The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-15
Editorial NOtings.

correspondents OF the Mirror ana Furnler
says she positively knows that either
dried cream or hard curd may be the
cause of white specks in butter. The
former she has often strained out of
the cream from small pans and used
them for shortening; or, when suf1i-
cient quantity was collected, she has
stirred them into butter. From the
same small pans, when the milk is al
lowed to sour, she has found white
specks in her butter which were I'M
mistakably curd. But with deep set
ting she has now no trouble from either
source.
UNDERSTANDABLE "A writer in the
Stockmdn and Farmer tries to empha-
size fact which no dairyman who
thinks at all can doubt-the fact that
nothing can come from the cows udder
that did not first enter her mouth. Cows
who make large yield are and must be
large eaters; and he should have added,
thorough digesters of what they eat.
The dairy COW must be healthy COW,
and unless a cow is in vigorous health
it is folly to expect profit from her. 1t
follows that the successful dairyman
must be a careful sanitarian, who knows
the requirements of health in neat cat
tie and is able and willing to provide
and maintain them.
THE QUESTION OF SIzE.-The same
writer says that among his mixers he
C has them from the little grade Jersey
up to the thoroughbred Shorthorn,
weighing 600 to 500 pounds. and all
standing in the same barn and eating
exactly the same rations, and we are
obliged to confess that the COW which
has the most voracious appetite is the
COW which gives the most milk, being
about equally divided in the matter of
cream production. We would not at
tempt to claim that one class of cows
would give just as much milk as
another, or, as rule, just as rich in but
tCl ldIo3 Oub VIC uO Nlou W Ihdlhldlh
that any COW, regardless of breed,
which converts her food into milk, will
give very nearly the same returns; and
if the large COW gives the most milk,
which, as a rule, she will do, it is from
the fact of larger consumption of
food. And he who expects to keep
class of cows that will eat sparingly
and milk generously will, in the Ian
guage of America, get Left"
DEEP MILKING AND HEALTH.-On
this point he makes the declaration that
1T is the constant eater which makes
the deep mixer, and it is such also
whose digestive organs are constantly
getting out of repair, and which the
dairyman is obliged to continually
watch that the machine keeps in mo-
ton, and that each part performs its
function We do not doubt the truth
of the assertion in the writer's own
case, and we are quite willing to agree
that good dairy COWS require careful at
tention. But with that we are not will
ling to concede that there is any neces-
sity for their " constantly getting out
of repair" There is no good physio-
logical reason why COW that runs the
fat of her food into the pail should suf-
fer in health more than the OK who lays
it up in tallow and suet. Both require
favorable conditions for the best re-
suits, and that is about all there is to it..
NOT QUITE ALA dairy COW,
however, continues in the production
of butter fat more years than the steer
in the production of beef fat, and she
is consequently exposed to more risks,
according to the prolongation of her
existence. But these risks, in cows
properly handled, are not great; and, on
the other hand, their productions of a
merchantable product is almost con-
tinuous, not entailing the loss of time
and food consequent upon the produc-
ton and growth of successive individ-
uals, as in the case of the steer, so that
if even the steer fat would sell at the
same price as butter, yet there must be
more profit in long-lived dairy herd
than in a succession of short-lived
steers.
SEED CoRN.-In selecting seeds, es
pecially of those classes of cultivated
plants which had their origin in warm
climates, it is best, when we can, to gel
it from some good farmer north of oul
own locality The reason is tina
plants originating in climate where
the interval between frost and frost il
long are only slowly made earlier, anC
suited for more northern climates, b,
careful selection; and they have con
slant tendency to return to old habits
getting later and later, unless the carr
in selection is continued.