Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-04-28
KEEPING DAIRY.
Skilled Milk Producers Relate Expert
ences and Describe Methods.

KEEPING DAIRY.
Skilled Milk Producers Relate Expert
ences and Describe Methods.
For some time Hoard S Dairyman has
been printing answers received to the
following questions, which it has asked
it's readers to reply to:
i. Name.
2. Postofice, county, state.
8. Number of acres in farm besides wood
land2
4. Number of cows kept9
s. The breed of those cowsG
9. Number of other stock2
7. Are you a patron of a cheese factory or
creamery or do you run a private dairyf
8. Do you sell milk
8. If so, where is your milk sold2
10. If you make and market butter, is it sold
on family contracts for the season or year or
consigned to the general market in some city,
and what has been the average price received
for the last five yearsf
IL. If you sell milk, what has been the aver
age price received for the past five years9
IL. Can you keep up the fertility of your
farm and sell milk?
10. Do you raise your heifer calves2
IA. How do you handle your skimmilk and
what is the ration you feed the calvesi Please
write us at length on this.
Is. Do you buy your COWS? If so, how many
pounds or quarts Of milk year can you make
such COWS producer
16. In your opinion, what is the difference in
value between well raised home COWS and the
COWS you are forced to buy?
II. Do you have a silo?
IS. What is your opinion of the silo and its
economy
10. What is your daily feed to your cows in
summer?
20. How do you provide for the drying up Of
feed in summer and fall droughts?
q. What is your daily feed to your COWS in
winter in both roughage and grain2
%. In your experience has it paid well to
feed liberal grain rationf
%. Has it paid well to feed so as to keep the
COWS from shrinking in milk in the late sum
mer and fall?
"a. Do you have a summer or winter dairy?
%. Do you use the Babcock test and weigh
the milk daily OF each COW, SO as to know what
each COW in your herd is yielding2 If so, what
has this system disclosed to you? Write us
freely on this point.
&c. Have you made special study of the con-
struction and ventilation of stablesf II
So what is your stable plan and your expert
ence concerning il?
n. We are told by able veterinarians that
one of the special causes for the spread of tu-
berculosis among dairy herds is because OF
the undue crowding of cows into stables and
had ventilation What is your opinion this
point?
We select as instructive the typical
set of answers below:
l. Ira o. johnson
2. Kent county, Mich.
3. Two hundred and fifty acres in farm.
Have never plowed over 60 acres.
A r-.af. Il xla4
in another year.
B. Jerseys both grade and registered
g. Twenty horses and colts, 80 young heifers.
z. Private dairy.
8. Yes.
g. Grand Rapids.
10. Sell, when we have it, at rs cents. Have
never had enough TO contract by the year. Nc
trouble to get customers at that price
II. Eight cents per quart.
II. Yes.
ID. Yes.
IA. Feed to calves after they are weeks old
with porridge made by stirring ground oil
cake with boiling water, first wetting it lit,
tie with cold water TO prevent Jumps form
ing. Feed each calf what it can digest, com
mencing with very small amount, less than
a tablespoonful of meal, increasing skimmilk
and oilmeal and reducing new milk according
to capacity of calf. Separator sRimmilk should
never be fed alone to young calves. That is
my experience.
Is. used TO, but have given it up as poor
way to get good COWS.
16. The cost of keeping for one year
II. Yes.
Is. lean keep cow IL months the silage
from one acre of corn. l think she would eat
and waste the same corn i'll six months led III
any other way, and it would be worth less
and less every day it was left standing in the
field.
10 Fro,y, fiva IN ter r,o,,Ddc of ttcI,i,,cis o,d
cornmeal (about one-fifth by weight of the
meal), with good pasture and silage as late in
spring and early in fall as necessary.
20. By planting some of The earliest and me-
dium varieties OF sweet corn on quick, rich
soil and keeping it wed cultivated.
81. All the sllage they will eat night and
morning, with hay dry foCder corn at noon
The same kinds of grain are fed in winter as
in summer. The meal is fed separate and the
quantity of both grains varied TO suit the
needs of different cows, feeding all they will
eat but never allow a COW to leave feed in her
manger the second time. If a cow is foolish
enough to leave any feed she is quite apt to
go hungry the next feeding.
%. Yes.
%. Positively.
"a. ALI the year round but prefer to have
more fresh fall cows than spring. If were
making butter, would have nearly all calves
come from Sept. l to Jan. l.
25. Use test and weigh milk daily. Have
learned more than you would care to have me
write in this paper. One very important thing
the test has taught is that an excited COW or
herd of COWS will not give all or anywhere
near all of the butter fat, reducing it some
times nearly one-half in herd, and in indi
vidual COWS have known their milk to test /
per cent fat if greatly excited, the same cows
normal test being per cent fat
26. Our plan of ventilation gives good salts
faction. Conductors are formed by having all
opening at bottom of studs inside of stable and
at top on outside, just under caves, studding
is "a inches apart, making each conductor by
q inches. Have six of them in 50 feet. The
opening outside must be protected SO the wind
will not blow directly into it, as a strong wind
will blow cold air into stable instead of allow
ing foul air to pass off. Air is admitted
through windows let down at top. Have a
window every ten feet. Stable is warm enough,
SO windows are never closed tight, even with
the mercury below zero. Also have large
hay shoot which we use ventilator if nee
essary, opening from ceiling to roof In cold
weather this is kept closed with slide door at
ceiling.
"a. think the veterinarians right.
Mr.. j. R. Elliott, who sells milk to a
creamery, tells what to do with the
skimmilk:
166u sh4ullul4h W Ca1fOc anu p1Sc'
feed the calves new milk few weeks
until they get to eating corn and oats,
then all skimmilk and have had very
good success. | think the skimmilk is
worth 10 cents hundred to feed to
pigs. The farmers in this country
thought they could not raise calves on
creamery skimmilk, but they have
changed their mind"