Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-06-23
TALK FOR DAIRYMEN.
\ coNNolsseuR COMMENTS ON SKIM
MILK CHEESE.

Have Either . Large Herd or . Small
Farm-About Selling MILK That II .
Little Too previous. "-British Protest
Against "Filled" Cheese.
Cultivate a small farm rather than .
.arge one, unless you possess capital suf-
fcient to back big enterprise. In other
words, make your acreage proportionate
to your resources. Do not consider this
too obvious rule for repetition till you
have glanced over the file Of farmers in
your vicinity and observed how many do
not conform to its precepts If you
have but little stock ranging over large
area of pasturage either increase your
moneyed income by acquiring larger
herd, or part with the superhuous land
and obtain relief from the thrall Of debt.
No dairyman with the least vestige Of
conscience will sell the milk from cows
recently calved. Any one found pol
luting pure milk with fluid Of a prema-
ture quality should be sum1narily dealt
with, and yet how often is this rule
transgressed in early spring. Some for
eign born farmers are not so particular
in this regard as fastidious Americans
would be, because their native customs
were drafted from different pattern
than ours. So, observing merely an in
herent usage, some will use the third
and fourth milking, when nothing short
of the ninth should be saved. Factory
men should enact stringent rules in this
regard, and see that they are enforced.
Questionable quality in spring made
dairy goods is often due to an indiscreet
or dishonest latitude in the direction in
timated.
Never expose your milk to rain. In
dairy districts, where milk is delivered
at the mandatory once day, the even
ing's drawing must be stored in q can
over night ut the farm. In hot, muggy
weather, with no ice or spring water for
use. many dairymen leave their cans of
! milk uncovered in the most open airy
spot on the promises. The precaution is
a wise and essential one to prevent milk
from tainting or souring, but there should
be a roof over the cans. Four posts set
ten feet or so apart, and high roof, will
leave structure with open sides and a
free air circulation, and the milk will be
protected from the damaging effect Of
rain water. Rain water in milk necessi-
tates the use of lactometer at the fac
tory to arrive at the correct weight, and
its presence in the tactical fluid debases
the quality of the manufactured product.
The recently published protest from
Liverpool against the further importa.
ton into the United Kingdom of Aneri.
can filled" and SKINNED cheese should
at this period Of the year, have some
weight with dairymen and with manu-.
facturers. A strong tendency of late
years in the cheese trade has been to get
something out Of nothing, so the milk
has been SKINNED, and in many cases
the depleted fluid dosed with buttermill
before it was reduced to a compound
called cheese" Tho something from
nothing policy don't work either in this
country or the old, and on the eve o.
another season factorymcn should pause
ere they commit a repetition OF the er
ror, and heed the note Of warning tina
sounds in their ears.
The people demanded the government
to protect them against oleo, and has no
the time come when similar protection
is needed against spurious cheese? Is i
not just as wicked and damaging to tn
consuming public to palm off on then
skinned and filled cheese for something
moro genuine, as to sell them lard 70
butter? The sentiments of the people al
ready respond in the affirmative, an
would it not be better for manufacturer
to at once throw up the skinner an
concede defeat rather than longer jcoI
ardize the national cheese trade? It
simply case of biting ones nose off
continue i'll tho present rut, and the M
sal appendage Of trade will be irrepars
bly, defaced unless good sense cries
| speedy "TIalt!'
Dairymen and manufacturers, as 20
are now holding meetings over the Ian
to decide on the seasons course, take
, unanimous vote that you will not max
r any SKINNED or filed cheese, and 20
will do yourself and the trade at large
financial benefit. Manufacturers ofte
yield to the opportunities of their dair
patrons, who, eager to make every Ger
possible, overreach their own interest
by demanding butter and cheese maxim
under one roof The milk producers the
, are in measure responsible for the c:
!, lalnity that o'ershadows them, and the
! should do their part to avert its coHsun
nation. George Z. Newell III America
Cu.tivator.
Notes.
Domestic animals are gentle and easil
broken in to use according rs they HAY
| bee,, kindly and ,yently reared A he;ft