The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
DAIRYING IN THE SOUTH.

Practical Dairyman.
The Southern dairyman has Il greet adj
vantage over his Northern brother in
that he can pasture his cows 10 months in
the year, and often ~. This makes the
cost of keeping a COW much cheaper, and
the profit ought to be relatively more, but
it generally is not. Milk and butter bring
as good prices as in the North and often
better. But the loss comes just where the
profit is supposed to be made, viz, pastur-
ing all winter. The weather, of course, is
not freezing cold, so the dairyman allows
his cows to run out day and night The
air is often chilly, and the cold rains and
north winds are what make the cows
shrink in their milk. If the Southern
darymen would furnish q good shelter
for their COWS, and keep them up and feed
them at night and during bad weather, he
would get q greater profit from them.
Field and Farm: How many are there
who know how q kernel of corn is con-
structed? The structure of the corn kerr
mel is in general like that of the wheat
kernel. There is the outer covering which
corresponds to the pod of the pea, or
edible part of the cherry. Inside there is
the tesla, or true seed coat, which con-
tains the coloring matter and gives the
kernel its color. Inside the tesla is the
row of irregular cubical cells, the so-called
embryonic envelop. These cells are not
so large as the wheat. Inside this row OF
cells is the germ or embryo and the en-
dosperm. The endosperm consists of
thin walled cells of sellulose packed full
of starch grains and very little nitrogen
Gus material. In sweet corn instead OF
the cells of the endosperm being packed
! full of starch grains, the latter are
changed to glucose, and the shrinking
caused by the transformation makes the
sweet-corn kernel wrinkled
Western Plowman: Have no hope of
increasing the quality of your stock by
using grade bulls or stations. Half
whisky and half water makes feeble
mixture, but you will never make it
stronger by adding more water. Better
put more blood or more whisky to our
compound to make purer blood or stronger
whisky. There is nothing which gives
the farmer profit all the year round like
sheep, with their lambs, their wool and
| their mutton. If given constant care
they will pay well for their feed enrich
the soil, keep down the weeds, and in
many ways help to make the farm pay.
| Hoard'S Dalryman: IL with increased
| feed COW shows no increase in yield OF
milk of in flesh, other conditions being
similar, the conclusion is irresistible thai
more is fed than the COW can digest. The
food which one COW turns into milk, anoth
err may convert into flesh, or in worry
While it is true that the carbohydrates
and the fat are more especially the bes'
producers and fat formers, it is neverth
| less true that an animal can land will Il
necessary turn the protein into these
channels in greater or less degree. Fur
thermore, COW having once commenced
to shrink in milk-giving is brought bacl
to increased flow with difficulty. Grea
lis the mystery of milk production. W.
: can not explain why on the same food tn
same COW should give more milk wheI
fresh than six or 10 months thereafter, o.
why one COW should give more milk thai
another. But such are natures laws ant
the wise man conforms to them. A pal
ance ration has respect to all the de
mands of the cow. 1t may be deficient il
proper material for keeping up the bodil!
heat as we'll as in other directions, but a
n rule there is more likelihood of de
ficency in the heterogeneous or protein
elements in food than in the carbonace
Gus.