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The Nebraska Independent
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Agricultural Department
The Morning After the Dance "
The dance broke up at twa a. in.,' we
reached our beds at four.
At Ave o'clock the farmer's fist was
rapping at our door.
"Wake up," says he, "your breakfast
waits we most uncommon late;
The hogs are squealing 'give us corn,
the cows are at the gate."
We heard his ,, heavy tread retreat
along the naked floor,
Six steps it may have been, or seven
and then we heard no more.
Sleep's touch that sealed our' eyelids
down was feather-soft and sweet;
Our dreams were all of sparkling eyes
and little twinkling feet.
Again we waltzed Matilda Jane and
Annabel and Sue,
And chassed down the middle of the
parlor two by two;
But, just as we were bowing our part
ners to their chairs,
The farmer's cowhide boots again
were heard upon the stairs.
With sighs and groans, we fumbled
and grumbled in the gloom,
For shoes and such etceteras that car
peted the room. .
The frost was on the drowsy corn
what time we drove that way;
The moon still lit the silent vault, as
when we came from play; '
The reedy ponds were garmented 'with
. gossamery lines; ';
The stars were blinking sleepily above
the somber pines;
The sun was gilding Boston's domes
a thousand miles down east,
And evening seemed a thousand years
away from us, at least.
A thousand year3 from ' two of us
Bill's thoughts were lighter toned;
He grinned and gaped and chuckled
while we yawned and husked and
groaned. , x
"Which one?" says Jim, "Matilda?"
and Bill replied, "It's Sue;
And every ear I'm husking now I'm
husking it for two."
Quoth Jinr. "Congratulations -but be
fore this day is done,
I reckon I'll be mighty glad I'm husk
ing 'em for one." ; i,
Frank Putnam.
The Babcock Test for Farmers' Use
In the "National Stockman and
Farmer," L. W. Lightly gives some
pointers about farmers using a milk
tester. He says: .
It Is to be regretted that so few
farmers use the milk tester, but in
fact very few( own and use this val
uable little dairy implement. Of
course everybody has a scale, and if
he doubts someone's weighing he uses
the scale to determine the matter-
He has a bushel, half-bushel, peck,
quart and yardstick to measure with,
and uses them. But in today's mar
keting when you sell milk by the
pound or quart that is really not the
final basic unit. . because man has
found it so easy to extend the quarts
or pounds by adding aqua pura. The
man who buys our milk weighs or
measures it, but its real value and
the money we are to get for it are
finally determined - by the Babcock
test This is true if we sell at the
creamery, cheese factory or in the
city milk market. Again ' we ask,
Why does not the farmer get and use
this important measuring device?" It
costs no more than a good accurate
scale, so that is no serious .hindrance.
"I can't operate a Babcock . test"
That's what they tell me, and yet they
are using a .number of 'machines on
their farms that are much more com
plicated and more difficult to operate.
Buy your machine from a reliable
dealer and you will get all the needed
accurate glassware and full directions
for operating. - Buy from your drug
gist soma sulphuric acid, specific grav
ity 1.82, then take your sample of
milk and do some testing, following
directions. You had considerable
trouble at first operating your grain
or corn binder or your combined plow,
but a little persistence made you mas
ter of the situation, and the same
wll be true of the tester." I had in
finitely more trouble making iny grass
mower work than I ever had testing
ordinary whole milk.
Dairy Notes
The greatest milking record known
is that of a. New Zealand farmer and
his wife, who milked seventy-two cows
every night and morning without any
help. Both the man and his wife were
stout and robust. They must have
been inferior cows, or they could not
have gotten through with them all
twice in a day.
One of our farm readers ays that
he has a young cow a little over a
year old which has triplet calves, and
that her granddam this spring had
three calves also, all doing well. At
that, rate one can soon grow a herd.
Indiana Farmer.
The small farm with the small herd
is vastly better than a large farm with
a large herd, because the small farm
will do more in proportion than the
large one.
It is estimated that an active man
and an active boy can attend to fifteen
cows. These on fifty acres of land
near a good town ought to make for
him a good living.
" Salt, thoroughly rubbed around on
the inside of the churn, after it has
been rinsed with hot water, is a first
rate thing to make it clean and sweet.
Rinse the salt out with water.
The following figures show how im
portant it Is to exercise care in wash
ing milk pails, for in an actual ex
periment tliere were found: In the
first washing 7,839,000 bacteria, in the
second washing 157,000, and in the
third washing 58,000.
The Holsteln cow has a general rep
utation for length of life, heavy milk
ing qualities, making lots of butter
and bodily thrift that will'not soon be
taken away from her. She makes lots
of butter, though her butter Tat per
centage is lower than that of the Jer
seys or Guernseys. She makes it up
in a greater quantity of milk, which
December
can be placed In pigs' troughs or inside
calves 4.0 good advantage.
The best dairymen are now using
both winter and summer silos. At
the Ontario experiment farm they feed
only twice a day a succulent ration
with meal and clover hay, an hour and
a half afterwards, in the morning, and
at &30 p. nr. the Same ration with
long hay. They estimate that a cow
should receive a . pound of meal for
every five pounds of milk she gives.
Effect of Silage on the Flavor of Milk
r The, use of corn silage in milk pro
duction has become well established.
Experimental results and practical ex
perience have alike been favorable to
the economy of this method of utiliz
ing crops where dairy farming is con
ducted on a scale at all extensive.
From time to time, objections have
been raised to the use of silage, on
the ground that it imparts an unpleas
ant or disagreeable flavor to the milk.
Considerable has been written on this
subject, including several articles in
recent experiment-station publications,
most of which is summarized in a bul
letin just issued by "the department
of agriculture.
In work with corn silage at the
Wisconsin experiment station , it was
demonstrated beyond question that
when silage is fed a short time be
fore milking a sweetish odor is im
parted to milk by which it may be
detected from milk not produced from
silage. It waa further demonstrated
that if the silage is fed to cows just
after milking, in the majority of cases
milks so produced could not be sep
arated by the sense of smell from non
silage milks. Butter made from- such
milk, while still possessing the sweet
ish silage odor, was scored by experts
higher for flavor than other butter.
It may be concluded from more re
cent results that it is now generally
recognized that, with the improved
modern methods of using silage and
with proper precautions to prevent the
milk after it has been drawn from the
cow , from being tainted with the ob
jectionable odor of badly fermented
silage, the material may be freely
used without danger of injury to the
quality of dairy products.
Pig Notes
Suckling sows require extra good
feeding with some succulent foods,
slops, tc, or they lose flesh rapidly
and go down below normal condition,
Brood sows three to six years old
grow the strongest and best pigs,
which have more vitality to resist
disease germs.
All waste from the kitchen is whole
some and suitable as food for pigs, but
a swill barrel that is never empty is
a bad thing to have around.
The thumps in pigs is often caused
by an excess of fat about the internal
organs and especially around the
heart. .
Pigs often lack vigor because the
brood sows are kept too fat, A good
thrifty condition is much better for
the pigs than too much fat. '
Give the pigs a fair start in life by
feeding the sow upon milk producing
rations. There is nothing much bet
ter than skim milk mixed with shorts.
To make hogs most profitable a
steady duiIy cain m.t 1
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Washing the Churn
The rb m n should be wart
week ,.,. with a grease neuhiu
as somoKMHealwajiMstataJ
wooa even though very hot .t
used on the churn. This enno .J
not all bo removed from the J
even when strong solutions sr nJ
Don't use much of the common J
ing powders, but sal soda or the deal
liquid from slaked lime. Alwavs
two hot water washings and wJ
rinse with cold water as this coolJ
checks exavoration and leaves tu
churn In a soggy condition. Thll
stops the passing off of odors frorf
the wood and causes the chum
smell badly.
Curing Meat
Meat must be properly and thorough
ly cooled to insure good keeping gjulil
ties when cured.
Use a dean hardwood barrel
which to cure meat. A barrel mad!
for the purpose is beestbut when
itc annot he had a molasses or syrai
barrel will answer.
Salt and sugar or molasses are
preservatives most commonly used,
and are considered the only ones new
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