1908 . 
THE RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
813 
__ HORSE BREEDING IN NEW YORK. 
Has there been any change in breeding 
trotting horses in your section since the 
anti-gambling bills were passed? Are the 
heavier horses more profitable? Do you 
think horse breeding on a larger scale would 
pay in New York? 
I do not think there is any change in 
breeding of horses here, as the tendency has 
been for some time toward the breeding of 
heavy draft horses. There is always ready 
sale for that class. As to breeding on a 
large scale, I think it would be profitable 
with the right breed of horses and proper 
management. f. h. 
Cuyler, N. Y. 
No, as there were very few horses bred 
here, as farmers found there was no money 
in it for them. There is more of a desire 
to breed draft stock, and I think it will 
pay in this, the western part of the State, 
at least, and to back our opinion will say 
that we have just returned with a purebred 
Percheron stallion and some mares to start 
a stock farm. We are close to Buffalo, a 
good horse market, and think we should be 
able to compete with the farmers of the 
Middle West on higher-priced land. 
Dayton, N. Y. l. f. j. 
The anti-gambling bills have merely 
checked betting. Persons engaged in breed¬ 
ing should have good reputations, same as 
any other business. General-purpose horses 
pay the best. There is a ready sale for 
work and driving horses. They cannot, be 
bought here less than $200—-these are or¬ 
dinary, sound young horses for the farm. 
Old skates bring from $50 to $100, but 
something defective about them. 
Cazenovia, N. 1'. w. j. s. 
French Coach and Pereherons are the 
leading horses grown in this section, and 
have been for some years. At present price 
of horses the business in my opinion might 
bo profitably increased. e. m. 
Moravia. N. Y. 
POULTRY IN COLORADO. 
A number of readers have asked us about 
poultry in the Centennial State. The farm¬ 
ers’ institute workers of Colorado have in¬ 
vestigated the business and “News Notes” 
reports : 
“They find that where all feed and sup¬ 
plies have to be purchased and the eggs sold 
in the open market a well-bred hen. prop¬ 
erly cared for. will give a net return from 
eggs of $2 a year above cost of keep. This 
profit has been made with both small and 
large flocks and in widely separated sec¬ 
tions of the State. Where eggs are sold 
for hatching, purebred fowls for breeders 
or a private market is secured the profits 
are larger. The high altitude, dry climate 
and sunshine secure health and unusual 
vigor in the fowls. The feeds of Colorado 
produce large eggs with fancy colored yolks 
and choice flavor, and the flesh of poultry 
fattened on Colorado field peas is of excep¬ 
tionally delicate flavor. This is also true 
of squabs, the pea-fattened Colorado squab 
being unexcelled for flavor. Notwithstand¬ 
ing these favorable conditions, Colorado had 
to ship in from States east, poultry and 
poultry products, in 1907, costing $2,000,- 
000. There is a great opportunity in Col¬ 
orado for trained poultrymen with from 
$1,000 to $2,000 capital, and such men now 
living in the humid, cold eastern climates 
will find that if they will come to Colorado 
they can double the profits in their busi¬ 
ness and give their families and them¬ 
selves the benefits of Colorado’s dry, health¬ 
ful climate and sunshine.” 
DAIRYING AT THE STATE FAIR. 
In the dairy building the Geneva Station 
had some of the older milking machines in 
comparison with the latest models, and 
statements showing the greatly lessened 
bacteria content from milk drawn by the 
later machines; the result being brought 
about by using a filter for the air drawn 
into the pails. The exhibition refrigerators 
for butter and cheese were well filled with 
these products, and a very striking feature 
in the butter refrigerator was an exhibit of 
bottled milk showing a bottle for each day 
from July 11. and all this milk was in good 
condition, even the bottle filled on July 11, 
over two months before the fair opened. No 
preservative whatever was used. I.arge 
cheeses were shown weighing from 100 
pounds to 2,207 pounds. In the cheese re¬ 
frigerator Cornell University made a most 
instructive exhibit, showing the value of 
quality in milk for cheese making. The 
product of 100 pounds of milk was shown in 
actual cheese made with complete figures, 
showing results that could not fail to be 
convincing to the most skeptical. The first 
cheese was made from 100 pounds of three- 
per-cent milk, and weighed 9.0 pounds ; the 
second cheese from 100 pounds of four-per¬ 
cent milk weighing 11 pounds, and the 
cheese made from 100 pounds of five-per¬ 
cent milk weighed 13.5 pounds. This ex¬ 
hibit would convince two-thirds of the 
farmers much more easily than pages of 
reasoning and figures without the actual 
samples that Brown’s Jersey milk was worth 
more at the cheese factory than White’s 
Holstein milk pound for pound. A demon¬ 
stration of bovine tuberculosis was in prog¬ 
ress in this building, illustrated by charts 
and specimens of diseased tissue. Most of 
the educational exhibits were supplemented 
by large photographs. 
In the dairy building were also held the 
butter-making contests which took place 
every afternoon, but the seating capacity 
for spectators was small, and but few could 
see it through without a tiresome stand. 
We saw the contest one afternoon and will 
try to follow it through as it appeared to us. 
This afternoon two young women were the 
contestants, and for convenience we will 
designate them as A and B. Each was 
given a certain amount of ripened cream, 
and each carried her work through to the 
finished product which was placed in the 
refrigerator and was judged next day. Both 
used barrel churns. A very small one fall¬ 
ing to the lot of B put her much behind 
with her work, as this churn was filled to 
more than its capacity, so that the move¬ 
ment and concussion of the cream was 
greatly reduced and the getting of butter 
much retarded. The amount of the finished 
product also indicated that separation was 
not complete, and that considerable fat 
found its way to the milk stand where the 
public were served with either milk or but¬ 
termilk at five cents a glass. 
A, with the larger churn, soon had butter, 
and after drawing off the buttermilk and 
partially washing the butter she left the 
butter in cold water a little while while 
she prepared her working utensils. With a 
stiff dairy brush, salt and water she 
scrubbed butter worker, bowl and butter 
spades. These then were washed with hot 
water and thoroughly rinsed with cold. She 
then finished washing the butter and re¬ 
moved it to the butter bowl. It was then 
weighed, and taking a piece of parchment 
paper she weighed out the salt necessary on 
this. She then dumped the butter from the 
bowl into the butter-worker., and spreading 
it in a comparatively uniform layer added 
the salt as evenly as possible, shaking it 
from the paper. Up to this time the butter 
had been handled so as to retain its fine 
granular form. Now the working began and 
after thoroughly incorporating the salt she 
covered the butter with a piece of cheese¬ 
cloth and cleaned her churn, using plenty 
of water, a liberal amount of salt and a 
dairy brush, and using a dry cloth only to 
dry the metal parts. While the churn was 
being cleaned the salt had a chance to dis¬ 
solve and penetrate the globules of butter, 
and as soon as the churn was finished, 
the working continued until the prop¬ 
er texture was obtained and enough 
water expressed. This she ascertained by 
dairy spade. She then formed the mass to 
a certain thickness, and taking her print 
mould, which she had prepared when she 
washed the worker and bowl, she began cut¬ 
ting the butter into prints. So well had 
she judged the thickness of her block of 
butter that one cut with the mould filled 
it completely, and taking a sheet of parch¬ 
ment paper from where she had conveniently 
placed a pile she dipped it in a pail of cold 
water and placing it at one end of the but¬ 
ter-worker tray she emptied the mould of 
its print upon this just at the proper place 
to have the paper fold nicely over the but* 
ter. The paper was then neatly folded and 
the print was complete. This was repeated 
until all the butter was in prints. She then 
proceeded to clean the butter-worker, bowl, 
etc., using the same method as with the 
churn, and when she bad finished every¬ 
thing was in first-class order, and she ap¬ 
peared as tidy as when starting. We could 
not help noticing the ease with which every¬ 
thing was done, and that she made no false 
motions; every movement adding something 
toward the completion of her work, and in 
talking with the judge after the contest we 
were not much surprised to hear he had 
given her a perfect score up to that time, 
the only thing not yet passed on being the 
quality of the butter, which was to be 
scored next day. In the meantime, B had 
succeeded in getting butter with her little 
churn, and had practically followed the 
same steps in its finishing as A. There was 
this difference, however; that B did not 
seem to have as full confidence in herself 
as A, and at times she appeared rather ner¬ 
vous and made many motions that retarded 
her progress rather than advanced it. For 
instance, she would look in several places 
for something she wanted, seeming to for¬ 
get where she put it, and after placing 
things would change and rearrange them. 
Her block of butter for cutting into prints 
was so thin that two cuts had to be made 
for every print, whereas, one cut filled A’s 
mould full. Some of this no doubt was due 
to worry over the long time it took her to 
churn with a churn much too small for 
the quantity of cream, as it could not help 
but be exasperating for her to see A work¬ 
ing butter while her own had not yet sepa¬ 
rated. Many pounds of farm-made butter 
can be improved the coming year by those 
who saw these contests if they will only 
profit by them. Back of the dairy building 
a raised platform was erected on which six 
cows were contentedly feeding, and here 
three times a day these cows were milked 
by machine. Between the milking periods a 
machine was kept running most of the time 
where the dairyman could trv the action of 
the milker by placing his thumb in one of 
the cups. gas 
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