Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-16
Danish and American DairyIng.


CONDENSED from Farmers Review
stenographic report of Illinois State
Dairymen's convention.)
J. H. Monrad said, in substance: I
hope will be able to assist the dairy
men Of Illinois, not only by reducing
the sale of fraudulent products, but
also by taking part in the educational
work. While Elgin creamery men may
think we need no more dairy educa-
ton, I must say that I differ with
them, and 1 even believe that further
education is needed in the Elgin dis
trict as well as in other parts Of the
state. We have some very dirty
creameries. Every creamery should
be clean and neat enough to be an
object lesson. This state Of things
must come before we can go out from
the creameries and preach cleanliness
to the patrons.
want to say to the milk producers
that whether the creamery be run by
the farmers or by an individual own
er, they will have to cooperate better
than they have done in the past. I
heard one man say that he did not
care whether his milk was good or
bad, as he always got the same pay
for it. Even in Denmark they have
the same trouble with the farmers,
who do not deliver the milk in as good
condition as it should be.
1t is a rather remarkable fact that,
thtNgh the Babcock test was original
ed in this country, the Danes were the
first to form associations for its use.
In 1895 the first Danish test associa-
consisted thlH-
teen farmers that thought it was too
much trouble to test their own cows.
so they formed an association and
hired a young man from an agricul-
tural college to do the work for them.
He went from farm to farm testing
the cows. He weighed and tested the
milk of each cow and made report
on it. The farmers soon found that
their cows were making butter at very
diverse costs. The best cow was max
ing butter at a cost Of Isl cents per
pound, and the poorest was making
butter at a cost of 1875 cents per
pound.
Q.-Why did you give away the
secret that the Danes do not fur
nish clean milk, when we have been
holding them up as models?
An Denmark nearly all the
creameries get their milk in good
enough condition to pasteuriZe. If to-
day we were to order pasteurization in
our American creameries l do not be-
lieve that more than 80 per cent could
do it properly on account Of the dirt
in the milk and cream. l think the
Danes are a little ahead of US in
cleanliness.
Q.-Is not the Danish butter con-
sidered the best butter in the world?
Ayes, sir.
Q.-Can dirty milk and sloppy ways
make such good butter?
A.-The milk is not so dirty as it
is here, and they pasteurize very gen.
orally. But most of the advancement
in Denmark has been in the cream
cries, rather than on the farms. A
Danish officer, in a recent report, said
that now the creameries had done all
that could possibly be done with the
milk they had, and that henceforth
improvement in butter-making must
be by farmers bringing better milk.
Q.-Is it not true that the Danes sell
their best butter and eat the poorest
themselves?
A.-The Danes import a good deal
of cheap butter, even American but
ter. They also eat butterine and even
lard favored a little. In Denmark all
butterine has to be sold in oval pack
ages. Now if we had that law here
we would not need any other law
They are allowed to color their but
terine, but not in imitation of butter;
the color is a very pale one.
Prof. Henry.-Those Danish farmers
buy corn in Illinois; feed it in Den
mark and make butter from it that
has to be sent to London to compete
with American butter.
Q.-What became of that COW that
made butter at 70 cents pound?
Mr. Monrad.-She went to the butch
er pretty quick.
Prof. Henry.-The Danes were
smart enough to find that kind Of q
COW, but some of our farmers have
similar cows and have not yet found
it out.
Poultry Notes.
Remember that the we'll hen doe:
not need medicine. and that the sicl
hen does not need it after she gets
well. The feeding of chemicals tt
stimulate any functions that are al
ready healthy is a mistake. 1t is ad
vocated mostly by the people tha
have the chemical preparations to sell
Every sensible poultryman feeds ant
treats his fowls in a way that make:
such drugs unnecessary.
The value or harmfulness of the
grain diet depends on what other fooC
is being given or being secured by tn,
birds. While corn is condemned as an ex
elusive grain food, in the case of fowl:
that have the run OF the fields an'
can get green food as well as insects
it often proves what is wanted. Their
is no rule that it is safe to lay down
but each case must be judged accord