Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 6, 1905 Page: 4 of 16
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OKLAHOMA FARMER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1905.
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Readers of the
Oklahoma FarmeT *
are invited to
contribute Hens of
interest to this pa~e.
Dairy Notes.
Stanchions are now being replaced by
cow tics.
Experienced dairymen discard rusty
palls at once and careful ones never let
them get rusty.
When corn and corn meal are fed too
heavily they fatten the cow and tend to
injure the capacity for giving milk.
It is the solids that are in a hundred
pounds of milk that giives it value, and
the surest test of value is the churn.
It has been suggested that as soon as
the flies go out of business it- is a good
idea to cut off the cow's switch with a
jack knife.
That the proper manipulation of the
uddcnassists and stimulates the secretion
of niillc 'is now an acknowledged fact
among dairymen.
A good feed for a cow which lias just
calved is made by pouring hot water
over three pounds of oats or bran .and
letting it set for half an hour before
feeding.
Put Cows to Test.
(By C. Larson, Iowa College of Agricul-
ture.)
There are more thah a miillion cows in
Iowa and they are valued at thirty mil-
lions of dollars. The average production
of butter fat by each cow is only 140
pounds per year. The butter fat at 20 cents
per pound would make the value for each
cow's product of fat only $28. Her skim
milk and calf would bring her earning ca-
pacity to about $38 per year. As it is esti-
mated that here in the central west ilt
costs about $40 a year to keep a cow, it
will be seen that on an average there Is
very little profit in keeping any kind of a
caw that does not produce more than the
average Iowa cow now produces.
It has been proven that by proper
nrceding and selection the average cow
can be made to yield between 400 and o00
pounds of butter fat per year. In order
to find out how much a cow can produce
it is necessary to jvcigh her nuilk and
take samples for determination. It is not
necessary to test at each milking because
the average can be ascertained by occa-
sional testing. The simplest method is
to test and weigh the miilk from each cow
every thirteenth week, the first test to
begin the sixth week after calving, and to
last a week. The results to be obtained
during the week are to be representative
of what the cow would do six weeks prev-
ious and six weeks subsequent to the
week of the test. In this way the un-
profitable cows may be discovered and
weeded out.
If a cow does not produce 200 pounds
of butter fat every year she should be
disposed of, because she cannot be kept at
a profit. Calves should not be raiised from
such cows, because their calves will be
poor producers. By close attention to the
selection and breeding from first class
bulls and cows it will take only a short
time to establish a profitable dairy herd.
Farmers in the great corn belt have
not as yet paid very much attention to
this matter because dairying has been
only a sort of adjunct to general farming
As the conditions for raising hogs and
cattle are ideal the farmers have not gone
Feeding the Calf Milk.
A hired man whose time was not his
own made a cow as profitable as those
of his employer by vealing calves upon
it and letting them do their own milking.
As soon as the first was salable for veal
it was replaced by one about three days
old. A calf of that age could be brought
for almost nothing froma dairyman, who
much preferred the milk it consumed.
Had he invested in a registered cow
instead of common stock, one calf raised
in this way would probably have netted
as much as the three veal calvgs, and
he would still have sa.ed the labor of
milking.
This method of letting the calves run
with the cows is a popular one with the
large breeders; and while exeriments
show that better results follow from
hand feeding there are cases, as the one
cited, where this is impracticable and a
resourceful man can make money on the
farm, though he. must vary his methods
to suit the conditions.
What You Gain
ijia few words, you gain "this bv tHing ii
Tubular: (1). one-quarter to one-half more I
cream, because Tubulurs skim by centrifugal
force, which is thonsandsof times stronger tkiu the force of grant \ n ut makes cream
rise in puns. (\!i. Uiie-lialf to twice us iiiuch for butter, because Tubulurs remove-dirt J
uinl bacteria, thus making gilt-ed...,. butter possible. (3). Half the work saved, because|
von finish skimming live minutes after milk- ,
lug, feed warm skimmed milk at barn, and
have only the can ofcream tocare for Write L
today for catalo- W-148 it tells all plainly. fi£l s<h5B Ti* a O
THE SHARPIES SEPARATOR CO.
WESTCHESTER, PA.
TORONTO, CAN. CHICAGO, ILL.
much outside of that feature of farming.
Bat as land is becoming more valuable
every year it means that we must adopt
methods of farming which are more prof-
itable. Farms are not so large as they
were a few years ago, and the land In
most sections is not so fertile. All these
things indicate that more intensive farm-
ing must be practiced. The most inten-
sive farming is dairying and if the right
kind of cows are kept it is profitable.
There are about 500 test societies in
Denmark, where dairying is carried on
more extensively than anywhere else.
These associations hire a competent man
to test their herds for them. He weighs
the feed and milk and tests the milk and
calculates from that the profits from
each cow. Cows that show a loss after
having a fair trial are disposed of. The
testing costs from 40 to ,ri0 cents per cow
but the increased returns last year were
from $0 to $13 per cow.
This is the best evidence that testing
pays and that the farmers of the corn
belt could organize similar societies with
great profit to their members.
Chicago's liig Creamery.
The Blue Valley Creamery company of
St. Josph, Mo., is building another
creamery in Chicago to cost $150,000 and
with a capacity of 10,000,000 pounds of
butter every year. The St. Joseph cream-
ery turns out 7,000,000 pounds. The estab-
lishment of the St. jfifeeph creamery has
revolutionized the methods of farming in
Eastern Kansas, Missouri and Southern
Iowa. When the company commenced
business a few years ago very little dairy-
ing was done in those states but now
the farmers receive hundreds of thousand
of dollars for their milk.
The Chicago creamery will make an-
other big market for cream and the
farmer in the dairy states will reap the
benefit. There is no branch of farming
that pays better than dairying when
properly managed. The use of the farm
separator has made it possible for thou-
sands of farmers to earfi a profit on their
farms which were not money makers a
few years ago. The u^e of skim milk not
only gives us better pigs and calves but
keeps the fertility of the farm up and
adds much to its productiveness.
A WARNING TO
SEPARATOR BUYERS
New York's dairy and butter trade paper, : New" York
Produce Review and American Creamery," in ii Novembei ist
iss ie prints an editorial on "Farm Separators" which is repro-
duced below. Their advice to purchase cheap affairs offered by
"mail ouler" houses, etc , cannot be too closely followed.
"It seems that in these days.of an ever-increasing number of
different makes of hand separators on lie market it might be of
considsrable intere t to have some official test of the same. Cream-
erymen and dairymen who have read and followed the develop-
ment of the separator manufacturing industry, are well aware of
the lea ing makes but the average farmer who reads at most an
agricultural paper or perhaps only the catalogue of a mail order
house, is completely in the dark about the "cheap affairs" offered
him. Ii is an important question if < ur cieam rodticerslose from
2% to to per cent of their butterfat in tiie skimtnilk, as butferfat
is too exnen ive to feed to calves or hogs, and the aggregate loss to
the country as a whole by the u e of pour skimming hand sei a a-
tors is an enormous one. It ought to be understood and only the
best machines purchased."
The above editorial as a means of further piotection for se a"
rator buyers might well have included the fact that creatnerymen
and dairymen vfho are familiar wi li separat r history are in
ninety-nine oir of every one hundre I ca es DEC LAVAL users,
and that these users have conducted daily "< fficial te'ts" for more
than twenty years which have conclusively proven that there is
but one 'best" n jiarator,—the DK LAVAL. Proof can be had
for the asking. Write lor it today.
The De Laval Separator Co.
Randolph & Canal Sts.,
CHICAGO.
1213 Filbert Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
6 8c I I Dwumm St.,
SAN FRANCISCO.
General Offices:
74 CORTLANDT STREET,
NEW YORK.
121 Youviule Square,
MONTREAL.
75 & 77 York Street,
TORONTO.
240 McDermot Avenue,
WINNIPEG.
Cleanliness of ihe Danes.
If a cow is sick she is at once separ-
itcd from the other animals and taken
to the hospital. It is a crime in Den-
mark to use or sell milk from a sick cow.
It ought to be so everywhere.
The milking is done by women, who
are not allowed to wear sleeves below
the elbow. They wear white linen caps
and aprons, and must not only wash the
bag -of the cow but also wash their own
hands before milking each time.
Everything fed the cows is prepared
with great care—the quality and quantity
is known, as nearly as possible. In the
pasture every weed is pulled and the cow
is not permitted to eat anything that
will in any way taint the milk. The
cream is carefully pasteurized.
In short, the secret of Danish butfer-
making is perfect cleanliness and eternal
vigilance; but the result is a product that
will go through the tropics or the circum-
polar region and come out standing up.
For Lost Cud.
"I wish," said an experienced veterinary
"that I had all the cloth which has been
wasted in manufacturing cuds to replace
those lost." This is one of the dregs of
superstition which still clings to sotjie
places. The cud is returned to the mouth
after entering the first stomach, and Its
loss 8s generally an indication of indi-
gestion.
This is most prevalent in winter when
cows' are heavily grained. Should it ap-
peal-in summer when they are on pasture
but receiving some grain, it is well to re-
move the latter ration for a few days.
After a* day or two give one pound of
epsom waits and two ounces ground giinger
root mixed in two quarts warm water.
After she resumes her cud feed for a
time on green grass and good hay, gradu-
ally working back to the grain ration.
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Air Cure for Milk Fever.
In spite of the wide publicity given to
the use of sterilized .air for the cure of
milk fever thousands of farmers appear
never to have heard of it. A simple ap-
paratus for the injection of air is a tin
ube, about one inch in diameter, si-*
inches long and air tight. This can be
made of tin. Fill the tube full of absol-
vent cottton whiich can be bought at the
drug store and cork each end tightly with
corks, through which a small glass tube
has been Inserted. These tubes can also
be had at most drug stores. The cotton fs
sterilized by baking in the oven at a tem-
perature hot enough to prevent impurities
from entering. Do not burn the cotton
as that will destroy its fibre. Bake long
enough lo brown the corks slightly. A
further precaution against impurities is
to wrap the tube in three or four thick-
nesses of newspaper and tie the ends
tightly around the glass tubes at the ends
before putting in the oven.
Take a bicycle pump and fit one end of
the rubber over one of the glass tubes.
Fit a milking tube over the end of the
other glass tube and insert this in the
cow's teat. By pumping the air passes
through the cotton thoroughly sterilized
and the germs and bacteria are left.
When the quarter of the bag is filled
bandage the teat tightly to prevent the
escape of the air and allow it to remain
five or six hours when it may be worked
out gently by the hands. If necessary
refill the udder with sterilized air. The
large tube should be sterilized each time
it is used. •
90 Cream Separator
. ... WE TRUST YOU 30 DAYS.
S 5m WHEN YOU WRITE for our
1 'fee Cream Separator Cata.
logue we w;l! tend you a won-
derful offer, liy which you can
take our very best separator*
on one month's free trial on
credit. Send no money to us,
deposit no money with any
■ "e, puy nothing.when you
get it (we trust you abso-
lutely,, use the aepars-
tor one month, put It to
every test, at the end of
«"io month If you find it
skims doner, runs easier.
Is raster to operate, skims
colder milk, does better
work and is In every way
better than any other sein
1,1 "tor you ever saw,
then you pay us for It; 11
not, nend It back to us at
f our ex|tense of freight
charges and you aro not out one
cent, and you have had the use of
Si-panTtur* (^tnlo"ie""andl®n?V'B|SiS,?irrto"cM^
by return
SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., CHICAGO, ILL.
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Greer, Frank H. Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 6, 1905, newspaper, December 6, 1905; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88080/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.