Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Spring Changes in Milk. [ARTICLE]

Spring Changes in Milk.

It is interesting to notice the variations of butter fats made by herds and cows which may be accurately shown by the Babcock testing machine. When grass first comes In the spring and farmers begin to decrease their grain ration, exchanging it for the most perfect ration ever grown, the flush feed of May and June, the increasing yield Is perceptible. In the case of well-bred Jersey herds it is remarkable. Holsteins and only ordinary natives appear to respond less liberally to the change of food and conditions. The Babcock machine, and what it will prove to the wideawake dairyman may be made of inestimable value to him.