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are all that is meant by a “sterilisation 
installation.” Such a simple plant is, 
however, sufficient to turn out some 
thousands of bottles a day. 
For domestic 
purposes there are 
already several “home _ sterilisers’’— 
practically tin boiling cans, very much 
like fish kettles, with a tin rack inside, so 
arranged as to keep the bottles in an up- 
right position, and in the steam rather 
than in the boiling water. Milk is better 
if i+ is not actually boiled. 
What Mr. Straus is trying to do is :— 
1. To teach the people that raw milk 
kills. : 
2. For the present, and until they 
learn the better way of pasteurising. to 
persuade everyone to boil all milk. 
Cow’s Huge Yield of Milk. 
Both the open milking trial and the 
butter test at the show of the Tunbridge 
Wells and South-Eastern Counties 
Society, which has just ended, were won 
{reports an English paper) by a cow 
belonging to Messrs. 
Goring, 
Green Bros., 
which gave the astonishing 
quantity of 77 lb, 12 0z., equivalent to 
more than seven and a half gallons of 
milk during the twenty-four hours. This 
milk was so rich in fat that the cream 
after separation produced 3 lb. 9} oz. of 
butter. Messrs. Green’s cow is a cross- 
bred brindle about eight years of age, 
one of her ancestors in all probability 
having been a Jersey. 
News and Notes. 
A cheese diet is said to be much more 
healthful than one of meat. 
Dairy farms are most progressive when 
all manure is put back on the land. 
A warm bed is worth many pounds of 
food during a spell of rough weather. 
No matter how well bred an animal 
may be she cannot milk without a liberal 
supply of food.. 
In order that ensilage may keep well, 
maize should be cut about the time the 
kernels are well glazed and dented, 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
A heifer with her first calf will not 
usually milk for more than eight or nine 
months, unless she is exceptionally good. 
Quite frequently heifers in their first 
and eyen second and third milking period 
do not come to their fully developed 
milking capacity. 
To keep cows’ teats from cracking, 
grease them once each week with vaselines 
Tt will keep them soft, and save the poor 
brute considerable pain. 
For lice on cattle sifted wood ashes is 
a good remedy; about half a bucketful 
well rubbed in will rid the beast of all 
the lice in less than a week. 
Cheese was known to the Greeks before 
the time of Homer, and Cesar relate® 
hat the German tribes supplied the 
Romans with cheese in his day. 
Be honest with your cows and your 
customers and you will have no trouble 
in producing good cream and butter and 
always finding a ready market for both, 
During wet weather let the cows have 
the fodder as fresh from the slide or cart 
as possible, Cattle will not eat sodden 
hay or other food that has been lying out 
in the rain for hours. 
An eminent English doctor has advo- 
cated the consumption of pig’s milk as 
quite peculiar in its qualities and the 
richest of all. We fear milkers would be 
scarcer than ever if their duties extended 
to milking Mrs. Pig. 
Quick and clean milking is essential to 
When the 
hours of milking are irregular it is quite 
possible to obtain an average sample of 
mixed milk from a fairly large number of 
cows. Under these circumstances dairy - 
men should see that the milk from the 
whole herd is carefully mixed. 
An Ayrshire cow, Rena Ross 14,539, 
owned and tested by Mr. John R. 
Valentine, Bryn Mawr, Pa., America 
has just completed her year’s record 
under the official direction of the 
Pennsylvania Experiment Station and 
the Ayrshire Breeders’ Association and 
been admitted with a record of 15,072 lb 
of milk and 75 lb. of butter. she is a. 
strong, rugged cow, of great constitution 
weighing about 1,100 lb. ; 
successful milk production. 
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