Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-07-06
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
N TERESTINo CHAPTERS ron
OUR RURAL READERS.


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Prof. ID. IL. Otis. OF the Kansas Agri-
cultural College, communicates the fol-
lowing:
The Kansas Experiment Station has
received numerous letters from farm
ers and dairymen asking II Katir corn
will produce poor quality OF butter
The cause OF these Inquiries has been
the reading OF the following dispatch
In our daily papers:
Lyndon, Kan. March 26.-It has cost
the Overlook creamery OF this place
stVJ 70 learn that the milk from cows !
fed on Kafir corn will not produce good |
butter. For the past three months the
manager OF the creamery has been I'M
able 70 make high grade butter, and |
has lost about $500 on a reduction in
the price. He had experts at work TO
locate the trouble, but they failed
Finally one OF the common laborers at
the creamery did some experimenting
separate and churned some of each.
He soon found out that the milk from
the COWS fed on Kaar corn was what
brought down the grade OF butter"
II Kafr corn. which has been such
a good yielder ana drought-resister
should be excluded from the ration
OF the dairy cow many farmers In CEN
trail and western Kansas would he
Obliged 10 quit the dairy business. This
1 would result In a loss Of thousands OF
dollars annually. Fortunately, other
experiences do not tally with the re-
4 port The Kansas Experiment Station
has fed the grain and fodder Of Katir
corn for months al time and has
never experienced particle OF trouble
from its producing a poor quality OF
butter. During the months OF Febru-
AIRY and March. 1895. the station herd
was fed almost exclusively on Kaiir
corn meal for the grain ration At that
time the dairy school was In session
and We were making butter from the
milk OF this herd without the addition
OF any milk from outside sources. The
butter was tested by competent judges
and pronounced excellent In quality.
Since this time both the grain and the
fodder OF Kaiir corn has been used as
tho whole or part OF the ration. the
milk being sent 10 the Manhattan
creamery. whore I, has been saved y
use in the making OF starters. The
milk has also been used each year al
the dairy school, both with and with
out milk from other sources; II has
been specially RUuEht for by our cheese
boys In their effort to make first
class quality OF cheese and In no in
stance have We heard a single com
plAint from the use OF the college mi
on account OF the cows being fed OF
Kafr corn.
when the season Is poor one 10
the curing OF the crop ana the graii
has been left on the fodder. consider
able penetrating dust arises from tn
crop when handled at feeding time. |
the feeding Is done just before or
milking time particles OF THIS dus'
with ali the germs that they carr
with them. will undoubtedly find thei
way 10 the milk-pail and may cause
moor quality OF butter. In the instanc
OF tho oyerbrook creamery. the man
ager states that the Kafir corn In tina
uart OF the country had all been dam
aged by rains. and whore the feed wa
the poorest the milk from that tari
) made the poorest butter Indication
point TO a slight decomposition OF n
: feed Hay ana folders of any kin
contain large numbers OF onensiv
germs. which II allowed an entranC
into tho milk-paIl and permitted
, multiply rapidly. viii cause very III
! desirable quality OF butter This e.
perienec. together with others wit
which we are familiar, points to u
necessity of feeding after rather Una
before milking. IN this way, hal
a corn, properly balanced. Is one OF OF
y peat feeds for a dairy COW ana shou
be grown extensively where corn
& uncertain.