Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-24
DAIRY eY.PRopucrs


and Buttermf1k.
At the recent meeting Of the Minne-
sofa Dairymen's Association Mr.. ]. II.
Monrad delivered an address from
which we take the following extracts,
which show that the value Of the
skim-milk ard buttermilk Is often too
much to have it used as pig feed In
other words, more butter should be-
TO the hogs. He said:
The rich soil and the unusual facil-
ities for production on a large scale has
trained the present generation of our
Western citizens to a sovereign but
wasteful contempt for the little details
II am, therefore, quito prepared to
be criticized for venturing to take up
such question as How is your skim
milk and buttcrmilk?' Talking about
sl<im-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
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 / give my pigs when
give them 100 pounds of skim-milk
or buttermillz?' A year ago I should
not have dared to PROFOUND the above
question. as it would have been useless
The cost of having n chemical analysis
made simply prevented us from getting
q reply, and the oil tests then In use
could not even give US an approximate
reply.
"But now, thanks to Dr. Babcock, we
have cheap, practical test which en-.
ables us to get practically an approx
mate reply.
Let us take dairy of ten cows Civ.
ing o yearly yield of 10000 pounds Of
milk. The deep-setting system Of
creaming is used, ice Is scarce Through
lack of forcthought) and the water Is
IS degrees Thus it viii be quite easy
to lose 8 per cent. extra IN the skim
milk, which in this case would be 100
pounds of butter fed to the hogs
but tins il not nll. II the cream 10
not properly and uniformly ripened IL
Is not uncommon to find the butter
milk contain s. instead of 8 per cent
Of fat, giving a loss of .5 per cent on
10 per cent of milk, of 6,40o pounds
buttermilk, and thus an additional loss
Of 50 pounds OF butter. H
"a small daily loss, indeed, unworthy
your consideration, but, after all, loss
of 153 pounds of butter, making, ut an
average price of twenty cents, 5000.
LET us take another instance. A
farm with twenty-five cows with
yearly milk yield of 100, 900 pounds Of
milk, using shallow pans or even deep
setting. This will leave on an average
0.75 per cent fat in the skim milk. BY
using hand separator run by power T
do not believe in hand worlx), the per
cent may be reduced to an average of
0.25, a gain of 0.5 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
buttermillx.
'sBut, supposing we do not run the
separator right, we may easily lose
from 200 to 500 pounds Of butter per
year.
"It may, of course, be objected that
II this butter Is left in the skim or but
termilk it is not lost; and, so fnr as we
use 1t for human food. this objection is
valid. But when used for hogs, calves
or fowls, / leave 1t for you to decide
whether you can afford to feed them
with butter"