Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-07-02
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The feeding Of beef calves by the
butter dairyman necessitates the buy
ing of the calves of beef strain, for
the butter dairyman cannot afford to
keep beef cows or Jack of all trades
cows, which some talk so much about
under the name of dual purpose"
cows, says Practical Farmer-that is,
a cow half way milk and butter and
half way beef and never the best for
either. The calves from butter cows
cannot be made to tip 1,200 pounds in
a year, and if they did it would all be
inside fat and no loins worth men
tioning The dairyman can afford to
raise his heifer calves on skim milk
and grain, but he had better let the
beef animals alone unless he can buy
first class beef calves for the purpose.
We have heard of the dairy Short
horns and have spent a good deal of
money to find them. If they ever ex-
listed they have been bred out in get
ting the true use of the Shorthorn, the
best of beef. We have never yet talk
ed about special purpose cattle but
some Shorthorn man rises to explain
that the Shorthorn is the greatest ami
NAL either for dairy or beef. The fact
is that an animal which is the finest
dairy animal cannot possibly be a
fine beef animal and vice versa. The
two characters are Numerically OPP
posed, and just to the extent that a
Shorthorn or any other beef breed de-
veIops fine dairy qualities, to that ex-
tent she becomes poorer beef animal.
Mere size does not make an animal a
good beef, and fat laid on by dairy
animal inside is not as profitable as
the fat laid on the loins of real beef
animal. If a mans interest is in but
ter let him keep the best cows for that
purpose and leave baby beef to the
beef men, while he more profitably
uses his skim milk to raise heifers and
feed pigs.
The Minnesota Test.
The dairy and food department of
Minnesota has inaugurated a record
test of dairy herds and will collect
some interesting figures upon the rec
ords made by various herds and in
dividual members of the herds. The
test will be continued one year, and
records will be taken of the number
of pounds of butter fat secreted by
each COW and the amount of food re-
quired to produce it. Feeds and con-
ditions will be varied from time to
time and results noted. This test will
no doubt be productive of much in
formation in regard to individual per-
Torrance of the various members of
the herd.
A Maryland MILK Situation.
Ali the milk and cream sold near
Sandy Spring, Md, are bought by two
men, one of whom buys all the milk,
about 400 gallons per day, and pays 90
cents per 100 pounds in summer and
$3.50 in winter, says a correspondent
Of Rural New Yorker. The other buys
all the cream, about thirty-five gallons
per day, and pays 40 cents per gallon
In summer and 30 cents in winter. We
have no railroad. The buyers send the
milk and cream to Washington, eight
cen miles distant, by wagon. The milk
Is sold at retail from store owned
and operated by the buyer. The cream
Is sold to ice cream manufacturers and
brings rs cents per gallon. Nearly all
the dairy farmers have silos and also
buy large quantities of bran, some cot
ton seed and gluten meal. Price of
bran ranges from $50 to $25 per ton;
cotton seed meal, $2S; gluten, about
S25 There is much complaint among
the farmers, as the price of milk and
cream is the same as it was when bran
was $12 per ton. a few have sold their
cows and are feeding steers. This
takes much less labor. Many are now
sowing alsike clover, which sets well
here and makes good pasture. Red
clover has failed for the last four or
FIVE years. Glover pasture and hay
have been very much missed. Fortu-
nately many silos were built before the
price of~feed went up. and many have
been built since. Labor is scarce and
very unreliable; competent milkmen
almost impossible to find. The labor is
nearly all colored a few native white;
no foreigners.
New Way to Make Butter.
L. Fl. Williams. vice president of the
Akron (O.) Cold Distilling company,
claims to be the discoverer of method
of making butter without first remov-
ing the cream, reports Creamery Jour
nal. He does not go into details, but
says;
.aThe discovery is not one of mere
chance, but is the result of years
hard work. l was given the insight
from our cold distilling process and
have spent much time and study on it.
l have tested the machine before sew
eral prominent capitalists of the city,
and they are now back of me. We
will build plant and put the product
ON the market"