The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-10-25
Dairy Dots.

Dairy Dots.
Cut the corn for ensilage when the
ears are glazed.
The silo can unquestionabIy be used
to keep a larger number of COWS than
can be kept without it.
Breed from COWS that have individ-
ual merit, or at least from pure breeds
that come from making family.
How many pounds Of milk does it
take in your herd to make pound of
butter? We would find out if We were
you.
In Germany they have method of
glazing butter, by coating the lump
with heated solution of white sugar
and water. They use teaspoontul of
sugar to a quarter litre of water.
The Jersey breeders are correct in
refusing to put their little animals in
competition with Holsteins, when both
are kept in pasture without any record
of grass consumed, the American Dairy
man thinks, for it says, large COW
will just as sure y eat more than a
small one gs she will weigh more. The
most important point to be settled in
this contest is that Of food consumed in
proportion to milk and butter made,
and how is any account to be kept with
the COW that is out at pasture?
The writers upon dairy subjects in
England are beginning to agitate the
subject Of experiment stations in that
country, says the american DaIyn,an.
1t does seem strange that England
should be so far behind many other
countries in matters pertaining to the
dairy, but we can give John Bull a
hint here. We are in an experimental
condition so far as our stations are con.
cerned, and if he will just collect our
bulletins he will get just about as much
as he could if he owned the station.
The history OF soiling in this country
is somewhat analogous to the history OF
the silo, says one who practices it. 1t
has been found that by raising crop of
fodder corn and putting it into the slo
every acre will winter three cows, and
there is hardly one acre of meadow in
Wisconsin that will winter one cow. II
we take into consideration how much
we have gained by the silo, we shall
be easily convinced by little expert.
menting and observation how much we
shall gain by soiling our cows instead
of pasturing them. After l have been
at this business some six or eight years,
it seems as though it ought to have
been thoroughly understood long be-
fore this. l get somewhat impatient
sometimes at tho slow progress that has
been made. After experiments have
been repeatedly demonstrated, and the
results of such experiments have been
published. it seems almost superhuous
to talk in favor OF soiling cows.
There is great need that large pro-
portion of the yearly milk supply should
be diverted from a summer to a winter
flow, says HoardS Ddirynsan, Butter
is unreasonably cheap in summer, be.
cause SO great majority Of the farmers
have their COWS calve in the spring.
Hence, there is but little profit gained
from the cow 1t is also uureasonably
dear in winter, because so few cows are
made to calve in the fall. There needs
to be a better balancing up of the
yearly milk supply, SO that less milk
should be produced in summer aud
more in winter This would equalize
the prices for the whole year, greatly
increase the consumption in winter, and
in the end bring greater profit to the
dairymen, 1t is we'll to remember that
it costs only about ten per cent more to