FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 310, 29 December 1908, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

AXOTHEU PHEXOMEXAIj JERSEY RECORD.

J. J. Hemingway, secretary of the American Jersey Cattle Chili, has asked Professor Woll, of the Wiiuonsiu (,'oi-!<-gc of Agriculture to conduct an ollicial test of the .lerscy cow, .lacoba Irene, owned by A. (I. Allien, uf .lerseyville, Kansas. This eow bus produced over throe pounds of butter-fat I'm- each day of tlie first six mo-nilis of lier present lactation period. She is now yielding about oO pound, of milk daily with a butter-fat content of a per cent. If nothing unforeseen happens she will receive credit for the production of over 851) pounds of butter-fat, equivalent to 1001) pounds of butter, for the year which will end '24 th January, IUO9. This will place ller ahead of the famous Guernsey eow, Yeksa Sunbeam, so long the holder of the world's record, ller production was 1000 pounds of butter on a yearly test conducted by the Wiuconsin Experimental Station. The record was made three years ago. Colantha Ith's Johanna, the world's famous Hoistein, has a record of UOS.2C pounds of butter. Dairymen everywhere will follow with interest the new- record which is being i made.

| REJECT THE FlliS'J' FEW STREAMS | Of MIUC Some recent English investigations, carried out on behalf oil' some of the county and borough councils in Yorkshire, demonstrated that Olic first milk drawn from each cow contained ail enormously of germs than either the mid-milk or the striopings. The first or fore milk represented the first 25 cubic centimetres drawn from the, teat, the mid-mill; being taken when the milking was half acconiplisttcd.

The numbers were quite variable, hut tlio results largely confirmed those of other investigators, one of whom found | 07,000 bacteria in the first milk. as compared with about 0000 in the 'mid-milk and 300 in the stripipngs. ft seems that the bacteria clustered in colonies about the end of the teat are largely washed away by the first few stream 1 ; of milk drawn from the quarter. The practical lesson i.s, of course, to reject the first two or three .streams of milk from each teat, not even allowing it to come in contact with the outside of the pail. As (lie fore-milk i* very thin and watery, practically 110 butterfat i* lost, while the bacterial contents of the mess of milk will be very much reduced, and its wholesonieness and keeping accordingly improved.