The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-23
INTENSIVE DAIRYINC
Make a Few Acres Support a
Large Number of Cows.
WASHINGTON STATE DAIRY LAW

WASHINGTON STATE DAIRY LAW
The Law Prohibits the Selling OF
Skinned Milk Under Pretense
That 1t Is Unskimmed.
Intensive dairying is the science
Of making few acres support larger
number of COWS than is generally the
custom, says the Pacific Coast Dairy
man. 1t is called the practice of soil
ing. By this system COWS are not al
lowed to run in the pasture, as is
usually the case; but they are kept up,
and all green food cut and fed to them.
The ideas brought out above exactly
fit our people owning ten and twenty
five acre tracts. Nearly every one is
more or less familiar with the wonder
full butter producer, the Jersey COW,
but it is not every one who Is familiar
with the way the Jersey cow is cared
for on the beautiful island of Jersey.
The people ON the Jersey island are
situated like many Of our people, with
small holdings-ten and twenty-five
acre tracts. The land being very valu
able, is not fenced. Then one might
we'll ask, how are the thousands of
COWS cared for and kept? They are
cared for in two ways-tethered with
thirty or forty feet of rope and changed
as needed, and kept in stables and feed
cut and fed to them daily. This is the
intensive idea-to make small tract
produce more and support many more
cows than would be possible under the
system of allowing them to roam at
will in large pastures.
To those who are now in the dairy
line, and others who may engage in
it, here is anoter important point:
Arrange so as many of your cows as
possible may be fresh about the LIST of
September. You will find your COWS
will bring in more income by this
plan than to have them fresh in the
spring. What calves you raise are
ready to turn out in the spring; your
COWS are in full flow of milk when
milk commands the highest price, and
they are dry in July and August, when
it is worth the least money. Then
through the cow during fall and winter
you can turn your hay and roots into
cash monthly
The Dairy Law.
State Dairy Commissioner Smith, Of
Washington, says that their state law
has been the cause of increasing the
product of the dairymen 20 per cent
This is due largely to the effect the law
has had in decreasing the sale of oleo.
margarine. 1t provides that oleOmar.
go-iice shall not be colored, but must
be sold &c its original form. 1t is as
white as lard. and is of course not 80
tempting as when richly colored so as
to resemble fine quality of butter.
This spoils it's sale, and the Cudahy
Packing Company is fighting the law
on the west side. We have cow
butter man in Seattle who has been ar
rested several times for selling colored
"oleo," and one of these cases is now
pending in the superior court, to which
he appealed after being convicted i'll
the Justice court When oleomargarine
first began to come in under the law
it was white. 1t would not sell, and
the manufacturers said they believed
they could give it shade darker color
in the process of manufacture without
adding any coloring matter. This
was advisable under the law and they
tried it. They impaired slight color
to it, and then they said that by the
same process they could make it a lit
tie darker yet. 1 had no doubt of it,
and was not mistaken. They continued
to make it darker till it looked like
butter once more. The law also pro-
hibits the selling of skinned milk un-
der the pretense that 1t is unskimmed.
A man may sell skinned milk if he
wants to, but he must not lead the pur-
chaser to believe that it is pure. That
is one thing l want your city council
to insert in the new milk ordinances
provision requiring that cans from
which SKINNED milk is being sold shall
be properly labeled. The law also
prohibits the watering of milk under
any circumstances. Persons knowing
of any violation of the law, either
by selling SKINNED milk under false
pretenses or watering milk, should re-
port it, and violations of the law
would soon stop.
Dairy Notes.
The secret of success in the dairy is
to reduce the cost of making goods.
Have your COWS gentle by kind treat
ment if you want big returns in milk
and butter.
Study the nature Of your COWS and
fall in with their moods. 1t pays to be