Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-10-04
THE DAIRY.
Winter Dairying.

Writing in the season of the heat,
sweat, hurry, and fly time of haying aud
harvesting, the Hon. l.. S. Coffin, of
Fort Dodge, Iowa. eloquently and fer
vently advocates winter dairying. Fol-
lowing are some of the reasons for the
faith that is in him. More milk can be
taken from q COW in the course of
year. when her calf Is dropped in the
fall. Better prices for butter can be
had for nice fresh article in winter
than in GUNNER. The COWS are in
their best condition in early autumn,
and the milk is richer than that pro-
duced from the watery grass of spring:
Milking is easier and pleasanter in cool
being less worried give down better.
The necessary work of the dairy can be
better attended to in fall and winter
than in the heat and hurry of haying
and harvesting. With care and the right
sort of fodder and roots for the COWS
an excellent article of butter can be pro-
duced when it will command an extra
price.
There is something in these reasons
worth thinking about, and there is
no possible danger of overriding the
business of winter dairying. BY the aid
of the silo the flow of milk and its quail
ity can be kept up. And if COWS are
we'll fed and sheltered there is no reason
why they may not yield abundantly.
Milking.
A novice should always commence
with COW which is easy to, milk, and
requires but little pressure on the teat.
The COW must also be quiet one, or
the mixer, with his pail, may be upset.
All things being ready, the COW being
tied, if possible, the mixer takes his
pail or bucket in the right hand and his
stool in the left. He then quietly APP
proaches the right side of the COW, and
sits down near her udder as gently as
possible. He then takes hold of one
teat with his right hand and another
with his left. and in turn, presses each
little. This causes the milk to flow,
and this continues until the whole is
extracted. The student should remem-
Der that the two teats are not pressed
together, but one, two, one,two, one two,
must be the order of the day. After
minute or two ut the first two. teats,
the other two should be relieved little;
the mixer then returns to the first pair,
and strives to extract the milk as fast as
possible. The last drop or two cannot
usually be drawn by the clasp of the
hand, but the teat IS passed once or
twice between the forefinger and thumb,
and leaves the udder "clean" of milk.
The finger and thumb process is known
as stripping" anda really good mixer
"strips' but very little.-Farm md
Home.
Dairy Notes.
The milk from sick COWS should be
thrown away, as it Injuries that from
other COWS if mixed with it.
BRAN is now considered the best OF
all dairy foods 1t has not been many
wears since the large Touring mills
dumped their bran into the river.
If cream is not we'll stirred you Will
find at the bottom of the can more or
less clabber and whey. This, IN churn-
ing may cause the white specks IN n Dut =
ter some complain of; but, whether IT
does or not, the cream is all the better
for being thoroughly and frequently
stirred.
AN ardent admirer of the Holsteln-
Friesians contend that experiments Dy
Prof. Rhoda and others in Europe anu
America have shown that the Hollana anu
breed can produce milk at much less
cost than other breeds kept IN same
stable and on like food. and thas 'neS