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THE RURAL NEW -YORKER. 
September 27, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
MODERN METHODS IN DAIRYING. 
The Oakdale Creamery, shown in Fig. 
410, is a modern brick building with 
plenty of room for enlargement if neces¬ 
sary. This may be expected through the 
increase in Alfalfa growing in the sur¬ 
rounding country, to be watered from 
the lately completed Goodwin dam, on 
the Stanislaus River. Though not 
strictly a co-operative concern, it was 
built and paid for by local money, and 
the managers, all residents of Oakdale, 
Cal., are trying to run it so as to make 
the best grade of butter known, and thus 
be able to pay the producer the highest 
possible price for every ounce of butter 
fat that is brought in. Not content with 
installing the very best of modern ma¬ 
chines and processes for making tip-top 
butter, they secured a modern auto 
truck by which long distances could be 
This plan is a success in other parts of 
the country, as it surely will be here. 
When the writer first came to California, 
four years ago, he said that the dairy 
cow, and Alfalfa would eventually bene¬ 
fit the State more than all of her gold 
mines and fruit orchards ever had. and I 
am still ready to stick to that declara¬ 
tion for awhile yet. Alfalfa and cows 
form an unbeatable combination for 
good. A. R. 
Supernumerary Teat. 
I have a two-year-old Jersey heifer 
which was fresh this Summer. She has 
on one side of her udder three teats in¬ 
stead of two. They are all the same 
size and the same distance apart. I 
would like to know if there is any way 
to kill or stunt one. I would prefer to 
get rid of the middle one. V. s. D. 
New York. 
It is possible to get rid of such an ad¬ 
ditional teat by amputation when the 
TIIE OAKDALE, CAL., CREAMERY. Fig. 410. 
rapidly covered, and the cream, well 
shaded by the cover of this vehicle, is 
brought to the ripening tank in the best 
possible condition, some of the dairies 
being called on every day, and all of 
them at least every alternate day. 
By this modern method of cream gath¬ 
ering, the area of territory which can 
profitably contribute to the support of 
any local butter factory, can be more 
than doubled over the old horse-power 
methods. The herds in this case vary in 
size from two cows up to about one hun¬ 
dred, and I did not see a dissatisfied 
patron on the whole route, •which cer¬ 
tainly speaks well for the manager, A. 
B. Sylvia, as well as the company’s but¬ 
ter maker and tester, Oscar Raven. A 
sample for testing was carefully taken 
from each batch of cream, after it had 
been well stirred; and sealed in a small 
jar marked with that patron’s number, 
to avoid mistakes, as well as any chance 
of favoritism on the part of tester. That 
this weighing and testing was done cor¬ 
rectly, the satisfaction of all patrons was 
good evidence; while the extra fine qual¬ 
ity of butter made was conclusive proof 
of the quality of the cream, for good but¬ 
ter can only be made from good cream. 
While we did not see a single barn or 
milk-house that was absolutely flyless, 
these sources of infection were generally 
very carefully excluded from all build¬ 
ings; and there were certainly none in 
the cream, nor any traces that they ever 
had been there. The herds from which 
this cream was drawn, were in a broad 
way “just cows,” though one of the larger 
herds showed a few full-blood Jerseys, 
while another large herd reported some 
Holsteins. In one very important truth 
all were agreed that the only way to get 
better cows was by the use of a pure¬ 
bred dairy sire, “mit much papers,” as 
the Swiss foreman on one big ranch ex¬ 
pressed it. 
As far as we could see none of these 
cows was getting anything but dry Al¬ 
falfa hay, mostly fed in racks at the 
sides of the yards in which they spent 
most of the time, only going into the 
well-ventilated barn, or shed, to be 
milked. Judging by the bursting barns, 
and the many large ricks, there was no 
danger that there would ever be any 
shortage; in fact, much Alfalfa was being 
baled and shipped away to less favored 
regions. To an Eastern dairyman from 
the corn belt, this did not look like a 
properly “balanced ration,” but the 
cream, as well as the generally healthy, 
and thrifty appearance of the cows proved 
conclusively that they had some way of 
making it balance that was most satis¬ 
factory to them. The fine growth of this 
legume in this vicinity, on the limited 
area formerly irrigated by the old Tul- 
lock Ditch, satisfied a few of the busi¬ 
ness men of Oakdale that more water 
under the new and enlarged water sys¬ 
tem which starts from the Goodwin dam 
mentioned above, would largely increase 
the acreage, so “they just chipped 
in” and built the creamery to have it 
ready, and from present indications it 
may soon have to be enlarged, as they 
have also arranged to furnish cows to 
reliable persons who are willing and able 
to milk them, on long time, the half of 
each cream check being kept baek, so 
that the cow will soon pay for herself. 1 
heifer is young, unbred and undeveloped; 
but it would not be wise to attempt such 
an operation now, as the teat no doubt 
is connected with a milk producing 
(mammary) gland and producing as 
much milk as its “mates.” It is thought 
that the prehistoric cow had a number 
of teats and udders, none developed 
greatly, but more on the order of the 
milk-producing glands of the sow. The 
extra teats found in some cows are there¬ 
fore “vestigial” of the original and miss¬ 
ing teats, rather than rudimentary teats, 
as they commonly are called. By select¬ 
ing and mating heifers from cows pos¬ 
sessed of extra teats and themselves sim¬ 
ilarly characterized and mating them 
with a male from a cow of the kind in 
question it would be possible to perpetu¬ 
ate the extra teats, or make them a 
“fixed character.” Ewes with four teats 
are being produced in Canada by such a 
process of selection and mating. 
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