Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-07-14
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Tree Plantauon and Suadry Eceae-
mics On the Dairy Farm.

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mics On the Dairy Earn.
"Rome was not built in one day
Nor is good dairy herd.
II you are wise, attend daifymeni
conventions and farmers institutes, Il
exchange experience with fellow dairy
men. Read good dairy papers, always
sitting the chat from the grain.
prevention is better than cure
It is better to keep dirt out of milk
than to strain it, however carefully
done.-[ Dairy World.
In dairying, he who sells at common
prices. butter made from milk produced
from common COWS, fed the common way,
will never rise to comfortable circum-
stances, but lead hard life of toll all
his days. Pref. Henry tn Hoards Dairy
man.
Cunning with steady motion will
make butter come quicker. If you can
keep time in singing, sing, and you'll
naturally turn the churn evenly and find
the work much easier. If You can't sing.
it would pay to use "Metronome"
which is used by the Danish experiment
ers in their churning. The Metronome
is an instrument used for measuring
the quickness or slowness of musical
composition, and is contrived on
the principle of a clock, having
short pendulum capable of adjustment
by moving the bob up or down upon the
rod, which is marked with certain
characters that indicate musical time.
Look after your wells Last fall
farmer named Clark, living near the
village of Lansing, Kan, not far from
Leavenworth, lost great many hogs by
an epidemic OF some sort that got
among them. Sixty or more Of them
were buried in a side hill. Recently the
farmers family took sick with some
virulent disease, which the doctor failed
to control, and Mrs. Clark and four
children, two boys and two girls, have
died, while three others are still violently
i'll. It is now suspected that the family
were poisoned by using water from the
we'll sunk in the hill in which the hogs
were buried.
A poor COW in q dairy is like dull
tool in a carpenters hands, requires
the expenditure of large percentage
of energy to obtain small percentage
of result.
Make your butter as you please, but
if you want to get the best prices. make
it as folks want it, who buy it and pay
the best price.-[F. d. Curtis.
1t is quite right to color butter with
prepared annatto. It has no
effect upon the real quality of the butter,
except to give 1t appetizing color. But
ter is one of the foods that we taste
through the eyes. If it has delicate
golden color, the imagination can easily
give it the aroma and flavor of the sweet
est grass butter. If it be too white, as
winter butter must be- without coloring,
It is imagined to be largely composed Of
lard. Coloring adds much to the pleas
ure of its digestibility.-Prof. Stes,urt.
Henry Stewart says that iodine ap-
piled to cows udder, while it will re-
solve lump or cake in case of garget,
will act unfavorably upon the milk
and lessen it considerably.
He has used this remedy in his dairy at
times, always with useful results for the
disease, but invariably with serious loss
IF milk. He adds that hot water, with
ong, gentle rubbing and kneading and
a mild stimulating liniment. has always
been effective in bringing the udder to q
healthy condition.
Fourteen years ago the first creamery
was started in Iowa. Now that state has
l95 creameries, IS cheese factories, and
100000 COWS, and makes for export
IS, 100000 pounds of butter annually.
To get the most benefit from the corn
stalks, feed some bran and meal with
hem. 1t is stupid folly to rely on corn
talks alone to make butter, and to keep
he COWS in good order. Add four quarts
J day of meal and bran. It is wise
and double the income.
A dairy expert alleges that there are
hree faults in butter making: % over
opening the cream; (2) over-churning;
md 90 over-working.