The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-10-13
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS 70"
OUR RURAL READERS
uou sncccssful Farmers Operate TINS
Department Of the Homestead-h "''
"a tn the Care OF Live STOCK az"
Poultry.
E.ediuc Fat Into Milk.


Tbo waved question of whether it is
nossible to feed fat into milk IS an
swered very emphatically in the NJ
frmative in communication from "
w. Jennings, in lIoard's Dalryman'
parrating an experiment conducted oy
Messrs. Van Dresser of Coblesklll, N.
Y. The effort was otalong the usual
lines of feeding a more heterogeneous
ration, according to one theory, nor
| by feeding grains rich ia vegetable
fats, according to another, but by
feeding animal fat in the form OF neet
tallow.. According to the description
given, four IIolstein Friesian COWS
had been fed forty pounds OF ensilage
each per day with hay at noon, anu
received in addition six pounds OF
mixture composed of two parts OF
wheat bran and one part each OF
cottonseed oil and corn meal. Inc
skim milk of the cows was also
fed back to them. This, it will be
seen, was pretty liberal and pretty
we'll balanced feeding. Cow NO l
weighed 1,1s9 pounds and made on
this ration IA pounds Of butter in
seven days; COW No. . weighed l, 1870
pounds, and made 10 pounds OF butter
in seven days; COW No.3 weighed l,l6o
pounds and made 81 pounds of butter
in seven days; COW No. 4 weighed ! 1000
pounds and made 10 pounds and J
ounce of butter in seven days. On an
average little over 90 pounds OF milk
, was required to make pound OF but
ter. 1t was resolved to try feeding
, pure beef tallow. One-fourth OF
pound was first used, shaved and
| added to the grain ration, and this
was gradually increased until each
/ cow consumed two pounds per day at
$ the end of two weeks, Co" No. l
, made 20 pounds of butter in seven
. days; COW No. 2, TN pounds; COW
: No. lo pounds and IA ounces,
a and COW No. 7, II pounds
e, and ounce. This result was
J reached by test made at the fifth
Z, weeks feeding of tallow, the othe'
: rations of ensilage and grain remain
, ing the same as before the talloV
e feeding began. Only 1SA pounds o
=. milk were then required to make
pound of butter The milk was set il
:. small pans and the cream churne'
y. with dash churn. The experiment
~ took place in April and May, 1892, an
~ the COWS came in fresh from Feb l t.
v. March / preceding. 1t is announce
"a that the experimenters are to repea
ID the test beginning in June OF thi
o. year. We do not understand tina
90 they have tried it since April and Ma
- two years ago, and this is the sus
wv picious point in the story. Messrs
bv Van Dresser are represented 8
10 having thirty-two registered Ho
"a stein. Friesian cows--eight time
,er as many as they tested wit
10. the beef tallow feeding. For (
ar the COWS producing, say, AZ pounds (
ad butter per week on ensilage and graz
nj are made to produce II pounds by ad
700 ing the tallow to the ration; tt
~, zjeld was increased one-half 1t
,sd further represented that beef tallo
,el is worth, with them, three cents
nd pound while butter fat is worth tive
va ty-fve cents Assuming that the
10 crease could be made on the who
10 herd, it would amount to 1872 poun
Ike in seven days, worth $500; the CO
a of the tallow necessary to make
sa would be s13.44; profit $34.56. WI
fire. havn't they been making this pro
hat every week since they found out t'
years ago that it could he done?
80 six cents worth of tallow can be tral
40. formed into "a cents worth of butt
10, fat by the very simple process
~, nst passing it through cow, why do
those who have discovered that tn
can do it go on doing it? We do
~ want to seem to be a doubling Tho
cad AZ, and yet it appears strange TT
49, any one who had discovered proce
on, so simple and so successful should
a. it at such rare intervals
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