Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-10-12
KEEPING COWS FOR PROFIT"
A Treatise Oh Up-to-date Practical Dai.
rying.

rNing.
"Kecpine Cows For Profit is tho well
chosen title of the newest work on prac-
teal dairying to como under our notice.
We understand that a largo issue of this
| little publication is being gratuitously cir
culatcd with the compliments of The lie
! Laval Separator Co., "a Cortlandt ST., New
York, which concern offers to send copy
TO every reader of the Free Press upon re-
quest.
The book treats of dairying as a manu-
featuring business and discusses It's prob
lens from the standpoint that every dairy
farmer is Just as much "A business man as
| though engaged in any other manuflctur-
ing or commercial undertaking. It Is COM
| piled in a tersc, practical manner, is easily
readable, and can hardly fail to be inter
esting and instructive to every one in any
way concerned in dairyng. II Is splen-
didly printed, handsomely illustrated, and
altogether pleasing. The front cover shows
autographed milking scene, and the
back cover cut of the Jersey COW, Ida
| Marigold. which received first prize at the
Chicago Exposition.
The book begins with a brief review Of
the history of dairylng, shows the relative
percentages of the various component
parts of the different dairying products
takes up the production and marketing of
such products in one form after another
and closes with a pertinent reference to
private dairying.
/ In Il historical and statistical way It tells
much that Is interesting We learn that
dairying is of most ancient beginning.
going back at least 300 years before
Christ but that in a commercial form 1T
| is most modern, being scarcely more than
the development of the last generation.
We learn that in 1898 the dairy products Of
the United States were 500 00O,O 600; that
there are some 100000 mich cows in the
L. S; an annual consumption of 80 eco. -
600 gallons of milk; 1,50o 10000 lbs. of but
ter ana 3O0OCO,OO0 lbs. of cheese and that
1899 prices of all dairying products espc-
cially butter have been considerably high
or than for several years past.
/ We find that the average L. s. yield of
milk per COW is less than 1900 lbs. a year,
and only about 1870 lbs. of butter; while to
be profitable the milk yield should be from
5000 to $3.50 lbs, ana the butter production
never under 200 lbs In this connection it
is authoritatively stated that fully one
half of the butter produced in farm butter
making, by the practice of the older
dairying methods is made and marketed
at an actual loss to the maker.
=. The book fairly teens with practical
facts and epigrammatical expressions ap-
pealing to the dairy farmer.
One Of the most interesting chapters is
that devoted to sldm-milk. of which the
use of the centrifugal cream separator
has made a new by-product in dairyng.
with much wider field OF usefulness
than was either thought of or possible i'm
the practice of gravity setting. We find
many ways in which skim milk is being
use'1 probably, and that for some purpos-
cs 1t IS as nutritvc and useful as the
whole-milk itself. This is mainly due to
its freshness and sweetness in centrifugal
separation, since in gravity setting the
bacterial growth in skm-milk develops
rapidly and the milk sugar, which is an
extremely nutritious ingredient in its ma
tural state changes into an acid which is
harmful rather than beneficial to both the
animal ana human stomach.
While the purpose of its distribution IS
no doubt an advertising one in a consid.
cradle degree, there Is much that Is com.
mendahle i'm the little book, and we think
II bears out the introductory statement
that it is dedicated to every owner of q
cow In the hope that 1t may afford some
, beneficial hint or suggestion to all who
may take the trouble TO hook over IT.
pages.
1t will pay any owner of a COW to droi
postal card to the De Laval Separator
. Co.. a Cortlandt St. New York. and ash
, for a copy, say that you saw about it il
, the Free Press.