Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-05-04
DAIRY AND Farm IEFoRMArIOE.
Oar Regular Contributor Writes on Interesting and
Valuable Points

| Naiuapie FONTS
Elgin butter price for the second week
in April is steady at 244c, the price that
has ruled now for FIVE weeks. One year
ago this week it was 2Stc Chicago 24tc,
New York 234 Elgin price for the third
week is firm at 23c, decline II tie. A
year ago it was 25c, Chicago 2Sc, New
York 22c. Elgin prices have ruled from
| fc to &c higher than the eastern markets
for the last six weeks. There has been
so much cold storage butter put on the
eastern markets that is has kept the
fresh butter down to very low figure.
| The eastern markets have got to rule
about to 1c above Elgin to pay ship
per to ship there. Elgin market for the
third week in April is firm at 23c, the
same as last week. A year ago the quo.
tation was 221. Chicago is 23c; New
York csc; Boston 22c and Philadelphia
23e. Chicago Produce says there never
was time when there was so much un-
der grades of butter on the market as
there is this spring, caused by poor mus
| ty feeds. Farmers are short of feed
throughout the country, consequently
they are getting along She best they can
| until grass comes Until that time we
do not expect an extra grade of butter.
A test was made of the Simplex
link blade, hand separator at the fact
DRY, Thursday. Mr.. L N. Waite, spe.
cial agent, was here and made the test.
The machine did fine work; IL run the
required amount of milk through and
the skim milk tested down to .015 FFs
day, the kim milk of Mr. Berg from the
same machine tested OF. / have not
al ID haN
less than .04 and up TO rs and l have
testei all kinds of machines Parties
that have other makes of machines who
have "a The Simplex say tf.at 1t
runs muen easier than their machines
and that it was put up strong and dura-
BILE The machine can be seen and
bought at the creamery. Farmers, stop
and figure the difference between two
machines, one skimming OF skim milk
and one .0S The difference will buy
you new machine each year. The
'tSimplex" win be put mp at your place
on trial and If it does not skim less than
.02, or 02 less than any other machine
on the market, you do not have 10 take
it. We will put it mp against any ma
chine made, barring none, for trial on
all conditions of milk
Bring in your cows milk and skim
milk and have it tested. Skim your
cream at 30 to 81 per cent; cover your
cans when going to the factory to keep
out dust and heat A good way is to
strip clean gunny sack down over
them It also protects them from jam
| ming. Keep your cream as cool as pos
sible and come to the factory three
| times week If you can. We do not
ant cream that is one week old. You
should have a good field four or five
acres near the barn for drilled corn or
peas and they ought TO be fed in the
barn aa there will be no waste and In
the field much OF It IL spoiled.
Mr.. A. J. Glover OF Illinois, has been
| testing dairy cows for year or more,
among herds of certain Illinois creamery
patrons and has shown mp some very
| good results. When patron reads In q
| paper that one could sell few COWS to
| she butcher and make more money from
the rest than he did before, he shakes
/ his head and says, What fools those
editors are 10 talk like that Yet Mr.
| Glover has gone to the farm Of patron
and by testing his cows has had several
1 of them cut out for the butcher, and by
feeding balanced ration and giving
| ordinary good care to the rest, has In.
creased the patrons income 30 per cent
and there were several less cows 10 both
er with. What o fuss we do make over
| the robbing of hen roost by human
| thieves Yet the robber cows are allow
ed to live on the fat of the land and Of
| ten are given the preference in nicer
stale, more petting and better attention
! to their wants and all Chis time they are
eating perhaps So worth Of feed for ev-
| cry dollar they give back in milk. With
| the system of COW testing 30 simple and
so exact as we now have 1t, there is no
excuse whatever for creamery patron
or private dairyman not knowing exact
! ly which of his cows is paying beet for
| her keeping
Can we feed our COWS too much grain
Certainly, but If you are feeding q bal
an ed ration there will be no trouble on
this score. We find men who are feed
ing fourteen 10 twenty pounds of grain
daily to cows which we believe is far too
much for what they need, and what may
be equally important Is, much more
! than they can handle TO produce eco
nomical milk. With good hay and sill
age balanced ration that will produce
| a large flow of milk and keep the COW
in healthy condition, can be made up
| from FIVE to eight pounds of grain per
| COW per DAY.
Do You milk with dry or wet hands Z
| You can milk faster with wet hands
Don't you believe 1t. Milk dry always
After you are used to dry milking You
can do it faster that way and It certain
| ly IL much more c!eanly. We think
milking with wet handsa most disagree
able trick and haven't any desire to use
any milk obtained from cows in that
| way We want to carry on all our farm
| work SC that our customers and the con-
sumers. If they were around and watch.
ed every operation, would be attracted
rather than repelled by the way we do
| our work. Yours truly,
]. N. WIGGINTcN.
Bloomingdale, April so.