The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-20
DAIRY RY-pRopUcTS.
A True Idea of the Value of Sltim-M Mir
and Buttermilk.

and Buttermilk.
At the recent meeting of the Minnc-
sofa Dairymen's Association Mr. j. ii.
Monrad delivered an address from
which we take the following extracts,
which show that the value of the
sllim-milll 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 tacll'
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.
Il am, therefore, quies prepared to
be criticized for venturing to take uE
such question as How is your skim
milk and buttermilk?' Talking about
skim-mill< l am always reminded of the
story of how 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.
1.-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 buttermilll?' A year ago l should
not have dared to PROFOUND the above
question, as it would have been useless.
The cost of having chemical analysis
made simply prevented us from getting
a reply, and the oil tests then in use
could not even give us an approximate
reply.
But now, thanks to DIR. Babcocl, 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 yearly yield of 10000 pounds OF
milk. The deep-setting system OF
Dreaming is used, ice is scarce Through
lack of forethought) and the water is
SIS degrees. Thus it will be quite easy
| to lose g per cent. extra in the skim!
milk, which in this case would be 12C
pounds of butter fed to the hogs.
But this is not all. If the cream is
not properly and uniformly ripened it
is not uncommon to find the butter
milk contain s. instead of 3 per cent
of fat, giving a loss of 5 per cent. on
IS per cent. of milk, of 6,4O0 pounds
buttermilk, and thus an additional loss
of 30 pounds of butter
"a small daily loss, indeed unworthy
your consideration, but, after all, a loss
of 1872 pounds of butter, making, at an
average price of twenty cents, $1,000.
LET us take another instance. A
farm with twenty-five cows with a
yearly milk yield of 100000 pounds OF
milk, using shallow pans or even deep
setting. This will leave on an average
O.75 per cent. fat in the skim milk. BY
using hand separator run by power Il
do not believe in hand work., the per
cent. may be reduced to an average of
0.25, gain of 05, or 500 pounds of but
ter year, and on this farm careless
ripening of the cream may cause a year
ly loss of eighty pounds of butter in the
buttermilk.
But, supposing we do not run the
separator right, we may easily lose
from 200 to 800 pounds of butter per
year.
sit may of course, be objected that
if this butter is left in the skim or but
cermilk it is not lost; and, so far as we
use it for human food, this objection is
valid. But when used for hogs, calves
or fowls, 1 leave it for you to decide
whether you can afford to feed them
with butter