How Skim-milk is Wasted.

Manawatu Herald, 11 July 1899, Page 2

How Skim-milk is Wasted.

A very thoughtful article on thiquestion appeared in an American dairy contemporary recently written by Henry Wallace. He enumerates several of the ways in which skim milk is lessened in value and gometimea rendered practically worthless. It is too bad that many farmer?, who

keep cows and who greatly need all the profit the business can bring them, should have such ideas as they do about the value of skim milk and the proper way to handle it. Mr Wallace rightly says that sweet skim milk, as a food to the farmer, with corn in the crib to balance it, is worth more, pound for pound than the cream that has been taken out of it. To support this statement be * aaya : — We say " it ia worth more " for the cream is largely a carbohydrate, and he has an abundance of , that on the farm in the shape of corn, hay and straw. He is short of albuminoids, unless he is rich in clover- hay and clover pasture. Hence, the skim-milk is actually worth more to him for growing stock that the cream itself, provided, of course, he knows how to use it. He ■-■ enumerates the leading causes for the waste of skim milk as follows : (1) By getting it back from the creamery sour. (2) Tbe improper method* of feeding on the farm. It is folly to feed it to the calf alone, on«a^ the theory that the poorer the food you give the calf the more you must give. The milk of a good cow should furnish enough ikim-milk for two, calves. (8) The cheapest and best thing with which to balance skim* milk is corn (maiza) meal, until the calf is a month old, and after that, shelled corn.