Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-23
agricultural
Gossip.
Milk and Warm Weather.

Hot weather always has deleter1-
Gus effect on dairying. Primarily, it
affects the COWS by causing them to
Craze less industriously, thus curtail-
ing the milk yield, and if cows are
unprovided with shade or over heated
by running, the keeping quality of the
tactical fluid is injured before it leaves
the udder.
Even good" shepherd dogs hurry
the cows in driving them to and
from the pasture, and are especially
dangerous to employ in hot weather.
Suppose that the milk is drawn
from the cow in good condition, ex-
tremely hot weather places it i'll
immediate danger Unfortunately a
large proportion of dairymen do not
appreciate how susceptible milk is to
damaging influences, nor how much
it's value is debased by even slight
Of your milk in ordinary weather,
double that care when the tempera-
ture is in the nineties.
Although aeration of milk should
be regularly practiced, you cannot
hope by this means to reduce it's
temperature below that of the sur
rounding atmosphere. Dairymen who
have been wise enough to supply them
selves with ice, and will use it in
conjunction with aeration, can, SO
times out of hundred furnish the
factory or their own dairy room with
sweet, pure milk during the most
sultry weather. Of course, cold
spring or we'll water can be employed
in lieu of ice, and with equal advan-
tage.
| Don't, however, make the mistake
of using ice or cold water alone with
out aeration, especially if the milk
is in bulk. If you do, while it is
chilled around the edges you lock up
the heat in the center of the mass
likely spoil.
| Spoiled milk from this cause is
usually the worst I have ever handled.
Some call it "smothered" milk, but
| it is affected by a dangerous faint
that is ruinous to butter or cheese
quality.
Milk should be attended to imme-
diately after It has been drawn from
the COW. Ito let it stand about the
stable in milking pals or cans for an
hour or two is to mvite it's spelling.
By all means remove it quickly from
the milking place and aerate and
cool it,
hn " 10 cro oil 10Th in
cans in the open air for delivery at
the factory in the morning, the place
| for the milk stand should be carefully
| selected. Too many put convenience
! in the place of suitability, and the
milk is left all through a hot night
subjected to barnyard or cesspool
odors
milk that spoils In hot weather might
| be preserved sweet and pure by proper
and thorough care. After investing
in COWS, in land to supmport them,
and in labor to care for and milk
them, does it show a wise policy to
be careless about preserving the
quality of the product which is the
object of all this work? I think not,
and what is your opinion, my dairy
| friend ?-George E. Newell in the
American Cu1tivator.
Selection of Brood Sows
In the selection of brood sows much
must depend upon the judgment of
the breeder. Individuals of any breed
may be good or bad, and certain
strains of any family Of any breed
may be decidedly inferior to other
strains of the same family, hence it
is very important that the breeder
knows something of the Characters
tics of his breeding stock. 1t is better
to select sows from ones own herd
providing they are the best that one
can afford to buy. The selection
should be the thrifty ones of the lit
ter, good length and deep sides, with
broad chest, and good width across
the loins, straight back medium sized
head, legs of medium size, with small
clean joints, and a coat of fine
glossy hair. The young SOW should
be fed as carefully as you would the
dairy heifer She will become just
as valuable if we'll cared for. Pro-
vide such foods as will promote
growth of bone and muscle, such as
skim milk, bran, oats, shorts, barley,
roots and clover in their respective
seasons. With this varied list of
foods the young SOW may be expected
to develop. Exercise, of course, is
absolutely essential, and we would not
advise usirg much corn at any time
in her ratfon.-Ex.
Cider Vinegar.
First, have good, strong, iron
hoped barrel. Next have good apple