Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-03-09
Costof Producing Jersey Milk
By
r. M. Cow.

AN'A M is a ~
the dairyman. and especially for the
milk farmer. Some would probably
answer. yes" offhand; u the Ques-
ton will bear a little closer %eXanlina-
ton. 1t is a common and somewhat
plausible assertion that the breeds of
cattle giving milk low IN percentage OF
fat. such as the Holstein and Dutch
Belted, although admittedly not COM
parable as economical butter producers
with the Jersey and Guernsey: still.
their milk being large in volume and
containing a good percentage of solids
other than fat. is therefore produced
cheaper than the richer milk OF the
butter breeds. But is not this con-
cIusion precluded by the fact that milk
which is rich in fat is also rich in
casein, as shown by the analyses OF
thousands of samples OF milk" II is
The solid matter. not the water. that
gives value to milk. and quantity only,
without regard to quality, cannot prop
crly be tax eel III examining this Ques-
ton.
Let us see what light the results OF
the ST. Louis dairy demonstration will
shed on this matter. The milk OF the
Jersey herd was produced at a cost IN
feed of 5S cts. per hundred pounds. and
that of the Holstein herd WAS produced
ct Il cost OF So 3-5 cts. per hundred
pounds. so that the jersey milk cost
4 30 cts. more per hundred pounds
than the Iolstein milk. But this state
ment does not conclude the matter, for
the Jersey milk contained A. per cent
fat and 1873 per cent. total solids; while
the Hoistein milk contained but ga per
cent. fat and 11.3 per cent. total solids,
If we consider the Jersey milk, on
tanning Al per cent. fat, to have been
worth. say. $1.lS per hundred pounds
then the Holstein milk. containing 81
per cent. fat. would be worth, at same
rate. but So cts. per hundred pounds
SO that. While the Jersey milk cos,
4 pa CTS. more per hundred pounds tt
produce than the Holstein milk did. ii
was worth, at same ratio of value, .;
cts. more per hundred pounds.
The Jersey milk contained SIS pei
cent. solids not fat. against 40 per cent
solids not fat in the Holstein milk. Tht
Jersey herd produced total solids at /;
cost in feed of 4 $40 cts. per pound
and the Holstein herd produced tota
solids at Il oost of 4 40 cts. per pound
In test B-''for The economic produc'
,ion OF milk for all purposes related Il
dairyin.'-thc Jerseys, with a produc'
ZION of milk averaging Ala pounds pc
COW per day. returned a net profit o
but 80 cts. per COW per day. To sa,
that the Holstein herd produced thei
milk cheaper than did h Jersey herd
is 10 say that milk containing l1.S pc
cent. total solids is just as valuable a
milk containing 1875 per cent. tota
solids.
much value once Il swine herd has be
come affected With cholera. and. sec
ondly, that ii is very difficult TO treat
sons why 1t is SO difficult to successful
ly treat disease in swine: First, tn
value of the ordinary hog will not pa,
for the employment of competent vet
Urinary service, care and medicine, and
second, the modern method of keepini
na ,,r s,,r fn,. ,tV nhca1pNt1x nv
cludes proper dosing and nursing. Sew
eral investigators nave at differe,
times proclaimed hat they had su.
ceeded in producing a vaccine tina
would immunize swine against cholera
somewhat the same as vaccination In
muniZes people against smallpox, bu
none of these nave as yet stood TIL
test. AT one time DIR. Salmon. chief @
the bureau of animal industry. ha
hopes that his department had solve
the problem of immunizing swim
against cholera. hut the results HAY
not as yet warranted him in advisin
the general use of the bureau virui
But these various efforts have not bee
all in vain, and while the object in vie
has not been ttained the investig;
lions have demonstrated that muc
benefit may follow ordinary sanitaI
precautions.
1t has been demonstrated that II
oSsAs Aaii DN
farm by the owners and others goin
from infected to healthy herds. How
ever natural it may be for "A farmer
visit his neighbor and study his sic
herd and then go home and watch n
herd to see if he can discover AL
symptoms of the disease, it is a ver
bad policy. for such action may be II
very means of taking the disease TO h
herd.
When You neighbours herd Is a
fected and dying, keep away from Il
farm. Again, my farm animals fro
an infected farm running with those
a noninfected farm may carry Il
infection.
Another very important factor in II
spread of swine disease is the drea
hog vender. as he drives around II
country from place to place. He
never particular about keeping awe
from places where the disease does n
exist, but often will drive around Il
premises With a part of a load Of de;
hogs or go out into the hog lot to hui
for dead hogs, and instances have bet
known where such men have thro"
dead hogS into the pen OF n heath