Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-11-25
cows AND DAIRY.
Some Notes Thereon Not Generally
Known or Understood.

milk OF goats OF Sheep.
The cattle OF the Austro-H Hungarian
empire number $3.50. 600.
A stall fed cow will consume about
four tons of hay per annum
The Arabs use camel's milk as a sub
stitute for that of the COW.
1t is said that a gallon of milk Is re-
quired to make a pound OF cheese.
A statistical authority asserts that in
1880 there were 2,532 cheese factories.
The fossil remains of oxen have been
found in Europe. Asia and America.
It is estimated that in the German
empire there are 1900. 900 mich cows.
All young mammals for a period OF
one to three years subsist entirely upon
milk.
In 1887 MulhaH estimated the number
of cattle in the United States at 49, 2O0,-
900.
The dairy cows of the state Of New
York average $50 pounds of cheese per
annum.
Devcnshire butter contains S2.7 fat,
1872 water anr IL per cent of other sub
stances.
In India butter was for ages used
solely as an ointment for allaying the
pain of wounds
Milk, like flesh, fish and eggs, con-
tains all the constituent elements neces-
sary to support life.
Wade Hampton. In 1852, imported
short horned cattle from England into
South Carolina.
In ali parts OF the east sleeps milk is
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of the COW.
In the time Of Josephus butter was in
use among the Jewish ladies as an un.
gent for the hair and skin.
Butter made from camels milk is said
to be Of an exceedingly rancid flavor, no
matter how fresh.
Devons were first imported into this
country in 1917, for Cation & Patterson
of Baltimore, Nd.
In Spain the goat is the domestic sub
stitute for the COW, that country having
4,530,000 goats
In Holland the average product for
cows is so pounds Of butter and lSo
pounds Of cheese per annum
The Jersey cattle were imported into
this country in considerable lumber
early in the present century.
1t Is believed tina butter was first
used by the Arabs, who made it from
the milk Of the goat or sheep.
In. all South Europe olive oil is the
substitute for butter, and very little OF
the latter is made or consumed.
Pliny speaks Of milk Gill; as a favo-
rite article of food among the Germans,
He undoubtedly meant butter.
The empire OF Russia stands next
after the United States in the number
of It's cattle, having 90, $4,000.
The Hungary plains support a variety
OF dark blue cattle supposed TO have
come from the steppes OF Asia.
The domestic COW is all shades of col
or; black, brown, red. every variety OF
piebald, notified. spotted and flecked.
Competent authorities estimate that
France has about 1000, 900 cows, which
are almost exclusively pasture fed.
Dioscorides mentions butter as made
In his time from Sleeps milk. 1t was
used melted instead of oil for salads.
Even as late as the time of GaIen,
who died in POI A. d., the principal use
of butter was in medicine and the toilet.
The Argentine Republic Is the great
est cattle raising country in South
America, having in 1887 raised %, ST0,0 600
head.
The first imports of cattle to America
were made by Columbus. in 1893. who
brought over a bull and several COWS.
Mulhall says English cows average
400 gallons Of milk a year, and the butter
product of a good COW is about 14o
pounds.
The Dutch settlers on Manhattan is
land brought the Holstein breed from
Holland about the beginning Of the last
century.
Experienced dairymen say that the
common old fashioned dasher churn is
about as good for butter making as any
other kind.
The Wen known medicine, Tactic acid,
was discovered from its production in
sour milk. 1t is now manufactured In
the laboratory.
The Indian buffalo, which, In Hindo-
stan, is the substitute for the domestic
OK. has horns Is inches in girth and 2 to
4 feet long.
In 1880 the cattle of Europe were In
proportion to the population at 81 to
1000; in 1887 the proportion had de-
creased to 80 to 1000.
The Portuguese attempted to estab-
lish herds of cattle in Newfoundland in
1863, blu all traces of these animals
have vanished.
Hanover says that 1t Is possible for
human beings to contract tuberculosis
by drinking the milk OF COWS infected
with the disease.
Aristotle, who was the master OF all
the knowledge OF his own and preceding
times, mentions cheese as being made
in his day, $50 b. C..
In Tartary butter is churned by piac-
ing the bag containing the cream on a
horse, which a boy mounts and rides for
a couple of hours.
Hippocrates mentions both butter and
cheese, but in his time the former was
used as an ointment and the latter as a
medicine.
The Chinese call butter cows milk
oil" and cheese COWS milk cake"
They have the utmost adherence OF
both and never eat either.
Chevrul says that the best butter is
obtained from cream churued Within