Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1911 — Dairy Notes. [ARTICLE]

Dairy Notes.

A cow that fattens readily as a rule is beef bred rather than of the milk strain. When a man gets a good dairy bull there are always a lot of neighbors who say: “It’s too much money?* fThere’3 no steak on his hind quarters.” “He’s too thin.” There is just where they know nothing about dairy breeds. It is not “steak” that Is wanted. If the heifer calf shows Incipient horns, use a stick of caustic potash and water on ’hem and kill the horns, then they won’t grow. When drying cows off give them dry food and milk occasionally only, making intervals between milkings longer and larger. Feed no slops.

Regular Milking Hours. The importance of regular milking hours equally in every twentyfour, is emphasized by a successful dairyman. He found that although ft would not pay the farmers to milk three times a day, the milk should be drawn every twelve hours for best results. The longer milk remains in the udder the less butter fat it will contain when drawn, so when the milking time is let run over time a few hours considerable is lost in quality; and this Is not made up at the next ranking, so that there is no way of regaining iL—lndiana flap*