fodder, and saves it as no other plan
can, in one-ffth Of the space. 1t is only
now and then a year that fodder can he
kept in bulk. The silo preserves it every
year. The economy Of the silo is stated
clearly by Prof Whitcher, and confirmed by
every sio man in the country and now
comes the Wisconsin experiment station.
after three years trial and says that the but
ter yield Of ensilage fed cows is 1850 per
cent more than can be obtained from the
same fodder and grain dried-ll24 pounds
Of butter As against 100 pounds fed by the
old system What does the dairyman need
or want of a machine to get results no bet
ter than he has been getting in the past
Oh, YOU feed your dry fodder in better
shape and get more out of it Feed the
| fodder whole, cut up the reflections and mix
meal with it, and then figure the expense
Of cutting dry fodder, and then ask your
self if it pays after all TO cut the whole for
| the little amount that is rejected by the old
plan of feeding.
That is "why" it pays to cut fodder green,
| if at all, and obtain a succulent food for the
COWS. and cut up the butts, etc, when full
Of sap. before they have passed into the
woody, indigestible stage, as they do by
driving. Recent experiments go to show
that the food return in fodder is lost to a
greater degree by drying than results by
the ferment of the ripening of silage in the
pits And in actual farm practice the
waste Of drying and curing fodder is nearly
twice as great as 10y the siln. The money
of the future on the farm must be made
more in the direction of economics" the
utilizing of material that we considered too
trivial to look after Refners now make
more out of the waste products of petro-
lcum, once thrown away. than they do from
the coal oil, and so all through the list of
manufactures. Why should not the dairy
man become a manufacturer aud use all his
available resources "Why" don't you
The advice that a COW has seen her best
days at about eight years think a mistake
| I. 70, a dairy COW but a combined COW
must go sooner than that, or else her beei
is not sold at profit The profitable COW is
one that grows better by using as a dairy
animal. A good COW continually increases
her capacity for milk giving. The mill
glands and the mechanism of milk elabora
ton grows stronger for years, and many Of
my most profitable cows have been NOR,
than a dozen years old "Old Blue" Il
years old this summer, has been going a
high as - pounds of milk per day, and
known 10 pounds of butter per week, be
sides the cream for coffee These vigorou
cows, if mated with a sire from a milkin,
strain, can be depended upon to transmi
their qualities to their heifers, and if tn
dairyman knows how to feed and care 70
these heifers. and will feed them in the di
rection Of cows. instead of steers, eac
generation Of such stock will show improve
ment. and soon come to have fixity of type
and power of transmittal that will max
dairying profitable industry, instead of
sort of make-shift between poverty an
fair compensation.
Think Of this Powell Bros. are in &c
stacies over the fact that the Holstein co,
"Shadeland Boon" made four pounds q
butter per day for 81 days Her test recor
was four pounds l24 ounces for one day
Now comes John Boyd, of Chicago, tn
great manufacturer of dairy apparatus an
Cooley cans, with his two-v earold Jerse
heifer Annie Phopho, who in one day mad
D, pounds of well worked butter II
= ounces better than Boon, or a gain of 20
pounds per month. This shows what spt
ci6c feeding and breeding will do. B
these two agencies Boon put solids enoug
D into her milk SO that it took only II |
r. pounds of milk to make pound of butter
D while the Holstein COW Clothilde at I'll
q New York dairy fair required - pound,
We apprehend when the official figures al
made it will be shown that Annie Phoph
o made a pound Of butter from about 81
: pounds of milk. 1t is no use to decry a
4 this as fancy, and say that it has no le
T. son in it to the average dairyman. 1t do,
show what breeding and feeding for pu
pose will do, if persisted in. While the az
erage farmer cannot be expected to do
well as above with the native COW, he ca
introduce type of dairy blood anon
them, and then if fed as dairy cows shoul
be, and cared for as dairy cows must be
get results and the poor ones weeded OF
" as they will have to be, the average dair,
5 man would soon find that butter is a sp
= ciic characteristic of a COW, and goes, n,
/ 10y favor, hut 10y breeding; and, if INTEL
, gently handled, the milk of such cows wi
d not require from II to b pounds to make
t pound Of butter, hut from II to Is will
n ample The dairymau, if he will, ca
{ make his dairy occupy a middle ground b
tween the fancy" of these wonderful COW
and the unsatisfactory yields of his preseI
e dairy. This is why this sermon" on strivir
for excellence is preached. --,JdSon Jones
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