Middletown transcript., 1906-10-06
DAIRY NOTES

The dairy law passed by the Michiga
1 Legislature during its last session is pre-
nonnced by many to be the best OF il
kind. Il marks the beginning of Stat
inspection and supervision of our dair
Industry. Under this law II is the dat
OF the State dairy commissioner to inspec
ereameries. cheese factories and farm
dairies He must give instruction at an,
| time and place where he deems it advis
able, and constantly work to secure q bet
Ger quality and greater uniformity Of dair!
produce.
A good way to test the individual COW
is to get q number of The druggists ounc,
test tubes. They cost aboui nickel each,
Take block Of wood and bore holes in /
the size of the tubes. one for each tube,
Fill the tubes with milk from each COW,
keeping record so you will know which
is which. Set in cool place for twelve
hours, and the amount OF cream upon
each tube will be fair index Of
the cows place in the herd. OF course,
this is not as accurate as the Babcock
test, but is far less tfohble.
Il takes all the resources OF the dairy.
man to keep his cows from falling ofi
now. The COWS should be made as CON-
Portable as possible. During very hot
weather it will pay to keep them in the
barn during the daytime, letting them
out on the pasture during the night. OF
course, this will make extra work, for
tiie'eoWs should be given some green feed
while they are stabbed. The water supply
should be pune and the watering trough
should be kept clean. We all know
that We should do these things. but the
trouble is, in our rush of other work, we
are apt to neglect the best money makers
on the farm. Don't neglect the COWS.
There have been some curious develop
ments recently in the milk business and
one cannot foresee just " hat the outcomeis
to be. It looks as though they may be
as radical revolution from present meth
dds as the separator accomplished in its
way. One of the things discovered is
that milk drawn from the COW by the
milking machine and packed at once.
through tubes or pipes in bottles without
coming in contact with the air will keep
unchanged for many days, and SO can be
delivered to city trade absolutely pure and
unchanged in taste, and that the present
process of sterilization, etc., be done
away with. For infants and inyalids, as
well as those in health, this insurance of
milk free from disease germs is of tremen-
dous importance.
Veracious residents OF Kankakee
County, Illinois, have found a new
complaint against the carp, now so plen-
tiful in the rivers of Illinois. It is de-
clared that they milk cows that wade in
the rivera, and the finest and most
prolific Jerseys now come home
with dry udders. An investigation soon
showed the cause. Many farmers fenced
in their cows and thus saved the milk.
Others more thrifty worked scheme
that may yield them small fortune. 1t
is said that they stretched nets over the
udders OF the COWS and attached fish
hooks to the nets. When the carp came
to denude the boyines of their Iacteal
anid they were caught. Each COW, on
the return home at night, would bring
fine strings of fish, the sale Of which adds
to the income OF the agricul-
turists. N. B.-White reading this story,
that It was sent out in the dog
days. otherwise known as .'the silly sea-
son." Like the war yarns brought into
camp by the 'reliabie contraband" DUR
ing the civil war, it may be classed under
The head of important, If true"