The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-01
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Parma Few
Hints as to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
Dairy Notes.

At the Kansas Experiment Station
they have been testing the milk sent
in by dairymen, inc complain that in
many instances the milk arrives at the
college in a half-churned condition and
unfit for test. The advice is given to
fill all bottles brim full Of milk. Then
make a small hole in the cork through
which milk "a run. When The cork
is thus pushed in tight the surplus milk
will flow out through the hole, which
can then be stopped up by a little plug
OF wood. This will prevent the churn-
ing motion and the consequent forma-
ton of little grains Of butter 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 a
chemical possibly, but the reports are
not definite enough to indicate the
composition of the so-called milk ex-
tract. 1t 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 80
thoroughly that the addition is hard
to detect.
A "Babcock Shilling Fund" has been
started by the dairyn1en of New South
Wales. and the money collected will be
forwarded to Professor Babcock of the
Wisconsin Experiment Station as a
t~hank-onering. AS many Of our read
ers know, Professor Babeoek gave his
invention to the world, 80 that NJ
ufacturer will ever be able to have a
monopoly Of the making and selling of
the machines. Fer that reason many
firms make Babcock milk testers ana
the competition thus brought about
keeps the price down to the lowest
point that will admit of a profit. Since
all that buy machines get them at . a
greatly reduced cost on account Of the
generosity of Professor Babcock in not
%patentlng 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, or 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 110,0 00 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 bene1cent q factor in that be-
nighted land as 1t has proved In the
more enlighted countries OF the world.
1t was not a generation ago that Den
mark took up the question of dairying
In arnes and now she has become the
leading dairy country OF the world, so
far 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.