CARE OF MILK AND CREAM 89 



in any other form of dairying. If the creamery 

 does not see what it has to do with this prob- 

 lem, then it is not big enough for its place. 

 Stop fighting the farm separator and go to work 

 to teach the farmer better how to deal with the 

 milk and cream at the farm end. Eemember 

 that the farm separator and calf and pig raising 

 is the main defense of the creamery against the 

 competition of milk shipping and condensing. 



"Now a word, if you please, as to the real 

 money value of good skim-milk for calf and 

 pig raising. Of course, much depends on the 

 kind of calves and pigs one raises and so does 

 the price you get for butter depend on the kind 

 of butter you make and sell." 



An experiment in calf raising. "Here is an 

 experiment of my own calf raising. I took ten 

 grade Guernsey heifer calves, such as any ordi- 

 nary farmer can produce, part of them bought 

 right after birth of neighbors. I kept them till 

 they were ten months old and sold them for $25 

 apiece. That is not a big price for fine heifer 

 calves of desirable blood. I fed each of those 

 calves a dollar's worth of oats; alfalfa hay to 

 the amount of $1.50, and 50 cents worth of blood 

 meal. That' made $3.00. I allowed $3.00 for 

 the carcass. That made a total of $6.00, leav- 

 ing $19.00 to be credited to the 3,000 pounds 

 of skim-milk each consumed. Understand, I 



