The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-07
BUTTER And MARKETS
VARIETY OBJ POINTS THAT ARE
OF INTEREST TO DAIRYa
MEN - H@s,
MILK SHOULD BE PROTECTED

Profit in Dairytng Depends a Great
Deal Upon the Kind of Cow That
Is Used-Th1s Has Been Demon
strated at the Minnesota Expert
mental Station-RecOrd of Aver
ages of Four Distinct Groups.
While we all, as a rule, profess to be
progressive and to desire to improve in
the knowledge of our work, it is worth
while sometimes to pause for a little per-
sonal inspection and to ask ourselves in
all candor whether we already do as well
as we know. Nearly every one who reads
what we have to say knows that he can
and ought to be informed in regard to the
production Of each individual cow in his
herd. Since the Introduction of the Bah
cock test there is no excuse for any one
not knowing the producing value of the
COWS in his herd, and hundreds of in
stances have been adduced by expert
mentors, dairy writer's and lecturers
proving that no man can know whether
a given cow is a profitable one or not
until he has tested her for a sufficient
length of time to ascertain what her pro-
duction is. We all know these facts but
how many of us do as well as we know?
Our Judgment is that very small pro-
portion of the cows kept for milk and
butter production throughout the West
nave been tested, and in the case of a
large majority of herds it is probable
that the owners could make as mnch
clear money if they would sell half the
cows they keep, provided they had them
tested and knew which ones to sell.
Nearly everybody knows that it costs
more to carry a pound of butter fat from
the farm on which it is produced TO tha
western creamery where it is mann
1actured into butter than it does to trans
port the same pound of butter fat from
the western creamery to New York
Everybody knows that this is one of the
points at which production can and
oliouio De cheapened. Everybody knows
that one of the ways of cheapenine nro-
uucuon Is to get rid of the offal and CON
centrate freights by TRANSPORTING ooI,
that portion of a product that ie of ,,o1,,o
ana everybody knows. too that =, 49,
Ease OF milk the important bv-nroduct
ahiiH hlilK' VIII have all the higher value
~ the farmer if, instead of being % rria1
u the creamery and back. it is never nor
!Iltteo 10 leave the farm at all. The wa,,
~ w thls Is for the cream .patronc to
~ 49, tHe creamery only that portian
VI men product that is wanted hv tbn
creamery, and this can he dona h.! ee
rlo1I!s at home. How MANY Of ne
hloWlng all these things. are Saa1,i,,. -
w as wen as we know bv devisiDo co.,.
means suitable to our circunsrancas B'
cIlIch the skim milk shall be kant ~, ~
cry? 81 " the cream
every every dafryman, whether h. :.
tor 90 pa1ron or manufactures but~
c1oo,a1; roiie, Knows the importance of
cleanliness. How nnanv of nc AZ -. -,
aS we know in this respect?. Nv +bt. w.
uo hot mean that any of us use ~ -
OH"ih as a washing machine ~
empty milk can to hold the rirso w. an
ior the family washing. as we 80
i,eard OF people sometimes dotag W.
80 not auofess that kind of people h.
da,-,rl+,0 we es1rd them as beyond re-
uehpton, but the kind of cIaar1irol,
we speak of as neglected is tho ,a,,oi,
SupIer Kind involved in L,oan;o- -
COWS thoroughly clean wiDine tho "a
GERS with a damp cloth before rotI,,i,,o.
uollS the milking with thoroughly cIean
4iaiius ana In clean clothing. protac+ino
~ Inlik When 1t Is drawn from the sta
ON4ACA ILL tOuS O0O"S. and
IKE How many of US at all points d.
as We'll as we know in this resnoct3
livery creamery butter maker Zoo
Elbows n the effect that single batch IF
oH MIX may have on the entire maIxe
OF the day, but how many of them can
always be relied on to infexibIv reject
every lot OF milk at the weigh can that
ought not to be received? Every ono
OF these butter makers knows that wbilA
he should soften the rejection as much
as possible and exercise all possible tact
III MS refusal, he ought to be perfpc+lv
lnmoVable on this point. Do we do IS
well as. we know?
livery maker of farm butter knows. or
ought to know, that when it comes +o
the manufacture of commercial hutter
good butter consists of that which the
market calls good and not what the ner
Sonal taste of the butter maker NAV
regard as good. Knowing this. how manv
farm butter makers there are who keen
along in the same old groove and make
butter just as their mothers and grand
mothers taught them. disregarding
market requirements as to grain, flavor.
package, etc. They know that thew
could learn what the market is willing
to pay good price for if thov would
attend fairs and dairy contests where
good butter is exhibited and Judged nv
market experts, and it is pretty hard to
learn what the market regards as good
butter in any other way. How many ere
there, however, who do this, and vet fan
to do as well as they know?
AT vast variety of other points IN
matters of detail, a great many people
engaged in dairying neglect to. do as well
as they know. The volume of dairy in
formation is increasing almost daily.
Every season teaches a lot of new facts
which tend to improve dairy methods
but what's the use of trying to keep uD
with new discovery if we fail to act
upon the informat ton we already have?
Existing information as to methods, and
as to the requirements of good dairying
is being diffused in great many WAYS.
and every man connected with the call
ing in any way who is at al toachabla
who does not already think he knows It
all-can find opportunities to learn al
most daily, and yet it is worth while for
us to ask ourselves, Whats the use of
learning more if we don't do as well
as we already know ?'-Iowa Homestead.
The following item is from Farm. Stock
and Home: F. S. & Fl has frequently
called attention to the fact that profit
in dairying depends In a great measure
upon the kind of COW that is used. and
it has been frequently demonstrated at
the Minnesota experiment station that the
greatest profit is made with cows of the
special dairy type and that when feed
is high and the price of butter low the
net return from the common or beefy
COW is exceedingly small. To determine
the usefulness of the various types of
the COWS in the dairy Frof. c. l. Beach,
of the Storrs college herd, of Connecticut
kent q complete record of the amount
and kind of feed consumed by each COW
and the return made by each in milk and