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‘Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 24, 1920 
Trouble with “Ropy” Milk 
I have a Jersey cow, freshened aoout 
six weeks, which gives a large quantity 
of milk. When cream is taken from the 
milk the cream will come off in strings, 
like ropes. She is in pasture, seems per¬ 
fectly well. What is needed? 
Maine. c. x. n. 
Every year at this time we begin to 
have questions like the above. The milk 
and cream becomes stringy or ropy after 
standing for a time, and there is no ap¬ 
parent reason why it should act' in this 
way. Many people have tried changing 
the feed of the cows, putting the milk 
on ice, and handling it in various ways ; 
still the trouble continues. The average 
person feels that the milk is handled in 
a thoroughly sanitary way. Pans and 
pails are washed and scalded regularly, 
and the housewife feels rather insulted 
when she is told that the dairy utensils 
are not thoroughly cleaned. This ropy 
condition is due to a peculiar germ which 
works in the milk, and is chiefly found 
on the milk utensils, such as pails, pans, 
skimmers and the cloths used in washing. 
It is not the fault of the cow or her feed¬ 
ing. Cleanliness is the remedy. The 
cow and the stable should be kept clean, 
and it will be better for a time to wipe 
off the cow’s udder with warm water and 
dry thoroughly before milking. Thcu 
each day boil for at least 20 minutes 
everything that ever touches the cow or 
the milk, except the human hand. Boil 
pans, pails, spoons and skimmers, and 
particularly the towels and cloths used 
in washing or drying the pans. This 
germ is frequently found in the seams or 
scratches on pails and pans. Boil thor¬ 
oughly day after day, and then put the 
pans and cans into the sunshine and thor¬ 
oughly dry and air the cloths. If this 
plan is followed up the trouble will dis¬ 
appear. as the germs will be destroyed. 
We feel confident that the trouble will 
be found coming from this germ, and that 
the remedy here given will prevent it. 
because in past years at least 100 cases 
of this trouble have been brought up. 
and in every case reported to us this boil¬ 
ing and sunning of the utensils cleaned 
up the trouble. 
Building a Homemade Silo 
Some years ago I planned a round silo 
which is durable, cheaply constructed and 
has what I have never seen in any other 
round silo—a continuous door. I think 
this silo was described in The II. X.-Y. 
at' that time, but the many new readers 
of the paper may be interested in a de¬ 
scription at this time. The silo is made 
of staves of any sound lumber, and three 
posts, which are known a.s the binding 
posts. Many of these silos have been 
built in Maine, New Hampshire. Vermont 
and other States, and, so far as I know, 
have always given satisfaction. I will 
describe them briefly. 
The three binding posts are sawed 6x6. j; 
Two of these posts make the sides t<» the 
continuous door. The staves may be 
sawed 6 in. wide and not less than 1*4 in. 
thick. The two door posts have a corner 
cut out of them on one side. 2x2 in. They 
are then framed together at top and bot¬ 
tom by dropping them onto a sill of the 
same size, into which they are tenoned, 
and placing a plate on top in the same 
way. The grooved corners are placed on . 
opposite sides, and are for the ends of the ’, 
door boards to rest. These posts, thus 
framed, are set up where they are to form 
the door and securely staved until the 
silo is finished. After these posts are 
placed, staves are stood up around a circle 
the size it is desired to build the silo and 
stayed by tacking old barrel staves around 
them horizontally. When about the op¬ 
posite side of the circle from the door 
posts is reached, the binding post is set 
up. The inside of all these posts is set 
just flush with the inside of the staves. 
I should have said that the door and 
binding posts have holes bored through 
them one-eighth of an inch larger than 
the iron that is to be used for the hoops. 
For a silo 20 feet high there should be 
10 half-inch hoops. This calls for 10 
holes in each door post, the distance di¬ 
vided so they will be nearer together at 
the bottom than the top. The binding 
post has 20 holes bored through it in 
pairs not too near together to prevent the 
easy turning of the nuts on the hoops. 
The hoops are made in half lengths, 
with a broad head on one end and thread, 
well cut back in the hoop to allow room 
for taking up. as occasion requires, on the 
other. A half-hoop is thrust through the 
lower hole in the right side of silo door, 
on around the silo and through the lower 
hole on the binding post, and the nut 
screwed on slightly. Then a hoop goes 
through the left-hand door post, around 
the left side to the binding post, and the 
nut loosely fastened. This nut will !“• on 
opposite side of the binding post from 
the first one. The hoops are put in place 
and then the nuts are firmly secured and 
the temporary stays removed. These hoops 
should be provided with heavy washers 
on the thread end. The staves need not 
be jointed or beveled on the edges unless 
one wishes to do so. 
The door is made of 1-in. boards, double, 
placed so as to break joints. The ends 
of these boards rest in the grooves in the 
doorposts, and are just.flush with the in¬ 
side of the posts and the staves. They 
need not be fastened together, and are 
taken out as the silage is fed. 
In a 20-foot silo there will be no spring¬ 
ing of the door posts. If built much 
higher, it would be well to put a rod 
across the door a little nearer the bottom 
than the top. This rod can be taken out 
when the silage above it is fed out. I 
trust readers will be able to understand 
this brief description, and that they will 
see they have a continuous door from top 
to bottom*, with no manholes to crawl 
through. These silos have usually been 
built about 12x20. When filled slowly 
and allowed to settle well, they will hold 
not far from 50 tons of silage. Many of 
the farmers who have built them have 
thier own lumber. 
Maine. b. walker m’keex. 
about: but most of 
Of these men who 
milk producers all 
of going out of the 
Milk is about the only farm product 
produced in any quantity around here, 
and it sells at League prices. The low 
prices this Spring, together with high cost 
of feed and scarcity of labor, forces a lot 
of dairymen either to quit or reduce their 
herds. One man told me in April his 
gram bill and labor cost were $43.50 a 
day. and his milk was bringing $45. so 
lie was practically donating his hay and 
silage and paying taxes, insurance, depre¬ 
ciation and other overhead out of his own 
pocket. I asked another man who was 
milking 30 cows a day in May whether 
he got back his labor cost and grain bill, 
and he said : “Just 
them didn’t do that.” 
have been successful 
their lives, one talks 
business and the other is closing out one 
barn and cutting his output in half. A 
shipper from our station, who made $14.- 
000 worth of milk last year, and whose 
father and grandfather before him were 
“tied to a cow’s tail” from boyhood up, 
had an auction of his herd recently. 
When men like these quit. it. is like the 
Bank of England deciding there is no 
money in discounts. I sold my own 
milking cows in April Last year I fattened 
60 hogs. This year I shall fatten four 
for my own use. On the mile of county 
road on which I live, every farmer—six 
in all—has stopped raising anything for 
the market, and the 2.500 acres controlled 
by them are in grass or weeds and 
bushes. If these conditions are general, 
and I fear they are in many other sec¬ 
tions, I don’t see but that food will be a 
seller's rather than a buyer’s market next 
Winter—which would be a we’come 
change if I were going to have any to 
sell. F. B.'s. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 
Farmers are busy cultivating corn and 
hauling their grain and hay to market 
before starting harvesting. Grain fields 
are looking fine. Ilay will be a fair crop, 
corn a little small yet. because of being 
planted late. Help scarce. Oats look 
well : feeds high. Hog feed. $4.10 per 
cwt.: shorts. $3.75 per cwt.; dairy feeds. 
$4 per cwt.. Wheat. $3: corn. $1.80; 
oats. $1.15; ha.v. $35 per ton. j. o. a. 
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333 West 30th Street New York 
Flies Cut Down Milk Yield 
There’s no doubt about it. Flies don’t just torment and 
worry the cows, but they cut down the milk yield and cut 
into the profits. They make life miserable, too, for those 
who milk the cows. 
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flies at milking time —and the sure way to get more milk —is to.use 
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