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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 3, 1915. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
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Live Stock Breeding Crate. 
Can you furnish plans for breeding 
crate for bull? R. l< c. 
New York. 
Superintendent Dutton, of Meridale 
Farms, sends the following description : 
‘ We made our breeding crate of cement, 
just two solid blocks 18 inches high at the 
back end, and 30 inches high at the other 
end. It is built wedge shape, at the lower 
end it is 14 inches wide, and at the high 
end about 24 inches wide. The cement 
blocks are covered with a plank, and slats 
nailed across to keep it from getting slip¬ 
pery.” 
The following front and side view pic¬ 
tures. and description, are given by 
I loard’s Dairyman: 
‘‘The frame is long and narrow, and 
tin- adjustable stanchions so placed that 
Cement Breeding Crate. 
the occupants can be held well back. The 
height of platform is 51 inches in front 
and constructed on an incline making the 
rear 24 inches high. The stanchion is 
supported by 2x4-inch pieces attached to 
each side and resting on the horizontal 
2x4 of the frame, with a series of holes in 
the latter, and a hole in each of the 
pieces attached to the stanchion; it may 
be set at any desired length, by using 
bolts dropped loosely into the holes. 
Loose dirt or cinders at the rear, that 
may be filled in or dug out quickly, will 
be found convenient.” 
Connecticut Dairymen and Milk Scoring. 
The Connecticut Agricultural College 
through its Extension Service announces 
a plan for scoring milk and butter for 
Connecticut dairymen. A circular giv¬ 
ing the full particulars of this test can 
be obtained from Prof. II. J. Baker of 
Stores 1'. O. It seems that dairymen fre¬ 
quently write to the College asking where 
they ctiu send a sample of milk or but¬ 
ter for scoring. Many of these dairymen 
want to know how their milk products 
compare with others, for such compari¬ 
son is what a score means. These in¬ 
quirers have led the College people to 
conclude that there ought to be some 
systematic method of doing the work. A 
careful system of scoring will not only 
prove valuable to the dairyman, but it 
will help to raise the standard of quality 
of Connecticut butter or of milk. The 
consumer will also be benefited, and when 
a producer obtains a high score for his 
dairy products it will act as an adver¬ 
tisement to help his business. These 
tilings are all carefully explained in the 
circular to which we have referred. Of¬ 
ficial entry blanks are provided, and the 
dairyman is expected to fill out certain 
blank questions so that a history of his 
milk or butter may be known. This is a 
most excellent idea, and we hope that 
Connecticut dairymen will make great 
use of the opportunity. They need not 
hesitate to go into the plan freely; it 
is a good thing and will help them. 
Butter Fat and “ Total Solids.” 
The discussion as to the relation of fat 
content to the real value of milk being on, 
I am moved by the spirit of Mr. Grad- 
grind. I have resurrected an agricultural 
report from the Geneva Station of the 
year 1894. I think we may take it for 
granted that the chemists of that time 
were equally accurate and conscientious 
with those of to-day, and the cows have 
probably not changed their plans mate¬ 
rially, so I am going to give you some of 
their figures gathered from several series 
of painstaking tests. These figures are 
the per cent fat and per cent total solids 
of the milk taken in at a cheese factory 
during 13 days of February and March. 
1893: 
Butter 
Total 
Butter 
Total 
Butter 
Total 
fat. 
solids. 
fat. 
solids. 
fat 
solids. 
% 
% 
% 
% 
% 
% 
3.15 
11.95 
2.70 
11.35 
2.55 
11.60 
3.10 
11.91 
2.05 
11.53 
2.50 
11.20 
2.95 
11.72 
2.60 
11.65 
2.45 
11.32 
2.90 
11.77 
2.65 
11.41 
2.75 
11.46 
2.65 
11.44 
There are the exceptions that prove the 
rule. Some improvements in test did not 
show an improvement in total solids, but 
mostly they did. Here 
on high test milk : 
follows summary 
Butter fat. 
Av. total solido. 
3.65% 4.00% 
12.79 
4.00 4.25 
13.37 
4.25 4.50 
13.62 
4.50 4.75 
14.22 
4.75 5.00 
14.56 
5.00 5.25 
14.80 
3.65 5.25 
14.00 
(Average) 
These figures show very plainly why 
“rich” milk should be diluted for babies. 
There is more casein in it as well as 
cream. It is the extra casein that makes 
the trouble, everything else being right. 
The report quoted refers “For details re¬ 
lating to previous experiments, see Bulle¬ 
tins 37, 43, 45, 46, 47 and 50..” These 
studies were made for cheese, but of 
course they show the value of milk for 
any use. Lillian siiepard. 
Sheep Raisingjin New England. 
One of the good signs of the times is 
the study and investigations going on 
among the business men and intelligent 
portion of the consuming public as to the 
reason for general high cost of meat pro¬ 
ducts, among them lamb and mutton. As 
these are one of the best meat foods we 
can buy, being more easily digested, and 
having a greater food value in general 
than beef, pork or fowls, attention very 
properly turns to these, and how to ob¬ 
tain a larger supply at a reasonable price. 
In the Boston Sunday Globe of June 13 
the following prominent men, qualified by 
study and general knowledge to speak on 
this subject each gave a letter on the sub¬ 
ject: Prof. Morgan of the Federation of 
Rural Progress; Mi-. Wheelei*, of Massa¬ 
chusetts Boai-d of Agriculture, and Mr. 
Grant, of the celebrated Hampden Coun¬ 
ty Improvement League. Each clearly 
shows the large decline in the industry 
here was caused largely as a matter of 
economics, that is, conditions became 
such that the business did not any longer 
pay here, for various reasons, largest of 
which was Western competition by rea¬ 
son of cheap land and cheap feed, the lat¬ 
ter more important in all stock raising 
ventures. Another large i-eason was dogs 
killing and chasing the flocks so that they 
deteriorated in breeding qualities and con¬ 
dition. It is believed that conditions have 
again changed ; the center of population is 
gradually working West, causing a sort of 
nearer home market for Western meat 
products which have also declined in pro¬ 
duction and may continue to do so for va¬ 
rious reasons not necessary to speak of 
here. 
This will give New England produced 
meats, etc., a home market without the 
competition it has had to stand in the 
past 25 years or more. This should be a 
large factor in causing a restocking of out¬ 
back farms to fill the wants of a good 
market right at our door. The dog prob¬ 
lem and any others can be settled satis¬ 
factorily, and this will be demanded as 
the truth becomes known by the buying 
public as well as it is by the intelligent 
producer. Also, when these above facts 
become generally known money will be 
placed in readiness to be obtainable for 
this purpose by land owners who may not 
have the capital of their own for starting 
in a new business. A general benefit to 
all should result, and certainly will if all 
sides of the question are treated and con¬ 
ducted intelligently, and in a strictly bus¬ 
iness manner. a. e. p. 
Milk Bottles and Garbage. 
On general principles it is doubtful if 
you would want to drink milk which was 
served in a bottle taken off a garbage 
dump, yet in 1912 in the city of Boston 
490,978 of these glass bottles were picked 
out of the garbage. Of course they were 
steamed and purified, but that’s no place 
for a milk bottle to spend any part of its 
life. It seems that a good many people 
in the large cities make no effort to re¬ 
turn these bottles to the milkman. They 
simply throw them into the swill pail 
after the milk has been poured out, and 
they are carried and dumped with the 
rest of the city’s garbage. The work of 
reclaiming these milk bottles is often car¬ 
ried on by ti-amps and ragpickers, who 
sell the bottles to large companies, these 
in turn washing and cleaning, and selling 
back to the milk dealers. In some cases 
the cities themselves take charge of this 
work. The city of Boston allows this re¬ 
clamation of milk bottles. They are 
sorted from the refuse by men who have 
charge of this work. They are then sold 
lo the Milk Package Exchange, which is 
owned and controlled by the milkmen. 
This concern washes and sorts the bottles, 
and for a consideration turns theni back 
to their original owners. The cities of 
Rochester and Chicago prohibit the use 
of these dump bottles, and other smaller 
cities are working along this same way. 
While, of course, these bottles are thor¬ 
oughly steamed and cleaned, the thought 
of utilizing them for carrying milk is not 
calculated to increase trade. 
Acid Curd Whey. 
I noticed W. II. R., on page 766, speaks 
of feeding chemical (acid curd) whey. 
We have had quite an experience feeding 
it here, as they made casein at our fac¬ 
tory two years ago all Summer. One of 
my neighbors, who makes a business of 
killing hogs, said he could tell one that 
had that whey with his eyes shut by the 
feeling of the intestines at butchering. 
There was nothing to them, only the out¬ 
side thin skin left of the intestines, the 
inside was all gone. It was almost impos¬ 
sible to fatten them at all after feeding 
that whey. Ours was made with sul¬ 
phuric acid. E. M. P. 
Yorkshire, N. Y. 
A year ago I asked you to advise me as 
to the best way to get rid of v rats. Y r ou 
told me to use a rat virus. I followed 
your advice and cleared the place of rats 
entirely. I used also carbon bisulphide in 
the burrows. It cost me about $7 to $8. 
You advice was worth a lot more. 
Nortbport, N. Y. c. a. 
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dairy. Keep your cows up to the 
standard by freeing them of flies 
this summer. 
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your cows free from fretting 
and worrying, thereby increas¬ 
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If your denier can’t supply 
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May Rilma 22761, A. R. 1726, who held 
the record previous to Murne Cowan 
19597. A. R. 1906, and was sold for over 
$5,000 at public auction, dropped a bull 
calf after making her world’s record. 
Murne Cowan, who recently gained the 
honor of holding the Guernsey record fox- 
milk and butter fat production, and who 
for a time held the world’s record over all 
breeds for fat production, dropped a 
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18. 
Two years ago I had three very fine 
yearling grade Holstein heifers. They 
were in a small field where there were 
some wild cherry bushes or small trees, 
growing but none cut down. The weather 
was very dry, so that the leaves on the 
trees were slightly wilted. The heifers 
were all right in the morning; at noon 
one was dead, and before night all three. 
I had always known that wild cherry 
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