Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-01-28
DAIRY AND CREAMERY.
..o,spr THE PROFITS OF WINTER
.oARYiNo CONE IN.

o.uta says winter DairyiuE IL
,,,,,,ensie to tho Progressive Farmer
=, Cannot he Carried ON By Old
,,n. M.thods-It Ray. Wen.
v,r,er dairying Is practicable to those
-.ho viii put themselves In the line OF
Waive Wv dairy thought, hut IL cannot
'es,risd on with old time methods.
- failure Of cows to breed NJ the
-. - time "a not the greatest obstacle
aarercoinc in winter dairying. First,
t,.rp. the stable. the water. the feed.
- ,bc cow each have 20 be consider.
- al made 10 harmonize with the
,lhsnged season." The winter care Of
~ miiling dairy Is nm artificial crea-
~, a. compared with the usual sum.
- tsep. There must be warm stable
~. allowed to approach the freezing
,,m,,raturc. It must DO kept ut least
A. degs. above. Light In this stable
,I,,li DO abundant. and sunshine fall
: much as possible within Its walls.
Tberc should be an abundant supply
=, ,rater ri command in the barn. 10
~. tho cows can DO watcrcd there
s,,.hout much labor. This Is chcaply
s,,videl for with thirty barrel gal.
,,ri,el iron tank. with Close cover,
sanding in the stable near tho cows,
,gnpllei from q we'll or spring. Thcn
M water Is supplied TO the cows at q
sniform temperature Of 10 dogs. with.
o,t heaters or pipes. The winter food
,so,t conducive 10 abundant milk flow
1ehsaply provided for by the use Of tho
mi and bran, with n luncheon Of clover
i,v Six tons OF dlago for each COW
viii ahundanily feed her from Novchi.
ler 10 May 90: mill feed at sio per ton
y,ill supply the food for q milch COW fos
Zen cents per day. have dono even
b.,ter than this. Hay TO exceed three
pounds per day to each COW Is not needed
n the winter dairy.
Tho winter dairy, rightly managed. Is
uvdtable because tho prices fcr dairy
produce are much better from Scp,em.
len TO juno than from April to Nov. IL,
which Is about tho limit Of milk giving
for the summer dairy. The milking
period OF the October calving cow Is
nils sixty days longer than that Of the
,pring mixer. There Is littlc difficulty
IN keeping the October mixers In profit.
she milk giving ninc months. often
mofc, and the mon with silos and winter
dairios show the figures that their cows
give fully onc-fourth moro milk in tho
iano number OF days than will thu same
dairy MIXED in summer. and the balance
Of the milk obtained in the longer milk.
Ing period is clear gain. The dairy that
gives sij worth Of milk In summer gives
~ winter milked.
The question of cheap winter feeding
Is being rapidly settled with many.
Others are now fully Of the opinion that
the winter mixer can DO kept "a choaply
with shorts and dlagc Us tho DRY COW
can be on hay and tho ordinary plan Of
keep. One Of tho most succcssful dairy.
men Of New York. who keeps his dairy
on tilarc the year round. puts tho cost
at grain, S2;; dlago, tle; average in.
come Of each COW, esj. IN acre Of good
siiase nore than keeps cow one year;
this Is a rosul, that cores Of other farm
sfstestiiY to and with as good success.
The advantages Of winter dairying aside
from all this In tho way Of paying mar
ke,s, cheaper labor, moro uniform caro-
Of the cows and other matters need no
elaboration here. To tho man who has
awell cared for winter dairy these mat.
ien are self cvidcnt.-John Gould in
American AgFiculturist.