THE COW AS A BUTTER FAT MACHINE.

Shannon News, 15 April 1925, Page 4

THE COW AS A BUTTER FAT MACHINE.

A quart of milk, when purejis the most natural Ll food that is is as. we-have go Pictu ™*g equal in food value .to steak. Whenever milk is lar £tA will in any family the bills i JSS surely be reduced. is not what it ought to be. Too maoy i customers regard milk *£»»* 1 andnot as a food. The ; P«^J-«J« n g be educated to know that a jauartoi good* milk ranks■ with -meat aw wheat-flour as t ood.; t To the butter dairyman the moat i interesting thing about a quart of mi|K is the ,part performed by the cowja putting the fat into it. The c©w£ udder is a machine for secreting and mixing, fat. Take .£ e in a col ton factory.' Tui*i the whole force of the -water power on to one machine for a. certain time and .a weaves 100 yards of cloth. This same power turned on to another machine may result in only 70 yards. .It is the machine; not the power, that is at fault. A stream of, richs blooa. passes bv or through 'one'cow's udder tor 24 hours; with the result that she produces 81b ,of fat. The same blood forces in, another cow's udder may produce but 21b'. It is riot the food or the blood that is at fault, but the cow. She lacks-the nerve force,the willpower—the strong material instinct needed in every female, to produce and keep up; .the : special work of the udders. We see that .dairy authorities are right in saying that the qualities of the cow must be looked ' after and considered. The number of cows kept on the farm is hot as important as the quality of the cows kept. By selecting ■ good producing animals of high test for - breeding purposes, the a-verage test, as; well '■ as the milk production of the herd, may be raised, and it is this which most breeders recognise ■ as <their goal. ,