The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-04-10
THE DAIRY.

Tho cow that can make gilt-odge
butter at the smallest cost, Is the best
low.
--Whitewash in the COW stable makes
things look cheerful and tends to clean
illness.
1t Is not always the biggest bull or
the biggest COW that IL the best by
long ways
1t is not always the cow that gives
the most milk that is the most profita-
bic. unless you are supplying the milk
dealer.
Never let the cream get too ripe. II
you do you can not produce good butter.
We like butter made from cream just
little southwestern Rural.
The average duration OF the cows
service as mixer is estimated at eight
years among the well-managed dairies,
but individual COWS often milk we'll
until aged.
The composition Of milk contains
nine different fats, but nearly ninety
per cent. Of butter is embraced in three
Of them. The following are the con-
stituent parts Of butter in normal con-
dition:
Fats caseine ONy
Water. H.U Mineral matter. 0lO
Total. ...... 1000
Speaking of butter exhibitions,
Mr.. Cheever, of the New England
Farmer, remarks that latter all, 1t
must be remembered that there Is no
infiexible standard for good butter
more than for other good food, some
preferring one kind and some another.
So long as dairyman gets high prices
Tor his products and can sell all he
makes he need not despair because .
Judge fails to mark his goods perfect"
DISTRIBUTION or MILK.
Lessons Taught by the Experience Of
English Dairy Companies.
Dairymenget toolittle money for their
milk and consumers get too little milk
for their money. This is tho resultin the
main Of having SO large an army OF dis
tributors to support out Of the proceeds
Of the trade. At either end Of the busi-
ness much labor is expended uselessly.
The dairymen make individual trips to
the railroad stations with small quanti-
ties Of milk, when labor and cost could
be economical by having system of
gathering similar to that employed in
the creameries. The milk dealers in
the cities. too, double and often treble
on their routes, thus increasing cost Of
delivery in proportion. The experience
Of the English milk dairy companies
has shown that concentration Of the
retail business can be carried on success
fully, with perfect satisfaction to farmers
and consumers, and with about as much
economy as the carriage of milk by rail
road has been performed in place OF
hundreds of separate wagons and horses
formerly employed in this duty. A
milk company with its economical dis
tribution by means of organized district
routes. by which one man and horse de-
livers 1000 quarts daily, is the natural
adjunct to the railroad with its trains of
cars and thousands Of large cans. Thou
sands OF English pounds are thus in
vested in the milk business, with net
profit Of 10 per cent on the stock. This
method Of distribution is in the same
line of economy as the rural creamery
and cheese factory. The company takes
care of the cans and returns them
thoroughly cleaned and without delay,
and also gathers them when filled.
This relieves the milk farmers and their
families of much wearisome work. The
milk is cooled in summer, and no loss
occurs through souring, SO common un-
der our present method without system.
Forty-two million gallons Of milk are
thus landed by the London milk CON-
panies alone. The average distance
from which they gather their supplies
is eighty miles from the city.-N. Y.
Trihuna