DAIRY ITEMS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 436, 3 February 1912, Page 6

DAIRY ITEMS.

If beans are given to cows the animals soon gain in appearance, and the milk yield increases. Skim milk is a grand. good, easily-digested food for both humans who like it and all animals from guinea pigs to horses. It is better to have a partition between horses and cows when they are kept in the same shed. Take a rich cream for butter making, whether it h to be manufactured into butter making, whether it is to be manufactured into butter on the farm or in the factory. A tough, leathery (what should have been a soft) cheese is caused by too high a temperature or too quick drainage. In the other hand, if the cheeses are spongy or soft the temperature at remitting has probably not been high enough or the dairy has been too cold. To encourage the consumption of milk the Society of Dairymen in Germany have placarded some of the large towns with the following poster: "Drink milk. Milk is the cheapest, best, and most wholesome food. If you are hungry, cat milk; if you are thirsty, drink milk." An abnormal yield of milk, following closely 011 parturition is no criterion of the ultimate value of the animal in the dairy. The most valuable animal is the one that maintains her yield throughout her period of lactation, and it should be the aim to discover and encourage such animals. It has been a generally accepted theory among butter makers that sour cream made te best butter. This idea is reversed by the investigations, which bring forth the conclusion that butter made from sweet cream does not contain the elements that gu to 1 make fishy flavour. |