The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21
THE DAIRY.
Facts of D,,rvmcr.

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DR.. Collier. the Director of the New
at Geneva, has already secured nearly
thirty choice representatives, of six of
the leading breeds OF dairy cattle for
purposes Of investigation, to determine
their relative value i'll the production of
milk, butter and cheese under different
rations, us also, in the course of the
work, to continue tho investigation of
the various methods used In the produc.
tion of butter and cheese.
We give q few preliminary points AL
ready brought out by the investigations
at tho station as given by Dr. Collier.
1. We have been furnished with tho
figures of amounts of rations fed by ten
of the leading and most successful
evidence of this I would say that tho
average of three of them who turn their
attention to the production of butter is
36S pounds Of butter per COW annually,
from 15O to 2OO per cent. more than the
average of the Statc as n whole.
Well, now, one of these ten feeds his
cows q daily ration costing 2S cents per
cow while another, getting practically
as good results, feeds q ration costing
IA cents per COW per day; tho feed of one
costing exactly 100 per cent. moro than
the feed of the other. But q saving of
lcent . day upon the dairy COWS of New
York is over SIS, 900 daily, nearly &c.
100000 q year. But here. is o difference
between our most intelligent dairymen
Of IA cents per day. Stillanother feeds
q ration costing 81 cents a day, or 1876
per cent. greater.
2. A recent test of two of the COWS of
the station shows the n to give co per
cent. more milk upon the same amount
of the same kind of food than does the
other COW, and this milk is not only
more abundant, but is better, for, with
the same careful setting and churning,
IL yields 72 per cent. more butter than
does the other; and yet these COWS are to
all appearance 10 much alike, aud ara
both recently in milk, that it is doubtful.
whether II would at auction bring S.
more than the other. Now can anybody
doubt that every herd of COWS in the
State, whether of u breed OF another
Or no Breed. will show even greater
differences than those found by us in
these two COWS which / have mentioned
above?
These facts must be impressed upon.
our daifymen, and whenthey are fully
understood it will result in ON increase
OF millions and millions Of dollars an.
nually to the products of our dairy in.
dustry, aud revolutionize the agriculture
Of the State.
To show how the annual product Of
the dairy industry of the State may be
doubled, it's quality improved without
increase of cost, is one of the leading
features of the present work of the
station, and there appears every reason
to believe that this may be accomplished,
and within . very few years.
5. The work Of the station has estab-
lished beyond question the immense
practical value Of the clio. During the
past season careful digestion experi-
ments were made with orchard grass,
and It was found that the animals di-
gested On average of 1884, pounds Of each
1900 pounds Of fresh orchard grass fed
them, and . recently concluded expert
mont has shown that Of the corn en-.
stlage which is now being fed ut the
station the animals digest OF each 1000
pounds fedthem s1S pounds, ors frac-
tton over 95 per cent. Of the amount
Obtained from orchard grass, and that
The amounts OF nttrogsnous matter, fats
- easbohydsates IN both ensisass, ~