Dairy Skimmings.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 176, 30 October 1886, Page 4 (Supplement)

Dairy Skimmings.

Liaky Teats,— A writer Bays: "Leaky | teats are 'prevented by inserting a short wooden plug in the opening.' Fhave never

seen evil results from this practice. I have usod such a plug also to distend an opening too small, and make the cow to milk more easily. The plug should be cleaned every time, and be used for a month or more." , Mellowing Habd and Dry Cheese. — When a cheese which has been much salted and kept dry, says an exchange, is washed several times in soft water and then laid on a cloth moistened with wine or vinegar, it gradually loses its saltness, and if it be d rich cheese, from being hard and dry it becomes soft and mellow. This simple method of improving cheese is worth knowing. It is generally practised in Switzerland, where cheeses are kept stored for many yejJrs, and if they were not very salt and dry would soon become the prey of worms and mites. Dutch and Jersey Cows Tested. — The Canada Farmers' Advocate has the following ; "Two Dutch and two Jersey cows of the same age and the same time after calving, were fed on correct rations for fourteen days. The former gave 962 pounds of milk and consumed 1,140 pounds ot food, beingone pound of. milk from 1. 171bs. of food, the yield of butter being twentythree pounds thirteen ounces, or one pound from 47.8 pounds of food. The Jersey cow gave 542 pounds of milk, and consumed 776.5 pounds of food, being one pound of milk from 1.41 pounds of food, the yield of butter being twenty-eight pounds three ounces, or on© pound from twenty four pounds of food. This test was made in July, but it was repeated in November with similar results. The cows were not stuffed for records, but were rationally fed.' Garget in~ Dairy Cows. — When a cow's teat becomes obstructed with thick, stringy matter, and when this is forced out, thin, watery stuff is drawn out instead of milk, it indicates garget. This trouble may be caused in various ways. Lying in a cold, wet spot out in a field at night, a sudden change from hot weather to cold, squeezing the full udder as she lies down, chasing about with full udder, indigestion from any cause — all these will cause it, and po will bad milking, such as leaving some bad milk in the teats. When it happens the cause should be discovered and the proper remedy applied. Usually a dose of linseed oil or a pound of Epsom salts with a, teaspoonful of ground ginger, and rubbing the udder with camphorated ointment, will remove the trouble in twenty-four hours. The udder must be completely cleared of the matter and milk in it.