New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-07-25
EXPERT on BUTTERMAklNG.
Dairy Inspector Sends Out Some
Information.
Successful Cooperative Cream
cries Combine Work.
Keeping Track OF Cows Mill
Shows Which Animal Pays.

i The following communication on the
subject Of the care Of dairy stock is by
State Dairy Inspector Winkjer and
will be found of much Importance to
those who devote any portion OF their
time to dairying:
& sit is not one single thing that
makes cooperative Creamery sue
cessful but it is the combined work of
many essential things. The butter
maker is generally considered the most
important factor for a successful
creamery but his Importance is mainly
in that he is in a position to bring to-
gether and harmonic the forces to
bear on the important place. The but
termaker has an unlimited amount Of
pressure behind his creamery business
if he. goes to work and developes it
right. OF course a buttermaker gem
orally has his bands full in keeping
his creamery presentable and he should
receive liberal assistance from all
concerned and those concerned mostly
in that work are the farmers them
selves and while there are many ways
in which he may give this assistance I
want to point to one, especially, that
the farmer is even more interested in
than the buttermaker. This is the i'm
provement Of the dairy herd so as to
get a bigger yield from the number of
COWS already on hand. The farmer is
the one who is benefited most and
should feel most interested. Now [
want to call attention to one way in
accomplishing this that's practical
and a way that every dairyman should
use and that is to keep such a record
OF each COW in the herd that will show
at the end of the year what each in
dividual COW has done. This at first
thought, would seem like something
that would entail great deal of work
and I will not deny but what it takes
some extra work but think that it is
safe to say that it will be the best pay-
ing work that you can do in connection
with your dairy. The things necessary
are, a spring scale, pencil and memoir
anda book, all Of which need not cost
over $500, and the extra work neces-
sary need not be over 80 minutes a
month outside the time it takes to do
the figuring and that will depend on
how quick you are to figure. The
thing to do with this apparatus is to
place them where you empty the milk,
after milking. Taking the milk from
each COW you first hang the pail on the
scale and with the pencil and book you
have handy you make a record of what
the COW has given. You can repeat this
for every milking if you wish but for a
beginning about for times a month will
give you good results and show you
where you have the COW that is steal
ing her board and where you have the
one that is paying for it. In connection
with this it is also necessary to have
the milk from each COW tested about
three times or more year. With the
number of pounds of milk you have a
basis to figure the value of your COW.
The value of such a record is we'll ex-
pressed by Mr.. Sly in a late number
Of the Dairy Record where he says:
eff a farmer has two COWS and loses
$1,000 on one and gains $1,000 on the
other it does not take much of a
mathematician to see that he did not
make any money; but if disposed of
the.cow that he lost $1,000 on he will
be $1,000 ahead besides saving the
extra time and labor required toscare
for the extra COW There are many
interesting things that come up with
such a record peculiar to each dairy
mans conditions and many questions
will come up that you want answered
and it is we'll to keep some dairy papers
on hand to gather to your use the ex-
perience that other dairymen have
had.'
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