The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-15

keeper OF COWS goes out or the DuSl-
ness He may have poor cows. but he
doesn't haye them long. He may not
have ice at first, but soon begins to
pack it. On starting he may make
poor milk, or manufacture A. G. (aXle
grease) butter, but-he will leave that
track.
The dairy pays directly and Indirect
ly. First, it pays a fair profit day by
day. Second, it does not deplete the
farm unless milk is sold. and then it
is reasonable TO suppose grain is
bought and fed and the fertility re-
stored Land used for dairying through
centuries of cropping has grown only
richer. Soil that is growing better
never tends TO poverty, but is encour-
aging and enriching the owner contin-
ually. The returns from the COWS are
different from beef farming, sheep,
horse or swine farming, or the raising
OF hay, potatoes or other produce Tor
sale. The herd is making milk or but
ter every day in the year, and it is a
cash product. Other things bring re-
turns in a lump, forcing the farmer TO
run costly credit account frequently.
a good dairy should enable its owner
TO do cash business. Paying as one
goes, he may secure all the advantages
of bargains for cash and also low rates
on quantity. No farm owners can
more successfully practice cooperation
than can dairymen-co-operat in
buying grain, etc, and in owning ma
ohlnery, including separators, cream
cries and other things. Here also a
high-priced sire may come in. An ami
NAL that one man could scarcely af-
ford to buy and own may be bought
and used by half a dozen. Given good
care, he will serve all the herds ef-
ticiently and be worth thousands of
dollars in the long run, while the same
animal owned by an individual would
never benefit the community one-tenth
as much.
Dairying is one of the higher
branches in the art of agriculture. 1t
belongs to the complete sciences. This
is one reason why careless persons,
with uneven habits and no accuracy,
do not find dairying congenial and sat
isfactory- Success is the price of
striving ALWAYS for a higher level in
quality of COWS, cleanliness in utensils
and in practices and in grade of prod
uct., We must get perfect or nearly
perfect. Wouldn't as great efforts pro-
duce a like result in vocations outside
of agriculture? Probably. Success in
anything demands a struggle.
The dairyman who is also a maker
of good butter must be master of two
trades. Between the dairyman who
sells his milk or delivers it to a cream
cry and he who makes it into butter
or cheese, the chances for high
achievement in profits and herd val
ues are greatly in favor of the former
1t is because his attention is wholly
and individually upon his herd, it's
improvement and comfort. with too
many irons in the fire one always gets
burned is a true adage. Most men
are qualified to attend properly to but
one iron.
But what difference" asks the man
who makes milk for peddling, IF the
milk is not the richest? No consumer
knows the difference" Doesn't he?
The people everywhere are fast learn
ing the difference, and learning also
that milk deficient in fats by the Bah
cock test, is also poor in other solids.
Casein in milk always balances or
nearly balances the fats in quantity,
and when milk does not yield a ricn
cream it tells tales against itself on
that part of its composition which
nourishes children and makes them
strong, healthy and growthy. Do not
beginning to look out for themselves
and their children, and are giving
much time and thought to foods pure
and impure. For this reason articles
of known quality and honesty are
commanding premium. Eight to 10
cents per quart for pure milk of a
guaranteed test is no longer considered
a great price and some diaries get u
cents Good COWS only pay, whether
bought or raised. Breeding and feed
ing go a long way. The buyer of cows
who owns Babcock milk testing ma
chine has an advantage if he will in
sist on sampling and testing the milk
of every COW he seeks to buy. He need
never buy poor yielder of butter,
and may turn off every COW that is not
paying her way in his herd. A COW
giving 10 to 20 quarts of 4 per cent
milk is a good one. A 6 per cent test
is still better It means six pounds of
butter to each 100 pounds of milk, or
a little more if the cream is absolutely
all taken out and the churn does not
let fats go 'unchurned into the butter
milk. There is so much in accuracy
here that it may readily make the diff
ference between a dairy that is pay
ing or not paying
Sample after sample of skim milk
and buttermilk l have tested which
was two-tenths to IL per cent pure
fats. One per cent is not at all I'M
common as a test of skim milk on the
average farm. Strange how few will
beSt1r themselves to find out where
they are going wrong in permitting the
loss 1t requires energy. And still if
the hired man were to feed the hogs
a pound ball of nice butter every time
he finished giving them so quarts of
milk, the owner would be Mortified and
would discharge him summarily Why
not be Just as severe with the churn
or system of setting milk or cream
ripening?
Always consider the quantity a COW
gives. also whether she is an all-the-
year-round mixer. as we'll as her test.
A poor cow may deceive by making
high test when nearly dry. Always
take the sample yourself and see if it is
a fair average of the entire milking
by stirring or pouring it. A teacupful
of strippings from a cheap COW will
make her figure like a good one
And notice here the corner of an
other secret sticking out TO view. A
herd hastily or indifferentIy MIXED
will make a Door test. An unfaithfuI
hired man may be a most expensive
farm attachment. Il am getting around
enough to milk" said a friend who had
been sick recently. I notice that my
test always falls, and the weight of
the milk also at the creamery if l am
not in the milking yard regularly"
How is that?" I asked.
oh, help never does so we'll for me
as when 1 am present. The cows are
not stripped properly"
Another grave result of careless
milking is that cows dry up, and
heifers that dry early never after
wards can be induced to be ten. eleven
and twelve month mixers. In the cat
alogue of expensive help. no matter If
It receives only board for pay, is the
help that is noisy and abusive. excit-
ing the COW and so rendering a natural
and large yield of milk or fats impos-
sible- Sentiment is no longer alone in
the use of a dog and milk