The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-11
Mako IT PRACTICAL
AIM OF THE DAIRY EXPERIMENTS
ERS AT KANSAS AGRICUL-
TURAL COLLEGE
USE NO COSTLY EQUIPMENT

BY This Means They Obtain Results
That the Farmers Cnn Not ScOT
at as Beyond Their Own POSSIBLE
titles OF Achievement-Row to
Feed Dairy Cows - Recent OleO-
margarine Conventions.
One Of the features of the dairy work
at the Kansas agricultural college has
been the use SO far as possible of the
means of dairy production that were
available to the farmer. The object il
this was to avoid the too common OBJ
lection made by farmers to experiment
station reports, to the effect that ex-
perimenters could do anything they
pleased because they had the means at
their command and didn't particularly
care whether the thing done paid or not.
There was d feeling that such results
were no good to the practical farmer, be-
cause they We're accomplished with facil-
ties and a disregard 70 financial consider
atoms that the farmer could not afford.
Much Of the Kansas work has therefore
been done with just such facilities as the
ordinary farmer has or may have, and
this Tor the purpose of meeting the OBJ
lection to which reference has been made.
in pursuance of this idea the Kansas
experiment station has a herd of scrub
COWS which it has been educating. The
education has consisted Of the application
of scientific principles to the feed and
care of the herd. On entering the college
the COWS would eat a little whole corn
and liked the straw stack, but they had
II be taught to eat meal and alfalfa. The
first month the best COW yielded 2SS
pounds of butter fat the second month
32.S pounds, the third month 81 pounds.
During the twelve months she produced
oS5., pounds of butter fat, equal to $50
pounds Of butter Yaluing the skim milk
a Is cents per hundred, she yielded $7317
worth Of dairy products. During the Year
her digestive apparatus, her udder and
her ability to convert meal into milk have
undergone very decided DEVELOPMENT
which is shown by the fact that in the
first month Of the second years record
she produced AS pounds of butter fat, an
increase of rather more than one-fifth
over the best month of the preceding
year. The encouraging feature about this
Klnd OF education for the COW is that it
Is kind that any farmer can give his
cows at home on the farm. The results
attained by these experiments are in har-
monY with the well known efforts made
Dy Henry Stewart in the DEVELOPMENT of
North Carolina heifers which taught
garry students the large extent to which
ualry excellence was dependent upon feed.
care and other elements of environment
ana now even heifers of no breeding could
pe oeEeIopeq into profitable milk cows
Iowa Homestead.
II Is now pretty we'll established that If
pays as well to feed COWS grain pret+v
hberaIly SWl4en sdFy,4 as when giving milk
unless the apast1lFe sbe especially good.
says the Kansas Farmer. This is a fact
mat many dairymen lose sight of and
they suffer for the neglect. A COW that
IS profitable in the dairy is not a flesh
former, by any means. In fact. She be-
comes quite poor as a usual thing, while
mlHllnS, and in order to enable her to
stand the strain of this depletion she
should be made to gain rapidly in flesh
while she is dry. This does not mean
that she should, be fed highly on milk
producing food just before. caying, but it
means that after going dry she should
have liberal feeding until say a week be-
fore calving. If any fear is entertained
OF her being too fat at calvine. a good
sharp purgattve just before or after calv-
Ing Will obviate any trouble along that
hne.-Northwestern AgricuIturist
The milk of the Jersey. and Guernsey
breeds OF cows averages higher in butter
rats thaRetllat aof the larger breeds. But
the richest milk is, by no means the best
Tor babies, and those who in mistaken
Kindness order pure Jersey milk find that
1t needs to largely~diuted- with water.
or it will curdlee in the. stomach. The
milk is too rich is the reason why so MANY
babies sicken when fed on cows milk.
The milk from a mothers breast has less
casein and fats than that from a COW.
Even for the calf the milk from its dam
IS generally too rich. 1t will fatten the
calf, but it will be at the expense of
growth. One reason perhaps why the
Jersey breed is understood is because its
calves are for time allowed to suck I'M
diluted milk from dams until their diges-
ton Is inJured.-BOstOn CultiVator.
The Massachusetts dairy bureau recent
~ mad three oIeomargarine cases In
Brockton, two for serving it in reg .au-
rants and one against dealer. The res
taurant cases were tried first, and the
proprietor5 sWoTe positively that they
supposed they were serving butter. The
substance which they We're serving was
bought as butter and they had every
reason to suppose that it was butter. On
ty-I4I7 il'GSLlCl4cu DIS 70 the party OIL WnOm
they purchased, the reply was "Mr
Chase the same party whom the next
case vas against. When that was reach
ed after the regular evidence of the bu-
reau had been put in, Mr.. Whitaker call
ed the defendants in the two previous
cases as witnesses against Mr. Chase 1t
is needless to say that convictions were
secured in all these cases.-Indiana Far
Mer.
If inclined TO run down in flesh because
giving so much milk, COWS should have
carbonaceous food, like corn meal to
keep them in condition; but they will
eat less coarse food if fed much of that
which is concentrated, and the cost viii
be increased. Cattle like a variety of
food, and will digest more if they have
It: they should have some succuIent ra-
ton at all times of the year. Above all
things, they should be fed regularly.
Farmer.