St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-05-09

\ Tr1e Idea u the valne o1 Sklm-Auh
oaa Dutterml1k.
At the recent meeting of the Mime.
sofa Dairymen's Association Mr.. j. 81.
lonrad delivered an address from
which we take the following extracts.
which show that the value of tho
skim-milk and b1ttermilk is often too
much to have it used Is pig feed. II
other words, more butter should b.
taken out of the milk before giving il
to the hogs. He said:
1.-THE rich soil and the unusual facil-
tiles for production on large scale has
trained the present generation Of our
Western citizens to a sovereign but
wasteful contempt for the little details.
II am. therefore. quite prepared to
be criticized for vcnturing to take mp
such question as How is your skim
milk and buttermilk?' Talking about
skim-millx am always reminded of tho
story of how a farmers wife. in the kind
ness Of her heart and in all innocence
said to . city visitor: why, drink all
you can. The pigs will get it anyhow
The pigs will get it. Yes. and =
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 I give my pigs when I
give them 100 pounds of skim-mille
or buttcrmilk?' A year ago 1 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.. Bxbsocl, we
have . cheap. practical test " hich en-.
ables us to get practically an spproxi.
mate reply.
LET us take dairy Of ten cows Civ
ing yearly yield Of 10000 pounds Of
milk. The deep-se9ting system of
Dreaming is used. ice 8 scarce Through
lack of foreti.ought, and the water is
IS degrees. Thus it will be quite easy
TO lose 3 per cent. extra in the skim
milk. which in this case would be 100
pounds of butter frd To the hogs.
''Bnt this is not all. If the cream is
not properly ami uniformly ripened it
is not uncommon to find the butter
milk contain $ instead of 3 per cent.
of fat giving q loss IT IS per cent. on
Is per cent. Of milk. of 400 pounds
buttermilk. and thus an additie nal loss
Of 81 pounds az butter
"A small daily loss, iaileed, unworthy
your consideration. but, after all, loss
Of l52 pO,.nds of butter, making. at an
average price of twenty cents. 5000.
LET us take another instance. \
farm with twenty-five COW. with =
yearly milk yield of 100000 pounds OF
milk, using shallow pans or esen deer
setting. This will leave on Al average
O. IS per cent. fat in the skim milk. BY
using q hand separator run by vOwer x
do not believe in hani work.. the per
cent. may be reduced to an average Of
0:5. gain Of O.5. or 500 pounds of but
ter a year. and on this farm careless
ripening of the cream may cause year
" loss Of eighty pounds of butter in the
bnttermilk.
but supposiny we do not run the
separator right. we may easily lose
from 200 to no pounds of butter per
year.
If this butter is left in the skim or hut
terlnillx it is not lost: and. SD far as we
use it for human food. this objection is
valid. But when used for hogs calves
~ fowls, leave it for you to decide
whether you can afford to feed them
with hutter"