Montgomery County sentinel., 1891-03-27

efforts toward the selection and rearing OF
animals that will produce the most pounds
of butter or cheese from given weight OF
milk or for given amount of food con-
sumed. 1t costs as much to feed and care
for a COW yielding Q pounds of butter per
100 pounds of milk as to feed and care for q
COW yielding pounds. No farmer who is
supplying creamery can afford to keep a
"beef COW" in his milking herd simply be-
cause he can buy her for five or ten, or even
twenty dollars less than he would have to
pay for one yielding good quantity of rich
milk. The beef COW Is generally source
of loss. Let every farmer test each COW in
his herd for quantity and quality, and l as
sure you he will feel repaid at the end Of
the year. Few have an idea of the extent
of the adulteration of milk. Where the
milk is paid for according to weight pre-
MUM is put on the watering and skimming
of it. Even the farmer, with all his great
reputation for honesty and veracity in the
business affairs of life, has been found not
to be wholly proof against the temptations
of milk adulteration. The paying for milk
according to its fat content does away with
all temptation for cheating and has bene-
fetal effect generally on the moral atmos-
phere of the neighborhood. Prof Patter-
son concluded his remarks with some direc-
tions as to the nature and frequency of tests
for milk
Prof. A. l. Hayward read a paper on the
best breeds of cattle for creamery purposes.
Of these the best were clearly the Jersey
and the Guernsey. Other breeds of the beef
type also show good quality, but the limited
quantity of milk usually produced throws
them out of the discussion. The reason of
this distinguishing trait In Jersey and
Guernsey breed is readily seen when we ex-
anime the history of either. Wherever the
Jersey COW is known she is noted for her rich
and abundant cream. No effort has ever
been made to develop her as beef animal.
Her energies have always been expended
for the dairy, and any variation toward the
beef type is looked upon with disfavor.
Recognizing as we do the fundamental law
of stock breeding that "like begets like" is
it wonder that we have the desirable quail
ties predominating over the more variable
ones of our own native stock, and the grade
offspring of the Jersey often possessing the
desirable qualities of its thoroughbred pa
rent, and indeed frequently surprising as
a producer, the more highly-bred animal
This, then, is the avenue by which the aver
age farmer will be enabled to produce his
best breed for creamery purposes. From
breeders standpoint the sire represents half
of his herd Thoroughbred Jersey bulls,
from good butter stock, can be obtained at
nominal rates, and in single genera
ton the herd will be half Jersey in blood,
and for practical purposes equal to great
deal more than that. Another cross will
eliminate half of the remaining native blood.
In this way the improvement may be ex-
pected very rapidly
Prof. Patterson tested q number of sam
pies of milk for fat in two centrifugal ma
chimes which he brought from the college
for the purpose. The tests indicated from
one and eight-tenths to seven and thirty nine
one -hundredths per cent. of fat in the sam.
pie, each unit of fat indicating one pound Of
butter to 100 pounds of milk. No effort was
made, however, to determine the value Of
the cows for dairy purposes, as the samples
had been subjected to varying temperatures,
and consequently would not afford fair
test