Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-05-26
DAIRY NEWS AND NOTES.
From Field and Farm.

~ seems queer lpr tut psOpie VI
great COW state like Nebraska to come
out to Colorado for milch stock. The
other day G. w. Sewall Of Broken
Bow, Neb bought carload OF COWS
from ranchmen around Elizabeth in
Ebert county and shipped them home.
The average price paid was $29 a
head.
Now that cattle are going on pas
ture farmers who have had no exper-
ience with alfalfa should be a little
careful to avoid bloat The remedy
In extreme cases is 10 use penknife
and goose quill. A farmer who has
many cattle should have trocar and
canula. Make the insertion on the
left side at point equidistant from
the last rib. the angle OF the hip bone
and the backbone. This punctures
the paipch and lets out the gas.
Chicago gentleman named Thorn
as Cusad who is at the head OF a big
outdoor advertising enterprise has be-
come 80 stuck on Colorado that he has
established mountain villa at Cas-
cade Just above Ute pass In FL Paso
county and 10 make the environment
complete he has purchased a string
OF Jerseys from Major Dubois of this
city. The lot consists of four heifers,
two OF which are in milk. and the
fine young registered bull Famous
Duke.
Five OF the greatest butter-produc-
ing firms In the west have united to
form the Meadow Colo Creamery com
pany which win have headquarters
In Denver This concern will be the
selling agent for the Littleton Cream
cry company OF this city, the Cont
mental Creamery company of Topeka.
the Beatrice Creamery company of
Lincoln, the Brady-Meriden company
OF Kansas City and the Hanford Pro
duce company of Sioux City. The
president is George T. Haskell who
has lived In Denver for the last two
or three years, and he evidently
knows what he Is doing.
A year or SO ago one Of our sub
scripers near Colorado Springs be-
thought to establish himself in the
dairy business. and the way he sue
ceeded Is a good antidote for blueish
poDulism. During the year he milk
ed from seven to II cows. He kept a
strict account of the business, which
was as follows: Cream sold, $5l7 81 /;
calves raised, 5000; hogs fed SKINNED
milk. $3.50. Total, $s673 Expens.
es: $40 bushels of grain, sl35; pastur.
ing cows. $l05. The net proceeds for
the year were sG27.31 Could he have
done. as well at any manual labor In
town?
The government is exceedingly ex-
acting in its requirements as TO the
composition of the butter for Its naval
service, and thereby sets good ex-
ample. 1t does not propose to be de-
ceived on the amount OF water the but
ter may contain or on the quantity of
salt 10 he found in it, 4 company has
made contract with Uncle Sam to
supply 100000 pounds to the navy.
The requirements are that the butter
shall be put up in cans, shall be steril.
lied, shall not contain over - per
cent of moisture, shall have no color.
ing matter and that the salt shall be
at the rate of from three-fourths of an
ounces to an ounce to every pound
When the general public becomes
more exactlng we will have higher
quality of butter.
1t begins to look as If the Denver
milk trust Will rivet its bolts all right.
As IA matter of smoothness with which
to oil the preiudicial machinery it is
blandly announced that the concern
will be merely sort of clearing
house where milk may be kept free
from all impurities and by which the
cost OF delyery-will be reduced more
than 80 per cent. A number of the
local milk men have considered a
proposition of capitalists to finance a
scheme for handling the product of
their dairies from central point.
The proposition very wisely bars all
milk from diseased cattle or from
cows fed on impure foodstufrs. So rig
Id are the provisions that no diseased
persons are allowed to go anywhere
near the cows. II is claimed that the
saving will not only be great, but
that better quality of milk will be
offered for sale. In any event the pro
moters will know where they can
sleep nights. and they are not likely
to go hungry, whatever may happen.
In other words, they Will make them
selves good.
The American Jersey cattle club
proposes to frlcassee all Of its com
petitors at the worlds fair this year
by showing the Missourlans how to
produce milk from alfalfa Last year
Major Dubois had the foresight to Sc
cure 40 tons of alfalfa grown in
Boulder county for the cattle of the
club entered upon the four-months
test at the fair. Something like 2l0
cattle are already in quarters and are
eating the alfalfa in preparation of
the great event Major Richardson
who has charge of the western divi-
sion of Jerseys In the show, writes
that he is overwhelmingly surprised
at the marvellous gains which the cat
tie are making on Colorado alfalfa, and
he feels sure that the famous little
cattle from the island are bound to
win out