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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 17 
mLIVE STOCK|| 
W] AND DAIRY. W 
SOME WISCONSIN DAIRY NOTES. 
A HIGH PER CENT OF CREAM. 
The 26th annual report of the Wiscon¬ 
sin Dairymen’s Association is a whole 
library of condensed dairy information. 
The meeting was held at Manitowoc, 
Wis., February 9-11, last. These Wis¬ 
consin dairymen evidently got together 
and talked things over without fear or 
favor, and a few of their sayings will, 
doubtless, interest dairymen everywhere. 
Cheese Talk —C. W. Sweeting said 
that a good butter or cheesemaker ought 
to be a sober, industrious man. He never 
knew a man to make a good cheese by 
sitting in a saloon playing cards or fool¬ 
ing away his time in frivolity and amuse¬ 
ment. He might have said that the 
only effect the barroom loafer has on the 
cheese trade consists in his attack upon 
the lunch counter. Mr. Sweeting said 
that you want to see that your hired 
man does not leave any water in your 
cans; also that your barn cats do not 
take any cream off. It is against the 
law to sell skim-milk, and the dairy and 
food commissioner does not want to sue 
the cats. Make the cheesemaker clean 
out the whey vat and the entire factory 
once a week. If he is a single man, do 
not let him be sparking your daughters 
when he ought to be cleaning his vats 
and tank. 
J. H. Monrad, of Illinois, gave Major 
Alvord’s estimate of the average cheese 
consumption in the United States at 
only three pounds per capita per year, 
lie says that, in his own family, this 
average rose to 20 pounds, and would be 
more if he could get the cheese he wants, 
at a reasonable price. 
Pasteurizing Illustrated. — The 
president of the Association, G. W. Bur- 
chard, gave the following illustration of 
the way bacteria work in milk. He said 
that these bacteria are simply the lowest 
form of vegetable life. We talk about 
one species of bacteria getting the start 
by fighting another species. “Now,” 
said he, “ here is a field If left to itself, 
it will produce all manner of noxious 
weeds. You go to work and seed that 
field with clover, Red-top and Timothy, 
or wheat, oats or any other good crop, 
give it a fair chance, and it will occupy 
the ground to the exclusion of these 
noxious weeds, or to a very great ex¬ 
tent, at least. Sometimes in corn cul¬ 
ture, you must go in with a cultivator 
and kill out the noxious weeds, and be¬ 
fore you begin to plant the crop, you 
must kill the weeds that are growing 
there. This is on much the same prin¬ 
ciple that you Pasteurize milk. You 
heat or Pasteurize the milk, and thus 
destroy most of the bacteria that are in 
it. Then you introduce a starter, which 
is like planting the useful crop in the 
soil where the weeds have been killed 
out. A starter, like a useful crop, de¬ 
velops in the ground and monopolizes it, 
whereas if in one case the milk had not 
been Pasteurized, or the ground had not 
been weeded, the crop would have been 
a failure.” 
The chief difficulty in freezing cream is 
the clotting or partial separation of fat. 
This obstacle can be met by keeping the 
cream agitated while freezing, as ice 
cream is always well stirred. Ice cream 
was made of this frozen cream 95 days 
after it was separated ; in other words, 
cream skimmed in May was eaten as ice 
cream in August. Thus, a cream from 
milk in May and June, when pastures 
are flush, could be kept in a freezing 
room until August, and then sold when 
milk and cream are usually higher in 
price. It was stated that cream could 
be held in a Chicago cold storage house 
at a cost of 10 cents per can. 
The Babcock Test. —Mr. Chadwick, 
in speaking of the fairness of the Bab¬ 
cock tester in deciding the value of milk, 
made the point that there would be noth¬ 
ing fair in one farmer whose oats weigh 
40 pounds to the bushel, selling them 
for the same price per measure as the 
neighbor whose oats weigh only 30 
pounds per bushel. That, he said, would 
be just as fair as for one farmer whose 
milk will test five per cent to pool it 
with that of his neighbor which tests 
only four per cent. He said that farmers 
are used to weighing grain, and are get¬ 
ting so that they feed their stock, not by 
measure, but by weight. Before long, 
they will come to see that the Babcock 
test for their milk is just as fair as the 
scale test for their grain. 
Food for the Cow. —C. H. Everett, 
among other good things, said that clover 
is the cheapest protein, with the excep¬ 
tion of peas, that we can produce upon 
the farm. It is too bulky, however, to 
feed alone. The cow cannot consume 
enough of it to secure all the protein she 
needs, therefore we should feed her 
some grain with it. “ Do not fool with 
Timothy hay!” says Mr. Everett. “It 
is a robber of the soil, and has little in 
it that the cow wants. You can’t afford 
to produce it upon your farm as a food 
for dairy stock.” 
Prof. Haecker made the point that, 
while a cow could not eat enough clover 
hay to do a day’s work, we all know that 
she can eat enough Blue grass to do a 
day’s work, and this is even more bulky 
than clover. Why is this ? Because she 
utilizes all the nutrients that are in 
the Blue-grass pasture, whereas, she can 
utilize only about 65 per cent of the 
nutrients in the clover, the rest being 
locked up and indigestible. Prof. Haecker 
said that he was once feeding a bunch 
of steers and a herd of cows. The dairy 
grain ration was composed of eight parts 
of bran, two of corn meal, and one of oil 
meal. The beef ration was six of corn 
meal, one of oil meal and five of bran 
They changed back and forth by way of 
experiment, and found that both cows 
and steers did best on the large bran 
ration. This, he thinks, shows that both 
steers and cows are able to use a larger 
per cent of the nutriment in one ration 
than in the other. They found on figur¬ 
ing that it cost as much to produce a 
pound of butter as it did to produce two 
pounds of live-weight meat. It took 
exactly as much dry matter in the food 
to produce a pound of butter as it did a 
pound of dressed beef. This statement 
brought out Ex.-Gov. Hoard, who wanted 
to know what kind of a dairyman that 
man is who will feed a general-purpose 
cow for three-cent beef, when he should 
be feeding a special-purpose cow for 20- 
cent butter. _ 
It’s like running a race with death, dosing with 
guess remedies for a Cold. Take a good medicine 
that you know about—Jayne’s Expectorant. 
Easy to take and effectual, Jayne’s Painless Sana¬ 
tive Pills.— Adv. 
LIVE-STOCK FEEDERS 
Holding Frozen Cream — C. L. Fitch 
gave some experiments with Pasteurized 
milk and cream, held at low tempera¬ 
tures. In one case, cream, both Pasteur¬ 
ized and natural, was put into a butter¬ 
freezing room, and cooled down from 28 
to 20 degrees. This cream kept after 
freezing without change and for any 
length of time. After 90 days, the Pas¬ 
teurized cream was melted and tested. 
It was no more acid than when it left 
the separator three months before. The 
natural cream soured somewhat up to 
the time of freezing solid, after which it 
did not change. It went wrong very 
quickly at melting, while the Pasteur¬ 
ized cream kept as long when melted as 
it would have kept when first put up. 
should see that a guaranteed analysis 
accompanies every bag of 
Cotton-Seed Meal. 
It is the only safe way to avoid adulterated 
Meal. Every bag shipped by the American Cotton 
Oil Company contains a red tag guaranteeing 
not less than the following analysis: 
Ammonia. 8.50 per cent. 
Nitrogen. 7-00 “ 
Protein.43.00 “ 
Crude Fat and Oil. 9.00 “ 
See that the name of The American Cotton-Oil 
Company is on the red tag attached to bag. 
Send your address for free information about 
cotton-seed meal. 
THE AMERICAN COTTON OIL COMPANY, 
46 Cedar Street, New York City. 
Cows barren 3 years 
MADE TO BREED. 
Moore Brothers, Albany, N, Y. 
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ktraOTM Bunches or Blemishes from Horaea 
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OR FIRING- Impotnbl* to product tear or blemuh. 
■very bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Prioe SI.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or 
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100 STYLES TO SELECT FROM 
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THE CHAIN HANGING 
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K& C0WTIB 
Holds them firmly, draws 
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E. C. NEWTON CO. 
MORE EGGS 
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Hand Bone, Shell,Corn 
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ilsy Bone Cutter. Power Mills. 
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Highest Price FOR EGGS 
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A hand mill for grinding grain, 
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714 Chestnut St., 
PHILADELPHIA. 
GUERNSEYS. 
225 purebred Guernseys of the best American 
md Island breeding. Butter average, whole 
lord, 318 pounds per head. No catalogue. Come 
md make your own selection. 
ELLER3L5E STOCK FARM, 
RHINECLIFF, N. Y. 
ni |v A Dill I ~ 1 have four flne 
D W 1 M D VJ Lb Ib. calves registered 
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R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
pi|£n||QEVC~® cows; 1 heifer, now due; 4 
UUklllldE I O heifer calves, from 4 to 8 mos.; 
1 bull 5 weeks, and 1 bull 12 mos., and 1 bull 10 mos 
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JERSEYS at FARMERS’ PRICES 
Bull, 5 months, two heifers, 6 and 11 months, all 
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