Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-13

I'm the spring, ana It win stand u!
kinds Of frost. We cut it just n soon
las the oats are in the dough, or a
soon - the peas are In pod They
must not be left Jonesafter that rs the
peas Eet too hard quickly. Wesput ;up
500 tons of It last summer. BY the
time this stlage 10 done the corn IL In,
81 don't aim to raise any Of the
concentrates We use mill feeds prin-
cipally and raise only-the roughage,
We arelusing the farm here OF about
$50 acres to Keep up the herd. ]
couldn't make any money on II. II
were trytnx to farm It without cows,
y had 100 acres of corn last. year and
will put in about 100 next year. ]
I don't like it ID well ~ the Minnesota
Is. but Z am always sure it will ma
ture and that ID one of the most i'm.
portant things infrai8tng fodder corn.
I wouldn't be without inslage. It, ia
nonsense to say thatSit navors the
milk. The only way that could happen
would be.to let the milk sit around in
! the barn for some time after 1t Ia
h1ilked. where there 10 q strong odor
Of silage. Fresh milk takes an odor
very quickly and it should be removed
from the barn Immediately when 1t
is MIXED.
Milking Time.
The Herald visitor was nj the barns
at milking time in the afternoon and
saw how cieaniy everything IL done.
h barns Are kept clean with three
rcen doing nothing else than cleaning
them and as o "a, they. finish with
the hauling out Of the manure they go
70 curryfnG the cows. All. down these
long aisles were rows of clean TANKS.
Before milking a man goes down the
line and wipes OF. the .udders and teats
to remove any dust that may be. there,
no matter how. clean they may look.
Tho mixers r all dry hand mixers.
The. milk IL strained through eight
thicknesses of cloth n one ithickness
Of cotton baton between the cloths.
ed from the barn to the milk house
where it 10 at n ce deposited in the
cooler tank. It is then strained in to
the bother with-two. thickneBes Of
nm cloth. It il all mixed together 70
a. to maintain a uniform test.
The bother is a great labor saving
device. 1t automatically measures
h quarts. and pints. Every day It
bottles 600 quarts, 1e0 pints Of milk
and $50 half pints OF: cream. In addi-
ton to the bottle sales there arc 25
gallons of whole milk and s or Z al-
Ions OF cream wholesaled daily.
Milking time is at 4 a. m. and 4
D. m. winter and summer. It takes
about two hours to do the milking.
The drivers get away at about z every
morning and get back about II
O'Clock. One nan is kept constantly
busy in. the milk house. and, the man
Massee employs in this capacity
Is an exceptionally capable one. 1t IL
due to his skill in sanitation and the
fact. that the milk is always immedi-
ately removed from the barn as soon
as it is MIXED that keeps the dairy's
bacteria record 30 high. A disinfec-
tant called "B-K' is used constantly in
the milk house. and in washing the
utensils: which are all. of course,
Keeps the flies away in Sumner. The
milk house is wen equipped with EN-
Gent electrically driven machinery. It
has a Babcock tester and the milk is
tested three tines a week: A great
deal Of ice is used. $50 tons were put
up this winter for the dairy.
The barns have three silos in. con-
nection. two having a capacity Of $50,
pacity Of 14o tons. They are filled,
allowed to settle and then filled up
again. The barns are cid ones. for
merly used by the saw mill. They are
well built and have been made over
into very good dairy barns. with good
ventilation patterned after the King
system. Mr.. Massee's characteristic
good sense is shown in this, az in
many other things about, the farm,
that he doesn't wait until he has
everything new before starting his
dairy.
Well Bred Sire.
The herd sire is a very well bred
fellow. He is Uneeda King .Alcar-
ira Greenwood No. 2z7275:H III. F. H.
-. He was bred by n. F. Dupont,
Wintefthur Delaware. and was drop-
ped November. 20. 1917. His sire was
undeeda King Alcartra. and his dam
Miss Greenwood Concordia Petite.
The sire's sire was the famous Old
King Seeis Pontiac Alcartra. Mr..
Massee bought this sire two years ago
from Fred Kuehl, Glyndon. Mimi,
who had bought him directly from
Mr.. DUPONT.
The Best Milk.
We are interested in making the
best possible milk for market. and in
getting it on the market az quickly az
possible after it Is MIXED" said. Mr..
Massee. W also want to make a
living out of it. We figure we ,ough,
to make about a cent q bottle ON it
cents on. it. but anything above one
cent ought to be credited TO the farm
on production Of feed. There il a
rood deal of expense that one would
not ordinarily think OF. and there II
a great deal Of bookkeeping to be
done. The reports r made daily or
every quart Of milk produced, and arr
handled in loose-leaf form here in thu
ONCE. We check up on the number
o. bottles hat 30 out and come bach
Mr.. Masaea IN a nror,fu>.t o%-~-