The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-01
Fourth Day-Friday.
MORNING SESSION.

Friday was dairy day at the State
Farmers Institute. Professor Linfield
of the Agricultural College spoke on
Milk and Milk Testing" the latter il
Illustrated by the use of the Babcock
milk test. He said this was not the
first time he had visited Provo to talk
on dairying, but on the former occa-
sion he spoke to an audience of four,
and was glad to see the large audience
present on this occasion. What sur
prised him more than anything else
was the fact that in this valley, the
richest county agriculturally in the
state, with population something like
10000 people, you can't make enough
butter and cheese to supply your own
market. | was really surprised to
learn this last summer. and it led me TO
think that the people here ought to
be ashamed of themselves. l don't
know, perhaps you are making more
money out of something else in Utah
that pays better. He said that butter
is selling in Salt Lake at as good a
price is is going in Chicago, and he
would guarantee that on the average
in this state he could produce a pound
of butter for just one-half what he
could get for it. He would also guar
antee 20 take out 81 for every dollar
put into a good COW, in feed.
He called attention to the compost
ton of milk by referring to charts and
demonstrated that commercially butter
fat determines practically the value of
milk for butter or cheese making. He
showed also the proper way TO buy
milk was by its fat content, because
milk varies so much in its composition,
the same being illustrated by several
practical examples. He described the
advantage of the test, first, to deter
mine the value of the cow showing
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return from the COW in a year. For in
stance. one COW giving 5000 pounds of
milk in year. produces $50 pounds of
butter fat: another giving 200 pounds
less milk, produced $50 pounds of butter
fa.: or 100 pounds more. The advan-
tage of the test to the manufacturer of
dairy products was illustrated by the
less which he had found by testing
skim milk and butter milk and whey
from both factories and private dairies
In one instance a man with IS cows
lost all of the butter from five of those
cows in his skim milk. In another in
stance. a factory handling 10000 pounds
of milk. lost over Sc a day through
careless handling of the separator, more
than enough to pay all the help re-
quired in the factory. Illustrations of
the same thing from careless churning
and cheese making were given.
The method of running the Babcock
test was illustrated before the au-
dience. several samples of milk being
tested. The range in the tests was
from 80 to Is per cent fat, which was
another Illustration of the speakers
argument that milk should be paid for
by test, not by weight of milk.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Professor Linfield's afternoon talk
was devoted to a discussion of THE |
Dairy Cow, Her Selection, Care and |
Management The talk was illus
trated by meaps of several charts of |
valuable cows of several breeds He
called attention to the object of keeping
cows, namely, to make money with !
them. The lecturer desired to know |
how many cows did this? He had not |