The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-23
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THE DAIRY.

The DAIRY.
BAD creamery butter is just as ofien-
sive as bad dairy butter. The name
does not impart cleanliness OF flavor
The New York milk-can holds 40
quarts. Now York City consumes daily
7,e.5 cans Of milk, equal to 100000
quarts.
Butter should be kept cool during
tho working, and also during the few
hours it may be left for the salt to dis
solve il you practice dry sailing.
The champion butter producing cow
OF the world is named Euratisamas,
owned in Massachusetts. and her record
is 945 pounds and ounces Of butter In
one year.
The COW must have good digestion
and assimilation. 1t is not SO much as
to how much she eats as to how she as
Stimulates. Animals sometimes eat
much more than they properly appro-
pirate to the work which feeding Is i'm
tended to do.
A man Tor woman) who has inherited
tho idea that he can make as good but
ter as anyone else can make may fall
behind in the race. Better he in re-
coptive mood for all suggestions that
come along. Sift out those that prove
Of value and discard the rest.
Use only the very best salt in your
butter. Look to quality and not to
price. 1t costs more to make pure salt
than it does to make that OF inferior
quality, The difference in price be-
tween the best salt and the ordinary Is
50 small that it amounts to very mi
mute fraction in sailing pound OF but
ter.
We are asked ii corn and cob ground
together make good food for milch
cows. Well, VIC do not recommend feed
ing cornmeal alone. The ration should
be cornmeal. ground oats and bran iii
equal quantities. IL we were going to
feed corn alone we should prefer to
have tho cob ground with it."-Westcrn
Rural.
1t takes years to get On all-good
dairy together, and good cows, whom
once secured, keep dropping out Of tho
dairy from various causes, and there is
no absolute certainty that tho supply"
will equal tho one shc supersedcs. No
ono has ever succeeded in raising all
good cows, and never will, but somc
dairymen come nearer it than others.
A COW may be worth 500 or she may
be worth only SO, but the low-priced
cow may be the more costly. II q choice
article of butter or large yield of milk
is secured from the one hundred dollar
COW it will be greater in extent and pro-
portionatcly, compared with the cheaper
animal. As dairymen express it. ii .
one hundred dollar-cow gives $50 profit
in one year, twenty dollar-cow will
give only SO profit. or perhaps nothing.
THE IDEAL COW.
The Points She should Possess to He =
Really Fine Animal
The characteristics of good, useful
COW were thus particularly set forth by
Secretary Batchelder, Of Concord, N.
H., in his recent address before tho
Franklin and Hampden harvest clubs
at Easthampton: "She should have q
fine, long head, be broad between tho
eyes, tho eyes should be large and mild;
the muzzle thin and wide. the cars thin
and the inside Covered with yellow
skin; the forcquartcrs light the body
wedge-shaped, increasing in size to tho
rear, the legs fiat, with fine bones, the
thighs thin, the bones of the rump set
widely apart, the back broad and
straight, tho ribs and barrel round and
well sprung, the tail long and fine. the
ndder large and full, extending we'll
behind, and the large milk veins under
hn 1,n1 h. fall III
A fine horn, deep yellow skin and d
general feminine elegance of form are
also good Indications. A well-shaped
escutcheon on the back OF the thighs
and udder will do no harm, but expert.
ence proves that some very excellent
cows lack this characteristic.
lie further remarked, says the Spring
field Republican, that forty pounds Of
ensilage, with eight pounds Of hay, or
twenty pounds of dried barley or oat fod.
dor or hay, was about the requisite feed
for thousand-pound COW per day. An
excellent grain ration for the production
Of milk in thousand-poundc cow would
be four pounds Of gluten or cotton-seed
meal, two pounds of cornmeal and two
pounds of wheat or rye bran:
A COW that gives less than 3, 900 uarts
OF milk, or makes less than $50 pounds
of butter in year, is Improbable. and
yet the average production is far below
this. The average In New Hampshire
is only $50 pounds. At present prices.
it costs fully twenty cents day to keep
COW in the stable, as cows are usually
kept, SO that the COW that gives seven
quarts OF milk day, that is sold for three
cents a quart, is Of very little benefit tc
her owner Experience proves that q
COW will yield a greater income by drop.
ping her calf between September and
November, or in the fall months, espe.
cially if she is turned out to grass in the
spring. The green feed stimulates
anew the flow Of milk and prolongs the
milking season. Calves, he said, could
be grown on SKINNED milk with q little
bran or grain after they were two weeks
old. but dissenter remarked that at
ribbed animal betrayed its scanty early
feeding. calf that is full fed on warm
new milk will have rotundity of form
that the other mover possesses.
DAIRY UTENSILS.