The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-25
THE SALT LAKE HERALD. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1897

5000 pounds milk; Gurler. 1000 pounds
milk: Gould $50 to 300 cows; Darnley, Sv0
cows; MauheiSon. 500 cows. CarilSle, SUI
COWS or 5000 pounds milk Adams not
less than 200 cows; Broadman, SVo TO 2oV
cows, and 5000 to 10000 POUNDS milk
Brandt. milk 5000, cows 800: Morgan, Soo
to 500 COWS; Nissley, $500 pounds milk;
Eyth 800 to 400 cows
What should be the reasonable cost OF
a creamery for handling the product OF
300 to 500 cowS?''
Hoard, from $1,000 to $1,000; Hacker,
$500 to $S0OO Wallace. $500 to $500;
equip; Wilson. 1000; Dean, $500 TO LOU
in Ontario; Wing, $3.50 TO s3.oO0; 5000
rich, s, 600 to SO. 900; Alvord, $1,000 70 500
Gurier, $500 to s.. 500; Gould, Sl,SO to
s., 800, if the money is judiciously spent.
$1,000 ought to do ii; Darnley. building
$500 to $500. machinery and equipment
81 200.
We take it the question above means
the creamery all equipped for running
What should be the reasonable cost
of a cheese factory for handling the
product of 800 to 500 cows?''
Hoard, $1,000 70 $1,000; Hacker, Sl2Oo Ito 10
$500; Wilson. 81 900 TO $500; Dean, SSOO
to s., 500; Wing, $3.50 TO $500; Goodrich,
$500 TO $1,000; Gurler considerably less less
Gould, $500 to $500 more than creamery
Carlyle &, COO; Adams. 81 500 to s., 600; Mss
ley. $1,000: Eyth 81 500 to 81 500. .,-
In building butter factory costing
tional outlay in also equipplng IL ior
cheese-making a portion of the year?
The estimates run all the way from SloO
to $500.
Having five to ten cows, is the farmer
justified In taking his milk or cream four
to six miles to a butter or cheese factory
rather than attempt working 1t at home
with ordinary appliances?
Great diversity of opinion, but gener-
ally against it.
What is the minimum daily average
quantity of milk that will justify farm
er Creamery patron or otherWlse) IN
owning a separator" 90
Hoard, 10 good cows; Hacker. 25O
pounds of milk; Wallace, zoo pound Us; !;
Wilson 200 pounds; Dean, 80 to 20O
pounds; Wing, 200 pounds; Goodrich, over
100 pounds; Alvord, 300 pounds; GurIer' D
cows; Curtiss, 800 or 400 pounds; Darn
ley. to 10 cows; Dodge. 200 pounds; car
Brandt, 800 pounds; Morgan. 200 pounds; ;
Nissley, no; Jones, 200 pounds; Eyth' 10
There is now little De Laval Hum
mingbird'' that would justify the pur-
chasing of 500 for two or three good cows.
rs it better as rule for the butter
producer to at once sell his product at
the then prevailing prices than hold OF
For once. they all agree that the butter
should be sold at once
For a farm dairyman, what are
probably the most suitable butter PACK
ping; also for home or nearby markets
AS no two of the leaders agree In their
answers, there is no need OF glVine
them. Hoard answers; i would adVlse
the pound print and the nVe 10 teh-pouiiu
package"
What is the most preferable and prac-
ticable method of setting milk Tor pul-
ter-making in the ordinary farm aalry
others favor deep cold setting, either d
patent creamery or shotgun cans IN ice
water below 40 degrees.
What is the smallest number OF DAIRY
COWS for which a farmer would be jus
titled in building silo and do you con-
slider the silo a well-nigh necessity 10
the most profitable dairying!
Hoard for dairying all the year rounu,
the s;ilo is almost indispensable. | would
build a silo if | had eight or ten cows
Hacker, 20 cows; Wallace, IL cows Dean, H.
10 cows; Wing. Is cows; Goodrich ~ ~
COWS; Alvord, / to cows; Carrier, III
cows: Gould, TO 10 cows; Curtiss. No ;
the silo is not d well-nigh necessity IN
Kansas though desirable for 10 cows
Dodge. 10 COWS; Darnley: cows; AR W. re,
is or 20 head: Adams thinks 1t pays pest
in eastern states; Brandt. 20 cows; Mss,
ley, Il do not deem the silo necessity
Jones. 80 cows. ,- -
They all deem the silo absolutely
necessity, with three exceptions, TWO
qualified and one of those won I nave H.
Are calves successfully reared on sep
arator milk and is it more likely IMAM
Hoard-Yes. provided it is fed sweet
and with sound judgment. This is quite
the opinion of all that separator shi il
milk is better than any other SKIM mix l
# fed fresh and sweet from the sep
arator but not after it has passed INTO
an underground vat at the creamery ana
let get too old. All agree that some Klnd
of meal preferably flax seed meal, De
added to the milk for dairy calVes' corh
meal for veals or beef calves.
Can the future dairy value OF heIeI
he readily determined by her form ana
markings before breeding age, ana IS the
ascutcheon now regarded as of special
value in the selection of either males or
femaleS?' ,.,. 90
Here again there is some diversity OF
oninion with a great preponderance IN
tba line Of thought expressed by Hoard:
sOnlv approximately So Have never
been able to do much with the escutcheon
theory myself. IT, ,.,t,oI On
essential to any state having large DAIRY
possibilities? 20 o-;,,, tho an
swers of all that are so enthuslasltlca can NY
in favor of the state school. Hoard says;
YES. what every state needs is organized
dairy sense, knowledge, judgment ana
practice. o. .i,1
has been in operation for five years, ana
we cannot supply the demand for cream
/ cry men. IDOL ,6
3 experiment SIS llOH SllpbiN ~
! 1iabt and knowledge to the dairymen OF
the state, No state or r. p dStricf wfi
/ some central authority leads and directs
the people into successful and uniform
methods of production, manufacture an'
I sale of dairy products.
! Goodrich-The dairy school has proven
a grand thing for Wisconsin. and woul'
/ for any other state with large DAIRY pos
This is all fresh and by authority. as i
were, and there is lots more IN TINS re
port that would be good Fading. perhaps
the secretary. F. d. Coburn. Topeka
Kan. would send it to the applicant;
is worth "A trial. This is all matter tina
not only does the beginner want to know
but the old hand finds here n kind of set
tied conviction on many points abou
which he has long been in distressing
doubt.
Subsoil Moisture.
Considerable attention has beel
aroused in the west by the experiment