HOME SEPARATED SKIM MILK

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8352, 12 February 1913, Page 2

HOME SEPARATED SKIM MILK

BETTER FEEDING VALUE. Writing of tho better feeding value of home separated skim milk Mr E. Griffiths, tho well-known Jersey breeder, makes the following comment: “In my small Jersey herd- at Bell Block I had considerable trouble with my calves during the hot December days, owing to tho condition of tho milk when returned from the factory. I installed a hand separator, and by feeding the freshly separated milk to tho calves the trouble disappeared and the calves at once made splendid progress. This also is the experience of every farmer who has installed a separator. Not only this, but the calves in the following spring are very much healthier and show a better growth than those which have been fed on the factory skim mik. It is not a question of butter-fat, for tho hand separator skims just as clean as the factory separator. If a farmer’s herd is free from tuberculosis, ho would have clean milk to feed his calves and pigs, whereas by taking milk homo from tho factory he suffers by taking home germs which aro taken there in milk from unclean herds. During the heat of the summer, the skim milk returned from the factories frequently becomes not only sour but so thick and curdled that calves will drink it with hesitation one day and decline it altogether another day, consequently they rapidly go hack m condition at a time when they should bo thriving vigorously.”