1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
791 
BREEDING MILCH GOATS. 
The first object of the Milch Goat Breeders’ 
Association is to get milch goat breeders to¬ 
gether and enable those desirous of intro¬ 
ducing fresh blood into their flocks to know 
where to go to improve or maintain certain 
characteristics, and to preserve the blood of 
certain strains without breeding too closely 
“in and in.” The next object is to bring 
these improved goats before the public by 
exhibiting them at live stock shows, by pub¬ 
lishing their milk records, by registering 
their pedigrees in a public record, and ulti¬ 
mately to establish on the American conti¬ 
nent an industry which will be of untold 
value to people of all classes and circum¬ 
stances. 
More than 20 years ago an English writer 
said: “Much has been written and published 
on the advantages of goats’ milk as a diet for 
young children and persons suffering from 
wasting diseases, consumption in particular, 
and many instances have been given in which 
lives have been saved by its use; still this 
valuable article of diet, though better appre¬ 
ciated than it was 20 years ago, is a long 
way from holding the position it deserves in 
public estimation generally. A fact has, 
however, been brought to light lately, the re¬ 
sult of scientific investigation, which still 
further enhances the value of goats’ milk, 
and that to an immeasureable degree, a fact 
that cannot be too widely known and the im¬ 
portance of which cannot be overestimated. 
The numerous inquiries that have been con¬ 
ducted of late years by scientists have elicited 
what is now pretty generally admitted by 
medical men, that tuberculosis can be, and is 
communicated to human beings through the 
milk and flesh of cattle afflicted with that 
disease, the increase of consumption in chil¬ 
dren being largely attributed (according to 
Sir Lyon Playfair) to the use of tuberculous 
milk. When we consider, on the one hand, 
the terrible character of this insidious dis¬ 
ease, and, on the other hand, the absolute 
necessity for the use of milk in the healthful 
rearing of children, such a revelation is sim¬ 
ply appalling. What makes matters worse, 
moreover, is that a cow may be suffering 
from the malady in its earlier stages without 
the disease being detected, for we. are told 
that there may be no appearance visible to 
the naked eye of the action of the tubercular 
bacillus in a particular animal, and yet it 
may not improbably be there. In view of 
such a state of things who will not experi- 
ejr--,■ a sense of relief on hearing that goats’ 
luiSb- is entirely free from this element of 
danger? Prof. Nocard states that out of 
over 1.30,000 goats and kids that are brought 
to Paris for slaughter at the shambles of 
La Villette every Spring, the meat Inspectors 
of that city have failed to discover a single 
case of phthisis. What is far more remark¬ 
able, however, he tells us that even inocula¬ 
tion fails to introduce the fatal bacillus into 
the system of the goat.” Another English 
writer says: “Goats’ milk is a grand adjunct 
to the diet of those who are just beginning 
to regain strength after long severe illness. 
A diet consisting largely of goats’ milk would 
restore many a convalescent far more speed¬ 
ily to health without the aid of drugs than 
anything I know of. A course of goats' milk 
may often be taken with advantage in the 
Autumn by those who suffer much from cold 
during the Winter months, but who do not 
care to take cod liver oil.” 
Many persons who, owing to their circum¬ 
stances or surroundings, cannot keep a cow, 
could well keep a goat. The first cost is very 
small, any little outhouse with a water¬ 
tight roof and ventilated will accommodate 
it, and much of the waste that is now con¬ 
signed to the garbage heap could be turned 
into pure heallhy milk if properly managed. 
A goat will thrive where a cow would starve, 
yet it must not be forgotten that with more 
room and greater variety of food better re¬ 
sults may be obtained. It is along these 
lines that the American Milch Goat Record 
Association proposes to work. Officers have 
been appointed to serve until the first annual 
meeting, which was held October 12, 1904, 
in the Live Stock Congress Hall, World’s 
Fair Grounds, St. Louis. w. a. siiafok. 
Secretary. 
MANCHESTER'S DAIRY NOTES. 
How to Make Buffer. 
I want to learn more about butter making. 
It is hard for me to tell just the temperature 
of milk, and whether it needs to be warmed 
or cooled off. I have a patented rocking 
churn, with a compartment for hot or cold 
water as required, but I cannot always tell 
which to put in. I suppose there is a ther¬ 
mometer that could be used for this purpose, 
but I do not know where I can get one. 
Pomona, N. C. o. J. H. 
It would require pages to go into all the 
details of butter making, but some simple 
directions may be of service. Whatever 
the vessels are you use in which to keep 
the milk, get them into cold water (ice 
cold is better) just as soon as possible 
after milking, so that the cream will be¬ 
gin to rise at once, and will not be dis¬ 
turbed. Too many people allow the milk 
to stand around a half hour or more, ab¬ 
sorbing bad odors and stirring up the 
cream that has begun to rise. We want 
all the cream. You can skim at 12 hours 
from setting if water was cold and milk 
put in at once after milking. After skim¬ 
ming keep the cream cool until you are 
ready to ripen it. We should churn at 
least twice a week, and three times is 
preferable, as old cream will not make as 
good quality of butter. The day before 
you are to churn put the cream all in one 
receptacle and warm -gradually to 70 de¬ 
grees. Add to the cream a half pint of 
good buttermilk for every 10 quarts of 
cream. Stir the cream several times, so 
that it will ripen uniformly, and if kept 
in a cool airy place in the morning it 
should be ready to churn. The top will 
have a smooth, leathery appearance if it is 
all right. Your eye and taste will soon 
show you. If your churning is done in 
a cool room have the cream at 62 degrees 
when you churn or 60 degrees if the room 
is not cold. You can hardly get along 
without a dairy thermometer, which you 
can buy of any dairy supply house from 
25 cents, each up. These are circular, all 
glass, and will float in the cream, are 
easily cleaned and are much better than 
guesswork. 
Dairying in Arizona. 
How much should a man make on say 30 
fairly good cows where we have plenty of 
Alfalfa and other. green feed all Winter? 
Which pays the better, to sell milk to the 
creamery or to have one's own separator and 
make butter? Butter is 30 cenls per pound 
here and Alfalfa is worth about $5 per ton 
in the stack. Will it pay to feed it to dairy 
COWS? S. E. B. 
Yaina, Ariz. 
If we could buy good Alfalfa hay at $5 
per ton and get 30 cents per pound for 
our butter we should begin to think we 
had reached the Promised Land as far 
as the dairy business is concerned. Al¬ 
falfa is nearly as good as wheat bran, which 
is now retailing here around $25 per ton. 
Plow much one can make from a herd 
of 30 “fairly good” cows all depends upon 
the cows and the man, and the latter is 
the more important. Where you have 
plenty of Alfalfa and green feed the year 
around, unless there are unknown adverse 
conditions, your business ought to be 
profitable. You do not give the price at 
which milk sells, so one cannot advise 
as to which pays better, to sell milk or 
butter. With us milk at four cents per 
quart is better than butter at 30 cents 
per pound, but where one makes butter 
the skim-milk is left at home to handle, 
and may be profitably used in raising 
calves or pigs. If we were to make but¬ 
ter we should certainly use a separator, 
as it gives us fresh skim-milk for feeding, 
gets a larger per cent of the fat out of 
the milk and we believe permits one to 
make better butter. If you are anything 
of a hustler and a good manager and have 
good cows you ought to net $1,000 per 
year easily, if your feeds all cost in pro¬ 
portion as price given for Alfalfa. 
Balanced Ration Heavy With Corn. 
Can you give me formula for balanced ra¬ 
tion, at least one-half of which, about four 
quarts, shall consist of corn-and-cob meal. 
I have a large crop of corn, and desire to 
feed the grain to my dairy cows and the 
stalks to dry cattle that are on 'farm where 
corn was raised: too far from dairy to haul 
stalks. I have plenty of mixed hay, Timothy, 
Red-top and meadow, with a little sprinkling 
of clover. I can buy buckwheat middlings, 
gluten or cotton-seed meal, or all three. Gen¬ 
erally I feed from six to eight quarts of 
grain twice daily. Give ration for each 
feed. c. a. e. 
Ilowells, N. Y. 
From your list a very good ration can 
be made as follows: 
Pro- Carbo- 
tein. hydrates. 
20 lbs. good mixed hay. .1.18 8.18 
5 lbs. corn-and-cob meal. .22 3.00 
2 lbs. buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings .44 .67 
2 lbs. gluten meal.65 .86 
Fat. 
.24 
.14 
.10 
.06 
Total .2.49 12.71 .54 
A mixture of 500 pounds of corn-and- 
cob meal, 200 pounds buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings, and 200 pounds of gluten meal 
will make a proper mixture, and a feed 
of 4 y 2 pounds twice daily would be the 
right amount. This ration is for 1,000- 
pound cows, and is apparently much less 
than you have been in the custom of feed¬ 
ing, but we believe will give you good 
results. Personally we don’t think very 
much of cob meal and would prefer the 
straight cornmeal. It has a tendency to 
lighten or make more bulky the grain 
ration, but for the little good the animal 
gets out of the cobs she has to work her 
digestive system pretty hard to obtain it 
and she can employ her time to better 
advantage. If you can sell your home¬ 
grown corn at a good price, as one is 
often able to do, there being a call for 
local-grown corn, do so, and buy bran 
and gluten feed in place of it. Often in 
this way one can make quite a profitable 
swap. H. G. M. 
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Lisle, Ont., Doc. 19, 1903. 
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i Simple Bowl or 
Izzers or 
Right Now or 
Waist Low Can or 
Self Oiling or 
Wash 3 Minutes or 
All the Butter or 
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