THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 13 
118 
MANCHESTER’S DAIRY NOTES. 
Feeding Fat and Flavor Into Milk. 
Mr. Manchester, page 866, refers to one 
of the most live and important subjects 
affecting our dairy farmers. Can the 
amount of fat in milk be affected by the 
food consumed? In spite of all our good 
Feeding Grain on Straw. 
What time during the day can grain in 
the straw be fed to cows so that they will 
grind the grain, and what time of day 
can turnips be fed so that the milk will 
not taste? x. t. 
Cary Mills, N. Y. 
The only experience we have had along 
scientific men have said on our inability .... 
to feed fat into milk, the great majority this line is in feeding oats that were al- 
of farmers do not believe it. If a fact has lowed to ripen for grain before cutting, 
been demonstrated as true, why should We have found that the cows will clean 
any intelligent man refuse to believe it? the gtraw mucb better if giyen to 
kvery up-to-date dairyman knows that 
the food affects the quantity, color and them the first thing in the morning, 
flavor of his milk, or if he makes butter when their stomachs are empty and they 
it affects the flavor, color and texture of have been without food for a good many 
his product. As a practical man he wishes hourg We baye t tQ gee tbe cow 
to learn a few facts in regard to making 
milk of proper quality, and I will illus- clean up the grain that drops out 
trate one point by giving an incident hap- of the straw while they are feed- 
pening in our section. A man shipping i ng( an( j this amounts to quite a loss 
miik to the Boston market received word where one has mucb grain of this kin d 
that his milk was not up to the standard, . 
and he must change feed. Feed was feed. In cleaning the mangers of this 
changed; milk was all right, but cost of kind of litter we used to save same and 
production was more. He went back to put it in the chicken pens for them to 
former feed some time later; again re- , . , , ,, . — 
. . « *•« work over and clean out the grain. We 
ceived same notice. Now, if our scientific t . 
friends are right, he did not change but thing it is poor economy to feed any 
the looks, and possibly taste of his milk, kind of grain this way to cows; better, 
The analysis would not be changed ex- if possible, to get it thrashed and have 
cept by a change of cows or a trifle per- ,, . , , , , ,, .... 
.... T , .. ... the grain ground, but better still we 
haps by fresh ones. If the milk contrac- _ ’ 
tors go by the looks of milk, is it not ‘‘up think for milk production is to cut the 
to” our scientific friends to tell our dairy- grain just as it begins to come in milk, 
men how to make good-looking milk? w hen it will be a palatable feed. The 
After having some experience in making CQWg wm eat j t clean and it hag a 
butter I am sorry to say that the say-so ... . ... , , 
of any one scientific man would not con- higher nutritive value than hay. We 
vince me that I could not produce milk have found early-cut oat hay a really 
that would vary in the amount of butter valuable food for the production of milk. 
fa £ Our Legislature has passed a law Turni can be gafel fed after milking 
which makes necessary 12 per cent solids . . 
for some Summer months and 13 per cent ei ther morning or night, care being 
the rest of the year. A s most milk pro- taken that there is no milk in the barn, 
ducers are producing practically an even as milk .especially when warm, will take 
amount of milk through the year, no 
up foreign odors quickly. It is a good 
change should be produced by new milk- 
ers worth mentioning. Is that law based ru ^ e always to get the milk out of the 
on a fallacy, the idea that Summer feed barn as soon as possible after being 
does not produce as rich milk as Winter milked. In beginning the feeding of tur- 
feed, or on the Practical experience of ni or food of tMg character, do 
milk producers and handlers? The prac- 
tical butter maker cares little about the feed very much at a time until the 
analysis of his milk, but he does wish to animals become accustomed to them, 
know if it is possible to change the We have seen cows overfed this way so 
amount of butter he can churn from a that tbeir breath wag enough to con _ 
quart of milk by a change of feed. Every ... ... , ... 
up-to-date dairyman understands that cer- tammate any stable, and would give the 
tain feeds produce a given quantity of mi ^ a bad flavor while being drawn. 
milk cheaper than others. Does the man KeeD/HQ Wet Brewers ' Grains 
who uses the higher-priced feeds because nccpiny ntl Dfewers U rains. 
the milk looks better lose that extra cost? Will brewers’ grains put down in a silo 
TU-. -Mnr.r.hAQtPr nrimit <5 that the food af- keep through the Summer for Winter use? 
Mr. Manchester admits that tne rooa ai If it can ^ k t state h ow it should be 
fects the taste of milk, a fact well known 
to all dairymen. Will the editor now ring 
up those scientific men who have told The 
R. N.-Y. readers that the flavor of m 
came from outside of the cow? 
Massachusetts. h. o. mead. 
w. j. m’c. 
put down. 
New Britain, Conn. 
We know of one farm where the wet 
grains are bought by the carload and 
put in the silo and fed out daily. These 
were simply shoveled into the silo, level¬ 
ed and trodden down hard. We know of 
We presume that the Boston con- no re ason why they will not keep if they 
tractor to whom the milk was shipped, are packed in so that the air is excluded, 
as referred to by Mr. Mead, depended on Unless they are fed from daily of course 
, x fT ,._ 0 the top layer will spoil, and even if fed 
taste and color, and as soon as these from at once the gilo should not be so 
were all right was satisfied. City milk- large, but that some are taken from the 
men are pretty hard to please. We entire surface of the silo each day. They 
formerly shipped milk to New York and '"ill deteriorate rapidly, and unless care- 
.. , , , ... fully used the mangers will be unwhole- 
more than once have had m 1 v re some and not in very good sanitary con- 
to us as "sour” which arrived back here dition. Personally we are not in favor 
after an extra 120-mile trip in perfectly of feeding them wet, but prefer dry, and 
sweet condition. It is a fact that the our experience even with the dry leads 
. . . , ... . us to think that milk of poor flavor will 
flavor and color of milk is changed by follow their uge unlegg fed yery carefully 
various feeds. We know of nothing that j n limited amounts. 
will give milk of a better flavor than j he y a/[/e Q f B ar / ey Sprouts. 
wheat bran and cornmeal, but a combin- can you g. iye tbe feed va j ues resoective- 
ation of these would make our milk cost ly of dried barley sprouts, wheat bran and 
, . , , . . Timothy hay? Our dealers are booming 
too much. Gluten feed and cotton-seed barley sprouts this Winter as being much 
wi’ll nrndneo milk nf a hisrh color but Ucher than wheat bran in protein and I 
will produce mine oi a nign color, dul have always been suspicious of anything 
too much gluten feed or distillers’ grains that had to be pushed so hard. 
... , . ,. . . a -ntriii E. Downingtown, Pa. w. t. s. 
will not give the best flavor. Will not T , , , . x . . . . 
6 . . „ ., _ If by barley sprouts you refer to what 
Mr. Mead give us some definite figures are ge nerally called malt sprouts that 
to show that he has changed the amount are usually made from barley the feeds 
of fat as developed by the churn by dif- you mention have the following digest- 
ferent feeds? Facts are what we want, ible consti tuents. 
and not guesswork theories. In regard 
to the law calling for 12 per cent solids wh'eat^bran 8 ills 
in Summer and 13 per cent in Winter, 
Prof. Haecker, of Minnesota, is author- 
Pro- 
Carbo- 
tein. 
hydrates. 
Fat. 
.18.6 
37.1 
1.7 
.12.5 
40.5 
3.1 
. 2.8 
43.4 
1.4 
Timothy hay . 2.8 
Malt sprouts are not very palatable, 
, and should be soaked say half a day be- 
ity for the statement that cows upon f ore f eed j ng or mixed with silage for the 
Summer pasturage do give milk with a same length of time. Although they have 
less per cent of solids than upon dry a better analysis than wheat bran we 
feeds. He also states that as a cow in- lik . e tbe b nm better if the difference in 
_ . price is not too great, as the bran is pal- 
creases in her period of lactation the a table, wholesome and nutritious. The 
water content of the milk decreases, sprouts were fed to quite an extent in 
which, of course, increases all solids and this vicinity, but seem to be going out 
explains somewhat the question in a ? f fashion - Timothy hay you will notice 
, . m w has a very small protein analysis, and 
late issue of The R. N.-Y. as to why the wk ji e bringing the highest price in mar- 
per cent of fat increased. Yes, we be- ket is one of the poorest feeds for milk, 
lieve that the flavor of milk comes par- It very well illustrates the fact that food 
tially at least if not very largely from f u ?. s are aot s ? ld , on tbe basis of their 
feeding value, but supply and demand 
outside the cow, but are open to con- regulates tbe price. 
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