The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-12-15
DAIRY } a AND. POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
. Department. Of the Farm-A Few
Hints - to the Care Of Live Stock
and Poultry.
Dairy Notes.

Dairy Notes. r
AT the Kansas Experiment Station
they have been testing the milk sent
IN BY dairymen, and complain that in
many instances thesmttk arrives at the
college in half-churned condition and
UNIT for test. The Advice is given to
NIL all bottles brim fuil Of milk. Then
make a small hole in the cork through
which milk can run. When The cork
is thus pushed in tight the surplus milk
Will dow out through the hole, which
can then be stopped up by little plug
OF wood. This will prevent the churn-
ing motion and the consequent forma-
ton OF little grains Of butte: on the
sides Of the bottles.
Another fraud in milk selling has
been discovered in England and we
may expect that in due time it will get
to this country. The authorities find
that In some Of the English coast
towns what is called milk extract is
being sold to dairymen. This is
chemical possibly. but the reports are
not definite enough to indicate the
composition Of the so-called milk ex-
tract. It is used by dairymen to in
crease say 400 gallons Of milk to 500
gallons. hot water being added. Or
dinarily the adding of hot water or
any other kind Of water can be easily
detected, but by the use of this powder
the milk and water incorporate so
thoroughly that the addition is hard
to detect.
A "Babcock Shilling Fund" has been
started by the dairymen of New South
Wales, and the money collected will be
forwarded to Professor Babcock of the
Wisconsin Experiment Station as q
thank-oftering. AS many of our read
ers know, Professor Babcock gave his
invention to the world, so that no man
ufacturer will ever be able to have a
monopoly of the making and selling Of
the machines. For that reason many
firms make Babcock milk testers and
the competition thus brought about
Keeps the price down to the lowest
point that will admit Of profit. Since
all that buy machines get them at a
greatly reduced cost on account of the
generosity Of Professor Babcock in not
patenting his invention, the thank-of-
ferings that are occasionally sent him
meet the approval of every man inter-
ested in dairying. -
The dairy propaganda seems to be
reaching out into all lands. Even
Tunis, on the north coast Of Africa, is
being considered as a field for dairy
operations. A large amount of dairy
products is being brought into that
country, in which reside 10000 Euro
peans. Besides that population that
Is given to the consumption of dairy
products there are numerous hotels
that entertain tourists by the thou
sands. Perhaps the dairy may prove
as beneficent a factor in that be-
nighted land as it has proved in the
more enlighted countries of the world.
1t was not generation ago that Den
mark took up the question of dairying
in earnest and now she has become the
leading dairy country Of the world, so
fer as butter exports are concerned. We
may in the future have to meet N the
London market not only butter from
Denmark, France and Australia, but
also butter produced along the shores
of the Mediterranean sea.