Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-02-12
An Interesting MISCELLANY.

An Interesting Miscellany.
From No. s, of Volume 27, Of the
Experiment Station Record, issued by
the Department Of Agriculture at
Washington, CLEAN the following in
teresting and instructive bits of in
formation:
The use of milk containing the
Yobhourt, or bacteria that sours the
milk in Bulgaria, for making bread
imparts an agreeable flavor, especial
ly to rye bread, and renders it more
easily digested.
The New Jersey station has herd
OF "a dairy COWS that averaged S,661
pounds of milk in q year. The milk
of the Holsteins tested 3.43 per cent
butterfat, that Of the Jerseys SIT
per cent, that of Guernseys 4.S5 per
cent, and that of the Ayershires 4.S5
per cent. But the Holsteins yielded
so much more milk than the others
that if all the milk had been sold at
6 cents per quart, each cows milk, on
an average, would have brought the
following amounts: Holsteins, $271.
SS; Jerseys, $223.06; Guernseys,
$162.7S; Ayershires. $241.30.
In experiments at the station of
Ontario, Canada, dried brewars grain
proved superior to wheat bran for
milk production, and one ton Of cot
ton seed meal poved equal to two
tons Of bran. Soy bean meal and cot
ton seed meal gave almost Identical
results. When a good quality of al
falfa hay was substituted for the
grain ration there was no decrease in
the milk yield.
At this same station good quality
of Devonshire cream Is produced by
separating it by a cream separator,
at temperature Of ITO to $50 de-
grees, bottling while hot, covering
and then setting in a refrigerator to
cool. Such cream tested SO to 60
per cent fat and kept to 10 days in
good condition.
This station also made a number
Of tests Of paper bottles intended to
be used once and then burned. After
being pasteurized, the milk was cool
ed to IS degrees and then bottled and
set in refrigerator and kept at a
temperature Of Sc degrees. There
was no appreciable difference in the
temperature or acidity Of the milk in
glass and in paper bottles; however,
some Of the paper bottles impaired a
package flavor to their contents. On
the whole the Judgment of the sta
ton is that if the cost of paper bot
ties is less than the cost Of rehand-
ling and cleaning glass bottles, they
may replace glass for retail milk and
cream to be used within "a hours.
The report of the Industrial and
Agricultural Cooperative Societies
Of Great Britain for the last ten years
possesses unusual interest for Ameri-
can farmers just now; when there is
such general protest against the
enormous rake-off the middlemen are
taking between what the producers
receive and the consumers pay. These
| cooperative societies are Of two
| classes-producer and distributive
| societies, both composed Of the same
farmers, but having different duties;
their purpose being to distribute and
market the produce Of their members
to the consumers direct. In fifteen
years the number Of producer socie-
ties increased from 46 to 317 tand the
membership increased from 3,110 to
| 45,622. Their capital now exceeds
two million dollars, and their profit
the last year was over a hundred
thousand dollars on total sales Of
more than ten millions worth OF
products during the year. During the
same fifteen years the number of dis
tributive societies increased from II
to 334, and the membership Increased
from 2,418 to 39,S38; and their capt.
tai increased from forty thousand
dollars to nearly million. The last
year they made total profits of $685.
900 on total sales OF six and half
million dollars worth of products.