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|A.mVucan Agriculturist, January 20,1923 
Senate Reports Voigt Bill 
Dairymens' League Announces December Pool Price 
T he Senate Committee on Agricul¬ 
ture has reported favorably the 
Voigt Anti-filled Milk Bill. This con¬ 
stitutes one more step toward the pass¬ 
age of this bill to protect the public 
health and the dairy industry by for¬ 
bidding the movement in interstate and 
foreign commerce of compounds of 
skimmed milk and vegetable oil made 
in the semblance of milk. 
The Voigt bill passed the House of 
Representatives by a large majority in 
May, 1922. It has been in the Senate 
Committee ever since. 
The comments of the Senate Commit¬ 
tee in its favorable report on this bill 
are extremely interesting. The report 
says that “your committee does not 
doubt that the sale of filled milk as at 
present carried on is a violation, if not 
of the letter, of the spirit, of the Pure 
Food and Drugs Act.” The report 
states that “investigations in many 
cities revealed that dealers were selling 
the compound as being as good and bet¬ 
ter than regular evaporated milk.” 
The Committee also points out that 
this substitute is used in some hotels 
and restaurants and by ice-cream mak¬ 
ers in the place of genuine milk, and 
that a label could not protect the con¬ 
sumer against such fraud. The Com¬ 
mittee says “vitamines, which are so 
necessary to main health, are not found 
in vegetable oils and fats. It is there¬ 
fore all the more necessary that we 
supply the vitamines in the milk. Milk 
is the one chief food of the nation, and 
no adulteration of it or substitution for 
it should be permitted.” 
Committee Appreciates Importance 
of Dairying 
The Committee’s comment on the im¬ 
portance of the dairy industry is also 
interesting. “The civilisation of our 
country is dependent upon the dairying 
industry. We should do everything 
possible to encourage it. We need it to 
preserve the fertility of our soil, and 
the time to prohibit the filled milk traf¬ 
fic is now, before it has done greater 
damage to our health or to one of our 
basic and indispensable industries.” 
The Senate Committee is to be con¬ 
gratulated upon its report on this im¬ 
portant bill. It now remains for the 
Senate to pass it. It probably will 
passed if it can be brought to vote this 
session. You can do no single act of 
any more importance to your business 
than to write the Senators from_ your 
state urging on them the necessity of 
pressing the Voigt Filled Milk Bill for 
passage and for voting in support of it. 
DECEMBER POOL PRICE $2.82 
The Dairymen’s League Co-operative 
Association announces $2.82 a hundred 
as iT;s gross pool price for the month of 
December. From this 7 cents per hun¬ 
dred are deducted by the association for 
expenses of administration and adver¬ 
tising and 20 cents are borrowed by the 
association on its certificate of indebt¬ 
edness plan. This leaves a met cash 
price to farmers of $2.55. This is the 
base price for milk containing 3 per 
cent butterfat in the 201-210 mile 
freight zone from New York City. 
The association calls attention to the 
fact that the net cash price of $2.55 to 
farmers is 28% cents per hundred more 
than the November price. The Decem¬ 
ber price compares very favorably with 
the December 1921 price which was 
$2.39. 
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PUTTING UP ICE 
CHARLES L. STILES, NEW YORK 
Now that the cold wintry season is 
again at hand too much cannot be said 
about the importance of putting up ice. 
It is essential that sufficient quantity 
be stored to tide the dairyman over 
next summer’s hot spell, which is sure 
to come as the seasons pass and go. 
Although it is essential that one should 
have a well-built ice house, very good 
results can be obtained in utilizing an 
old barn or outbuilding for packing 
away the season’s supply. Of course, 
the ideal place for storage is in a 
double-walled house, especialy built for 
storing ice, especially where it is possi¬ 
ble to have air space to cut down the 
rate of melting. 
It is not really necessary to have a 
modern, up-to-date ice-making tools. 
Of course, they lessen labor and speed 
up the work considerably, but very 
good results can be obtained if just an 
ordinary cross-cut saw and a long 
board used as a straight edge, so a 
straight line can be followed in cutting 
out the square blocks. In order to fa¬ 
cilitate rapid handling and make it 
more convenient in packing, the cakes 
should be cut In rectangular forms. 
Pains should be taken to keep the edges 
straight, as it packs very tightly, and 
consequently keep much better. 
Overcoming the Help Problem 
A good plan to follow is to change 
work with neighbors during the ice- 
hafvesting period, especially if the ice 
is to be hauled a considerable distance. 
It calls for heavy labor at its best, and 
having plenty of help around is highly 
essential. It is a very unpleasant expe¬ 
rience to have a big mess of milk, per¬ 
haps $15 worth, sent home some sultry 
morning next July. But that happens 
once in a while in the best regulated 
dairies. A few dollars spent in putting 
up a quantity of ice at this season of 
the year will eliminate much of the 
danger of such an occurrence taking 
place. 
The quantity put up, of course, de¬ 
pends upon the size of the dairy. But 
three tons per cow is ample allowance 
if milk is being produced for the fluid 
market. That allowance is sufficient to 
overcome wastage and to take care of 
the household requirements as well. 
Sawdust, ground cork or poor quality 
swamp grass, make good coverings. 
Personally, I prefer sawdust, if it is 
available, as it is easy to handle, more 
compact and makes a mass more air 
tight. It is quite essential that air 
should be kept from the ice as far as 
possible. _ 
Why I Chose the Brown 
Swiss 
{Continued from page 54) 
milk in one year, this being sold to a 
local creamery. Moreover, she had a 
three-year-old daughter that produced 
15,154 pounds milk and another daugh¬ 
ter milking in the two-year-old class 
that reached 62 pounds milk a day and 
1,726 pounds in a month. 
High Herd Average under Severe 
Conditions 
The entire herd of milking cows 
averaged over 10,000 pounds milk. 
They had no silage. They slept outside 
even when the thermometer registered 
40 degrees below zero. Such perform¬ 
ances lead to a definite conclusion— 
that there were no “lemons” in this 
herd, is truly an accomplishment of a 
breeder, made posible by the strong 
characteristic of a breed to “produce 
and reproduce.” 
With a bunch of “just” cows on the 
home place, and being attracted by the 
Swiss, my father decided to give the 
Big Brown Breed a trial. Nine young 
females were purchased. Eight were 
of Beauty breeding. Two more were 
soon added. Last year the herd aver¬ 
aged 11,294 pounds milk and 560 
pounds butter. 
Jura Master’s King was selected to 
head the herd. King was from a splen¬ 
did high-testing two-year-old heifer 
whose two nearest dams average 16,353 
pounds milk and 632 pounds butter-fat. 
Along with this production he has cor¬ 
rect type. As a calf he finished the 
fair circuit without defeat, his victories 
being at the Iowa, Illinois and Wis¬ 
consin State Fairs, Waterloo, N. Y., 
and the National Dairy Show. Our 
Brown Swiss calves have been very 
pleasing. They have averaged 94 
pounds when one day old, although 
mature cows usually drop calves weigh¬ 
ing from 100 to 110 pounds. They gain 
from 40 to 48 pounds during their 
first mouth. 
King’s heifers are now of breeding 
age and are a very promising lot. They 
show highly developed udders and milk 
veins. Their top lines are of the kind 
that enabled their sire to carry off the 
blue ribbon in keen competition.—A. E. 
Dean, Chautauqua County, N. Y. 
Prove it 
this wary 
Don’t take anyone’s word for it that 
KOW KaRE definitely increases the 
milk yield. Actual proof is too easy 
to secure. 
Make a simple test — and make it 
now, so that yoij may benefit all winter 
.and spring by what it proves. Seledla 
part of your herd — even one cow — 
and place in her feed morning and 
evening, for just cne week out of the 
month, a tablespoonful of Kow-KaRE. 
If you keep accurate produdion re¬ 
cords, you will be surprised at the 
increased yield, and at the surprising¬ 
ly low cost of the treatment. 
The reason is simple. The vigor of the cow's 
* digestive and milk-making organs“runs down” 
during the winter months when green pastur¬ 
age is not available. KOW KaRE has the medi¬ 
cinal properties to keep these organs toned up 
and working at summer capacity. 
It is just this building-up of the genital and 
digestive fundtions that makes KOW KaRE so 
valuable in treating the diseases which orig¬ 
inate in these very organs, such as Abor¬ 
tion, Retained Afterbirth, Barrenness, Scours, 
Bunches, Milk Fever, etc. No medicine shelf 
is complete without this nationally-used cow 
remedy. 
KOW KARE is sold by feed dealers, druggists, 
general stores; large size $1.25; medium size 65c. 
if your dealer is not supplied» %ve will send post* 
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