The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-07-14
Dairy Notes.


and cooling milk. Now that warm
weather is approaching the time is
propitious for renewed interest in the
matter. Leaving the animal heat in
the milk in winter is less harmful than
in. summer. In the winter the sur
rounding conditions are generally such
that the milk drops very rapidly in
temperature, but in summer the tenn
perature does not generally drop low
enough to be effective There are a
great many aerating appliances on the
market, and among them the farmer
can easily select something that will
do the work.
In the summer time the cows on
many farms occupy the barnyards at
Aight A new problem arises in that
case, the problem of keeping the barn
yard clean. The barnyard should be
cleaned each morning, the manure be-
ing thrown under covered shed, I'M
less there be better place for it. This
may seem small matter, and doubt
less on most farms it is properly
looked after. But the writer has seen
barnyards where filth abounded every
where, the owner evidently depending
on wind and sun to keep the yard in a
condition where it could be used at all.
1t is predicted that the increase of
creamery butter this year over last
Will be something, but not great. The
fairly good prices for butter during the
last eighteen months has stimulated the
manufacture. There has, however,
been another factor in operation and
that is the high prices being paid for
cattle. This has resulted in a; good
many farmers in the far west turning
their attention again to the raising
OF Deeves instead of the production of
butter. The same factors are said to
be in operation in Minnesota.
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Less watering should be done from
the brook and more from the well or
tank. It is true that the COW, of all
farm animals, prefers to take her
water warm; but this warmth Of the
water can be obtained by exposing it.
to the sun for day. All troughs and
tanks should be cleaned out often in
the summer time. and no slime should
&c permitted to accumulate. Water is
the surest road by which disease at
tacks its victim. 49,
We predict that ultimately the use
OF coloring matter in butter will be-
come unpopular through the bad uses
to which it is being put by two classes
OF men. One class is the one that col
ors suet and cotton seed Oil, plus
other things, to initiate butter. The
| other is the class that manufactures
butter color not from pure materials
but from poisonous ones because they
can be made cheaper.
Poultry Notes.
The man that buys expensive eggs
for setting should examine them on
receipt to see if they are aS fresh rs
could be expected. This is easy to do
by means of an egg tester, which any
one of our readers knows how to make.
In lookin at the egg, if it is
fresh the air space will be of ordinary
| size. If the egg is shrunken on the
inside so much that the air space is
greatly enlarged the egg is probably
too old to hatch well or at all. -,
| We see objections being raised to
poultrymen sending eggs in boxes,
when they are to 60 by express. No
matter how carefully they are marked
the eggs are likely to be broken, or, at
least, a number Of them. The reason
is that the handlers do not give boxes
the care they do more fragile packages,
and a man is likely to pick up hurried
ly box without looking at the writ
ing on it. Eggs should be packed in
egg cases or baskets. S.s
Chicks that come in warm weather
need more care than the ones that
come in early spring while the weather
is cool. Lice and mites seem to IN
crease with the increase of tempera-|
ture, and in the warm weather more
care will be needed to keep these pests
away. Nevertheless if the mites and
lice are kept down other conditions
are more favorable. as heat is very
advantageous to the development. Of
the chicks. 1 Es...# .Ss s3| &&
Which is most profitable, to go into
poultry raising for the sale of flesh
and eggs to consumers or to go into
the raising Of breeders to sell to other
people? Well, that depends on a good
many things. The man with no CAPT
tai is not likely to make much trying
to raise fancy poultry, unless he is
more than ordinarily fortunate in se-
curing customers for his breeding
birds and eggs. It takes money to-
find customers after the eggs ana
breeding birds are produced. But If
a man has the money he can find the
PENSIONERS. The fn ding Of market
for fresh eggs is not cult, and poul-s
try meat can always be sold at market
snrices. ss5s3s