Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10

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fore essential To make the feed a
tempting and palatable as possible
Give her variety and season IL " he
taste. Tie success OF ensliage aS
feed, | think, IS largely due l
the fact that being green all
succulent it is pleasant TO Tn
taste and she eats more of it in proper
ton than she does of dry fodder. Beets
Wangels, rolIabi and other roots ar
not in themselves very nutritious, blu
they are paldtable; they sharpen tn
appetite and make her eat more thai
sue otherwise would, hence they have
| direct influence on the flow of milk, il
the nutrition they furnish and an il
direct Influence III that they cause he
TO eat more of other nutritious foods.
A word must be added Ill regard Il
the preparation of food, and first as Il
the value Of cooking 10 or Is years agC
it was quite customary among progress
sive farmers and dairymeu to cook o.
steam the food for their stock, but thi
practice has gradually fallen into disuse
1t has been found repeatedly by direc
experiment that cooking Or steaming
whether coarse fodder or concentrated
food, does not increase the jlgestibilitN
of the substance. The cow gets a:
much nutrition out of the material
when raw as she does when it is cooked
and cooking even decreases the diges
tibility. Strange as it may appear
this is the case with bran and hay, sc
on that score cooking is wasteful boil
of labor and fuel.
Cooking may however, make fOoC
more paIatable and thus they may bt
induced to eat more of substance
than they otherwise would, as for in
stance mouldy, pr inferior hay, or sim
liar substances which it may on Oc
casiOn be necessary 10 use.
TODAY S SESSION.
This morning the entire party Of
delegates was taken 10 the Belle Springs
Creamery, east of town, by its genial
manager, J. E. Nissley, and shown
through that model institution All
were more than pleased with the in
spection and complimen;ed Mr.. Nissiey
upon his arrangements.
Upon the return to the court house
the association was called to order by
President Morgan.
The first topic Was that of Mr.. Mon
rad, of Chicago, who gave scholarly
and able paper on THE Ideal Cream
ist.' Mr. MOnrad is Danish gentle
man who has everything in the way of
making butter down to a practical
point. and we wish every farmer and
his wife in Dickinson county could
have listened to his remarks On not
only the man who runs the creamery
but on the patron, clearly showing
what has been learned by scientific re-
search il. the way of the keeping quail
ties of both butter and cheese. In the
feed of the COWS, the cleanness of the
animals and of all vessels with which
the milk or cream comes in contact,
scrupulous cleanliness is necessary.
Prof. GeOrgesOn thinks, rightly, that
the instructions of a man like Mr..
MOnrad would help the farmers of
Kansas more than all the wheat advo-
Gates.
F. II. Hill read paper on "How
shall We build up the Creamery Bust
ness?' which was well received. In
his efforts he clearly showed that the
cause of the mortgage Oh the farm came
from following grain farming and most
of his hearers he convinced that the
mortgage could be paid off by the COW
and the hog.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The association was called to order
at las.
Following is the paper read by Abb
Iene's prominent dairy list, j. E. NiSsley:
DAIRYING IN DICKINSON COUNTY,
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TO-
MORROW.
1t is wise old adage that says lex
perience is the best OF teachers" anu
truly does this apply to dairylng, t.
ourselves and the subject before us.
uence the question naturally arises,
What has Dickinson county done i'll
this particular line, through and BY
which we may be prOfted! Well, lei
us see. But before going farther L wlSL
10 offer few apologies.
IEaSmuch as the term dalrylng Is
used in connection with this subject, l
wish To more particularly drift into the
channel of creamerying, although 1t Il
one of the adjunctS of dairying, and tt
which our attention has been largely
directed lately. Another apology Is
this, that while yesterday, today anC
tomorrow are herewith considered, you
may get the idea that l will look fal
back, also forward for field of argu-
ment, but on the contrary l shall bt
limited by the scope of only re"
years. The improvements i'll tht
dairy interests of our country are to-
great, the progress too rapid, the posi-
bilities too grand for me to venture
into any such review but to border
strictly to within the limit of only 4
few years. Yesterday as it were, only
three short years ago, we find the first
creamery in Dickinson county, (practl-
cally speaking) struggling for an exis'
teDce with an Inferior grade OF dairy
cattle, with the lack of proper feed AND
to its regret the competition of thai
base enemy ''olemargerine," which al
that time was just in the prime of life
But these are not all the disadvantages
that we were then labOring under, moi
Dy any means. ExOrbitant Transports
ton, unstable markets, a lack of dairy
knowledge and inexperience in all IL: