Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-05-04
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm-A Few
Hints as to the Care OF Live Stock
and Poultry.
Notes From Kansas.


Alfalfa vs. Millet for Milk-Mr c.
Carlson, a patron of the Manhattan
Creamery, milks three cows. Up to
the 20th Of February he had been
feeding these cows one ton of alfalfa
every 80 days. and had been sending
to the creamery an average Of "a lbs Of
milk per day, besides what was needed
at home for the use OF large family.
At this time, which was during the
severe cold weather of February, his
milk was testing 4.6 per cent and but
ter fat was worth II cents a pound,
we will estimate the skim-milk at the
low price of Is cents per 100 pounds.
For 30 days this would amount to
$14.S4 or $4.95 per COW per month.
Having chance to sell alfalfa at
good price Mr.. Carlson thought he
would feed millet He tried 1t for
two weeks with the result that his
cows gave an average of 42h pounds
Of Al per cent milk, besides what was
needed at home. Had millet been fed
erage would doubtless have been low
er, but taking the figures at the above
rate for 80 days, the income from the
three cows would be $1,000 or an aver
age Of 1888 per COW per month. Grant
ing that the cows received no more
millet than alfalfa, the results show
that the latter is worth $4.24 more per
ton than millet for mich cows.
A Dairy School for Kansas.-On
March the Kansas legislature passed
bill making appropriations for the
State Agricultural College, in which
$25,O00 was allowed for a dairy build
ing, $4,000 for equipment Of building,
and $4,000 for a herd of cows and a
place to put them. This is a much
needed addition to the equipment Of
the Agricultural college and will be
greatly appreciated by the dairy in
terests of the state. Beginning Janu-
airy 2, 1900. and lasting for twelve
weeks, there will be three courses Of
fered in dairying, a course in cream
cry buttermaking, a course in cheese
making, and course In private dairy
ing. The latter course might also be
called creamery patrons course.
Special attention will be given to the
production of milk. For the first time
=. the history of the state, Kansas
young men will have an opportunity
to perfect themselves in any branch
of dairying they desire. Applications
are already coming in for next year
and it Is to be hoped that large num-
ber Of young men will avail them
selves Of the opportunities at the Kan
sas Agricultural College.-D. H. Otis.
Skim Milk Worth 40 Cents Per Hun
dred.-An experiment at the Kansas
station completed Feb. "a. with three
lots of pigs of six each, shows excellent
returns from feeding skim-milk, as
compared WITH alfalfa and cotton seed
meal. They were fed all the ground
Kafir corn they would eat in addition
to the other feeds. The skim-milk lot
ate 40 per cent more grain and gained
, 2.43 pounds per day each, against .S8
pounds for the alfalfa lot. and .95
pounds for the cotton seed meal lot.
In 20 days lot ate 629 pounds ground
Kaffir corn and 250 pounds alfalfa;
lot 2, 5SS pounds Kaffir corn and %
pounds cotton seed meal; lot 3, S60h
pounds Kaffir corn and 1855 pounds
skim-milk. Placing the cost Of alfalfa
at So per ton, this makes cotton seed
meal worth $3.50 per ton and skim
milk 40 per cents per hundred. At the
. ordinary price Of alfalfa, SO per ton
skim-milk would be worth 20 cents per
hundred. This experiment was in
progress during the extreme cold
weather of February.-Ed. H. Webster.