Deerfoot Farm Centrifugal Dairy. 483 
The Feeding. — We shall here allow Mr. Burnett to speak for 
himself: — 
" The essentials to produce the best results are good cows, good feed, regu- 
larity, cleanliness about the stables and dairy, and a thermometer. I will 
give you my own method of feeding, and in so doing those dairymen who 
aim at quantitij will realise that we are shooting at different targets, for with 
me quantity is secondary, quality being the greatest desideratum. 
" Our finest butter is obtained in early summer, when the pastures are 
sending forth their early, sweet, succulent grasses, and we depend entirely 
upon them ; but when these begin to fail, about mid-summer, I begin to feed 
wilted clover and a small quantity of grain, increasing as the season advances, 
imless the pastures are unusually good. I cut all my grass early, beginning 
by the 5th of June, and generally get a good second crop, thus trying to have 
an abundance of rowen hay. When in winter quarters I begin feeding at 
about 5.30 in the morning with hay, a little jag or wisp at a time, not so 
much but what the cows will eat it up clean. Then, after milking, the grain 
— ^from three to six quarts, according to the cow — consisting of two parts of 
Indian-meal and one of shorts or bran ; or feeding entirely on ordinary cob- 
bage (corn and cob ground together). After this, more hay, which lasts until 
about 9 A.M. I begin again at 3 p.m. with a little hay, followed by roots (man- 
golds) cut fine, a bushel being divided between three cows ; then more hay 
again, which lasts them until about 6.30 p.m. 
" I maintain that if more shorts are fed than are necessary to counterac t 
the heating quality and condensed richness of the . corn-meal, it deteriorates 
the butter. During last March (1879) I saw this illustrated, being called upon 
in Boston to examine some butter from one of the finest dairies in the State, 
and which was troubling the dealer who sold it. He said it was negatively 
good ; nothing could be said against it, yet mighty little could be said in its 
favour. It seemed to lack that fine nutty flavour so necessary to fresh butter 
that commands over 40 cents per pound. I said at once, upon tasting it, 
' Too much shorts, and not enough corn-meal.' He answered, ' Just what I 
thought, but didn't dare to say so until it was confirmed.' In less than ten 
days the butter from that dairy was improved." 
3f ambulation. — There are two sources of supply for the milk, 
the home herd and that furnished by the neighbouring farms. 
The milk of the morning and the evening is kept separated. 
The morning's milk from the home herd is poured from the 
milk cans into a large cooler, and is thence, after being cooled, 
bottled for market as new milk. In summer it is shipped at 
7 P.M. The cooler which receives this portion is a large metal 
cylindrical vat, of the capacity of 150 gallons. Within this 
is suspended a box containing ice, and attached to a lever, so 
that motion can be communicated to it in case the cooling is 
desired to be hastened, or a sort of propeller which keeps the 
milk in movement. As soon as the temperature is reduced to 
50° the milk is drawn in successive portions into a pail, and 
thence poured into the bottles, which, after being corked securely, 
are transferred in the frames to the water refrigerator, as it may 
be called, where they remain until shipment. 
The milk tank, with its cooler which receives the milk from 
the upper floor, is suspended at a convenient height on the 
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