The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
THE DAIRY.

THE DAIRY.
Valuable Hints From an Exnert
Dairyman That May BE of Benefit
to New Beginners.
The work of the Farmers Institute the
experiment station, and the State Dairy
mems Association have each been import
ant factors in improving not only the quail
ity but the quantity and market value of
the dairy product of Minnesota
Among those experts who from time to
time have aided in imparting important
dairy instructions to the farmers of Mime
sofa none were better qualified for the du-
ties OF the position or had a more impress
slve or interesting way of presenting the
subject than John Gould, of Ohio. MI. Gould
is at present editing the dairy department
of the Practical Farmer
In the last number he writes Interestingly
of what he terms New Things" Those
readers of the REPRESENTATIVE who
are interested in dairying would do well to
study carefully the advice and valuable sug-
gestions of one who, in addition to being
practical dairyman and successful farmer
Is recognized as reliable authority on all
subjects pertaining to the feed and care of
cows, the making and marketing of butter.
The things mentioned are not only new to
those who have heretofore depended solely
upon wheat a cash crop, but the i'm
ment in dairy methods, the enlargement of
the dairy industry has stimulated the in
Ventlve genius of the Yankee who always
seeks to secure the best practical results
with the least possible outlay of labor 1t
has been well said that the genuine Yam
kee will spend three days to invent a
method by which he may accomplish four
days work in ten hours
All new things are not necessarily valua-
BILE, but the man who would keep in the
front rank with those engaged in his occu-
patton, must study new methods and be al
ways ready to adapt those that are appl-
cable to his conditions. Mr.. Gould says:
TRY NEW THINGS.
The farmer should plan well now for the
coming season, and decide about methods
and mature plans, 50 that when the rush
of work comes, the decision of the weeks
before is not in need of revisal, and crops
substituted for others. In this let a few
experiments be tried with soiling crops,
or rather changes made. The wise dairy
man now admits that the summer pasture
is only adequate for few weeks at best
and SOiling must commence in early Au-
gust. A to do well must have food in
abundance, and at hand. Poor pasture
means that the entire dairy ration is con-
sumed in it's collection. All needless waste
of energy on the part of the COW is food
put into unproductive channels, so soiling
crops to supply the needed food, and ask
less exercise of the COW, is the farmers
great want The soiling crop is large, but
next summer be ready to sow small lot to
barley about the first of August, and in
about two months it will be most abund-
ant crop for the cows, and will afford a
great amount of pasturage until shut off
by the snow. 1t is best when sown two
bushels per acre. Barley has been sown in
the corn at the last working with fair sue
cess, but it is possibly better to follow
crop of oats and peas, that sows in early
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left ready for the barley. Secretary Nc
Keen, of Maine, is great believer in bar
ley for a late soiling crop for cows and
young stock, and says that nothing pleases
him so WE'LL and others praise it equally
and 1T is worth the trial at least; the p F.
hopes that it's dairymen readers will paste
this suggestion in their next August hats.
OATS AND PEAS
A matter of Importance that has much to
do with the soiing crop question is how
much feed can be grown from an acre, and
how does it wear with the cows Recently
we met gentleman, who last season raised
a measured acre of oats and peas for his
dairy, sowing two bushels of each en- the
acre. When ready to cut, load was put on
the wagon and driven to the scales ard
weighed, and the rest of the crop estimated
by average loads and the results we're
something over ten tons of green fodder,
highly heterogeneous in it's character, and of
the highest kind of excellence for a soiing
crop for mich cows and eagerly eaten from
start to finish. Reports are also coming in
that this crop has been soiled, with great
success by Sprinkling ON at least six or
more gallons of water to each ton of ma
terial as it went into the slo The trouble
seems to have been in the past that there is
not moisture enough in the heterogeneous
crops, like peas, clover, and the like to pre-
vent drying out in the heating process, and
the following of molding to greater or less
extent, and if water is used in the filling
process, as perfect results are attained as
with the starcy folders like corn. In one
instance, a dairyman planted Russian
BEANS, possibly a local name, and har-
vested about 60 bushels of beans per acre,
that ground into meal made the 1irest of
milk-producing food, and strongly nitro
genous, while the fodder was fairly we'll
eaten by the Jerseys. If the great want of
nitrogen feeds can be supplied with oats,
peas, and bran crop, and more water will
enable successful SLIDING of oats and Ieas,
as we'll as clover, it would seem that the
problem of nitrogen feed is to be solved
outside of Minneapolis mills.
AS TO FOODS.
Since the attempt to convey the idea of
proper and needed foods for the dairy cows
there has been a trife of OVERRIDING the
term business that conveys the meaning,
and in the balanced ration, because ex-
pressed in words not usually regarded as
English, the average farmer thinks of
books and Science" and thinks it Is
not for him to understand or avail him
self Of When we come to examine the
matter, the words carbohydrates and pro-
teins means simply a division of the two
almost distinct classes of food raised, or
may be on the farm, and not purchased
feed from cotton seed and wheat meal
mills. The idea is too prevalent that the
one-fifth protein that is insisted upon by
our expert teachers and feeders, is some
thing different from the protein grown on
the farm, but to the COW who must have
It, protein in cotton seed meal is no differ