1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
5o7 
Live Stock and Dairy. 
(CONTINUED.) 
The Spring of 1898 found the creamery 
crippled for room, so an addition was 
put on, a larger churn put in, and a new 
Pasteurizer, also. A good quantity of 
cream is sold this year, which brings a 
better return than butter. As you see, 
the company has been to a good deal of 
expense every year, but the business has 
increased in the same ratio. This year, 
4,000 pounds of milk were turned away 
for want of capacity to handle it; it was 
thought imprudent to increase the capac¬ 
ity any more at present, as 21.000 pounds 
of milk in one day are about all the ma¬ 
chinery will handle and give good satis¬ 
faction. So in spite of all the discourage¬ 
ments to begin with, and the constant 
expense the company has incurred every 
year, it has never failed to pay a divi¬ 
dend to the stockholders. The plant to¬ 
day is worth $ 2,000 more than it was the 
day it commenced running. 
The butter has always brought from 
four to six cents per pound more than 
dairy butter. Last January, the State 
Dairymen’s Association was held at 
Ypsilanti. Lakeside Elgin butter scored 
97. A good deal of their butter is put up 
in pound prints. Hotel Cadillac, of De¬ 
troit, takes 50 pounds daily. Nearly all 
of the output of butter is sold in Detroit. 
The success of the Lakeside Elgin Put¬ 
ter Company can be attributed to, first, 
a good buttermaker ; next, a good man 
at the head to find an opening for 
good butter ; next, harmony among the 
stockholders, and that everlasting push 
which is required to make a success of 
any business. The stockholders of the 
Lakeside Elgin Putter Company have the 
last in abundance. I will say for the 
benefit of C. P. A., Coshocton County, O., 
page 475, if a creamery is run on right 
principles, it can get more butter than 
the average dairy buttermaker, but the 
price will depend altogether on the qual¬ 
ity of the butter. j, c. iiavkn. 
MORE FAT MILK NOTES. 
DOES QUALITY PAY ? 
Quality Pays in Illinois.— It is cer¬ 
tainly true that our milk dealers here 
are forced, by the demands of consumers, 
to give attention to quality as well as 
quantity of milk. The price for average 
milk here at wholesale is from eight to 
11 cents per gallon. I furnish 40 gal¬ 
lons per day from a small herd of pure¬ 
bred and grade Jerseys, at 15 cents per 
gallon the year round, and the retailer 
disposing of this milk has for it a special 
trade, paying twice the price received 
for the average milk. Quite generally, 
our dairymen are now improving their 
herds by the use of purebred Jerseys, 
being thus compelled to improve the 
character of their product in order to 
hold trade. o. J. bailey. 
Peoria, Ill. 
Jersey Cream in Missouri. —I have 
never had any experience myself in sell¬ 
ing milk. My business is breeding reg¬ 
istered Jersey cattle, and in connection, 
I sell pure Jersey cream, feeding all my 
milk to my calves. In regard to selling 
cream, I have no trouble to sell my cream 
at least 15 per cent higher than those 
having just common cows. In my ob¬ 
servation of milk dealers, I notice that 
customers demand a richer quality of 
milk, and are willing to pay more in 
proportion to the quality. In fact, I 
have a large demand for Jersey milk, 
but do not sell any. I think the induce¬ 
ments great for dairymen to improve 
their herds by the use of the best Jersey 
or Guernsey bulls obtainable, and think 
the time is not far distant when it will 
be necessary for milkmen to do so to 
enable them to compete with the pro¬ 
gressive farmers that are now doing so. 
Trenton, Mo. E. B. COOPER. 
Color the Milk. —There is no surer 
way to improve one’s stock and do a 
better dairy business, than to raise the 
character of the cattle by grading. It 
seems to me that the time has come when 
one should consider, if he expects to be 
successful, not alone the question of how 
much he can produce, but also, how he 
can secure the best quality, and thus 
command the best market. I have found 
it possible for dairymen to sell rich milk 
at an improved price, particularly in 
larger towns and cities, but generally it 
is noted that the best dairy products 
always command a sale in face of the 
strongest competition. The glass bottle 
containing a golden-colored milk that 
shows a large per cent of cream, is al¬ 
ways salable, and this can be no better 
accomplished than by the use of the 
Guernsey bull on good grade milking 
COWS. W. U. CALDWELL. 
Peterboro, N. n. 
ITEMS OF INTEREST. 
Fish as Stock Food.— The reference 
to the use of horseshoe crabs as poultry 
food, on page 471, recalls the fact that 
these shellfish are utilized as food for 
swine along the Jersey coast. During a 
part of the Summer, the horseshoe crabs 
are taken in immense quantities, and 
thrown into the piggeries, where they 
are greedily devoured. The flesh of 
these crustaceans is too coarse and strong 
in flavor for human consumption, except 
when very young, when they are some¬ 
times boiled and eaten. Jersey swine 
are not the only animals fed upon sea 
food, for it is stated, upon the authority 
of the British Fisheries Commission, 
that in parts of British Columbia, not 
only hogs, but cows, also, are sometimes 
fed upon salmon, while some of the Tar¬ 
tar tribes of northern Asia supplement 
the regular diet of their ponies with salt 
fish! In Connecticut, cases are reported 
where dairy cows are fed largely on salt 
fish and hay. 
Killing Rats. — Alva Agee, in the 
National Stockman, tells how they kill 
rats in times of “ overproduction ”, and 
give the cats a rest: 
Having penned the cats, bits of fresh beef are 
scattered on the barn floor, and the rats have a 
feast. A second batch is then prepared, strych¬ 
nine being used for seasoning. The fresh meat 
absorbs the poison, which is superior to any 
other form for this purpose. This course of treat¬ 
ment, given once every time there is an invasion, 
is effective, and gives the cats time to act as 
ornaments out on the meadows, watching for 
field mice. 
Humbug Cows. —Hoard’s Dairyman tells 
of a sensible German-American dairyman 
who delivered the following lecture from 
experience : 
When I first begin to keep cows, I make a big 
fool of myself. My neighbors were all der same 
way, and so none of us got any help. All der 
time everybody say, “You must have a big cow, 
so, when you can milk her no more, she will sell 
for a good price to der butcher.” But I notice 
that dem fine butcher cows make no profit when 
dey give milk, like the real dairy cow does. That 
means I must throw away 100, or may be *500 
pounds of butter so I can have 200 or 300 pounds 
more beef after seven or eight years. I notice 
none of that kind of farmers make much profit 
on their cows. Den I say—dot kind of dairy busi¬ 
ness is a humbug, and the farmer that keep the 
butcher cow, humbugs himself several years, and 
then the butcher humbugs him at last. So I get 
a bull what has more butter in his blood, than 
beef, and when my neighbors ask me “what for?” 
I say, “ I keep cows what are best for the cream¬ 
ery, not for the butcher.” It was a humbug 
when you throw away a dollar to look for a cent. 
Bicycles and Horses. —The bicycle 
has, of late years, been blamed for much 
of the depression in the horse trade. It 
appears, however, that there may be 
two sides to this question. The manager 
of one of the largest equestrian acade¬ 
mies in New York has, evidently, discov¬ 
ered the other side. He says : 
The bicycle was a blessing in disguise as far 
as we were concerned. I’ll admit that it was dis¬ 
guised at first. But I never joined the chorus of 
the calamity howlers. I predicted, from the 
start, that the horse would stand the test, and so 
he has. Thousands and hundreds of thousands 
of people who had never taken out-of-door exer¬ 
cise learned to ride a wheel, and spent hours 
every day in the open air. When a man or a 
woman finds out what a great thing it is to have 
exercise in the open air, that settles the thing. 
The habit once formed, you aren’t going to coop 
that man or that woman up for the rest of his 
days. The wheel, as I say, taught this habit to 
ever so many wealthy people. Then everybody 
took to the bicycle. The world wheeled. Some 
mernand women didn’t want to be in the crowd, 
so they decided to give up wheeling except once 
in a while. But what they couldn’t do was to 
make up their minds to give up out-of-door exer¬ 
cise, consequently, people who would never other¬ 
wise have learned to ride a horse, have taken it 
up now. 
The Nose Test. —In an address be¬ 
fore the Vermont Butter and Cheese- 
Makers’ Association, Prof. J. L. Hills 
told how II. B. Gurler, then the instruc¬ 
tor in dairying, used to teach the stu¬ 
dents to smell: 
It was a favorite trick of his to take several 
jars of fresh sweet milk, and place them in pecu¬ 
liar environments for a few hours, and then to 
bring them into the class, requesting the mem¬ 
bers to detect by their sense of smell where the 
jars had been placed. Sometimes they were put 
in the silo, anon into the pig pen, sometimes in 
the proximity of a fermenting manure pile, again 
in the horse stable. Once, I believe, a jar was 
put in a kitchen where cabbage was being cooked. 
Just prior to being submitted to the inspection of 
the class, the jar and its contents were warmed 
to about 105 degrees F., and then the noses of the 
class were called into requisition. It was very 
interesting to notice with what accuracy the stu¬ 
dents were able to diagnose the source of the 
odors. 
The largest steer on record is said to be a cross 
of Short-horn on Holstein. When slaughtered at 
six years of age, this steer weighed 3,850 pounds. 
Evert report seems to indicate that the sheep 
business is improving. People are evidently eat¬ 
ing more mutton than ever before, and it now 
looks as though good mutton sheep would be 
first-class property during the next 10 years. 
In Central Park, New York, a flock of sheep is 
always kept on the rich lawns. Formerly, South 
Downs were kept in this flock, but of late, the 
South Downs have been sold, and Dot-sets have 
taken their places. TheDorsets are a handsomer 
sheep pasturing on the lawn, and it has, also, 
been found that they are .able to fight off the 
dogs with considerable success. Even in New 
York City, a cur is a curse to the sheep herder. 
A Game rooster in New York City passed as an 
educated animal. He was owned by a political 
club, and was taught to crow whenever some one 
pulled his tail. When the political party to which 
he belonged won an election, he was carried 
about on election night and made to crow when¬ 
ever such crowing was desired. The neighbors 
went before the judge to have this rooster abated 
as a nuisance, and a policeman was sent out at 
2 o’clock in the morning to hear him crow, in 
order to decide whether he was a nuisance or not. 
As the policeman belonged to the same political 
party as the rooster, he would still be permitted 
to crow. 
Western Cattle. — Northern Nebraska and 
southern Dakota sheep and cattle men are en¬ 
couraged by the present outlook on the ranges. 
Early in the season, scarcity of water was re¬ 
ported, but the abundant rains during May and 
.Tune have filled every stream and water-hole. 
The calf crop of the section named is 25 per cent 
greater, according to estimate, than that of any 
other section. A number of the range-owners 
are adding high-grade bulls to their herds, prin¬ 
cipally Herefords, Short-horns, and Galloways; 
but the last breed does not seem so popular as 
others. It is not expected that shipments of 
cattle will be quite so large as last year, the 
stock being cleaned up quite closely. Sheep men 
are encouraged by the advancing price of wool. 
A Guernsey Man Talks. —I think that the 
Guernseys are a first-class dairy breed. I have 
no purebred cows, but if the purebreds are as 
good accordingly as the grades, they are first- 
class in every respect. I have grade heifers two 
and three years old, that have given 30 to 37 
pounds per day, that will test five per cent, one 
that has never tested less than 5 6, and our whole 
milk just as it goes to the factory, scarcely ever 
goes below 4.5. I have some two-year-old heifers 
that are just ready to drop their first calves, that 
will make 40-pound cows. We have some that 
have beaten the 40-pound mark by considerable, 
still their test has held above four per cent. I 
stand at the head of the list at the factory for 
rich milk, Jerseys not excepted, and a number of 
them go to the factory, but we take no second 
place. j. j. b. 
Omro, Wis. 
CREAM SEPARATORS. 
A Pedigree 
is as valuable and as 
desirable in a m a - 
chine as in an animal. 
Especially so when it 
is based upon actual 
performance. 
SHARPLES 
DAIRY 
SEPARATORS 
have that kind of 
pedigrees. They take 
all the cream from 
the milk in the best 
possible way, leaving 
it in the best form and at the least pos¬ 
sible cost for labor, fuel, oil and repairs. 
P. M. SHARPLES, 
Branches: West Chester, Pa. 
Elgin, Ill. 
Omaha, Neb. 
Dubuque, Iowa. 
[Perfect Milk 
» Does the milk have a bad taste; 
does It turn sour too quickly T 
THE PERFECTION/ 
IVfllk Cooler 
, and Aerator.. 
L wlll stop the trouble. It Is a low priced machine 
and should be in every dairy. Send for cliciilars. 
L ff. LEWIS, Mfr. Cortland, N. 
Top Price Butter. 
The kind that a fancy private 
trade demands, is colored with 
Thatcher's Oi'cumje Butter Colrrr — 
the color that does not contain 
any poison. Send for a sample. 
THATCHER MFG. CO., Potsdam, H.Y. 
Prtr Cala~ CUKAP K °R cash.— cheese noops, 
rUI vdlw Presses, Fillers, Followers and Uten¬ 
sils, Patents, Labels, etc., for making 160 5-lb. bricks 
of the famous “Thistle Cheese” per day In which 
there is an established trade. Address 
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contract for some first-class bome- 
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Address J. C. CHRISTIE. Windotn, Minn. 
The MAIN DISASTER 
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la to igmoro " U> J»c4krdf la oAosk feodiaa. 
Probably ao aompaar la this •oantiy kaa advooatod 
inch methods so Iona and persiatsntly as the 
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Stock Feeder’s Guide, is now ready for distribn- 
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is obtained from cut feed 
all live stock. 
THE ROSS 
ENSILAGE AND FODDER CUTTER 
prepares it in the best ibrin, 
quickest time and with least 
power. Send forcatalogue No.13. 
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MILK IS 88°/o WATER 
That shows the importance of 
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This is our stock tank, but wo make others for feeding pig* 
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