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MANCHESTER’S DAIRY NOTES. 
Testing for Butter Fat. 
How can I test for butter fat in a 50- 
pound can? I am satisfied with four 
pounds butter to the 100 of milk. There 
are eight neighbors bringing their milk to 
my larm creamery twice a day, amount¬ 
ing to five to six tons a week, and some 
must be churned to butter. I have no 
steam to run a Babcock test, and do not 
want it. Is there a handy way so that I 
can tell the man how rich or poor the 
milk is right at once? h. r. m. 
Lebanon, Pa. 
There is no way or machine that we 
Itnow of that will tell you at once how 
rich or how poor milk is except the 
Babcock tester. You do not need to 
have steam to run one. There are small 
sizes and quite large ones that run by 
hand and give correct results. This is 
the only way you could be accurate and 
satisfy the patrons of your creamery. 
We suspect the reason you do not want 
one is that you have seen but little of 
them and think there is too much work 
about it. We used to make 20 tests per 
hour, and clean up glass, which shows 
that it does not take much time. If 
possible get one of your experiment sta¬ 
tion young men to come to your cream¬ 
ery, show you how to make the test, and 
you do it several times entirely your¬ 
self while he is there. Have your pat¬ 
rons see him do the work and explain 
it thoroughly to them., You can make 
composite tests, so that you will have 
to do the work only once in two or 
three weeks. A composite test is one 
made from several samples combined, 
that is, a sample of each day’s milk is 
placed in the bottle and a test made 
from the milk in the bottle once in two 
or three weeks. You ought not to be 
satisfied with four pounds butter from 
100 pounds milk, for either you are get¬ 
ting low-grade milk, or there is a loss 
somewhere in your handling the milk 
or making the butter. 
Value of Brewers’ Grains. 
Tell us what is the nutritive value of 
wet brewers’ grains fed to milch cows, 
and also of dried grains. If a quart or 
two of cornmeal should be mixed with the 
grain, i. e., with six or eight quarts of it, 
how near would it come to a balanced 
ration? What amount of protein and what 
amount of carbohydrates in brewers’ grains 
as it comes from the vats? w. e. t. 
Bala Mount, Pa. 
Wet brewers’ grains contain of di¬ 
gestible nutrients 3.9 per cent protein, 
9.3 per cent carbohydrates and 1.4 per 
cent fat. That means so many pounds 
in a hundred. The dried grains have 
15.7 per cent protein, 36.3 per cent car¬ 
bohydrates, 5.1 per cent fat; 10 pounds 
of the wet grains and two quarts (three 
pounds) of cornmeal would give you: 
Pro- Carbohy- 
tein. drates. Fat. 
10 lbs. wet grains.39 .93 _qi 
3 lbs. cornmeal .20 1.95 .08 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER'. 
tion or by use of the tuberculin test. If 
I she has it the sooner you get her out of 
the way the better, and then disinfect 
her stall thoroughly and whitewash 
things well. Note if the eye is dull and 
her coat rough; also listen to hir 
breathing by placing your ear close to 
the lungs. Then do the same with the 
healthy cow and see if there is a differ¬ 
ence. The moaning would not, in our 
opinion, be a symptom of tuberculosis, 
but her falling off in flesh and milk and 
general appearance would indicate it. 
H. G. MANCHESTER. 
CLAIMS FOR ANGORA GOATS. 
I have a large brush lot (30‘ acres) being 
[ cleared this Winter. Will some reader 
who has had experience tell how many 
Angora goats it will need to keep it clean, 
and if they will do the work well? 
Rockland, N. Y. o. r. ir. 
Cut over land; if it is only sprouts 
from the stumps to be killed I should 
try 50. If it is bushes and you are de¬ 
sirous of the shortest time, I could not 
tell you, but why do you wish to clear 
your land so quickly? There is with me 
more profit in keeping Angoras than 
I any animal, same money invested. We 
have snow that came in December, and 
it has kept coming still. My Angoras 
refused hay until January 20. At that 
time the snow was too deep for them 
and now they are having kids doing 
finely. I killed a wether recently, really 
fat. What would become of your cattle 
with that kind of feed? As soon as the 
snow is so they can go to the bushes no 
more hay for them. If you have a fence 
or building for them to put up in Sum¬ 
mer and Winter without help, every 
night and rainy day, that would lie part 
of the labor. j. B . j. 
Massachusetts. 
Total .59 2.88 .09 
A balanced ration for a 1,000-pound 
cow calls for 2.5 pounds protein, 12.5 
pounds carbohydrates and .4 pounds fat. 
It would be practically impossible with 
the addition of any of our common 
coarse fodders to make a balanced ra¬ 
tion by using the brewers’ grains and 
the cornmeal. Unless we raised the 
corn we should much prefer to buy 
some other grain even than the brew¬ 
ers’ grains unless they were very cheap. 
Wheat bran with gluten feed and cot¬ 
ton-seed meal or oil meal, equal parts 
of each by weight, and using six to 10 
pounds of the mixture in addition to 
your coarse foods, would, we think, give 
you better results. 
An Ailing Cow. 
Can you tell me the trouble with a cow 
that is well cared for and fed about 10 
pounds grain and probably 20 pounds hay 
daily, but is steadily failing in flesh and 
milk? Due fresh July 1. Does some moan¬ 
ing; another cow cared for in same way 
is doing well. F p 
From your description we are afraid 
your cow may have tuberculosis, ana 
should have her examined by a good 
veterinarian at once. He can tell you 
definitely either by a physical exainina» 
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