Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-02
THE FARM AND HOME.


Notes From Kansas Agricultural College
From Farmers Review: The dairy
class in the State Agricultural College
ut Manhattan, Kansas, has been test
ing adulterated milk. Each member
was supplied with five samples Of milk
without any knowledge of how they
had been treated, and asked to give
diagnosis of each sample. BY the use
of the thermometer, lactometer and
Babcock test they found that one SAM
ple was normal milk, one sample had
been watered, one sample skinned, one
both watered and skinned, and one
had cream added to it.
The dairy department Of the expert
ment station has been experimenting
with ether as a means OF distinguish
ing between butter and oleomargarine.
Take very small portions of butter ana
oleomargarine, about the size Of a pin
head. and place in separate spots on'a
clean piece Of glass. A drop Of ether
placed on the butter will assume
wayy. but somewhat regular outline;
while drop placed on the oleomargar-
inc will have a ragged outline, very
much like the appearance OF cog
wheel with the cogs sharpened to
point.
On Oct. 10 the college herd OF thirty
COWS, most Of which have been giving
milk since January, were turned on
wheat pasture. The average daily yield
of the herd for the week previous was
400 pounds. The average daily yield
of the herd for the four days followlns
(up to the time Of the present wrltlhg)
was 43O pounds-an increase OF thirty
eight pounds.
On Saturday, Oct. 10, the veterinary
department inoculated some hogs as
proof against swine plague. The only
available place for the operation was IN
front of a row of cows. The squealing
of the hogs caused the COWS to be irrl-
,ated and nervous. The yield or milk
from these six COWS was six POUNDS De.
INV normal, or an average snrlnkase VI
one pound per COW.
The cold drizzling rain that cahie
Sunday afternoon, Oct. 16, was a na.u
one on dairy cows that had to remain
outdoors. When the storm came up the
college herd was brought in from pas
ture and given warm, comfortable shei-
fer in and around the barn. They were
fed their usual food Of ensilage and al
falfa hay. There was no decrease III
the milk yield Sunday evening" put
Monday morning there was shrlhkase
of ten pounds for the herd, notwltn-
standing their comfortable quarters
during the night.
The college dairy has just tested
uamnlo of skimmilk and sample OF
buttermilk from family in town, that
kent one COW for family use. The extra
milk was set in crooks and SKINNED
when thick layer Of cream formed on
ION. AS there was but small quantl-
tv OF cream, 1t was churned with an
eee heater. The Babcock test showed
the skimmilk to contain one per cent
butter fat, equal to loss OF LIT pounds
Of butter for every one hundred POUNDS
skimmilk, and the buttermilk 81 per
cent butter fat, equal to loss OF o.'
mounds butter for every 100 pounds pu'-
termilk.
Mr. T. A. Conover. special student IN
dairying, also secured samples OF skim
milk and buttermilk from a family III
town. and found still greater loss III
tbe skimmilk but less in the butter
milk the slsimmilk showing IL per
cent and the buttermilk 1.3 per cent.
This makes loss of 1.41 pounds butter
for every 100 pounds slsimmiik ana l'o1
wounds butter for every 100 pounds
buttermilk.
Tbese figures do not show any great
loss to the families mentioned, because
the total weight of skimmilk ana Dut-
termi,k are so small, but they are OF IN
terest in that they show the immense
loss that would occur where such prac-
tees are followed on larger scale. IN
creameries the loss in skimmilk Is usu-
auv reduced to a mere trace, and In
the buttermilk to Oh to or OF one per
cent. o,,,,