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July 15, 
VHB RURAb NBW-YOSKEB 
Live Stock and Dairy 
A BLACK AND WHITE MILK FOUNTAIN. 
Some time ago you asked for a pic¬ 
ture and records of the Holstein cow 
Vale DeKol Elliston No. 87448. I 
promised it to you as soon as she had 
finished her semi-official yearly record 
on June 8 . It is shown on page 751 Fig. 
279. As a junior three-year-old this cow 
gave 428.5 pounds of milk and made 
18.16 pounds of butter in seven days, 
giving as high as 63.8 pounds of milk 
and 2.6 pounds of butter in one day. At 
the same age she made a record eight 
months after calving of 299.8 pounds of 
milk and 12.43 pounds of butter in a 
week. With her next calf as a senior 
four-year-old she gave 613.2 pounds of 
milk and made 27.85 pounds of butter in 
a week. This time she was tested for 30 
days, and gave 2562 pounds of milk, 
making 108.92 pounds of butter. 
She having proven her ability to hold 
out as a three-year-old it was decided 
to test her in a semi-official yearly test. 
In this test she went above all expecta¬ 
tions, and gave over 4,000 pounds of 
milk, more than any cow of her age, 
and stood only fourth place in milk and 
butter of any cow of any age, giving 
24,190 pounds of milk and 1040 pounds 
of butter in a year. While in the semi¬ 
official test she was tested for seven 
days, eight months after calving, and 
established her second world’s record by 
giving 450.7 pounds of milk and making 
20.3 pounds of butter, which is over 
75 pounds of milk and four pounds of 
butter more than any cow of her age. 
Although her records for seven and 
30 days are not the greatest ever made, 
she shows her true worth as a utility 
cow in both her semi-official and eight 
months after calving records. 
She ran in a small pasture all Sum¬ 
mer during the day and was kept up 
every night and fed all of the Alfalfa 
hay she wanted in the Summer. In the 
Winter she had all the Alfalfa and sil¬ 
age she cared for. From the time that 
beets were big enough to feed in the 
Fall until May 1 she had about two- 
thirds of a bushel of beets per day. Her 
grain ration consisted of 20 pounds of 
the following mixture per day: 150 
pounds distillers’ grains, 150 pounds 
mixed wheat feed, 90 pounds hominy, 80 
pounds ground oats and barley, 40 
pounds oil meal, 40 pounds cotton-seed 
meal, well mixed together. She is not 
a heavy eater for a Holstein cow. Many 
times she did not clean up quite all of 
her grain, and it had to be taken away 
from her. For the first month she was 
milked four times a day and after¬ 
wards three times for the rest of the 
year. A. a. knapp. 
Cortland Co., N. Y. 
M I L K. 
good stand. This year it is the only grass 
that amounts to much. Most of the milk 
in town is sent to New York City over the 
O. & W. A part is taken to a creamery, 
some to a cheese factory, while a few men 
are making butter at home, the latter hav¬ 
ing Jersey cows, or grades, and perhaps are 
making the most money of anyone. But 
they also are having a lot of hard work 
that the rest of us are trying to avoid. 
Many of these butter-makers supply the 
families who ship their milk. Those who 
ship are getting 80 cents per can of 40 
quarts now (June), We expect this will be 
cut lower next month, 90 cents for May, $1 
for April. We would like more, but we beat 
the cheese factories with cheese at 11 cents 
per pound, and I know we could not make 
as much at butter with our milk. Our 
cows, and most of them in town, are grade 
Ilolsteins, giving great quantities of milk. 
My best yield last Winter for one cow one 
day was 59 pounds; two others on one day, 
107 pounds, on Alfalfa, corn silage and 
about 12 pounds of grain. As to the cost 
of a pound of milk, that is beyond me, for 
I am not by nature a student, so have not 
considered the subject from that standpoint. 
The thing that tries my patience is that the 
consumer has to pay so much for his milk 
while our price is so low. E. c. s. 
Stockbridge, N. Y. 
The farmers in this community are “up 
against it,” so to speak. A man must be a 
hard worker and a good financier to break 
even at end of each year. Our milk is de¬ 
livered to the Hudson Milk and Cream Com¬ 
pany, of Hoboken, N. J., for which we re¬ 
ceive two cents per quart for month of 
June at this station. Farmers who live 
further away patronize cheese factories. 1 
understand cheese nets patrons about same 
as station prices for month of May. Corn 
and grain are poor and backward on ac¬ 
count of dry May and cold June. Crass 
light. c. E. B. 
Messengerville, N. Y. 
The prospect for dairying in this section 
is good. The present price of milk is $1 
per 100 pounds for June, and I think farm¬ 
ers can afford to make it for that on pas¬ 
ture. There are not any farmers going out 
of the milk business in particular. The 
average price of milch cows is about .$50. 
Feed is just as high, if not higher, than in 
former years. The dairy business is all 
right if the New York board of health would 
mind its business and not make its rules so 
rigid, and the people would eat butter in¬ 
stead of oleomargorinc. When the Dairy¬ 
men’s League gets in power tea farmer will 
.not have to ask New York what he can do. 
Sidney Center, N. Y. h. c. d. 
Varying Milk Tests. 
On page 712 “Adulterated Milk,” you have 
stated a case to which I would like to add 
“Was the man guilty?” I have a parallel 
case. In the early part of May I had my 
cows, No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, tested for but¬ 
ter fat. and they tested respectively 4.4 per 
cent., 5.4 per cent, and 4.4 per cent. No. 3 
was a stripper that has since freshened. 
Three days ago at the condensery, where 
this milk had been tested, they told me that 
my milk tested only three per cent, butter 
fat. That night and the next morning I 
milked, weighed, strained and cooled the 
milk myself, so I know there had been no 
tamperiing with the milk at home. I told 
them to test the milk again and they said 
that the milk tested 3.8 per cent. Of 
course they did not test the milk until 
about noon. I judge the man to be honest 
and I know the milk was not tampered 
with before reaching the condensery. Now 
what is the cause? The milk should have 
tested 4.73 per cent. w. c. m. 
Ohio. 
R. N.-Y.—As we saw last week a number 
of things may interfere with the test. A 
‘■hard” water containing lime may influence 
it, and if the bottles are not "thoroughly 
cleaned a difference will show. We believe 
there are some cases where injustice is done 
by careless or hasty testing. 
The New York Exchange price is $1.31 
per 40-quart can, netting 2% cents per 
quart to shippers in 26-cent zone who have 
no additional station charges. 
Whole milk is not sold in this neighbor¬ 
hood, but all is sent to New York City, ex¬ 
cept when there is a surplus; then they 
make a little cheese, but no butter. We 
are getting four cents a quart for milk. 
This year is the best year we have had in 
years in the dairying line. In fact, all the 
crops are fine, too. Most of the farmers 
begin their pea harvest next week (June 
26). This is a great part of the country 
for peas. j. e. h. 
Randallsville, N. Y. 
This is a dairy country from start to fin¬ 
ish, and well adapted to the business. Stock- 
bridge is a town of hills and valleys, with 
much side-hill land that could not be used to 
advantage except for pasture, raising rich 
grass, and well watered by springs and run¬ 
ning streams. The underpinning of these 
hills is limestone rock, and in very many 
places they come so near the surface that 
not much else is to be seen. Alfalfa grows 
abundantly without any more trouble than 
any other grass, is sown with grain the 
same way, and very seldom fails to make a 
DAIRY RATION. 
Will you fix me up something for a dairy 
ration for cows now on pasture? I wish to 
find for butter and cream. The general 
run of feeds are near by, aside from brew¬ 
ers’ grains. Should there be any change 
between now and a Fall ration? 
Vermont. w. w. 
It is very difficult to compound a satis¬ 
factory ration for a herd without knowing 
the prices which you are obliged to pay 
for the different feeding stuffs in your lo¬ 
cality, as the cost of practically all kinds 
of dairy feed must be taken into considera¬ 
tion before an economical ration can be 
assured. For example, if you have to choose 
between dried brewers’ grains and dried 
distillers’ grains you would naturally feed 
the one that could be purchased to the best 
advantage. The chemical analyses show 
that the best dried distillers’ grains are 
worth a little over $4 per ton more than 
the best dried brewers’ grains for dairy 
purposes, so if there is more or less differ¬ 
ence in the cost you can easily determine 
which to buy. I would suggest that you 
try feeding four or five pounds of the dried 
brewers’ or distillers’ grains, soaked several 
hours before feeding, and mixed with about 
three pounds of corn meal, for a day’s ra¬ 
tion for a common cow, the amount to be 
increased or diminished according to the 
requirements of each cow and the amount 
of milk she is giving. It will not be neces¬ 
sary to add any wheat bran to this ration, 
as it is too high in price, but if ground 
oats or barley is available at a reasonable 
price you could mix it with the cornmeal, 
using about equal parts by measure. 
C. S. G. 
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