Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — THE DAIRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE DAIRY.

Convenient Milking Stool. Here is a milking stool invented by me, which is light and durable and very convenient, as it holds tho pail securely in its plahe. It is easily made and when finished has a neat appearance. For tho

top of tho stool tako a good oak board about an inch thick and eight or ten inches wide by twelve long, tapering slightly to the front. Next take two pieces of oak or other hard wood about two by three inches and twelve inches long, for legs. Tho front ones can be made smaller. A is a board half an inch thick and sixteen inches long, fastened at B by sawing notches about a quarter of an inch deep in the leg and securely fastened to it by a couple of small nails. Cis a piece of metallic hoop which I havo to admit the bucket easily. Dis a piece of stouter iron, fastened to X and Y. by rivets.— O. F. Bastain, in Farm and Home. What an Ayrshire Cow Does. An Ayrshiro cow geneially shows 13 per cent, of solids, 13 to Id per cent of cream, and 3>£ to 4}tf per cent, of butter fat. In the milking competitions of tho London Dairy Show and the Oxfordshire and other shows, the Ayrshries havo stepped far ahead of the Shorthorns, Guernseys, etc., in the quantity and quality of the milk which they yielded. Tho milk of the Ayrshiro is pre-eminently suited for cheese-making from its composition and structure. All samples of milk under tho microscope arc seen to bo composed of a homogeneous fluid, in which float little globules of buttor fat. These globules vary in size, and while In tho Jersey they are comparatively largo, in tho Ayrshire they aro small and not rising quickly, but, mixing with the curd butter, make an evenly rich cheese. Tho quantity of cheese yielded by such animal is about six hundredweights, estimated in so many stones of twenty-four pounds each.