The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-04
WINTER BUTTER.
Taking Care of the Cows That Give Milk
to Make 1t.

Which is better, to take your milk to
creamery whose butter sells for thirty
cents per pound and above, Oh to manu-
acture it at home and get twenty-five
tents therefor? If you think best to make
he butter at home, why not adopt the
rea1nery plan and get the creamery
mice?
Listen attentively to all that you hear
the institutes this winter in regard to
lairying. If you wish to reject any of
;he sentiments as impractical, that is
Four privilege, but the bulk of the insti-
ute talk is golden grain that you cam
lot afford to throw away.
Ordinary cows do not yield butter in.
winter that has a natural golden hue
deep enough to satisfy the buyers eye,
10 it is expedient that a little CONNER
.ial color be added to the cream.
The amount of work entailed through
;he winter care of cows depends ON how
you begin in the fall. If you do not
make thorough preparation, and then
carry out an organized plan, you will
ind the care of cows very laborious and
The result unsatisfactory.
Have the stable warm, keep the cows
oedded from the start and clean the
lroppings from the stable at least once
day, and you have reduced the time to
Do afterward spent in keeping the ami
mails clean and comfortable to a mini
mum. There is always less real work
about taking care of milk animals prop
srly than there is in the neglectful, SLOW
emily way, where general digging out
becomes imperative after length of
time.
During this open winter weather do
not commit the mistake of turning your
meadows into barnyard for the cattle.
Thousands Of dairymen in the past have
oeen making just such grave mistakes,
and, what is worse, they are still contin-
aing in the error. The grass crop of
1899 will suffer thereby, and the winter
milk flow of this present season will be
curtailed by the bad practice. Then
why continue custom so replete with
damage to the dairy interests?
II you use thermometer in the house
TO gauge the temperature of the living
room by, why not hang one in the COW
stable and give it a casual glance now
and then? The little quicksilver tube
would give you some telling points on
the comfortable or uncomfortable condi-
zion of the stable.
The dairyman who derives the least
benefit from his straw is the one who
stacks it out in the barnyard and al
lows the cows to run to it all winter.
It would do them far more good as dry,
warm bedding in tight stable than as
browse from a stack on a cold, windy
day A cutting machine will put straw
in condition to be mixed with chopped
clover hay, or with bran or meal, and
form valuable diet for COWS.
Don't drive the cows out two or three
times day to drink ice cold water.
They need the water, but its freezing
temperature and their exposure to winter
blasts are contrary to their comfort and
profit. This applies with great force to
COWS that are in milk at this period Of
the year. Il you seek profit from winter
dairying, give your cows all of the water
that they will drink at temperature as
far above freezing, hut below 70 degs.,
as you can secure. Water that can be
made to run into the warm stable ar
swers the purpose admirably. This gen.
orally can be done with less expense and
trouble than by artificial heating.
Don't trust an inexperienced hand to
take care of your dairy because it is
winter and you can get his help by Civ
ing him his board. It wouldn't be any
wonder if it would be the most costly
board bill in the end that you ever paid.
George E. Newell in American Guilt
vator.