The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-09-16

MISSISSIPPI OWING 10 tue great nat
ural advantages possessed by thi
state to make good butter, at les
cost than where large part of
is now manufactured, large prop
ortion of the butter sold comes from
the Northwest, The butter nov
made in this state is often of poo
quality and can only be sold at /;
very low price. Professor Moor,
showed that this poor quality wa
due to the way in which the mill
is now handled on so many dairy
farms. He emphasized the i'm
portance of good pure milk and the
means by which such milk may be
secured. The methods of separa,
tion of cream and milk were consid.
cred and the effects of the different
methods of separation on the quail
ty of the butter. he stated that
one of the most important opera
tions in the making of good butter
was the proper ripening of cream.
The lack of knowledge,of this pro.
cess and the failure to ripen the
cream properly is no doubt respon-
sible for much of the poor butter
now found In our local markets.
With proper care and the use Of
suitable starters when necessary 1t
is possible to have a uniformly
good lot of properly ripened cream
from day to day. Professor Moore
has used a large number of differ
ent kinds of churns but for the
making of good butter on the farm
he has found nothing better than
the barrel or box churn with no
fixtures of any kind on the inside
of the churn.
Prof. Moore showed by practial
results secured by some of our best
butter makers that as good butter
can be made here as anywhere IL
the United States and that it can
be produced at less cost than III
most of the other sections. The
interest in this line of farming he
said is growing rapidly and the
prospects are that in few years
this state will not only produce
all the good butter needed in the
state but will be furnishing butter
to other sections that are now get
ting their supply from states less
favored by nature than Is Missis-
sippi.
Prof. c. I. Bray, of the College
Dairy Department, delivered an ad-
dress on the subject of profitable
milk production. He dealt with
milk production from the stand
point of greater financial returns.
He took up the general principles
of dairying pointing out and laying
emphasis upon the most common
causes of loss and the best ways
and means of eliminating these
classes and increasing the in
come from the dairy herd. He
spoke of the greater returns from
high grade cows and pure breds as
to scrubs. The import
ance of good pastures, sliage and
;oiling crops and how the latter In
,rease profit by supplying succu-
ent and palatable foods when the
pastures fail.
He also spoke of the use and a
,use of commercial feed stuffs. and
astly the effect of good care and
Ittention on milk production from
financial point of view.
The evening session of the 10th
vas devoted to discussion of the
ubject of forestry by Professor
Geo. L. Clothier.
He spoke inpart as follows: We
ut three-hfths of all the timber
harvested from the forests of the
Whole world and our annual con-
of sawed timber would
ave a road around the world IS
eet wide one foot thick with inch
'oards. If all the wood we use
nd waste annually were reduced
0 uniform thickness of one foot
would have a street 10 feet wide
ncirciing the globe. We boast of
hese things and yet we are cutt-
ng our forests three times as fast
S they grow.
The greatest hindrance to the
'ractice OF conservative forestry Is
ur criminalIy careless use of FIRE.