1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
243 
MANCHESTER'S DAIRY NOTES. 
Running a Creamery. 
Will you inform me how creameries are 
run in your part of the country? I am 
taking milk to a creamery and for each 
100 pounds of butter fat I only get 105Vx 
pounds of butter. Am I getting what is 
right? We pay four cents for making. 
Menominee Falls, Wis. h. t. j. 
Most of the creameries in this section 
are run on the cooperative plan; that 
is, the stock is owned almost entirely by 
the patrons of the creamery, who at 
their annual meeting elect a president, 
secretary and treasurer and board of 
managers or directors. The secretary 
and treasurer is usually manager of the 
creamery, and generally receives a stat¬ 
ed salary to run the business. He hires 
the buttermaker, sees to letting of the 
ciearn routes, as most of the creameries 
are on the cream-gathering plan. The 
manager sells the butter and attends to 
all collections, etc. The cream is col¬ 
lected, butter made, sold and delivered, 
and all receipts returned to patrons after 
running expenses are paid, save perhaps 
a dividend on the small capital stock. 
The cost of making butter depends upon 
the number of patrons, their nearness to 
the creamery, and distance butter is 
shipped to market. In various creamer¬ 
ies the cost per pound runs from three 
to five cents, perhaps four cents being 
the general average. One of the best 
creameries in our section last year turn¬ 
ed out 100 pounds of butter for every 83 
pounds of butter fat, or figured the oth¬ 
er way 100 pounds of butter fat turned 
out 120 pounds of butter. One hundred 
pounds of butter may have from 80 to 85 
pounds butter fat, or stated the other 
way, 100 pounds butter fat will turn out 
115 to 125 pounds butter. The amount 
will vary somewhat, depending upon 
the condition and churnability of the 
cream. For instance, frozen cream will 
not turn out as much butter as the same 
cream kept at a higher temperature. We 
think you are getting much less butter 
from 100 pounds of fat than you should, 
and would advise you to find out why 
this is so. 
Various Cow Questions. 
Will you balance the following feed for 
milch cows? Clover and Timothy hay 
mixed, cornmeal, wheat middlings, wheat 
bran and oil meal. What do you think of 
that combination? What do you think of 
beer sprouts for milch cows? This is my 
first Winter in the milk business. When 
selling milk, what is the best way to raise 
calves? What is a good remedy for lice 
or. cattle? F. s. o. 
Mt. Freedom, N. J. 
Twenty-five pounds of hay and two 
pounds each of wheat bran, cornmeal 
and oil meal will give you a first-class 
ration. It will analyze about as follows: 
Protein. Carbohydrates. Fat. 
25 lbs. clo'ver and 
11/0. V-U/VLl till vx 
Timothy hay .. 
1.23 
9.90 
.40 
2 lbs wheat bran. 
, .25 
.81 
.06 
2 lbs. cornmeal.. 
.13 
1.51 
.06 
2 lbs. oil meal — 
.65 
.67 
.05 
Total . 
. 2.26 
12.89 
.57 
One hundred pounds each of the three 
grains will make the mixture, and an 
average of six pounds of grain per day 
to each cow. Some of the cows may not 
need 25 pounds of hay. Give them only 
what they will eat up clean. The cows 
giving the most milk may need more 
than the six pounds of grain, and to 
those who would make right returns we 
should give an additional quart per day 
of the oil meal. As the cows go near 
the drying period give each less of the 
grain mixture. By “beer sprouts’* we 
suppose you refer to malt sprouts. We 
do not think much of them. They are 
not palatable, and must be soaked be¬ 
fore feeding. Unless you can buy them 
very cheap we would prefer to put our 
money into some other grain. If you 
sell all your new milk and have no 
skim-milk on the farm it may not pay 
you to raise calves. It can be done prac¬ 
tically without any milk by oil meal or 
oatmeal gruels, or the proprietary calf 
meals on the market, but plenty of 
skim-milk raises the best and most 
thrifty calves. Lice can be killed by 
using a tobacco tea. Two ounces to¬ 
bacco to a quart of water. Lard and sul¬ 
phur will also remove them. No use to 
kill them if you do not clean up around 
the animals as more will come right up¬ 
on them. [A preparation like Zenoleum 
used according to directions will an¬ 
swer.—Eds.] 
Ration for Milch Cows. 
How much of each of the following feeds 
are required to make a balanced ration for 
milch cows: Buffalo gluten feed, $26 per 
ten; wheat bran, $24; cornmeal, $24; cob 
meal, $20. We feed corn silage once a day, 
not much corn in it. about all they will 
eat up clean, and mixed clover and Tim¬ 
othy hay morning and noon. Cows are 
stabled, running water by them all the 
time; salted every day, and let in the yard 
oMy long enough to clean the stables. 
Some cows are fresh and some have been 
milked some time, We endeavor to keep 
up an even flow of milk to supply a retail 
trade. j. a. d. 
Gladstone, N. J. 
A very good and cheap ration can be 
made from the feeds you mention. We 
assume you are feeding about 15 pounds 
of hay per cow in the two feeds, and 
about 30 pounds of silage. To this you 
can add for each cow in full flow of milk 
two pounds of wheat bran (we prefer 
the coarse bran) and four pounds of 
gluten feed. Your ration then will an¬ 
alyze about as follows: 
Protein. 
Carbohydrates. 
Fat. 
30 
lbs. silage 
.39 
4.23 
.18 
15 
lbs. mixed 
hay .74 
5.94 
.24 
2 
lbs. wheat 
bran .25 
.81 
.06 
4 
lbs. gluten 
feed .95 
2.06 
.11 
Total . 
.2.33 
13.04 
.59 
A mixture of 100 pounds of bran and 
200 pounds of gluten feed would be right 
for this ration. Some of the new milch 
cows may be able to use profitably more 
than a pound per day, and others far 
along in milking would need less. Feed¬ 
ing an average of six pounds per cow 
the grain ration would cost you 7.6 cents 
per cow per day. You will note that 
we have not included the cornmeal or 
cob meal. At the prices quoted, and 
with the fact that you have silage and 
good hay, these would not be economi¬ 
cal feeds to use. If you can get cotton¬ 
seed meal at $28 to $30 per ton, and 
probably you can at the former price, 
you could make what we should con¬ 
sider a still better ration by using two 
pounds bran, three pounds gluten feed 
and one pound of cotton-seed meal. To 
make this mixture 100 pounds cotton¬ 
seed meal, 200 pounds wheat bran and 
300 of gluten feed would be required. 
This with the coarse fodders, feeding six 
pounds per day, would give you protein 
2.48, carbohydrates 12.73, fat 6.6, which 
is a nicely balanced ration, and would 
only cost one-tenth of a cent more than 
the other ration. We note with pleas¬ 
ure your care of the animals, plenty of 
water, salted regularly, etc., and believe 
they will do well for you. It is the good 
care that shows the thrifty farmer. 
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