CONTENTS XXI 



PAQES 



Farm Butter- Making 458 



Bitter milk and cream, 459 — Why butter will not " come," 460 

 — Old cream makes poor-flavored butter, 461 — White specks in 

 the butter, 461 — Mottled butter, 461 — Effect of feed on butter- 

 fat, 461. 



Butter from Whey 461 



Milk^ Butter, and Dairy-farm Scores 462 



Score-card for market-milk, 402 — Butter score-card, 463 — 

 Cheese score-card, 464 — University of Wisconsin score-cards, 465. 



Butter Classifications and Grades 465 



Definitions, 465 — Grades, 465 — Specials, 465 — Extras, 466 — 

 Seconds, 466 — Thirds, 467 — No. 1 packing stock, 467 — No. 2 

 packing stock, 467 — No. 3 packing stock, 467. 



Dairy Establishment Scores and Bules 467 



Score-card for production of sanitary milk, 467 — Milk inspec- 

 tion of farm dairies, 469 — Rules for the production of clean 

 milk, 471 — Sanitary inspection of city milk plants, 472. 



CHAPTER XXV 



Construction, Farm Engineering, Mechanics . . . 473-503 

 Silos 473 



Least number of dairy cows for silos of given diameters, 473 — 

 Feeding capacity of silos, 473 (Approximate quantity of silage 

 required per day — Necessary diameter of silos for feeding given 

 numbers of cows) — Other silo figures, 476 (Weight of silage- 

 capacity of cylindrical silos) . 



Barn Figures 477 



Wire Fence 477 



Dimensions of 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-acre lots and fence required to inclose 

 them, 478 — Gauges, sizes, and weights of plain wire, 479 — Barb- 

 wire, 479 — Galvanized coiled spring-steel wire, 479 — Rods of 

 fence required for fields of different sizes, 480. 

 Tensile Strengths of Bopes . ........ 481 



Tile Draining 481 



Number of feet of tile per acre, 481— Limit of size of tile to 

 grade and length, 481 — Number of acres drained by given sizes 

 of tile, 482 — Price-list of tile, 483 — Cost of laying tile, 483 — 

 Drainage points, 484 — Don'ts in land drainage, 484. 



Boad-Drags 485 



Use of the King road-drag, 485 — The split-log road-drag, 487. 



