The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06
THE DAIRY.
Best Food for Mich Cows.

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A correspondent of the Rurat Neac
Yorker writes as follows on this sub
ject
Bran is the best food for the young
cattle beyond question, but it is too dry
and fine to be eaten without some waste.
Under the circumstances, it would, We
think, be advisable to mix some of the
crushed corn with it in sufficient guam
tity to cause the whole to be better
masticated; one quart twice a day of a
mixture of one part of the crushed corn
with three parts of the bran might be
given to yearling. In practice this
has been found excellent feeding for all
sorts of young animals, including colts.
AT the price mentioned bran can be more
proftably used inthis way than the mix
ture containing shorts. Roller-process
bran is worth about 1Oper cent. more for
feeding than ordinary bran, because it's
fat and nitrogen are more valuable in
feeding than the starch of the mid
.dlings. Starch has feeding value of
one only as compared with % of fat and
nitrogen compounds. But for COWS fed
for butter product it has been found
that corn meal is the best standard food,
and were it not that q COW can not so
healthfully consume large quantity of
it as she can OF a mixture of corn-meal
and bran, it would be better to feed all
corn M cal. 1t contains about twice as
much fat as bran, and yields softer
butter which is more easily gathered in
the churn. The present winter I am
feeding COWS, alternate months, with all
corn meal-eight pounds daily-and
then with eight pounds of mixed corn
meal and bran. The butter from the
whole meal is ehurned in twenty min
utes, and is about one pound more
weekly from each COW than from the
mixed bran and meal; but the butter
from the latter is not SO good in quality,
is of a lighter color, and requires thirty
to forty minutes to churn, which is too
long for the best quality. Oil-meal-
linseed-yields a soft and inferior fla
vored butter; but cotton seed-meal is
not surpassed for the quality and tex
ture of the butter made from it. 1t is
SO rich food, however, containing 10
to Is per cent. of fat and more than 40
per cent of nitrogen compounds, that
two pounds daily are as much as can be
used without danger to the COW. One
of the COWS L am now feeding can not
take cotton-seed meal at all without
being sick and refusing food for two Or
three days, and can not take eight
pounds of clear corn meal daily without
the same result. This experience with
COWS is SO common with dairymen that
it is wise to test each COW in regard to
feeding, and as rule it is safe to use a
portion of bran in the feed rather than
clear meal. ALI rules for feeding are
modified more or less by the character
of the COWS in this respect.
Rmles for Butter Making.
l. To make butter, the milk from
healthy COWS only should be used.
2. Avoid excitement of the COWS, pro-
duced by chasing with dogs or any other
manner. Harsh treatment lessons the
quantity and Injuries the quality of milk.
3. Cows should have an abundance of
suitable food and pure water, and salt
kept where they can have access to it
every day.
4. Cows should be kept free from all
foul odors, and not be allowed to eat or
drink anything that will give faint to
the milk.
5. Milking should be done at regular
hours, with clean hands, clean udders
and clean stables, and the milk kept
away from any communicating odors.
6. Milk should be strained immedi-
ately after being drawn, and aerated to
eliminate any Objectionable odors; this
done, the milk will make more and bet
ter butter.
Z. Milk vessels should be thoroughly
cleansed, scalded with boiling water and
aired, to keep them perfectly sweet.
JOSIAH SKULL.
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