New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-03-12
INCREASING BUTTER FAT.
The Kind - Feeag GivensH Hasn't An
thinE To DO with II.

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"a correspondent writes to Dairy and
Creamery 70 ask how he can SO feed
his cows that their milk will be richer
ii butter Fat The old belief that cow
win produce milk rich 81 poor ii ID,
ter fat according to the feed they am
given has q strong hold in this country.
This belief led "a, the saying, Nothing.
comes from q cows teats that has not
gone into her raotIth While this 81
true in every SENSE &C Tie WORD, long
continued and careful experiments.
have proved that except within very
narrow bounds 81 8 imp ssible to inn.
prove the quality of the milk of q COW
by feeding her.
The quality Of the milk fl q charac-
teristic Of the Individual COW. She
gives milk that is- rich or poor Ia butter
fat from some natural tendency which
Is not well understood. This tendency
Id transmittable to her descend nts,
and by careful selection It Is possible
to improve the average quality Of the
milk from herd OF cows to q wonder
full degree. ri 5s.5 /. Fl 4 ,.2<
Given q COW that naturally givea
good milk that rich In butter tat and
breed her to bull thatsis from COW
that gives good milk, and the progeny
is likely to be better than the dam, al
though this IS not invariably the case.
Butter fat does not differ from tallow
In any essential way. 1t Is animal fat
and is elaborated from the feed given
the cow that produced the milk from
which 1t is separated. One COW will
turn the fat in her feed to butter fat,
and another will store It up in her
body. The one COW will be good but.
ter maker and the other poor one.
It is now pretty generally conceded
that milk ia elaborated largely during
the process Of milking. That it is sep
arated from the blood in some way IL
certain. Feed cow more Of the ele
ments that go into the composition OF
milk, and she will become fat. The COW
that gives poor milk will fatten much
easier than the one that gives rich
milk.
According to recent exhaustive ex
periments made by Professor Hacker
it does not make much difference what
is fed to cow IL she Is given plenti
full supply of sound feed. Give a COW
all she needs of sound forage anl
grain, and she will produce to the ut
most possible limit butter fat or tallow
II she turns her feed into milk and but.
ter fat, she is good cow. If she turns
it into tallow, she is poor cow from
the dairyman's standpoint.
If our correspondent will follow this
plan, he will get more butter fat from
his cows, but not richer milk. His cows
will give more milk than they would Il
poorly fed and every 100 pounds oil
! that milk will contain just as much
butter fat as is natural for a given COW
to give. If she gives 3 per cent milk
and only 100 pounds week, the milk
will contain three pounds Of absolute
butter fat, or about three and hall
pounds Of butter. Feed her SO she will
give double the quantity Of milk, anC
that milk will give double the quantity
Of butter fat, but will not be richer
than the smaller quantity. The way tt
get more butter fat is to feed the COWS
better. Just what it is best to fee(
them is matter on which learned doc
| tors disagree at this moment. Howey
er, it is safe to feed them enough, ever
If the ration is not quite balanced.