The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-04-19
THE DAIRY.
-Irregularity in milking and feeding

-IrfegnIarity III mixing ana Ieca1HS
b bad for cows.-N + Tribune.
H. c. Adams says that size is no
merit in dairy cow. As a rule. the
smaller the COW the better for economic
feeding. Cows eat in proportion TO
size. and give milk by the power Of
hercdity and good feeding.
The man who uses dog to hurry his
cows along. lets them find their own
shelter in winter, and practices other
similar crueltics. usually does not see
much money in keeping cows for milk.
Prairie Farmer
Butter takes nothing from the soil
that affects its fertilization rs do crops
OF cereals. 1t is almost wholly carbon,
which is derived by the plants from the
air. Butter. though sometimes high in
price. is really produced from the cheap
est elements known.
Lime water may be used as Il pre-
cautionary measure in all cases where
a calf is not fed with new warm milk
fresh from the mother. 1t can do no
harm. and may anticipate and correct
an acid condition Of the milk. 1t il pre-
scribed BY physicians for just this pur-
pose. and is in common use for bottle
fed infants. Country Gentleman.
1t Is claimed BY many that the cur
rying Of mich cows will increase the
milk yielded. Many farmers will un-
doubtedly question the accuracy Of this
assertion, but we know it to be fact
that the majority Of breeders of fine
registered stock use great care in cur
rying their cows and keeping them per-
fectly clean as do the owners and brcci-
ers of fine horses. American Ddiryn,an.
When the cream foams in the chnrn
and will not make butter, it may be,
and most probably is. due TO too much
acidity in the cream. If the milk be
set at steady temperature of sixty
degree or slxty-two degrees for two
days. and the cream kept for two or
three days longer a, the same tcmpera
ture, there should be no difficulty in
churning. II there should be. the cow
ought to be fed little corn meal once
or twice day.-Ohio Farmer
Although the dairymcn are grad
ually becoming educated to knowl-
edge Of the advantages Of purc-brci
dairy stock, yet many Of them require
training in the art Of making butter.
To learn to make '.gilt-edge" butter is
equivalent to learning u trade. and
millions of dollars are annually lost TO
our dairymcn through imperfect knowl-
edge in making butter. In Europe
schools of instruction are rapidly ia-
crcasing. and there is necessity for
something Of the kind in this country.
Philadelphia Record.
AS milk is a secretion from the
blood, any disorder or sickness Of the
COW must necessarily affect the milk.
Moreover, the milk seems to be sort
of drainage to the system. taking off
any cxtraneous matters that might
otherwise pass off by tho bowels or
kidneys. Hence the health of the COW
10 an important factor in the produce
ton of pure milk. and the milk of a
sick COW is rarely fit for use, showing
its untitness by disagrecablc taints and
bad favors, which also affects the but
ter. Good feeding and occasional med
icinc, rs a pound of EPSON salts with
laxative food, rs bran mash and cut
beets, are useful to avoid taints. but
clean skin is indispensable for the same
end.-N. T. Times.