Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-07
FARMERS MEETING At BAKERSFIELD
Dairy Products and How to Make tho
Most of Milk.

| Most of Milk.
At the farmers meeting at Bakersfield,
| under the auspices OF the State Board of
| Agriculture, Chairman Scott introd uced
Mr.. o. G. Start, who said he welcomed the
board into that community at q very unfor-
tunate time, as the grip had previous ap-
pointment which had to be attended to.
| Numbers alone are not always q guarantee
to success and he sure those who could
be present would both enjoy and profit by
| thus coming together. When farming sue
ceeds, all industries are prosperous The
effects OF the civil war we have not wholly
recovered from yet. We formed too expan-
siye habits and wsre inclined to live beyond
our means, l think now we have reached
the bed rock Of hard times and are on the
upward grade in farming. We must adopt
the more modern ideas and put more brain
work into our business.
After Prof. Cooke address on dairy pro-
| ducts he answered questions as follows. The
question as to whether to make butter or
cheese Of the milk and get the most from it
| depends upon the amount of butter fat it con-
tans. Generally speaking the milk contains
| from to per cent of fat aud the per
cent milk will make twice much butter as
the ) per cent The per cent of fat differs
| much more than the percent Of casein. The
| presence of casein in milk 10 what enable us
| to make cheese of the milk but the butter
fat in in the cheese is what makes it valu-
able as food. If you make cheese from milk
! that has per cent of caseine and per cent
butter fat the cheese will hold it but over
that it ia liable 70 60 Off in the whey. About
| 10 per cent of cheese is valuable as a fertii-
| ger. Factories should be able to make both
| butter and cheese. Only ons-seventh Of the
| cows in the State send their milk to factory
of any kind.
| THB MEETING AT HYDE PARK
At Hyde Park Hon. Waldo Brigham was
chosen chairman, and MIR. Smith the first
speaker, his subject being, Feeding farm
stock" Mr.. Smith said the furnishing
| feed for farm animals had always been an
interesting subject for farmers to discuss
and was getting to be moro so. Pastures that
| once played important part in our
husbandry were of much less value than
| formerly and growing poorer every year,
| and farmers especially dairymen, were feed
ing many more days in the year than former
| ly. Full barns are not always guarantee Of
| fat stock or Of full pals of milk. Feed
| that produces milk will make gro with il fed
| to young stock. Hay cut in August,
though Of more bulk, is not so valuable as
| early cut fodder. Keeping a winter dairy
teaches the farmer very much in regard to
the worth of different fodder crops. A
change in the coarse feeds affects the milk
| sooner than a change in grain feed With
the present high price Of grain it cannot be
| fed profitably unless the coarse folders are
! good
In answer to questions Mr.. Smith said:
l water my cows only once a day, but feed
ensilage; should water twice day if they
would drink. warm the water, but should
not if the trough in the barn. Mich
cows should not receive q chill. Where
cows are turned out into yard it will pay
to warm the water. | raise the temperature
only to CO.; Others raise it as high AS 95'.
MIR. Clinton Smith Of Morristown, one of
the most successful dairymen in Lumoille
county, gave his experience in dairyins.
lie is at present using baby separator,
No. 2 will separate 300 pounds per hour.
This is run by yearng heifer Jersey in a
one horse tread power. Mr.. Smith says the
working of the machine is complete and the
heller enjoys the work. All he has to do is
to unhitch her and she goes into the power
of her own accord. By having this ma
chine in the barn he can feed the
skim milk warm from the COW to his calves
and hogs, and considers it more valuable
when fed in lts natural warmth than when
y.
arator with the deep setting several times
by taking seven mIIkinss with each system
and alternating, and finds the present way
VIII make about two pounds day the most
1t is not much work to keep the separa-
tor clean as the cans In deep setting He
sends his butter to market in prints, and it
averages about 2U1 cents per pound the
year round.
He waters his cows in the barn and does
not warm 1t; churns twice week, cooling
the cream to 49, til ready to ripen, then
raise to 100 and cool down, churning at Ca
links the cream from separator is more
easily churned than from deep setting; Is
pounds OF MS milk will make a pound OF
butter. lie has sold from his dairy 500 per
COW in butter alone and fed them SlO. 50
worth OF grain each. Skim milk is worth
nearly as much es the grain fed the cows
Inc separator takes the lead of all others
Prof Cooke-lt depends more upon tho
man than upon the system, though the
separator ought TO make Il pure article.
The hand separator is a new element in
farm dairylng and mas come to stay.
Mr.. Sanford in answer to questions said;
1t is great mistake to let Land deteriorate.
Land should be made to grow three tons of
hay or is tons OF green corn
fodder per acre. 1t costs SD to
cut an acre of hay. Each ton
has 80 worth of fertility in it
aud is worth : 0 per ton. Land that will
produce three tons per acre is worth 500
per acre. We want proper barns to save
all the manure. Tue liquid portion is
worth GO cents more than the solid. Mr.
Ii. A. Beecher of johnson said he had kept
60 hens the pasr year from one to four
years old they produced 1880 oggs, which
if all sold would have amounted to over
500. He paid for feed, scrap, etc, 1928 49,
If all the feed had besn paid tor it would
have cost less than dollar per hen.