The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-17
PROGRESS N DAlR ING.
a Branch OF Agriculture which Has De-
come Special Science.

The production of milk and butter
on the farm has become a science.
In Europe, Canada and some other
States in this country, says the Phila-
delphia Record, dairy schools are
being established, the pupils take a
fall course of instruction in all the
branches pertaining to that department
of agriculture, with the result tina
dairying is not only being brought
up from its original conditions and
methods, but il being made to pay
on farms that before afforded no
profit. Cleanliness aud the handling
of milk is considered one of the mos1
important matters connected with
dairying, aud it is surprising how
much can be taught on that subiec,
alone. The rapidity with which milk
decomposes, and the causes thereof
are made plain, and yet with all the
knowledge of so familiar an article as
milk farmers have not heretofore per.
fectly understood the cause of diff
ficulty i'll churning, lack of flavor in
butter and diminution of the supply of
milk at times when the cows should
be most profitable The amount OF
p'''NA shhN van ny II tON
from n certain quantity of milk can be
determined before the churning is
done, and the flavor of the butter can
be controlled by the cultivation and
introduction into the cream of bacili
that have always influenced the pro-
cess, but which fact was heretofore
unknown.
The greatest advance that has been
made in dairying, however, is the sep
aration of the dairy cows into breeds
and the lead taken by families of those
breeds. One cow-a Holstein-has n
record of n fraction less than 1854
pounds of butter for year, and 4
| pounds and 81 ounces as her best days
production. Her milk record for one
day has reached 60 pounds and 10
ounces NEARLY 30 quarts), which indi-
Gates large production of rich milk.
Cows of the Jersey breed also have ex-
cellent records for butter, but do not
combine large milk yields with their
great butter productions; nevertheless,
they have excelled in their specialties,
and the effect has been to attract the
attention of dairymen to the possibili
ties OF the cow rs n producer and in
duced them to seek something better
for their purpose than the ordinary
animals. They are learning that if
cows under certain conditions and rep
resenting lines of breeding which have
made large production inherent can
reach such records, they must resort
to the better animals or he forced out
of business by those who are progress
sive. Ii it is possible for COW to
reach the enormous production of / 154
pounds of butter in one year, the fact
has impressed itself upon farmers that
they are inflicting themselves with
large annual loss by using animals
that average only $50 pounds of butter
for the same length Of time.
1t is the raising of better cows,
those of breeds which will insure
greater capacity fproduction, that is
ut the foundation of successful dairy
ing, for with the best animals to be
used the farmer can convert his prod
ucts into milk and butter at less cost
and meet the market prices well forti-
fed against the losses he now fire.
quently endures by using inferior
stock.