The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-10
DAIRY NOTES.

The sore On the hsifer's test should be
treate6 al once such . sore has OFTEN
made kicking cow.
A pound OF good butter is usually worth
more than a pound of beef at retail and
always AZ wholesale,
In South Dakota some Of the creamery
com paylIes propose 20 hold U&lry SchoolS
IN the school houses.
Keep up the milk Tow, once II shrinkS
i can never be restored until after the
next calf Is dropped.
An exchange recommends linseed OIL in
place OF Epson salts. That IS putting
linSeei meal about where Il belongs. IN
the list Of medicines.
While striving 10 make the cow com
Portable don't forget that the calf fhAt IS
70 develop into a good COW must tie kept
comfortable this winter. too
The nose OF a feveFish cow is hot. and
when that is the case n dose Of EPSON ;
salts viii often be- sll that Is necessary,
except that the rat&aus should be lessened.
A well-known dairyman declares that he
gets 8 for every dollars worth OF grain
that he feeds ia summer. IL is pretty
dishenlt 10 get better investment than
that
IL the COW gets into the habit Of look
ing for her feed al certain times she must
have il. or the milk pail VIII tell the story
Of her disappointment. and II YOU get into
the habit Of feeding her at certain times,
the work viii come easy.
Thousands OF farmers are keeping cows
which do not pay for their Keep. ana
thousands more 10 not keep their cows
50 that there is any profit resulting from
them. IL IL pays 70 do anything well in
any line. Il. is also true in regard 10 butter
making on the farm.
Bacteria. those microscopic forms of
plant life which produce the ripening
changes in cream. not only grow and in
crease with alarming rapidity, but each
exudes minute drops Of acid. which is 50
sour that none of the commercial acids
can compare with IL.
Il costs no more money to manufacture
oleomargarine in winter than in summer.
while this Is not true Of winter dairying.
In many localities this unequal c0mpeu
ton has been stopped by legislation. and
no longer VIII organized capital be push
ing the honest, toiling daAryman and
farmer 10 the wall
Would il astonish anybody II we should
say that millions of dollars are wasted in
the dairy by unscientific feeding? We be-
lieve IL. The farmer can make money 10y
studying feeding systems.
From a peck to half bushel OF apples
a day. says Elmer Atkinson, does not in
lure a cow, and IN the absence of carrots
or heets are quite beneficial and does not
raise one. half the disturbance when made
into milk that they occasionally do
when made into hard cider.
Do not pat sweet aud sour and every
other kind Of cream together when you
go to ripen IT, IL IL must he. held over TO
have sufficient for a churnlng the next
day. let il be kept as sweet as possible
until the next cream comes from the sep
arator. and ripen all together.
Six per cent OF the butter fat is lost
when il comes TO the churning If the
cream is permitted 70 become too sour.
The tat is not destroyed in some mysteri-
Gus way, but IL simply fails 10 come out
of the huttermilk. Truly. most OF our
losses come from lack OF care.
II Is not always the housewives fault
that creamery butter can outstrip her in
prices. II may be in the selection Of the
COWS IN the quarters and care given
them. in the way the milking is done. or
in the place which Is provided for keeping
the milk and doing the churning.
Neither atmospheric change nor the
quantity of electricity during thunder
showers causes the milk 60 sour. bat the
bacteria 70 which we now attribute the
s0urlnE Of milk grcw and multiply best
during the warm. sultry period mmcdi-
ately preceding electrical storms.