1905. 
771 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
FARM BUTTER. HOW MAY IT BE 
IMPROVED? 
That the great bulk of dairy butter is 
not as good in quality as it might be none 
can deny. Go into any grocery store and 
ask for dairy butter, and you will be 
shown a promiscuous array. There may 
be some that is good, a little that is really 
first-class, but the remainder will be of 
all degrees of excellence represented by 
the negative rather than the opposite 
sign. The purchaser who is fastidious 
about his butter will find comparatively 
few who make an article that he can 
really enjoy. What is the reason for such 
a condi'.'on? If one wom?n can make fine, 
butter why not another ? \V ith all due 
allowance for inconveniences and lack of 
suitable utensils by which some butter- 
makers are handicapped, the fact remains 
that in many instances the trouble lies 
with the one who makes it. This does 
not necessarily imply any reflection in a 
personal way. In the first place, few 
women ever have the benefit of special 
dairy instruction. Whatever they know 
about the care of milk and hutter they 
usually have learned from their mothers, 
and one can readily understand that such 
knowledge must often be at fault. I here 
is no reason in the world why creamery 
butter should be of better quality than 
that made in the farm dairy, except the 
one fact that it is handled in a more skill¬ 
ful manner. Science gives the key to 
success. At the factory a study has been 
made of bacterial action, good and bad, 
and the most approved methods are em¬ 
ployed, resulting in a product which, day 
after day, year in year out, varies but 
little in quality. It has always been my 
contention that the farm dairy ought to 
turn out better butter than the creamery, 
for there every detail from beginning to 
end is directly under control, whereas the 
creameryman is frequently called upon to 
handle milk or cream which, owing to 
somebody’s mismanagement, is in bad con¬ 
dition when it reaches him. Yet because 
of his skill, obtained at a dairy school no 
doubt, he is enabled even in such cases 
to make fairly good butter from it. 
How are we going to work to improve 
the quality of our dairy butter? How 
can it best be done? First, by giving in¬ 
struction through every channel of infor¬ 
mation which can be made to reach the 
ones who make the butter. Give every 
possible opportunity for the dissemination 
of dairy knowledge; at farmers’ institutes, 
at fairs, at dairy conventions let demon¬ 
stration work along this line be made a 
prominent feature, as well as the distri¬ 
bution of literature in the form of leaf¬ 
lets, bulletins, etc., telling in detail how 
good butter is made. Our experiment 
stations are doing a great work, but there 
might be a little more attention paid to 
this particular line of agriculture in the 
way of issuing with greater frequency 
bulletins bearing especially upon the sub¬ 
ject. One after another of the different 
States is taking up the matter of a special 
course in dairying, to which shall be in¬ 
vited not only young men and women 
who intend to teach dairying, but also 
farmer’s wives and daughters who wish to 
obtain a fuller knowledge of butter mak¬ 
ing, going back to their homes to put into 
practice the information gained. 
We have special trains going to and fro 
bearing instructors who from a car plat¬ 
form lecture upon improved methods of 
road building, corn growing and potato 
culture. Why not have a dairy special, 
which shall carry to waiting crowds of 
men and women specific instruction in the 
care of milk and butter? We have been 
told that a single trip of such a train 
across the State of Iowa resulted in vast 
improvement in corn culture, and an in¬ 
creased yield amounting to hundreds of 
thousands of dollars. Corn is a mighty 
factor in our agriculture, it is true, but 
where will we find a farm east, west, 
north or south that is not producing butter 
for home use or for market, even though 
the amount is comparatively small ? 
Another reason why there is so much 
poor butter sent out from farm dairies is 
that it is not graded. When a farmer 
takes a load of wheat, oats, hay, or other 
produce to market he receives payment 
according to its merit. ’ If No. 1, he gets 
top price; if No. 2, then he gets pay for 
second quality. Not so with butter. We 
are told that it is impossible to establish 
a graded market with country grocers, 
where the great hulk of dairy butter is dis¬ 
posed of. To enforce such a rule would 
he to lose customers, for no affront is 
greater than to tell a woman her butter 
is not equal to the best. The only way 
is to educate, and let no opportunity pass 
for agitating dairy instruction at all gath¬ 
erings of a nature to warrant it. I he 
grading of all hutter offered for sale 
would without doubt do a great deal to¬ 
ward the desired end. What reasonable 
excuse can be offered for not doing so, 
other than that some sensitive soul may 
be offended? Were poor butter discrim¬ 
inated against would not the makers of 
that kind speedily find a way for im¬ 
provement ? E. ELORIDGE. 
Michigan._ 
WHAT ABOUT “ FREEMARTINS? ” 
Recently a very fine Holstein cow dropped 
twin calves; one a male, the other a heifer 
calf. Desiring to raise the heifer calf, I 
started to do so, but since have heard that 
it would fail to breed. Can you give any 
information on the subject? E. w. w. 
Winner, N. Y. 
Such heifer twins arc known as free 
martins, and there is a general belief that 
they will not breed. Where both twins 
are heifers there seems to be no trouble. 
We would like to have the experience 
of practical dairymen with such heifers. 
WASHING HORSES. 
Will it hurt a horse in hot weather to 
wash off the sweat in water from a tank 
exposed to the sun if he is driven immedi¬ 
ately afterwards till dry? g. e. f. 
Illinois. 
It is a very good way to work out the 
sweat and dandruff in the Winter as well 
as in the Summer, but it must be done 
with good judgment at any time. It is not 
necessary to drive a horse to dry him if 
he is scraped with a flat stick, wiped quite 
dry with a cloth for a few minutes and 
then placed in a stall out of the draft and 
with a blanket on for a few hours. It 
should be remembered that when soap is 
used in the water to wash a black horse it 
has a tendency to turn the glassy black to 
a brown. It is well worth knowing that 
a little washing soda added to the water 
when washing a white horse will remove 
the stains much sooner than soapsuds. 
M. I). WILLIAMS, D. V. S. 
BUY YOUR 
SEPARATOR NOW 
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 
If you have cows and haven’t got a Centrifugal 
Cream Separator you almost certainly need one and 
doubtless know that you do. 
If so, don’t make the mistake of delaying its 
purchase “until spring.” Buy it NOW and it will 
have half paid for itself by spring. 
Don’t let your waste of quantity and quality of 
butterfat go on another six months, particularly 
while butter values are highest. 
Buy your separator NOW, and take the first 
step toward making this most profitable of all farm 
investments by sending for a DE LAYAL catalogue 
at once. 
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
Randolph & Canal Sts. 
CHICAGO. 
1213 Filbert Street 
PHILADELPHIA 
9 & 11 Drumm St.., 
SAN FRANCISCO. 
General Offices: 
74 Cortlandt Street, 
NEW YOKK. 
121 Youville Square, 
MONTREAL 
75 & 77 York Street 
TORONTO. 
248 McDermot Avenue 
WINNIPEG. 
FARMERS 
HANDY 
WAGON 
Low steel wheels, wide tires, make 
loading and handling easier. We fur¬ 
nish Steel Wheels to litany axle, to 
carry anyload. Straight or staggered 
spokes. Catalogue free. 
EMPIRE MFG.CO., Box 70 F Quincy, III. 
EXACT WEIGHT 
STEEL LEVERS, DOUBLE BEAM, 5 TON 14x8 
Wagon Scales 
$25 
A Leffel Engine 
The stand-by wherever steam 
is used. Steam Is the 
only dependable power. 
Leffel Engines adapt it 
to farm uses. Horizon¬ 
tal, Upright, Portable. 
Famous for quick 
steaming On little fuel 
Power when wanted, 
all you want. Be¬ 
fore you buy a 
power read our 
book, Power Econ¬ 
omy and E I f I c I • 
oncy. Mailed free. 
Write for It. 
Tha James 
Leffel t Co., 
Box 160. i 
Springfltld. Ohio 
On trial. Pay when satisfied. 
TRUE WEIGHT CO., 
Box No. 5 BINGHAMTON N. Y. 
NEW HOLLAND 
Feed Mills 
are sold away below any 
other standard mills. 
Why not save the differ¬ 
ence? Do all sorts of ear 
corn and grain grinding 
and they last. Fine meal 
makers. Elevator and 
bagger if wanted. Three 
styles, four sizes. Let 
send you one to try free. 
Y o it are sure to like it, but we take the 
chances. We bargain for return at our expense 
if not pleased. Write us if you want the fastest 
cutting Wood Saw made. Booklets free. 
NEW HOLLAND MCH. CO.. 
Box 115. New Holland. Pa. 
Meat 
and Milk 
It is nottheamount of food consumed thatcounts 
In the manufacture of meat and milk but the 
amount of food digested and assimilated. Nature 
provides the necessary aids to digestion in Summer by 
green pasture containing laxatives which regulate the 
bowels and many other of Nature’s tonics and medicines, 
but during the Winter, stock being deprived of this most 
essential part of the natural diet and subsisting on dry feed, 
the 50 to 60 per cent, of the food usually digested Is olten reduced 
to 40 per cent, or even to barely enough to sustain life with no gain 
In weight perceptible. Now, instead of permitting such conditions to 
decrease the amount of digestible nutrition and destroy all the profit, feed 
Dr Hess Stock Food twice a day as directed, and if you do not produce more 
pounds of weight on the same amount of feed than ever before, besides keeping you* 
animals free from disease, return the empty sack aud your money will be refunded. 
Is the prescription of Dr. Hess (M.D., D.V.S.), containing tonics for the digestion, Don for the 
blood nitrates to expel poisonous materials from the system, laxatives to regulate the bowels. 
It has the recommendation of the Veterinary Colleges and the I arm Papers, is recognized as a 
medicinal tonic and laxative by our own Government, and is sold on a written guarantee at 
per lb. in 100 lb. sacks; 
25 lb. pail, $1.60 
Except In Canada 
and extreme 
West and South. 
A tablespoonful per day for the average hog. Less than a penny a day for horse, cowor steer. 
If your dealer cannot supply you, we will. 
that from Ihe 1st to the 10th of each month, Dr. Hess will furnish 
veterinary’ ail vice and prescriptions free, if you will mention this paper, state what 
Jtock you have, also what stock food you have fed.aml enclose two cents for reply In 
Ivery package of Dr. Hess Stock Food there is a little yellow card that entitles you to this 
free service at any time. 
Dr Hess Stock Hook free, if you will mention this paper, state how much stock you 
haveand what kind of stock food you have used. 
DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Ohio 
Also manufacturers of Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a 
and Instant Louse Killer. 
Instant Louse Killer Kills Lice. 
