Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-04-10
Dairy Dots.

Shun the no purpose cow a. you
would debt. Where she Is debt soon
comes.
The cleaner milk is kept the longer
will it remain sweet and the better will
be the cream rising.
One who will not read the experience
of others in dairy work greatly reduces
his chance Of making money.
When cows are dry they should be fed
so as to keep them in thrifty condition
without becoming too fat.
No other farm product robs the soil
as little as that of the dairy, especially
when the skim milk is fed on the farm.
The most desirable COW is we'll bred,
we'll fed, we'll handled. Some one OF
these particulars may be lacking when
COW makes profit, but it greatly re-
duces the chances if any of the three is
lacking.
The man with a good crop of first
class timothy hay and a good herd of
milch COWS is to be envied, for he can
sell the hay at a price which will en-
able him to buy almost anything his
cows need to give the best results.
With crop of oats hay or oats straw,
as it is generally known, on hand, the
sale of the timothy tc horsemen will
enable him to buy all of the grain need
ed to make, with the oat straw, q splen-
didly balanced ration. The timothy hay
is first class for horses, but very poor
feeding for cows that are being milked.
A report on Records Of Dairy Cows
hu hn
Department of Agriculture, says that
the records of progressive and unpro-
gressive dairymen and farmers show
that there is no business which has a
greater range of profits than that of the
dairy farmer. The records of hundred
dairy farmers are cited. It was shown
that one of them made $3.50 for every
dollar invested in feed for his cows,
while neighbor made 81 and another
lost so cents. All had the same soil and
same markets. The difference in their
profits, he concludes, must be accounted
for largely by the difference in the in
telligence put in the business.
Prof. Harrington, of the Wisconsin
dairy school, sums up the different
methods of skimming in the following
brief manner: "These methods are
the shallow pans, the deep setting cans
of milk in cold water, the water or
aquatic separator and the centrifugal
separator. The water separator Is so
inferior a method that it Is not used by
the best dairymen at the present time;
the other three methods are still in use,
but the centrifugal separator Is the most
efficient of them all. The losses of but
ter fat in the skim milk are greatest
when milk is set in shallow pans. Deep
setting in cold water is little better,
but the centrifugal separator may be
run so as to leave one-tenth per cent
butter fat in the skim milk. 1t has
been estimated that the losses of butter
fat by the different methods of skim
ming the milk of 20 cows in year
amount to sl20 by the shallow pan
setting.
Bulletin No. 222 of the Cornell Uni
versity is entitled, "Record of an At
tempt to Increase the Fat in Milk by
Means of Liberal Feeding" The fol-
lowing is a summary of this bulletin:
s'In herd of poorly fed cows an abun-
dant ration, easily digestible and rather
nitrogenous in character, and continued
through two years, resulted in an aver
age increase of one-fourth of per cent
of fat in the milk Tor percentage in
crease of about per cent.) This was
accomplished by an increase of about 80
per cent in total amount of milk and fat
produced. The increased production
was secured economically, so far as the
food cost of milk and fat is concerned"
American Farmer.