38 Thirty-Sixth Annual Repout of the 



I said a minute ago that cooperation and economy are the 

 key notes of successful dairying in Canada. Practically all of 

 our cheese and butter are made in the cooperative factories. This 

 is perhaps not true to the same extent here, so that possibly what 

 I shall say will not have as direct a bearing upon your dairy work 

 which it might otherwise. Yet I think the principles are the 

 same whether practiced or followed in Canada, the United States, 

 or Denmark or any other country. 



Now, my subject is Cheese Making vs. Butter Making. First 

 let us look at the points of similarity between them. 



POINTS OF SIMII.ARITY. 



Both cheese and butter making require that the farmer or 

 milk producer shall have good cows. By a good cow we under- 

 stand one which produces not less than 6000 pounds of milk in 

 one year, if making cheese be the branch followed, and one that 

 produces not less than 250 pounds of butter, if butter making 

 be the chief line followed. To state it in another way a cow 

 should earn over and above the cost of her feed not less than 

 twenty-five dollars per year. She may go as much beyond these 

 figures as she likes, but these are the minimum or lowest amounts 

 allowed. 



In both, cheap and suitable feed are necessary. It is feed 

 that makes the cow milk. Generally speaking, we should recom- 

 mend grass, clover, corn silage, mangels, bran, crushed oats, pea- 

 meal, and a small amount of the concentrated feeds, such as lin- 

 seed cake, cottonseed meal, gluten feed, etc., as being suitable 

 feeds for milk production. Our own practice is to give little or 

 no meal during the summer when the cows are on good grass. If 

 supplemental feeds are necessary, we use bran, corn silage, and 

 green feed in the form of peas and oats or corn. 8 to 10 pounds 

 cut clover hay, 20 to 30 pounds pulped mangels (all of which 

 is mixed together for some time before feeding) together with 

 about 8 pounds of meal daily per cow. The meal consists of 

 4 lbs. bran, 3 lbs. ground oats and one lb. linseed cake. 



An experiment comparing 4, 8, and 12 pounds meal daily per 

 cow, conducted during January, February and March, 1905, in 

 the stable at the Dairy of the College gave the following yields 

 and costs for milk and butter : — 



