The Newtown bee., 1891-02-27

be a difference in money value of nearly cent a space between the milk of one mans dairy and that of his neighbor. But if payments were according to the butter fat, three men whose figures were l9, 20 and 21 would, at the end of a cer- tain time, find $20 difference in their re- ceipts $377, $397, $417. Thus it is of direct interest to the butter producer to keep cows best adapted to his purpose. The Babcock tester, which is in use here, is as thoroughly reliable as the standard test for milk and nearly as much so for cream. The composition of cream taken from the vat just before churning was 1S.S per cent of fat, 3.S per cent of sugar, 2.75 per cent of caseine. In reply to questions, Dr Jenkins explained the Bab- cock method of testing by small vials of milk or cream. Milk should be tested, however, before being turned into cen trifugal separators.
 E. c. Birge brought up the Babcock tester and explained it. A 12-inch can is carried by the collector; an inch of cream is supposed to equal a pound of butter. A tube is then filled, labelled and taken to the creamery. The cream is heated to 1S0 degrees and slight ly churned, whereupon the butter fat ris- es to the top. The variation is from 90 to 1l0, usually, in the amount of fat in different samples. In 1900 pounds of butter churned, there was pound and three quarters more than that shown by the tester.
 Mir Burr said that cream will generally be of nearly the same percentage, day by day, week by week. The introduce tion of a single new COW into his herd had brought down the percentage of his cream from 100 to 90. One herd from which milk was obtained was thorough bred Jerseys, yet the average of cream was but about 70. This, the butter mak- CT thought, might be caused by taking the best cream for domestic uses.
 Secretary $. B. Sherwood of the farm ers' club gave his experience with herd of five or six cows. He gives four quarts mixed feed and hay daily and his cows are fed and milked with great regularity :; yet the percentage of fat in his cream will vary from 90 to no. Possibly the fluctuations were caused by the differ ent degrees of cold in his milk house. Mir Sherwood said his hay was timothy, red top, clover and mixture. He also mixed the feed thoroughly. He gave meal but once a day, but allowed the COWS all the hay they would eat.
 Mir kirkham was very particular that each COW should be fed according to it's capacity.
 Edwin Hoyt said that, in space selling, the milk should be cooled as rapidly as possible.
 Dr Jenkins thought it absolutely i'm possible to explain these differences, for, at the experiment. station, despite the ut most regularity in all matters, there was very considerable variation in the quail ity and quantity of milk produced. Any nervous excitement, however, would be sure to reduce the percentage of cream
 F.% SkrNfft h feed" a trihe, the cream was greatly af- fected.
 MT Gold was sure that nothing could be more mathematically, chemically and mechanically correct than the methods in vogue at the station. Some of the cows had done very well, but the herd of four, though kept under lock and key, could not as yet be induced to work in harmony. ''People talk about our slow ness at the station; why, we can't hur- ry. We are just getting ready to begin"
 Mir Hoyt explained his method of feed mixing: 500 pounds of corn, 400 of Jap anese buckwheat, 400 bran, 200 wheat feed, 400 cottonseed meal. Best cows were given seven quarts daily. Ensilage is fed twice a day and clover hay once.
 Mir Elwood feeds 200 pounds cornmeal, 200 fine feed, 200 coarse feed, 200 cotton seed meal, POO ground oats.
 MT Gold was suspicious of ground feed from the West, because, as a miller, he had been invited to put in an oat clipping machine, take 20 per cent of the oats, sell the remainder at good price and grind the clippings for fe ed. But there was one article of feed which had been par tially forgotten, though of established value and low cost,-linseed or oil feed. It should, however, be fed in small quan- titles to butter cows. For young stock, it had no superior and entered largely in- to the composition of many high priced articles of feed. By carloads, $24 to S26 per ton was the price, this Winter. It was incOmparable as an addition to al- most any feed and possessed excellent medicinal properties. Both old and new process meal could be used. CottOnseed meal is good, but second to linseed.
 Dr Jenkins was totally opposed to feeds bought ready mixed. He had had samples of mixed feeds, but found them, in many cases, inferior to good hay. The best feeds are those richest in albumen- oids: linseed, cotJonseed and gluten feeds. The price of these has not great ly increased of late. For every 16 pounds of albumenoids fed, one pound of nitrogen was put into manure to en- rich the land.
 Mir kirkham said that at his home there was the counterpart of Mir Gold ,an honest miller who had told MT Kirkham of extensive adulterations in ready ground feeds. He asked Dr Jenkins about the rations of cows at the station and was told that they had ensilage and stover, Buffalo meal, corn meal, hay, etc. He thought that the cost of feed per day for each COW had been reduced below 20c.
 Mir Gold said that the cows were kept on what would be called very liberal ra- tions.
 Dr Jenkins said that the cost of milk had been considerably reduced, but the percentage of fat had also dropped.
 MT Birge here moved an adjournment till 2 o'clock and it was promptly done.
 An abundant and thoroughly enjoy able lunch was served, after which Pres ident Jennings called for speeches. The first toast, 1.-The farmer in politics." was to by Mir Kirkham, who said that he believed he had seen the animal and knew a few of it's characteristics. He believed that farmers should be in poli- tics enongh to know, demand and secure their rights. He quoted E. Stevens Hen- ry, secretary of state, as saying that the farmer in politics had so far been very like bull in China shop.
 MT Gold, speaking on 'sThe Connecti- cut farmer,' said that, if he wished to advance and hold other powers besides those now in his grasp, he should fit him. self for the positions he wished sto occu- py.
 Edwin Hoyt of New Canaan, called to respond to 1.-The farmers, homes. God bless them." believed in making the homes so attractive and pleasant that the boys would rather stay on the farm than go the city.
 Our wives; where are they?" was an- swered by Dennis Fenn, who was sorry to find the Greens Farms good wives were absent; he thought that they should always attend such gatherings.
 Dr Jenkins was asked to tell sswhat we lnow and what we don't know,n and quoted the district committee who open ed local school convention by saying, Ladies and gentlemen, hey allus found t DOrtV difficult to cOnVerpa tO other nao-