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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Juno 10, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
HOLSTEINS AS BUTTER COWS. 
Do Holstein cows make good, solid but¬ 
ter of good color, without artificial color¬ 
ing'/ I know the Jersey is considered ideal 
for butter, but I don’t want the Jersey un¬ 
less forced to it. I suppose from all I 
read on the subject the Holstein breed were 
good butter makers. I look at the Jersey 
as the rich man’s plaything. If you can 
pet and coddle them they are all right, but 
they are not for the average farmer who 
uses the separated milk for pigs or calves, 
and who lets the cows run in the pasture 
for several months in the Summer. Then 
when you are through milking them they 
are worth about as much as an old ram 
for beef. C. i. 
New York. 
It is generally understood that Hol¬ 
stein milk will not make butter with 
as much color as Jersey milk, and there 
is surely not as much coloring matter 
in the Holstein milk as in Guernsey 
milk. There is also a difference in the 
size of the butter fat globules—those 
in Jersey and Guernsey milk being 
larger. The following statement covers 
the ground: 
Although the exact nature or cause of 
color in milk is not fully known, some 
points pertaining to it are well established. 
First, the coloring, whatever it may be, 
Is associated with the fat to such an ex¬ 
tent that the richer any particular milk is 
In fat, the higher colored it will be; or in 
other words, cream from a Holstein herd 
will be higher in color than was the Hol¬ 
stein milk, Jersey cream than Jersey milk. 
Second, the color of milk is influenced by 
the breed of the cow yielding it. The 
Guernsey breed as a whole gives a higher 
colored product than the Jersey, the Jersey 
than the Ayrshire, and the Ayrshire higher 
probably than the Holstein. The Holstein 
stands at the foot and the Guernsey at the 
top in this matter of natural color. This 
is true even though the quantity of fat in 
the milk be standardized to the same point. 
For instance, if Holstein cream is added 
to Holstein milk in such amounts as to 
bring the fat content of the standardized 
milk to be say five per cent, it will not 
have the color that a natural five per cent 
Guernsey or even Jersey milk will have, 
assuming the feed the same in both cases. 
Third, the feed influences the color very 
markedly, and is very closely associated 
with the green of plants. So then, regard¬ 
less of the season of the year, a fresh green 
food will produce a more highly colored 
product than will a dry food. 
As a matter of fact the two influences, 
Guernsey or Jersey breed and June past¬ 
ures, are so great as to cause their butter 
made entirely without color, to be higher 
than most markets demand. Not in¬ 
frequently the butter makers of Vermont 
receive requests from the city commission 
men to use less color, when in fact they 
are using none at all. On the other hand, 
even these same high-color-producing cows, 
on Winter feed, cannot produce a butter 
sufficiently highly colored to meet any but 
the Jewish trade. Holsteins and Ayrshires 
In June produce a butter of about the de¬ 
sired market shade, and in Winter fall to 
a poiut yet lower than the other two in 
point of color. Butter produced from all 
breeds requires the addition of some arti¬ 
ficial color beginning some time in July or 
August and continuing in greater amounts 
until full Winter feed, when the amount 
required will remain practically constant 
until the cows again go to grass, when it 
will fall off abruptly to little or nothing. 
If no artificial color were added there would 
be a gradual lessening in the amount of 
color in the butter, beginning about the 
first or middle of July, so that on each 
succeeding day the butter will have about 
one-half a shade lighter color than its 
predecessor. There is no method yet known 
to man whereby the color of butter may 
be kept uniform save by the addition of 
color, added at the time of butter making. 
R. M. WASHBURN. 
Vermont Exp. Station. 
As for the Jersey cow being a play¬ 
thing, or rich man’s pet, it is true that 
she may occupy that position in some 
cases, but when it comes to business 
the Jersey and her grades are among 
the most practical cows on earth. They 
are great butter producers and have 
saved many a dairy farm from the 
sheriff. 
WHAT IS MILK WORTH ? 
I have read with interest the story 
of the Hope Farm man’s new cow, and 
I think now that I shall be able to show 
you the impracticability of trying to get 
up a contest between cows, hens or pigs 
with the understanding that each owner 
shall sell his products for whatever he 
can get for them. The Hope Farm man 
figures that his cow’s milk is worth 
eight cents per quart, because he would 
be obliged to pay that price from the 
local dealer. The cow gives 16 quarts a 
day, so it is easy to see that she is pro¬ 
ducing $1.28. But up here in Madison 
Co., N. Y., milk is now worth 90 cents 
per hundred pounds, or not quite 1.8 
cents per quart, at the cheese factory 
or the shipping station. A quart of 
milk fed to a Madison County baby is 
likely to produce just as much brain and 
brawn as though fed to the Hope Farm 
baby, yet the Hope Farm cow is ex¬ 
tolled as a good paying investment, 
while one just like her in the hands of 
one of our milk producers would be dis¬ 
carded as no good, simply because she 
would not pay her board. Still, I think 
the Hope Farm cow is a good one, and 
I can also tell you why she would not 
do to sell milk from in this section— 
her milk is too good. The price here 
is for milk testing 11.50 per cent solids, 
three per cent of which shall be fat, and 
the cow that is fool enough to give rich 
milk must expect to lose her head. If 
that cow had the trick of adding 50 per 
cent more water to her milk she would 
be a first-rate good cow. There are 
cows that have learned the trick, and 
they are the ones that are bred for use 
among the men who sell milk. The 
breeders of these cows assure us that 
their milk is a great deal more health¬ 
ful than the richer product. So here is 
a chance for the Hope Farm man to 
make a little easy money. IJe now has 
10 children at Hope Farm, but he can 
adopt five more and just mix in eight 
quarts of water with his 16 quarts of 
milk, and raise 15 healthier children, 
and at the same time brag about a cow 
that brings in $1.92 per day. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
R. N.-Y.—What we are waiting for is 
to have Mr. Morse or anyone else tell 
us what the Hope Farm man should 
figure as the price of that milk. If he 
bought the milk it would cost four 
cents a pound. We believe such milk 
is worth that price as food compared 
with other things which are eaten. 
Would Mr. Morse advise charging 90 
cents a hundred because poorer milk is 
wholesaled at that price? A man in 
Montana may get 65 cents a bushel for 
wheat after hauling it 10 miles. An¬ 
other farmer in New Jersey may get 
$1.10 right in his barn. Would Mr. 
Morse expect the Jerseyman to figure 
his wheat at Montana prices? Our 
point is that part of good farming may 
belong to location as much as to soil, 
capital or skill. A thing produced ought 
to be worth what you have to pay for 
it in the local market. Why not? 
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DAIRY CATTLE 
JUNE OFFERING 
Maple Hurst Stock Farms, Guilford, Conn. 
Fantim’s Zac. Taylor, imported Guernsey bull, head 
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Robinson’s HOLSTEINS are Producers 
They are Tuberculin Tested. Forty just fresh and 
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milk records from 8,000 to 12,000 lbs. in the last 
year. V. D. ROBINSON, Kdmestov, N. Y 
St!!?: HOLSTEINS 
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AT LAUREL FARM 
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