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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Vaich 
\U\ZE STOCK 
AND DAIRY. 
Thk story is told of an Iowa dairyman 
who skimmed his milk at home by hand, 
and satisfied himself that there was not 
enough butter fat left in it to give even 
a smell of butter. A separator man chal¬ 
lenged him to bring a sample of his 
skim-milk for analysis. The challenge 
was accepted, and the test showed that 
two per cent of butter fat had been left 
in the milk ; in other words, nearly one- 
half of the butter in that milk had been 
fed to calves and pigs. This is pretty ex¬ 
pensive pig feeding, even at the present 
low prices for butter. It was, certainly, 
an eye-opener for that dairyman. The 
human hand is superior to many ma¬ 
chines, but when it comes to skimming 
milk, no hand-skimmer can beat the 
separator for getting the butter fat out 
of a given weight of everyday milk. 
On page 82, an Ohio man said that 
“cows will make slaves of you.” Here 
comes a so-called dairy slave from New 
York State, who isn’t troubled about his 
slavery: 
“Cows will make slaves of you! ” Now if they 
will, how will they ? What other occupation can 
one follow that will not ? If a man work hard 
all day afield, he is tired at night; but what 
man with a love for the calling of farmer, ever 
sat down to milk a quiet, easy (and don’t keep 
any other!) cow, and did not feel rested after it ? 
I work about as hard as any one, and calculate 
to milk six cows in an hour, night and morning, 
when they are in full flow of milk;' that is 14 
hours a week. Churning, say three times a week, 
takes three hours; “driving home the cows,” 
seven nights, three hours—20 hours out of 168; not 
much slavery there. Take the same work in the 
Winter, less driving cows—17—add two hours a 
day for care in stable—14 hours—31 hours. 
The man who doesn’t love a cow has no 
business to go near one or to advise 
other people about keeping her. Butter 
will absorb odors—good or bad—put a 
pound of it near a peck of onions and 
see. A cow will absorb bad habits from 
her milker. Prove it by putting a man 
who thinks milking is slavery, in with 
your cows for a week. The best thing 
for the “ cow slave ” to do is to get out of 
the dairy business. 
The following little story illustrates a 
principle of breeding that all stockmen 
and farmers will recognize : 
A man in Paris has been making a good deal 
of money exhibiting a curious animal. It was a 
very queer little animal, and the alert Parisians 
were willing enough to drop the petit sou for a 
sight of it. One day, however, a dog chanced to 
enter. Immediately the wondrous animal humped 
its back like a diminutive camel, and began to 
hiss and spit. The mystery was solved. It was 
a shaved cat. 
No one knew what the animal was until 
it displayed a habit that had been bred 
into it for hundreds of generations. At 
the sight of a dog, it acted just as cats 
have done for hundreds of years. It just 
could not help doing so. The habit was 
in the cat, and nothing could take it out. 
Milk-making is a habit. Putting butter 
fat into milk is another habit. In some 
families of dairy breeds of cattle, these 
habits are so fixed that individuals can’t 
help doing what their mother did, any 
more than the cat could help humping 
her back at the sight of the dog. Most 
farmers will start improvement by select¬ 
ing their best females, and buying a 
male of good breeding. That makes it 
more necessary than ever to select a male 
from, not only a good breed, but a good 
family of that breed. 
If you don't weigh your milk, I will 
guarantee that the best investment you 
can make of the next $3 or 84 that come 
into your hand, is to buy a spring scale, 
the kind you can set at zero, with the 
empty pail hanging thereon. Hang it 
in the barn near where you keep the 
milk while milking ; on a piece of card¬ 
board or heavy paper, rule off little 
squares. At the top, write the name or 
number of each cow, and set down the 
weight of each cow’s milk, night and 
morning. You will learn something in 
less than a week. \ T ou will get more 
and better milk, because you will milk 
faster and get all of it in order to beat 
the previous record. You will be sur¬ 
prised to find that some cows give more, 
some less, than you had supposed. The 
scales don’t guess, they tell it as it is, 
black or white. You will, also, learn 
that some cows give more when milked 
by ceitain milkers. But if you are mak¬ 
ing butter, don't depend entirely on the 
scale; use the Babcock test. This is 
now sold at a reasonable price, and it 
doesn’t require a scientific education to 
use one. At a farmers’ institute, I once 
advised a farmer to weigh his milk. “ I 
did so,” he said. “ I sold a cow to one 
of my neighbors because she didn’t give 
quite enough, and then found out that 
she was making a pound of butter a 
day.” He had gone right part way. but 
gambled on her quality. it. G. M. 
A complete outfit for Pasteurizing the 
milk and skimming it while hot, as well 
as instruction in ripening the cream 
from such milk, and making the butter 
from it, has been added to the equip¬ 
ment of our dairy school. Although 
these continuous Pasteurizing machines, 
which will heat from 5,000 to 10,000 
pounds of milk per hour to the Pasteur¬ 
izing temperature of 155 degrees F., are 
not primarily intended for Pasteurizing 
milk or cream to be sold directly to the 
customer in pint and quart bottles, a 
practical test was made of the keeping 
quality of the cream and skim-milk that 
came frcm the separator at this high 
temperature. Pint samples of both the 
hot cream and hot skim-milk were taken 
directly from the separator, and cooled 
in the sterilized glass milk jars, which 
are commonly used for retailing milk to 
the consumer. These samples were 
cooled at once to about 50 degrees F.; 
the jars were covered with paper caps 
and left in a room at a temperature of 
about 05 degrees F. Six trials were 
made in this way, by taking samples of 
the hot skim-milk and hot cream directly 
from the separator on six different days. 
It was found that these pint samples, 
kept in sterilized bottles, remained per¬ 
fectly sweet in every case for four days. 
Some were sweet after five days, but 
most of them had a slightly sour smell, 
and about 0.3 per cent acid on the fifth 
day. PROF. E. H. FARRINGTON. 
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