The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-07-04
TIE DAIRY.

thing from their husbands" says a
writer. II this advice were followed
out it would create q revolution in FEM
mime pockets. Burlington Free Press.
Prof. w. A. Stewart enumerates
among the protein or heterogeneous foods
for stock, shorts. bran. oil-meal, cot
ton-seed meal, all rich In protein; whilc
Of rough folders clover hay is the rich
est.
1t is said fresh milk may be pre-
served indefinitely by freezing IL and
maintaining it in the frozen state until
wanted for use. Many Of the steamers
now sailing on distant voyages are pro-
vidcd with steam refrigerators, in
which milk and other foods may read
lily be preserved for any length OF time.
Even in old England. where the
dairymaids presided over the manufac-
ture OF farm-made butter. and wero
supposed to put all the angelic excel
lcncies into 1t, the dear girls are beaten
by the cooperative creameries that sell
butter for about thirty cents per pound.
when farmers butter goes at twenty
cents. -Hoards Dairvman.
DO not forget that covered wagon
for collecting cream or milk this snm-
mer. A simple blanket thrown over
the can. even with ice laid on the
blanket will not answer so well as the
covered wagon for keeping the cans
cool. It is the circulation Of air shaded
about the cans that the most benefit is
derived from.-American Dairyman.
GOOD butter sometimes sells for
one dollar a pound. but it is given by
class of customers who know from
whom they buy. how the butter is
made, and who have tested the quality,
says the Philadelphia Record. Tho
most important essential is cleanliness.
The dairyman who currics and brushes
his cows. washes the teats and udders
before milking. and provides clean beds
for his cows, gets his pay in the price
obtained for his butter.
1t is great mistake, says the
American Cultivator. to suppose that
cows which get a bite Of fresh grass
early will not eat hay. The dry feed
is necessary SO long us they will eat it.
Young, tender grass is full OF water,
and has too little nutrition. II scours
cows fed on it exclusively. and not
only lessons tho milk yield, but causes
the COW to grow thin. Feed something
dry, il it is nothing better than straw.
and supplement its deficiencies by
grain or oil meal.
In the common practice of buying
cream by the gauge it is supposed
that the product Of cream in butter il
uniform. In experiments made by the
Kansas Agricultural College, cream
was the one discordant element. In
the case Of every COW employed. and
with each kind Of feed, the milk giving
the largest display OF cream oftes gave
the least butter product, and the re-
verse. As far as could be judged, the
character of the cream varies quite as
much as the milk does in its original
condition. Milk showing eight per
cent. OF cream gave larger yield Of
butter than was obtained from milk
giving 10. II. II or even 13 per cent. Of
cream. Rural New Yorker.
There are lots OF strange develop
ments occurring in a herd that arc al
ways overlooked when no record is
kept. and it is surprising how your
opinion of individual members of tho
herd changes as your knowledge Of
their performances becomes more
exact. Some Of the small mixers stick
to their work with such persistence
tina. they, in comparison with the large
mixers, when fresh. illustrate the
fable Of the hare and the tortoise. The
daily ups and downs. and monthly
variations are all matters we'll worth
studying. In short. the man who neg
lects to keep dairy record Of his cow S
performances stands in his own light
without rhyme or reason.-American
Dairyman.