Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1870 — Advice to Dairymen. [ARTICLE]

Advice to Dairymen.

Ttie following extract from an address by Mr. Willard before the Canadian Dairymen’s Association Is always in Beason: “ Your manufacturers cannot cleanse filthy milk, and out of it make high-priced butter or cheese. The great demand now is for sweet, nutty, new milk flavored goods. It depends on the farmers whether your dairies and factories shall become noted as the best in the land, and their goods be sought after and contended for by and consumers. There must be cleanliness in milk—no dogging or racing of herds to the stable, overheating the milk, inducing ferments and decompositions ; no kicking and banging of cows; no commingling of diseased milk with the good. If you have cows that are sick, or have diseased udders, throw their milk to the pigs. Do not poison your own and your neighbors’ product by turning it into butter or cheese. I have raised my voice against this, that we may be able to bring the character of American dairy products where they shall have’ no rival m the markets of the world. There is nothing pays better than kindness to milk stock. No man has a right to abuse his stock, and keep it in a tremor of fear and nervous excitement, and then poison consumers with the milk and beef of such animals. The best milk comes from upland pastures. In the division of your lands let the low or wetter portions be devoted to meadows.- Stock requires a variety of herbage, and you should seed with a variety of seeds. Remember that many varieties of grass growing together will produce more food and make a more enduring turf. Provide corn fodder at the rate of an acre for every eight cows, so that when -pastures begin to fail in July and August, you will always have an abundant store of succulent food at your command to keep up the flow of good milk. In this way you will turn your cattle to account, and get from your lands remunerative results.”