Arizona republican., 1891-02-24
DAIRY AND CREAMERY.
WHERE THE PROFITS OF WINTER
 pAlRYlNG COME IN.

John Gould Says Winter Dairying Is
 Practicable to the Progressive Farmer,
 but I. Cannot Be Carried On by old
 Time Methods--It Pays We'll.
 Winter dairying is practicable to those who will put themselves in the line of progressive dairy thought, but it cannot be carried on with old time methods. "The failure of COWS to breed et the proper time" is not the greatest obstacle to overcome in winter dairying. First, the barn, the stable, the water, the feed, and tho COW each have to be consider ed and made to harmonize with the changed season." The winter care of the milking dairy is an artificial crea- tion, as compared with the usual sum lner keep. There must be Q warm stable not allowed to approach the freezing temperature. It must be kept at least 20 degs. above. Light in this stable should be abundant, and sunshine fall as much as possible within its walls.
 There should be an abundant supply of water at command in the barn, so that the COWS can be watered there without much labor. This Is cheaply provided for with Q thity barrel gal vanized iron tank, with close cover, standing in the stable near the COWS, supplied from well or spring. Then the water is supplied to the cows at a uniform temperature of 50 degs with out heaters or pipes. The winter food most conducive to abundant milk flow is Iheaply provided for by the use of the silo and bran, with luncheon of clover hay, Six tons of silage for each COW will abundantly feed her from Novem- Der to May 20; mill feed at $l2 per ton will supply the food for mileh COW for ten cents per day. I have done even better than this. Hay to exceed three pounds per day to each COW is not needed in the winter dairy.
 The winter dairy, rightly managed, is profitable because the prices for dairy produce arc much better from Septem- Der to June than from April to Nov. 15, which is about the limit of milk giving for tho summer dairy. The milking persod of the October oahving COW is fully sixty days longer tha that of the spring milker. There is little difficulty in keeping the October lnllkers in profit. able milk giving nine months, often more, and the men with silos and winter dairies show the figures that their cows give fully one-fourrh more milk in the same number of days than will the same dairy milked in summer, and the balance of the IEiik obtained in the longer milk ing period is clear gain. The dairy that gives $i5 worth of milk in summer gives $65 winter milked.
 The question of cheap winter feeding is being rapidly settled with many. Others are now fully of the opinion that the winter milker can be kept as cheaply with shorts and silage as the dry COW can be on hay and the ordinary plan of keep. One of the most successful dairy men of New York, who keels his dairy on silage the year round, puts the cost at: grain, $25; silage, S12; average in- come of each COW, S75. An i,cre of good silage more than keeps coity one year; this is result that scores of other farm CTS testify to and with a, gt,bd success. The advantages of winter da.irying aside from all this in the way of iaying mar kets, cheaper labor, mors uniform care of the cows and other rnattsrs need no elaboration here. To the man who has well cared for winter dairy these mat ters are self evident. Gould in American Agriculturist.