Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — THE DAIRY. [ARTICLE]

THE DAIRY.

* Pay aa You Go. The creameryman who goes into a community and pays the cash for his milk just as fast as it is delivered at his door, the same as any other business does—or ought to do—will establish himself on a firm basis of esteem among the farmers, and will be supplied with the best the dairy affords, besides insuring the eternal good of all the people of his neighborhood. The fanner and dairyman has to wait too long for returns. A cash basis would benefit all concerned. It is easy to deride this idea, and say that It is impracticable, chimerical, etc., but this does not make it so, nor will it convince us that it is so. Every line of business is hanging too much on the farmer’s capacity (now nearly exhausted) for indulgence, and it is high time for a radical change. Pay as you go. Dairy Note*. Still another milk-testing apparatus is announced, called the Hutton. The United Kingdom of Great Britain has 9.2 people to one cow. We have one for every 4.3 persons. Niagara is the name given a butter cooler exhibited at the show at Bath, Eng. It consists of a water-tight chamber around which cold water is made to flow. A condensed milk plant is to be put in at Newport, Me., at a cost of $50,000 to consume the milk of 4,000 cows. Several others are to follow if this one succeeds. Filled cheese is still in the market in Chicago and the Farmer’s Review of Chicago and a correspondent of the Wisconsin Farmer both advocate a national law against all such frauds. Milk drawn from an Inflamed udder will almost invariably, if made into butter, develop an offensive odor, resembling decaying meat.," Such milk is unfit for use. Do not'feed it even to pigs. Pour it on the manure pile. If a man is a criminal who robs your puree, in what category would you place the one who robs you of that which is dearer and more precious than money—your health?. Look out for-the one who seeks to sell you any of the so-called compounds that are guaranteed to prolong the keeping qualities of milk. They are slow hut sure destroyers of health. Some complaint is heard that the dairymen who have had the milk feature of the Columbian Exposition in charge have dubbed four breeds—dairy breeds—and shut out the rest. Guernseys, Jerseys, Holsteins and Ayrshire are the lucky breeds. They must be rather exasperating to the Shorthorn men if to no others, in view of the position the breed has oo copied in this country.