Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-02-23
FARM AND GARDEN
Suggestions and Facts That
Tend to Profit.
THOSE FARMING FOR PASTIME

All interesting experiment. In Feeding
and Its KesuIt-An Anti-Kicking De-
vice - Mating Up Breeding Hens
Dairy Notes-Garden Notes.
From the proceedings of 1.-THE New
York Farmers" an organization OF rich
men who play at farming, We take the
following extracts from paper read by
DR.. Peter Collier Of the New York Ex-
pertinent station. The doctors paper
was filled with scientific terms which
we have taken the liberty of reducing to
plain every day English where it was
possible 10 do so.
In this experiment every ounce of
food was carefully weighed and SAM
Pile analysed, and the experiment was
conducted during the first period OF
coming into milk. The food was such
as any good dairyman would furnish
his cows, consisting OF hay, corn, ensil-
age roots, and during the growing sea-
son various green crops such as alfalfa,
vetches, oats and peas, corn and sor-
ghum. Besides these there are given
each day u grain ration varied according
to the season consisting of wheat, BRAN
corn meal, cotton-seed meal, linseed
meal, crushed oats, gluten, etc, ETC.
These were fed at different times to
make variety in their food.
In the production of milk, taking 100
as the lowest, the breeds ran as follows:
Holstein-Friesans... .....100
AyrshlIes
.l0S
American Holderness
Jerseys i'll
In the production of milk fat the or
der was somewhat changed, and the
conclusion arrived at will surprise many
of our readers. We are free to say that
we do not understand it, but give 1T just
as published. The following is the rat
ing given by DR.. Collier:
Guernseys
Jerseys ~ ..... ........,...,...1O7
Devons observation-disclosures. .l4
II oil tein-Friesans 1870
AyrsnlTes.
American Holderness ......loO
The average dairy matter in the food
consumed was ia pounds day, equal
to 21R pounds for each 200 pounds OF
live weight.
The average cost of food daily was
1334 cents; the average cost of the but
ter produced was IS f. 10 cents pound ;
the average yield of butter in a year
was 297 pounds.
One OF the cows was MIXED at irreg-
ular periods and it was found that this
did not interfere with the production of
milk in the least, as the weight OF milk
showed that the secretion OF milk went
on regularly at the rate OF a fraction
over ii ounces each hour.
The difference between the first pint
of milk drawn at milking and the last
was very great. The last pint had 20
times as much butter fat as the first.
AS result OF 1856 days experiment it
was found that milk which had stood "a
hours gave on an average 1898 of it's
weight in cream while milk that had
stood IL hours stood 2O.l7 per cent. of
its weight in cream, This discrepancy
in favor of the shorter term is explained
by saving that at IL hours there was
some milk which adhered to the cream
globules in the cream, while at "a hours
this had separated and fallen below 1t.
This shows that measuring cream by
spaces may be as much as III per cent.
wrong. The cows which averaged 1893
pounds in weight consumed each month
water to the amount OF 2,435 pounds tor
milk yield of 529 pounds, an average
of 4.6 pounds of water for each pound
of milk. These same cows drank while
dry, consuming 1856 pounds OF water
| in a month or almost exactly 10 per
cent Of what was drank while in milk.
This shows the Importance OF plen-
tifu supply of water for cows while In
milk as they need more than they do at
any other time.