lido. 
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T11 li KUKAL NEW-VOKKKK 
MILKING MACHINES ONCE MORE. 
W ILL some one who has actual knowl¬ 
edge of the situation, tell us about 
the exact status of the milking ma¬ 
chine? Does it milk? e. .t. s. 
Burtsville, O. 
There are milking machines all about 
this section, and so far as I know, all 
are giving reasonable satisfaction, and 
not one of my neighbors would have them 
taken out on any account. Yes. they 
milk, but it needs a man who is inter¬ 
ested in them, and understands their op¬ 
eration, and can tell when they are work¬ 
ing all right. The large dairymen seem 
to praise them more than the man with 
a 10-cow dairy. There are several kinds, 
and not so much difference in their oper¬ 
ation as was noticed a few years ago. I 
recently made a tour of inquiry, and 
found no serious complaints. The ver¬ 
dict was, one man with a machine was 
doing the work of three and four hand 
milkers. It wants an engine that runs 
at uniform speed; the pumps must not be 
run faster than the former hand puli, and 
the teat cup needs adjusting to the require¬ 
ments of the individual cow. One man 
has all his hard milkers stalled by them¬ 
selves. and has the cup adjusted to their 
wants, which means getting all of the 
milk, as more time will be required. A 
good manager will handle the machine 
so that no stripping by hand will be re¬ 
quired. Some others strip after the ma¬ 
chine, to see if the cows all did “give 
down,” some say this is a bad plan, and 
teaches tho cow to demand double milk¬ 
ing! It is better to. start in a cow when 
fresh to be machine milked. Months 
after when shrinking in milk she and the 
machine are not apt to work in exact 
harmony. The young heifer should be 
milked with the machine from the start. 
This makes the machine her baby. I am 
not mentioning any particular machine as 
the best. Where a machine is introduced 
into a neighborhood, about all of the after 
machines sold will be of that make. Two 
things are essential. The machine must 
be kept clean. The most serious defect 
is the occasional lack of intelligence dis¬ 
played, coupled with carelessness in oper¬ 
ating them. There are hundreds of milk¬ 
ing machines all over Northern Ohio, and 
so far as my knowledge goes, 48 out of 
.">0 are working in a most satisfactory 
way, and are no longer regarded as an 
experiment, but the realization of a “long- 
felt want.” john Gour.n. 
SILAGE AND CATTLE DISEASE. 
E NCLOSED find letter appearing in 
the Buffalo Express from a farmer 
in Erie Co., N. Y. This ought to 
bring out some discussion on the merits 
of silage feeding. g. w. m. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
The article mentioned contains the fol¬ 
lowing, in reference to the foot-and- 
mouth disease: 
If seems a dreadful calamity to have 
so large a percentage of food-producing 
creatures destroyed. I have investigated 
the subject and am convinced the cause is 
the feeding of rather sour, germ-filled 
silage. It. has been fed for years and the 
entire system is poisoned. Physicians 
forbid giving infants milk from a cow so 
fed. Why? They know the milk is im¬ 
pure—diseased. The main cause for 
canker-sore mouth in persons is excessive 
acid in the system. But the same offen¬ 
sive stuff is fed for years and no notice 
taken of its effects. All barnyard crea¬ 
tures partake of it and walk in the drop¬ 
pings that are but diseased filth. I am 
fully convinced that those who are sent 
out to examine cattle know that if this 
food were taken from animals, cleanli¬ 
ness observed and remedies used to 
cleanse and destroy this extreme acid and 
cankerous condition, there would be no 
need of destroying creatures. 
These stories about the poison to be 
found in silage break out again and again. 
It is beyond question true that a small 
portion of the silage fed in this coun- 
try is of poor quality, some of it is sour 
and moldy, and ought not be fed at all. 
There is no reason, however, why the 
silo should be condemned. You might as 
well condemn the entire system of can¬ 
ning vegetables or fruit, because now and 
then you get hold of a can which has 
gone wrong and fermented. The poor 
silage generally comes from putting green, 
immature corn into a silo that is not air¬ 
tight, or putting over-ripe corn into such 
;i silo without adding water to it, and 
stamping it down hard to exclude the air. 
Every housewife knows that now and 
then she loses a jar of fruit because she 
became a little careless with the cover, 
letting too much air remain or left the 
cover loose. The proportion of poor sil¬ 
age is no greater than the occasional can 
could be in a full year’s supply of home 
canned fruit, and it is no argument 
against the silo as a general proposition 
to say that now and then a sample of 
poor silage is fed out to stock. 
We have heard people in years past 
claim that silage was responsible for tu¬ 
berculosis or many other diseases of cattle 
and stock. For many years some of the 
milk condensing firms refused to accept 
milk where the cows wore fed on silage. 
In private conversation many of these 
people told us that they had no objec¬ 
tion whatever to good silage made from 
well-matured corn, and handled properly 
in a tight silo. What they would object 
to was the poor stuff often made from 
unripe corn, and not properly put into 
tin? silo, and not properly fed. They 
were obliged to draw the line on all sil¬ 
age in order to be sure. Since then most 
nf them have a system of inspection. 
Samples are taken, and if they prove to 
be up to the standard, farmers arc per¬ 
mitted to deliver the milk when fed on 
such silage. Silage is fed on the certified 
milk farms which supply milk for feed¬ 
ing infants and invalids. To wipe out 
the silo altogether would bo a calamity, 
and probably two-thirds of the Winter 
dairymen in this country would be driven 
out of business. As is the tendency with 
every other line of farming the movement 
is to take greater care, build better silos, 
plant suitable varieties of corn, and thus 
make a better quality all through. There 
will always be complaints now and then 
about poor silage. Some years ago the 
critics went so far as to claim that hired 
men were tapping the bottom of the silo 
and were getting drunk on the juice that 
flowed from it. Investigation showed 
that there is no more alcohol produced 
in the making of good silage than there 
would be in baking bread, but this was 
only a sample of the remarkable stories 
which somehow get started and flow 
through the newspapers. 
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K EEP dogs out of your hog lots. Do 
not visit your neighbor’s infected 
herd and then return to your lot. 
See that stock buyers are careful in en¬ 
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horses or wagons into infected yards. 
Keep the neighbors’ teams out of' your 
hogyards. Keep the infected hogs in 
small yards or fields, and do not allow 
them to run at large over the public high¬ 
ways* or even over the entire farm. 
Quarantine for period of three weeks any 
hogs brought on the farm and before re¬ 
moving ttiem from the quarantine yard, 
dip them. The strictest quarantine must 
be observed, and every possible precau¬ 
tion taken. Stock yards generally are 
affected and there is danger in racks 
which have not been thoroughly cleaned. 
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