Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

In recent bulletin issued by the
Connecticut experiment station Pro-
fessor II. w. Conn gives some interest
ing data concerning the, relation of
temperature 70 tie keeping of milk: In
part be says: -, -
variations in temperature have: a
surprising influence upon the rate of |
multiplication OF busteria. At so de-
grees these ganisnls may multiply
only fivefold in twenty-four hours,
while at 70 degrees they may multiply
seven hundred and fifty fold. :. !. 81
.~"Temperature has a great influence !
upon the keeping property OF milk.
Milk kept at 8 degrees aheat Of the
cows body Will cu1glle ins eighteen |
hours. while the same milk Kept alto
degrees will not curdle for forty y-eight 4
hours and if kept a. 50 degrees, the
temperature OF an ice chest, may so,ne- \
times keep without curdling for two
weeks or more. : Il
$50 far as the keeping property Of
milk is concerned the matter of tenn "
perature is of more significance than
the, original contamination of the milk
with bacteria. i
milk preserved at 20 degrees or low
er will keep sweet for long time. but
it. becomes filed wish bacteria of
more unwhoIcsome type than those
that grow at higher temperatures. Old
milk. is not fit for market, even though
it be perfectly sweet" '.
Cottonseed Meal For Dairy Cows.
w. J. Kennedy in Wallace's Farmer
says:
<'The main reason why cottonseed
meal or any other nitrogenous food is
fed to dairy COWS is in order to supply
protein to the ration. This being the
case, it makes material difference as
to whether clover hay, alfalfa hay or.
some other nitrogenous food is used for
! rOughness instead of corn fodder, tim
| othy hay, oat straw OF some food which
| is lacking in heterogeneous matter. ~
1.-THE other grain fed also will have,
its influence in this connection. II.
timothy hay is used for roughness and
corn is used largely for the grain part
Of the ration, much more cottonseed
meal should be, fed than when clevex.
hay is used for roughness and ration
lot corn, oa t. md bran il used fes Tie
grain part of the ration. I
Generally speaking, however, it is
not considered advisable to feed over
three pounds of cottonseed meal per
day per cow. If this does not supply
enough protein it is safer to get it from
some other source"
Advantages of Dairy Schools.
Dairy schools are now in operation in
: many states, and short courses of in
struction on butter and cheese making
I are given at some of the agricultural
colleges. 1t was long ago demonstrate ted
i that inferior butter could not compete
with oleomargarine and that good but
ter Of choice quality could always be
sold at good price: The fact has also
been demonstrated that there was
much to learn in making good butter
and that cleanliness and the proper
management Of the milk We're essen.
tial in producing the choice article
There has been wonderful advance
in methods of buttermaking, and oleo
margarine is responsible for it: Con
sumers will not purchase the counter
felt article if they can get the genuine
and poor butter is as much counter
F felt as any other imitation.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
Milk For Cheesemaking.
1t would seem from the experience
of those who are in a position to know
that when milk for cheesemaking ha:
been properly and thoroughly aired b,
some of the excellent devices Oh til,
market for that purpose and then cool
5 ed to keeping temperature it is no
. at all necessary to resort to what il
known as the soaking process in cheese
y making to insure fancy quality, say
,, w. w. Hall, secretary New York Dail!
- association.
A Splendid Guernsey Bull,