Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1903-03-20

s that has more then one color. The
color of the Shorthorns, l suppose you
all know, is from pure white to pure red
/. and all shades between, such as red
white and roam, sometimes the red and
sometimes the white predominating.
A few years the red was all in fash.
ion. A roam bull or COW or heifer could
not be sold no matter how coed an
+ individual it might be. At the present
time the roans are in the lead, the next
will probable be the whites, this is all
foolish. The individual merit should
be the most important, the color SUBJ
ordinate.
Now few words about shelter and
feed and will be done. 1t don't pay
to invest two to four hundred dollars
in a thoroughbred COW and let her pick
her living in a we'll nigh cleaned out
cornfield and pass the cold blizzardy
nights by the side of straw stack or
in dirty open shed. The best bred
COW with that kind of treatment will
soon be worse looking object than the
serubblest of scrubs. .A "a.
Get good cattle to start with, sell
YOURS scrubs. Our $50 to 800 per acre
land is getting too valuables to raise
Iscrubby cattle on, therefore get good
cattle, take good care of them, give
them good shelter, plenty of bedding,
straw is cheap here yet, if land is high
feed them we'll Glover, timothy, oats
and barley and corn grow profusely on
our rich soil. feed them plenty, and
they will soon lift the mortgage on the
farm Hay and grain if it is high
priced at times is cheaper than beef,
and if cattle are poorer in the spring
than in the faH they have been fed beef
a very expensive feed.
MILK AND IT'S CARE r, NJ. BECK.
The wise business man or farmer
never goes into anything or-buys any
thing without first considering the cost.
After he finds ont the cost the next
question is or should b. Will it pay?
This rule applies to q cream separator
as well as any thing else. The man who
contemplates buying q cream separator
will as ask himself. Will it pay? And
in order to find ont if it will pay, we
must consider some Of its benefits
Having had two and one.half years ex-
perience with one, will try and tell
what little know about it.
have learned by experience that
with Centrifugal separator can
make from ten to fifty per cent
more butter then in any other method
of separating the cream from the milk
While it may not pay to use separator
for a few cows milk, I am satisfied that
with six or more cows it will pay in the
gain in the quantity of butter alone.
OExperiance has taught me that no
amount of care in milking and strain
ing of milk will keep or take all the
dirt and filth out of the milk. This
dirt and filth In the old gravity system
of separating will invariably raise with
the cream, but run that milk through
a separator and that dirt and filth will
lodge in the, center of the bowl, and
what is still of greater Importance, ex.
periments have demonstrated that
Centrifugal separator will remove dis.
ease germs from cream and milk. A
separator also shortens the time be-
tween milking and churning thereby
giving the milk and cream less time to
accumulate bad odors and develop
disease germs.
I think enough has been said to show
that by using a separator, You can not
only make more and better, but cleaner
and healthier butter.
RAISING CALVES ON SKINNED
MILK They used to say and truth.
fully too, that calves did not do we'll
on separator SKINNED milk. When we
used to sell our milk to the creamery
we did get stuff they called milk that
was not good for calves or ANYTHING
else. But since we have our own sep.
arator we have raised more and health
ier calves than ever before. Some one
says how can that be when the separa.
tor takes out 60 much more butter fat
Well let us see. In the hand skimming
process the milk must set from "a to 48
hours before skimming. Sometimes 1t
will be sweet. sometimes sour, or any.
where between sweet and sour. Such
changes in diet must be injurious to
calf's health.
Then again in hand skimming the
milk is always cold and must be warm.
ed by fire, and unless great care is tax.
en- the milk is sometimes burned, some
times too hot and sometimes too cold,
making it not only disagreeble but very
unhealthy for the calf.
Take the milk from separator and
it is always fresh, sweet and warm
with the animal heat in it, which is the
most natural condition for the calf. l
will say that calf fed on separated
milk needs a little more grain than one
fed on hand skinned milk.
LABOR SAVED. We have our separa-
tor in the barn in room adjoining the
COW. stable. The milk is poured in the
separator as MIXED, then separated and
fed to calves and pigs which are near
by. The cream only is taken to the
house There is no carrying milk to
the house and back, no cans with sour
cream dried on to wash, and no cans in
use to wear and rust and to be replaced
every little while.
Last but not least, I would advise
getting tread power, and large dog
or sheep will do the work nicely, fur
nishing steady motion and saves a
hand that may be milking during that
time. u
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