The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-08-22


If she does not stop, put sharp nails
in, as indicated by dots. If she is cute
enough to milk herself with the nails
in, then put on halter and surcin-
gle. Fasten a stiff hardwood stick on
each side from halter to surcingle,
placing the surcingle of course just
back of fore legs. If she is so deter
mined to suck herself that she will
throw herself with this harness, 1
should feed her abundantly upon fat
forming foods and visit the butcher.
ButtermiIk Wheys.
One of our southern readers who has
market for all the buttermilk he can
produce at 10 cents per gallon writes
that in the summer time the buttermilh
after setting awhile will separate, the
curd rising to the top and the whey
settling at the bottom, and he inquiries
if there is any way to prevent this that
would not be at all Objectionable or
detrimental to the health of customers,
says Hoard's Dairyman.
The only way known to us to accom-
plish what our correspondent desires is
in the first place not to let the cream
get too sour before churning and to
keep the buttermilk as cool as possible.
There is nothing in the way of pre-
servatives or chemicals Of any kind
that will accomplish this result and at
the same time not be detrimental to
the health Of people using it.
A Business Dairy.
One of the we'll to do dairy farmers
of Orange county, n. Y, is e. \. Nc
Coy. He is feeding about fifty COWS.
Generally he has about sixty. He has
been feeding hominy made of sweet
corn. There are two grades, fine and
coarse, and it costs about 81 per ton
in carload lots. 1t is fed by mixing
one-half ship and given to the cattle
dry. About seven pounds per head is
given each feed, morning and night,
and all the hay the cows will eat. The
farm contains 234 acres and usually
cuts about $50 loads of hay each sea-
son.
The manure produced is drawn out
daily from the barns and spread direct
ly on the meadows, grass land and 9th
err fields. About two loads are pro-
duced daily.
Water For Dairy Cows.
Good water and plenty of it, untaint-
ed by any manure heap, barnyard or
any other source, must be given to the
cows. They must have access to it, so
that they can drink their fill, whether
it be in the manger, in the stable, in
q trough or by any other means. l
have never known q case where a COW
having the water carried to her by a
bucket got enough, says V. E. Fuller.
The carrier becomes tired sooner than
the COW every time. Cows in milk con-
sumo about so per cent more than dry
COWS. It was found by careful expert
ment at one Of the experiment stations
that more than five pounds of water
was consumed to every pound of milk
produced.
Thunder and Milk.
The unusual number of thunder
storms this summer should be accom-
panied by the unusual amount of sour
milk if the old belief that thunder
storms sour milk is true, but there has
been no complaint on that score SO far
as reports show, says Hoard's Dairy
man.
1t is certainly true that milk is fire.
ouently found sour after severe thun-
derstorm, and it is natural that there
should be a popular belief of a rela-
ton between the two facts, but as soon
as we endeavor to verify the claim by
the actual trial of sweet milk by cleo
trical discharges we find that the cleo
tricity fails to work and the milk re-
mains sweet, for electricity in the form
of sparks discharged indefinitely over
the surface of milk fails to show any
effect in producing acid or souring the
milk.