1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
63 
ECHOES FROM DAIRY MEETINGS. 
“ Coming here,” said Mr. Smith at the 
Minnesota Dairymen’s Meeting, “a friend 
called attention to an old farmer who 
has a rich experience in successful dairy¬ 
ing, and said, * What a pity it is that 
John can’t tell the convention all he 
knows.’ 1 Yes,’ said another, 1 and what 
a pity it is that some of the speakers can 
tell what they don’t know.’” 
Tropical Dairy Trade. — At the 
Nebraska Dairymen’s Association, Mr. 
H. M. Bushnell said, among other things: 
“ Cuba in 1896, before the war question 
was at issue, imported 6,338 cases of but - 
ter from Europe, and from the United 
States the same year took the sum total 
of 54 cases. In the year 1897, this coun¬ 
try sold Cuba butter only to the value of 
810,932. In the year 1897, we sold Porto 
Rico butter to the value of 85,918, and 
during the same year, that island took 
from Denmark and Germany 8640,265 
worth of butter. What better field for 
cultivation than this almost within 
sight of the shores of this republic, and 
there will be a demand increased fifty¬ 
fold as American life and energy enter 
those island fields in peaceful conquest.” 
Prop. Thos. Shaw, at the Minnesota 
Dairymen’s Association, said that, in that 
country, wherever clover is grown, there 
could be no trouble about producing 
plenty of pasture, and where clover 
would not flourish, a good substitute was 
found in Australian Brome grass. An¬ 
other good substitute for clover is a mix¬ 
ture of about half a dozen grains such 
as rye, oats, peas and sorghum, all 
thickly sown together. This mixture 
would furnish a rich and continuous pas¬ 
ture all through the season. 
At the meeting of the Canadian But¬ 
ter and Cheese Association, the following 
dialogue took place: “If a cow was 
brushed off before milking, and there 
was sediment in the milk, is it possible 
for the sediment to come through the 
cow?” “No such cow ever existed. 
The cow has more sense.” 
From the Vermont Dairymen. 
Light grain does not make as solid 
butter as corn and cotton-seed meal. 
Cows must have good treatment, warm 
stables and warm water to drink in 
Winter. Wood in Vermont is cheaper to 
warm water for cows than hay and 
grain. Clean, well-ventilated stables are 
necessary. Never use wooden pails in 
the dairy. j. e. gale. 
In washing a milk pail, do not at first 
wash the pail with hot water, and never 
wipe a pail. Never feed cows imme¬ 
diately before milking, because impure 
germs from the food will be floating in 
the air, and injure the milk. 
C. H. WATERHOUSE. 
Raise as much protein as possible on 
the farm, but more will be needed, and 
in buying cattle food, buy it in cotton¬ 
seed meal, gluten and bran. It does not 
pay to buy corn meal to feed cows. A 
good grain ration for cows is equal parts 
of cotton seed and gluten meal, with 
double the weight of both in bran. If 
you raise your corn, grind cobs with the 
corn. You cannot add to the weight of 
butter more than one per cent by the ad¬ 
dition of salt. Butter should contain 
only about 12 per cent of water, c. u. w. 
You cannot thoroughly separate cream 
from milk if the separator is not run at 
full speed. Cream for consumers should 
be Pasteurized. This kind of cream will 
appear to be thin, but it should be sold 
by the Babcock test. Cream should be 
sold for one cent for every per cent of 
butter fat in the cream. Parchment 
paper wet in cold water will draw the 
color from the butter. Washing butter 
in salt water is simply throwing away 
salt. Casein will coagulate at 90 degrees, 
and it is not safe to pour hot water into 
the cream, because it will coagulate the 
cream and make white specks in the 
butter. c. h. w. 
Some conditions favor production in 
the West, first of which is cheaper food 
for the cows, with a longer pasture sea¬ 
son. Again, western farmers are more 
ready to adopt new methods in dairying 
than their eastern brethren. In dairy¬ 
ing, educating agencies in the West av¬ 
erage higher in efficiency than in the 
New England States, but there is a re¬ 
verse side to the picture. In New Eng¬ 
land, we have better cows, a dairy repu¬ 
tation, and we are nearer to good mar¬ 
kets. We have, also, the advantages of 
special dairy goods of superior quality. 
In spite of competition, some New 
England brands sell better by reason of 
their reputation, but nearness of mar¬ 
kets, transportation and cold storage 
have eliminated much of the distance. 
To-day the markets of the East take a 
large amount of cream and milk, but the 
time may be near at hand when frozen 
bricks of milk and cream will be brought 
from the West in competition with the 
New England production. 
Hungarian is a last-resort crop, when 
corn fails, but should not be sown as a 
principal crop. Farmers of Vermont 
should double their corn the coming 
year. Raise the corn instead of buying 
from the West, and buy cotton-seed and 
gluten. prof. j. l. hills. 
ALL SORTS. 
The New South Wales Department of 
Agriculture is now supplying butter fac¬ 
tories with pure cultures of lactic acid 
bacillus—put up in sterilized milk—for 
the purpose of securing uniformity in the 
ripening of cream. The purity of the 
ferment is guaranteed, having been pro¬ 
duced in the laboratory of the depart¬ 
ment. Imported preparations have been 
tried, but have not been entirely satis¬ 
factory. The locally-produced ferments 
are supplied free of cost, with a view of 
encouraging their use in connection with 
the system of Pasteurization. 
Legislating Against Tuberculosis.— 
In the New York State Senate, there 
has been introduced an anti-tuberculosis 
bill requiring all cattle brought into the 
State to have had a test 30 days previous 
at the hands of a State official who had 
furnished a written permit to import 
them. All transportation companies are 
forbidden to carry cattle without such 
certificate and permit. No indemnity is 
to be paid for slaughter of diseased cat¬ 
tle brought into the State without cer¬ 
tificate. Violation of the law imposes a 
fine of 825 to 8250 for first offense, and 
six months to one year imprisonment for 
second offense. 
Dairy Calves. —Gov. Hoard advises 
feeding warm skim-milk to all calves. 
The heifer calf should be fed oats, and 
the beef-steer calf corn meal. Oats in 
the bone and muscle of the Jersey cow 
will show themselves later on in milk 
production. He also advises dairymen 
not to try to raise Jersey steers for beef. 
In dairy districts usually Jersey steers 
are not very salable. It is better to sell 
the male Jersey for feeding, and if steers 
are wanted to feed in connection with 
dairy cows, buy male calves of beef 
stock, and raise them They will cost 
more than the Jerseys bring as veal, but 
there is more money in feeding them, for 
the same reason that there is more 
money in feeding Jersey cows for but¬ 
ter. Why ? Because they have been 
specially bred for producing beef, just as 
the Jersey cow has been specially bred 
for producing butter. 
Cows for Cuba. —A Cuban recently 
called on his way to Havana, where he 
hoped to establish a milk business. He 
said he thought that the rush of Ameri¬ 
cans to Cuba would create a good de¬ 
mand for milk, butter and cheese. He 
wanted the best cattle for a first-class 
milk trade. We advised him to investi¬ 
gate the southern grade Jerseys, which 
are produced in large numbers in Mis¬ 
sissippi, Alabama and Texas. These 
animals are from good parentage, are 
larger than our northern grades, are 
perfectly hardy and well acclimated. 
They would be more likely to stand the 
hot weather of Cuba than cattle taken 
from the northern States. Many Jersey 
grades are, also, to be found near Mon¬ 
terey, Mexico. Some of them were taken 
from Mississippi as young calves, while 
others were bred and raised in Mexico. 
They would be likely to go to Cuba pre¬ 
pared to do good service at once, while 
the northern cattle would feel like lying 
down and grieving over the situation, 
with the chances that they would grieve 
themselves to death. 
Oleo in Ohio.— The Supreme Court is 
considering a curious oleomargarine case, 
which comes from Ohio. The Ohio law 
provides that, wherever oleo is used for 
cooking or served to customers of any 
boarding house, restaurant, eating house, 
etc., a white placard with the words, 
“ Oleomargarine Sold and Used Here ”, 
in large black letters, must be displayed. 
Oleo was served to the inmates of the 
Soldiers’ Home in the regular dining¬ 
room. No placard was displayed. The 
Governor of the Home was fined 850 by a 
justice of the peace. He appealed from 
this decision, and the lower court sus¬ 
tained him. The case has now been car¬ 
ried to the Supreme Court, the point 
being that the Soldiers’ Home is not sub¬ 
ject to the State law. A decision on this 
point will be important as, in a number 
of States, the inmates of public institu¬ 
tions had been required to eat oleo in 
the place of butter. 
Smaller Meat.— The English butchers 
say that there is a great demand for 
small cattle. The public taste has 
changed in favor of small cuts of meat. 
Formerly large cattle were desired, and 
grades of Short-horns and Herefords were 
considered about right. Now there is a 
demand for smaller steers, such as Devon 
grades, and it is very hard to obtain 
them. In our home market, we find 
much the same thing with pigs. Local 
butchers use the western dressed beef 
almost entirely, but they don’t like the 
western fresh pork so well. The car¬ 
casses are generally too large for them, 
and too fat. Eastern hogs dressing 100 
and 125 pounds are much preferred by 
butchers. They give a smaller roast and 
a smaller chop, and cut up to better ad¬ 
vantage. These smaller animals are 
actually more profitable than the large 
ones. It costs less to produce them, and 
it is not necessary to feed them until 
they are very fat. 
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Gilt=Edge Butter 
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In fact, he cannot afford 
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Avoid all mistakes and 
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WHAT IS THE BEST SEPARATOR? 
THE IMPROVED UNITED STATES. 
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