The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-05-09
ThE DAIRY.
Ma.ln,s for Mixers,

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clean milk the COW as fast as you can,
and milk her clean to the last drop.
Ii more than u mixer il employed
do not converse. You or he will have
to stop and ask, What do you saw"
If you are unsteady inclined YOU may
hum in a low tone. The cow will like
it and commence Illuminating.
Never drive mich cows or fattening
stock faster than a walk.
You have no need of q dog in bring
ing the cattle home from pastures.
Do not allow or force milch COWS to
drink ice cold water.
Your COWS will certainly fall of in
their milk unless housed in q warm sta
BILE during Indictment or verv cold
weather.
If you desire your COWS to do their
best at the pail, give them Il change Of
food as often % possible.
10 sell milk pays better than to make
1t into butter Or cheese and sell il as
solids.
If your COW is in Aes.. and has been
served keep her confined AVA, from the
herd.
If you sell milk breed into it Ayr
shires or Holsteins. If you make butter
for sale breed into the Channel Island
cattle. Never sell q heifer calf to the
butcher il it is possible for you to raise
it.
When gently used, the curry-comb
and brush are just as needful for milch
COWS as they are for work horses.
Sixty cents will buy q pair of rubber
shoes. Buy o pair and wear them while
you are at your stable ..clean-
ing. Before you enter your dwelling or
milkroom leave the rubbers in an out
house. Then the madam will not need
to hold her nose to avoid taking in the
doors of the barnyard.-Ch0fles W.
Murtfe'dt, in Republic.
Divided Miiki
1t is very commonly known that the
last milk obtained during the milking
is the richest. An experiment was nm
taken to get light upon the question as
to whether this can be advautageously
utilized in practice. Six cows were
MIXED daily at 6 o'clock in the morning
and evening. During each milking the
milk was divided by guess into two lots
as evenly as possible. The t"iirst half"
aud last half"o of the milk from all the
cows were put into separate vessels.
Portions were analysed Which, showed
ON average of 2.41 per cent. of fat in the
first half and 1923 in the last. In other
words, the percentage of fat in the milk
Adot uI1Wu WAS nearly Ou lfOsO) per cent.
greater than in the first half. The but
ter value of the second half Of the milk.
ing therefore appears to be 1916 per
cent. greater than the value of the first
half of the same milking.
By microscopical examinations we
learn that the character of the fat glob-
ules, as we'll Us the proportion of fat,
affects the value of the milk for butter
making. In orderto obtain q more com.
plete idea of the results of dividing,
samples of the mornings milk of a Jer-
sey and o Holstein COW, both full
blooded. were divided, aud the fat
globules of each part examined MICRO
scopically. The globules of the second
half Of the milking were in general
larger and moro homogeneous than
those of the last half. Among the con-
illusions are the following:
1. Since the amount of fat can differ
as much as 49, So per cent. between the
first and last drawn parts of the milk
duringa single day, there seems to be
very great economy in taking the first
part Of the milk for family use.
'. When feeding calves it is quite
sufficient to give them milk from the
first part drawn, and to supply the
further fat necessary for keeping up the
n!utritive ratio by using the cheaper fat
in the meal of the oil Containing seeds
of grains.
3. If We can obtain milk with q more
homogeneous size Of fat globules, the
latter will all rise In the same time: the
ripening of the cream before churnine
will be more even, and the time re-
quired for this ripening more easily
controlled.
b experiment indicates rather than
proves the results: but IL il certainly aafa
to advise the farmer always to divide
the milk at milking, especially since
the only additional trouble required is
the use Of two sets Of mix pals. And
the results seem to render the dsiryman
independent Of some Of the greatest
difficulties with which he has to con-
tend, especially in the making of but
ter.-Bulletin Of Indiana Experiment
Station.