1908 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ii3 
THE SUNDAY MILK PROBLEM. 
The greatest difTiculty the milkman 
has to contend with is temperature. He 
can handle milk well in Winter, but 
cannot get such good results in Summer. 
In the first place, we must assume that 
every milkman has an ice house, and 
that the milk is placed in ice as soon as 
milked, because the germs producing 
sour milk multiply rapidly at a tem¬ 
perature above 70 degrees, w^hile at 50 
or lower they are held in suspense. After 
much annoyance and trouble with sour 
milk I devised a simple method for con¬ 
trolling it, shown in Fig. 42. I had made 
a cylinder of galvanized iron, same di¬ 
mensions as the mouth of the milk can, 
and running through the can to within 
about 1’/^ or two inches of the bottom, 
and held in place by a flange at top of 
s>ame shape as the mouth of milk can. 
This w'ould permit of the lid or cap be¬ 
ing placed on the can, or cylinder, and 
prevent the e.scape of either milk or the 
water formed from the ice. As soon as 
the milk was aerated it was placed in 
the can, the cylinder inserted, and this 
cylinder filled with ice; or if preferred 
the milk can be ke])t in some cool place 
until ready for delivery and then put in 
can, the cylinder inserted, which being 
filled with ice, soon cools all the milk 
surrounding. I made a test, when the 
thermometer was registering almost 100 
degrees outside and found the milk in 
the can to be at 40 degrees. I could de¬ 
liver milk—requiring five hours in the 
delivery—and the last would be as good 
and sweet as the first, and not a particle 
of butter formed by the rocking of the 
wagon. The cylinder filled with ice 
v/hen the route was commenced would 
last for the five hours in midsummer. 
We would milk at 4 A. M. and 3 P. M., 
using the morning milk to cream for the 
next morning delivery and the afternoon 
milk for the morning sweet milk. On 
Saturday we made two deliveries. In 
the morning we used the milk of the 
previous day, while in the evening we 
used the milk as gathered that day. The 
only difllcnlty we found was that we 
could not obtain sufficient cream. The 
can to which I refer was an idea of my 
own and worked to perfection; I never 
saw one used before, nor since. If any¬ 
one wishes to use it they can do so, as no 
patent is attached to it. J. k. b. 
Wa.shington, D. C. 
Success with Holstein Cattle. 
l)r. G. A. Coe sends us a statement 
made in the Watertown (N. Y.) Stand¬ 
ard from which we take the following 
facts: Dr. Coe started with 30 ordinary 
cows. He bought a good Holstein bull 
and after three years bought another 
and then still another—all of good milk¬ 
ing families. In a few years his old 
dairy was gone and he had a good herd 
of black and wdiite cattle. Later he 
bought three pure-bred heifers. Now he 
says: 
“I give a report of the yearly earnings 
of my dairy of 11 registered and 19 high- 
grade Holsteins, 10 of the 30 being heif¬ 
ers with their first calves, and with one 
exception all having been bred and rais¬ 
ed on the farm. The milk was taken for 
eight months to a milk station, and for 
the last four months to a cheese factory, 
where the milk was taken in and the 
dividends apportioned upon the butter 
fat it contained, as determined by the 
Babcock test. To draw aiiention to the 
fact that this herd ought not to be call¬ 
ed ‘skim-milk Holsteins,’ the lowest test 
of the entire herd at any time during the 
four months was 3.5 and the highest 4.4 
per cent butter fat. Tests were made 
every two weeks during the four 
months. My dairy year commences No¬ 
vember 1 and the result is as follows: 
November, ’01 . $155.60 
December, ’01 . 155.24 
January, ’02 . 101.18 
February, ’02 . 125.89 
March, '02 . 237.18 
April, ’02 . 278.61 
May, ’02 . 266.31 
June, ’02 . 225.81 
July, August Milk Station. 1,545.82 
September, October Cheese Factory. 628.39 
Total .$2,174.21 
Calves sold . 253.00 
An average of $80.90 each cow. 2,427.21 
Calves on hand.'.. 350.00 
An average of $92.57 each cow.$2,777.21 
The calves sold were six thorough¬ 
breds, remainder grades. I also have on 
hand five thoroughbreds and nine high- 
grade heifer calves that were raised on 
sweet milk right from the cow, and 
which I can sell within two weeks, if I 
wished, for at least $350. I was offered 
and refused $210 for four of them last 
Spring. From November 1, 1901, to May 
9, J902, the 30 cows were fed what clover 
hay they needed, about 30 pounds of 
corn silage per day, and an average of 
$16.38 of grain to each cow. From May 
9 to November 1 they had no grain, hav¬ 
ing good pasture, and through October 
were fed in addition a good feeding of 
clover silage per day. For all practical 
dairy purposes my grades are doing 
equally as well as the pure-breds. The 
above report would seem to demonstrate 
that by using a pure-bred sire of tested 
ancestry upon an ordinary herd, and 
‘keeping at it’ for a term of years, care¬ 
fully selecting the best of the offspring, 
you will change the producing quality 
of the original herd to one that is very 
far above the average.” 
A Good Holstein Cow. 
The cow-shown at Fig. 39, page 102, is 
owned by our advertiser, T. A. Mitchell, 
of Weedsport, N. Y., who says of her: 
‘‘Nannette 3d Pledge 2d 39518, a member 
*of the Oakland herd, has made two tests 
both supervised and certified to by a 
representative of Cornell Agricultural 
Experiment Station. At three years old 
she gave 412.7 pounds of milk, 17.38 
pounds of butter, in seven days; at four 
years 69.1 pounds milk in one day, 475.1 
pounds in seven days, containing 17.74 
pounds of fat, or 22.16 pounds butter, 80 
per cent fat While she is a remarkable 
dairy cow, her form is such that she fills 
quite well the requirements of the dual- 
purpose advocate.” 
98 POINTS 
Highest Score 
AT THE 
New York Dairymen’s Ass’n Meeting 
Jamestown, N. Y., Dec. 9—12, 1902 
WON BY THE DIAMOND CREAMERY CO. 
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