1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
679 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
To Fatten (?) an Old Cow. —I would 
have given different counsel in regard to 
that ancient female bovis on page 631. 
When all has been done for her that can 
bf—as proposed—she will sell for pos¬ 
sibly $12, of which $6 must go for feed, 
and the like, including boiling water. 
She will sell without fattening (?) for $6 
to the bologna factory, as her meat will 
cook without much waste. Put a good 
young cow into the place of the old one, 
feed the new cow the food fed to the 
other that will then—as you say—not be 
very fat, and with 30-centfall and winter 
butter, the ration fed to the old cow to 
make a pound of 1%-cent beef, will in 
the fresh cow, make a pound of 30-cent 
butter. The other $6 will make a pay¬ 
ment on the new cow, and by this plan, 
food that will be in one case an almost 
positive loss—for it will take several 
cents’ worth of grain to make a pound of 
penny beef—will in the other case make 
a pound of a 30 cent table luxury, and 
the skim-milk left will be worth as much 
as the gain in the old cow. john gould. 
Some Vermont Dairying.— The Ver¬ 
mont Watchman tells us about some dairy 
operations in the town of West Randol ph. 
From the creamery cream is sent to Bos¬ 
ton: “ The cream is placed in the morning 
in metallic cans of 100 pounds’ capacity. 
The cans are then packed in crushed ice. 
There they remain till about midnight, 
when they are protected by a canvas 
overcoat heavily wadded with hair felt. 
Thus the low temperature secured by the 
ice packing is maintained. The midnight 
express takes the packages to Boston, 
and in 24 hours from the milking the 
cream is in market, as sweet and delec¬ 
table as when the separator divorced it 
from its grosser element.” 
Moulton Bros, have a large Jersey herd 
and make butter on the Cooley system. 
About their farm it is said : “ The farm 
now produces 400 tons of hay, and about 
50 acres are planted to corn. Formerly 
a large quantity of hay was purchased, 
but now, under improved cultivation, the 
farm sustains the stock except in the 
matter of grain. Less corn fo 'der is 
ensiloed than formerly. When the corn is 
in the milk, the stalks are cut, gathered 
into large stooks, firmly bound near the 
top and left in the field to cure. As fast 
as wanted, the fodder is hauled in, on 
sleds in the winter, cut the same as for en- 
siloing, mixed with meal or bran, steamed 
and fed to the cattle. By this method 
the stalks are more perfectly cured than 
under cover and barn room is saved.” 
This plan is being followed on many 
more farms. 
Milk, Cream and Butter. —1. How 
many gallons of average dairy milk will 
make one pound of butter ? 2 . One gal¬ 
lon of average dairy cream will make 
how many pounds of butter ? j. j. m. 
Pratt County, Kans. 
Ans —1. In a general way, we should 
say about three gallons or 24 pounds. 
Of course an “ average ” is hard to strike, 
as milk varh s so much as does churning 
also. 2. As to the amount of butter 
churned from a given amount of cream, 
it is again hard to strike an average. 
This is due to great differences in skim¬ 
ming—as more or less water is taken. 
In Connecticut, 165 tests showed differ¬ 
ences in cream, varying from 13 8 to 24 9 
per cent of fat. At one creamery as we 
are told in the Connecticut Station re¬ 
port for 1891, an accurate test of churn¬ 
ing was made as follows: There went 
into the churn 467>6 pounds of cream and 
12 pounds of water. This cream con¬ 
tained 18% per cent of fat and 74% p r 
cent of water—the rest being sugar curd 
and ash. There were taken from the 
churn 108% pounds of salted butter or a 
little over 23 per cent of the weight of 
the cream. This butter contained 86% 
per cent of fat and 16% per cent of 
water—the balance being mostly salt 
and curd. This amount of water is far 
above the average. In 10 samples of 
dairy butter analyzed, the average was 
10 4-5 per cent of water, 3 4-5 per cent of 
salt, and 84 per cent of fat. On an aver¬ 
age, the creamery butter contained less 
water and more fat than the dairy. 
Butter Without Ice.— A Missouri 
correspondent of Hoard’s Dairyman tells 
how two farmers make firm butter with¬ 
out ice : 
They salt their butter before taking it 
out of the churn ; then they place it in 
mass in a tin can suited for the purpose, 
and lower it to the water’s edge in one 
of the wells. In 8 to 10 hours they lift 
it, work it well with a lever butter- 
worker, there being but a small quan¬ 
tity of salty water to be pressed from it, 
then they again swing it back into the 
well for an hour or two, when they lift 
it and print it in pound prints and wrap 
them in parchment paper. In this way 
they have succeeded in making firm but¬ 
ter. which they are able to carry four 
and ten miles to market in good condi¬ 
tion. They have no trouble in finding a 
ready sale at 25 cents a pound for all the 
butter they can make. 
Prof. Georgeson, of the Kansas Sta¬ 
tion, reports an experiment with feed¬ 
ing steers. He sought to teBt various 
mixtures of feeding stuffs, and also to 
see whether steers fed indoors made a 
greater gain than those fed outside. A 
“ balanced ration ” made by mixing 10 
pounds corn meal, five pounds shorts, 
two pounds bran and two pounds oil 
meal, with hay, gave the best feeding 
results. A mixture of molasses and 
corn meal fed with corn fodder was not 
at all satisfactory—did not pay. Steers 
fed out doors made the same gain as 
those indoors, but they had to eat two 
pounds of corn and 1% pound of hay 
extra per day to do it. 
TUBERCULOSIS IN NEW YORK STATE. 
Mr. A. II. Goodrich, of Springport, N. 
Y., has recently had an experience with 
this disease in his herd. 
About two months ago one of Mr. 
Goodrich’s cows was taken sick. He 
killed her and held a post-mortem him¬ 
self and from what he could learn was 
satisfied to call the New York State 
veterinarian. He wrote the State Board 
of Health and they sent the State ex¬ 
aminer, Dr. Curtis, to inspect his herd. 
From outward signs Dr., Curtis was con¬ 
vinced that the disease was tuberculosis 
He then proceeded to examine the entire 
herd, 25 in num-ier, 11 being cows Out 
of the 11, nine were found to show dis¬ 
tinct symptoms of the disease and he 
wrote the State Board of Animal Industry 
to that effect and they ordered the in¬ 
fected ones killed. They were driven to 
the bone-yard and the State veterinarian 
commenced operations, finding his diag¬ 
nosis true in every case, but some were 
not so bad as others. He was assisted by 
Drs. Gowiand and Beardsley, Dr. Curtis 
taking especial pains to show the by¬ 
standers all he could and to give all the 
information possible. He was asked if 
it was dangerous to drive such stock 
through the public highways. He said 
the Siate Board had decided that there 
was no danger. Mr Goodrich should be 
given great credit for the prompt action 
he has taken to stamp out the disease in 
his herd. How many would havj passed 
it over and kept it dark? It is hop_d 
that if any others have any suspicions 
that they have any symptoms of disease 
they will be as prompt as Mr. Goodrich 
has been. A. d. baker. 
R. N.-Y.—Andnow Mr Goodrich should 
be paid for the cows that were killed. 
Trim off all the red tape and settle with 
him at once. The disease is in quite a 
good many herds. It ought to be stamped 
out. If those who come forward and 
state the facts about their cows are not 
settled with, we may well-expect that 
others will do their best to hide the dis¬ 
ease until they can get rid of the cattle. 
Gentlemen of the Health Board, hurry 
up tne payment for these cows ! 
In writing to advertisers please always mention 
Thb Bubal. 
DORSET HORX RAM LAMB 
for sale, or would make it a pair, if desired. 
J. D. VAN VALKENBURGH, Jh., Greene, N. Y. 
Shropshires for Sale. 
Twenty-two one and two-year-old Rams; 16 year¬ 
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JAS. M. COLEGROVH, Box 1118, Corry, Pa. 
Buckley’s Watering Device 
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GUERNSEYS! 
The GRANDEST of DAIRY Breeds. 
Combining the richness of the Jersey with the size 
approximate to the Holstein or Short-horn, but 
standing alone and unbqcai.HI> In producing the 
richest colored butter In mid-winter on dry feed 
Gentle as pets, persistent milkers and hardy In con¬ 
stitution, they combine more qualification* for the 
dairy or family cow than any other breed. In the 
“ Old Brick Guernsey Herd” 
are daughters and granddaughters of the renowned 
Squire Kent. 1504 A. G. C. C. and of the tlnest strains 
on Guernsey or in America- Conus, son of Squire 
Kent and Statelltte, son of Kohlm head the herd. All 
particulars In regard to Breed and Herd oheerfully 
given. 8. P. TABKR WTLLETT8, 
“ The Old Brick,” Rosltn, L. I., N. Y. 
I will be In the East from 
September 22to November! 
or longer, and will travel 
over all the New Kntland 
States, New York, New Jersey, and most of Pennsyl¬ 
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Maine. FARMER MILES. 
QT. LAMRKRT Bull Calves and Heifers of the 
Cn best butter blood, tn-and-ln-bred to Stoke 
Pwgls III. (the sire of Mary Anne of St. L., 867 lbs. of 
butter In one year) at very low prices. 
E. L. CLARKSON. Tivoli. New York. 
High-Class Shropshires 
75 voarllnr rams th t will weigh 250 to 300 pounds 
and shear 12 to 15 pounds at maturity; and 150 year¬ 
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