Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-04-17
DAIRY By.PRopuc1s.
True idea OF the Value of Skim Mil
and RutteruiIlr

hhu bubteTnliIks
At the recent meeting of the Mime
sofa Dairymen's Association Mr.. j. H.
Monrad delivered an address from
which we take the following extracts,
which show that the value of the
skim-milk and buttermilk is often too
much to have it used as pig feed. In
other words, more butter should be
taken out of the milk before giving it
to the hogs. He said:
"The rich soil and the unusual facil-
tiles for production on large scale has
trained the present generation of our
Western citizens to sovereign but
wasteful contempt for the little details.
II am, therefore, quite prepared to
be criticized for venturing to take up
such question as How is your skim
milk and buttermilk?' Talking about
skim milk am always reminded of the
story of how a farmers wife, in the kind
ness of her heart and in all innocence
said to a city visitor: why, drink all
you can. The pigs will get it anyhow.
'Tae pigs will get it. Yes, and a
very good use that is to make of it,
when properly fed, but have you ever
put this question to yourself: How
much butter do l give my pigs when |
give them 100 pounds of skim milk
or buttermilk?' A year ago l should
not have dared to PROFOUND the above
question, as it would have been useless.
The cost of having a chemical analysis
made simply prevented us from getting
reply, and the oil tests then in use
could not even give us an approximate
reply.
But now, thanks to DR.. Babcocl, we
have a cheap, practical test which en-.
ables us to get practically an approxi
mate reply.
"Let us take a dairy of ten cows Civ.
ing yearly yield of 10000 pounds Of
milk. The deep-setting system Of
Dreaming is used, ice is scarce Through
lack of forcthought) and the water is
55 degrees. Thus it will be quite easy
to lose 3 per cent. extra in the skim
milk, which in this case would be 12(
pounds of butter fed to the hogs.
"But this is not all. If the cream /.
not properly and uniformly ripened il
is not uncommon to find the butter
milk contain s. instead of 3 per cent
of fat, giving loss of 3 per cent. OF
16 per cent. of milk, of 6,400 pounds
buttermill1, and thus an additional los,
of SO pounds of butter
"a small daily loss, indeed, unworthy
your consideration, but, after all, los
of 1872 pounds of butter, making, at al
average price of twenty cents, $1,000.
Let us take another instance.
farm with twenty-five cows with
yearly milk yield of 100000 pounds o
milk, using shallow pans or even deel
setting. This will leave on an averag,
O.75 per cent. fat in the skim milk. b,
using hand separator run by power {
do not believe in hand work., the pc
cent. may be reduced to an average o
0.25, a gain of 0,5 or 500 pounds of but
ter year, and on this farm careles
ripening of the cream may cause ear
ly loss of eighty pounds of butter in tn
buttermilk.
but, supposing we do not run tn
separator right, we may easily los
from 200 to 800 pounds of butter pc
year.
at may, of course, be objected tina
if this butter is left in the skim or but
termilk it is not lost; and, so far as w
use it for human food, this objection /
valid. But when used for hogs, calve
or fowls, | leave it for you to decid
whether you can afford to feed then
with butter"