Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1914 — DAIRY CREAMERY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DAIRY CREAMERY

•.*» . . 3 T METHODS OF MILKING. ./, Properly Done It Adds Considerably to the Years’ Income. The average observer is probably not aware that there are more ways of milking than one. This remark is meant to apply to hand milking. Every dairyman, especially those with large herds, knows that the difference between skilful and unskilful milking Is one that will affect his account book considerably in a year’s time. An experiment to demonstrate the value of expert. as against inexpert milking was carried out recently at Ontario College. The inexperienced milker generally drew from one to two pounds less at a day’s milking than the careful operator. Where a herd of 60 cows is milked dally this would mean a difference of about 60 gallons a day in the yield. / . Some cows are of such a disposition that no change of surroundings or milkers seems to affect them. Many, on the other hand, are extremely nervous. The temperament of each cow should be studied, in order to get the best results. Not so very long ago, a well known dairyman declared that singing at milking time was conducive to a heavy pail.

Keeping Cream From Spattering. When churning, cream may be prevented from spattering out of the hole in the cover by the device shown in the accompanying illustration# Cut a hole in the bottom of an old tin

HOW THE CAN IS PLACED, can, from which the top has been removed, large enough for the plunger to pass through. Place the can over the plunger upside down, and the cream will not splash out. —R. A. Blanchard, Cook Co., 11l

Advice to Hard Worked Parmer. Building up the dairy farm is not so handy to the man who has not the things ready made to his hand. It is this- representative of the great American class of farmers, who is eating the bread in the sweat of his face, who can ill afford to make mistakes. He is the average brave hearted, struggling burden bearer who ever should have concern that any message that is sent may reach him. To this man I have given the advice to sell and invest the proceeds in as many good cows as they will tuy, but buying Is the very last way to get good ones. My advice to such a man would be to, get into shape to feed those cows a good full "ration for a whole year. A cow may be better than she looks or worse than she looks; the only way to tell one Is to live with her. Get rid of the poor ones—they take the bread out of your mouth, but the more promising ones may surprise you with judicious feeding. Put them to test; shelter them from storms; be kind to them; don’t try to half starve them on a dry pasture but' give them the full round year ration. ' Send your scrub bull to the butcher and get the best bull of your breed that you can buy. The foregoing is from a recent address of W. P. McSparren at a dairy meeting. We wish to add to this advice, viz: Breed your best cows to such a bull as is recommended, and thus grow better and better dairycows. Good cows are so valuable that they are not for sale. Breed them In your own herd is the onlyway to obtain them.—lndiana Farmer.