Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-01-12
Roundabout Farm, Dairy,
Garden and Hennery
Up-to-date Dairying.

In carrying as IN every oluci pr
fession there is a need for enthusf
asm and without a certain amount OF
| this enthusiasm success can hardly
| be attained. The average dairyman
/ takes an interest in his work beyond
/ the money he gets out of it; and
would be satisfied to strive for an
up-to-date business even if a modest
/ living were the only return for his
! labors, says the Indiana Farmer. In
this connection, it is well known that
there are many dairymen who get
only a modest living, and If you'll
note these modest livers are gener-
ally men of little enthusiasm. Be up
to-date. Know what successful
dairymen are doing.
] Never use old, rusty milk vessels.
Tt is true economy to have new pals,
cans, churns, ETC., and it is 1mpera-
tive to have everything that is used
about milk and cream pure, clean
and sweet There is nothing gained,
he says, by patching up old utensils
about the home dairy or manufac-
tory. A Slight negligence in the care
of the churn may cost you the price
of many pound of butter, and gal
Ions of cream have been spoiled be-
cause the cf1urn and butter bowl and
milk pans had mot been kept perfectly
clean. The best way to clean YES
sells in which milk is kept is to rinse
! first with cold water, then wash with
hot water in which a tablespoon of sal
| soda has been dissolved to one gal
Ion. Turn the milk vessels upside
down and about in this suds as 1t
cleans SO thoroughly and will destroy
the germs if hot enough. After this
washing, rinse in clean hot water
and set out of doors in the sun and
air. If the milk vessels are kept n.y.
CHEMICALLY pure and clean there will
| be no sour milk.
| Different kinds of milk animals
differ greatly as to the fat and solid
| contents of the milk. Some ami
mails have milk that is far richer in
! fat than is the milk of the cow, but
The milk of the COW is most popular
with man. The fact that it does not
contain such a very large amount OF
| fat is in its favor, for there is such
a thing as having milk too rich for
infants, invalids and even for calves.
Some cows give milk so rich that
| their calves are killed if kept upon
! it. More than one COW has been I'm.
able 10 raise her calves for this rea-
son It was some years before the
facr was brought to light, but now
the man that understands this is
careful not to leave with it's dam
the calf of a COW giving excessively
rich milk.
There is one fact about milk that
should be remembered, and that is
that the fat and casein are in some
what constant ratio. This is dis
covery of comparatively recent years,
say the last IS. Before that time it
was thought that a COW that gave
poor milk in butter fat was a good
cheese COW and such COWS were even
called cheese COWS. The neighbor-
hoods that supplied milk to cheese
factories bought such COWS in pref
erence to the better ones, thinking
that the milk was rich in milk solids.
But it has been found that the milk
that is rich in fat is also rich in milk
solids and that the milk that has a
small per cent poor in milk solids.
~ ic
We now know that the milk that has
small per cent Of fat in it is very
watery, and that 1t has not single
redeeming feature. If it is used in
the making of cheese it produces an
excessive amount of whey, while the
fat and solids make a very small
amount of material out of which to
construct cheese.
It should be remembered that the
milk cannot be increased in solids
and in fat by the feeding OF rich
food. That may increase the amount
of milk given by cow, but the per-
centage of watery material will re-
main the same and this material has
little value except for feeding pigs.
The milk that is thin comes from
COW that is nearly always unprofit-
able, and this fact must be realized
if milk is to be produced that will
be profitable for the making of either
cheese or butter.
Preventing Garden Pests.
In our welfare with insect pests
we are coming more and more to
seek methods of prevention rather
than of remedy. AS the progressive
physician is placing larger empha-
sis upon hygiene and less upon drugs,
SO the entomologist is giving more
and more study to the relation of in
sect pests to their surroundings so
that he may better advise methods of
culture which will eliminate as far as
possible the losses from them, says
writer in the American Cultivator.
Such cultural methods for controlling
insect pests are more largely applf'
cable to what we may term field or
staple crops, but nevertheless have
an application to the crops of garden
and orchard. Thus it is well known