1300 (16) LIVESTOCK AND DAIRY. DAIRY WISDOM FROM DENMARK. The Kind of Cows the Danes Keep, and How They Care for Their Milk: .. Kun god Maelk giver flnt Smor. . - Til god Maelk rod res. (1) Frlske ogr sunde Foderatoffer. ( 2 ) Rene Koer og rene Stalde. (3) Godt rensede OS rustfrl Spande. (4) God Afkoling og Ogbevaring af Maelken. - Spandene rentes bodat ved forat at skruppes i lunkent Vand og deref ter indamores med et Lag laeaket Kalk der efter at KvarterB Forlob skruppes af, og Spanden skylles med koghedt Vand. VII man lkke anvendo Kalk, maa Spanden forat skruppes 1 lunket Vand og deref ter skruppes i kogende Soda vand og til Slutning skylles i koghedt Vand. Spandene maa atzolnt lkke skylles 1 koldt Vand Bldst, da de derved'lerrer sent og raster bnrtlg. Maelken maa opbevares 1 f rl Luf t, saaf romt det lkke fryser haardt, 1 saa Tilfaelde ambrlnges den 1 en Lo om Natten, Kelevandet maa staa ligesaa hejt uden. on Spanden, som Maelken 1 Spanden. Kolevandet maa sklftes mindst saa Gang. ' ( Only Good 3111k Hakes Fine Batter. To make good -milk requires: (1) Fresh and dry fodder. (2) Clean cows and stalls. (3) Clean and rust-free milk buckets and cans. . , (4) Clean and careful handling of the milk. . The cans are best cleaned by wash lng them In lukewarm water and then applying lime. Then wash the lime away with boiling water. If you do not use lime, first scrub the can with lukewarm water and then wash in boil ing water which ' has soda ' in It. The can absolutely must never be washed In cold water last. The milk vessels must be kept ' where the air Is fresh If It is not vers., cold, the milk .itaust be put in a cooling house, and the water, which is used for cooling milk must be as deep' outside the cans " as " the .milk Inside the cans. .. -, , " Cooling water must be changed at least once a day. its freight charges,' it is a . certainty. '. that 'such corn is going to he '.too , high-priced to feed to hogs as' an ex-. clusi?e ration. VBut," say our hog raising enthusiasts,, "we intend to raise the corn, or-have raised it." That makes no difference. The South consumes more corn than she raises, hence the price of corn in the South has the profits of the Northern grow THE PROGRESSIVE PARMER. lYVHENlYOU COME TO WEAN :.--r:THE CALF. : ; er, and those of the dealers and' the . mit of doing. THE above Is a Danish copy and an English translation of a slip which is wrapped around every pound of butter sent back to all farmer members of the Kildevang Co-operative Creamery, as was de scribed in our article on Denmark last week. The unusual care and cleanliness exercised account in large of the Copenhagen Milk Supply Com pany are given herewith, and com mended to our American dairymen: "Before stabling the cows in the autumn, the tails, hind-quarters, and udders must be shorn. "Milk, from recently calved; cows may not be supplied dur- mmmmmm i IS " -.V 1 sasw j sKfssSKE fesisliat i&ShsSsJ ii.V k. sxzxsz&r. f!3 vteS&i 2 mt &Zr tsis5ts3 v-sw&q EJAtt'r s-V i :i II Wir. i'J JSfv fr- 1, THE KIND OF COWS TH EY HAVE IN DENMARK. measure for the high prices received forDanish butter, and the fact that cow-testing associations have weeded out the unprofitable cows also ac counts largely for the good profits obtained. A photograph of a fine herd of Danish cows is reproduced herewith. V An Irish expert, Mr. T. M. McClus key, whose report we may print next week, rightly says that one of the most impressive things in Danish dairying is that "every farmer, whether with one cow or three hun dred, makes provision for cooling his milk. On the small farms, imme diately the milk is drawn from the cow, the milk can is immersed in cold water, and on the large farms, suitable coolers are used." An in genious milking pail is that" required by the Copenhagen Company for those who supply milk for infants. There is a little -separate compart ment in the bottom of the bucket in which ice and salt are placed, and this cools the milk as quickly as it comes from the udder of the cow. Milking machines have been, used to some extent in Denmark, but none seem to have given complete satisfaction.- One curious' custom which obtains ing the first fortnight, faf ter they come into milk. The society re fuses to take the milk of sick cows, or of cows which do not give more than a, maximum of six liters a day. "The milkers, during the milk ing, mufet wear a special dress, and be provided with a towel to use when they need to wash their hands. "Milk must, at every season of the year, be passed thru a refrig erating apparatus, which lowers its temperature to 41 degrees F. It must be kept at this temper ature until it leaves the farm. , Cows certified by the veteri nary to be tuberculous must be immediately separated from the herd and sold, or killed as soon as possible. "All beasts bred for milkers since 1896 must have been sub jected to the tuberculin test. Also the injections must be re peated at least once a year in the case of animals that have not reacted to the test." Don't Expect Him to Change From Milk to Dry Feed All at Once. C ALVES are getting so J they are ; worth 'while no wadays, .and It be-. hooves us to' make them the . best quality that , their breeding will per- transportation charges added to It, and will sell for the same high 'price that Northern corn , brings on our markets. ; " It is all right to argue the wisdom of feeding all the" feeds raised on the farm, but the fertilizer, value of a ton of c6rn (nearly 36 bushels) is They have been living on the fat of, the land 'during; the; past three or. four months - Have you ever no ticed a fine bigialf just after tie has finished a meal off his mother's milk, Btanding there,'' his legs spread wide apart, his tongue sticking out of his mouth about an inch, his face "all cov- only about fl, and if one-half of this lered with '"m'llk? : 'If. he isn't the pic- fertilizer value is , saved in the ma nure ; that is only about " 1 0 - cents a bushel: But as - a matter of ' fact, corn usually sells from "2,0 cents to 30 cents a bushel higher in the S6uth than in the North, therefore, the Northern hog raiser has that advant age over the Southern hog man, when both feed corn. This is too great a handicap to the Southern hog rais er, and if you intend to depend- on corn chiefly to feed the hogs, take our advice and sell the corn and buy your meat. But what feeds are the hogs to be 'Wintered on?' Corn is our only grain, and hogs must have some grain 'to make satf isf actory growth during the winter. ' ' Most of lis know that peanuts and soy beans make good and "cheap feed ture of - perfect contentment, where would you go to find contentment? And, too, he has had other good things. : Perhaps he had learned to take a nip of the juicy rye and crim son clover before the' herd went on the regular summer pasture. Then there - were the lespedeza, the Ber muda, the redtop, the white clover, orchard grass, and bluegrass; all those ' luscious Southern: pasture plants that BUI has been keeping in touch with; all summer. T But now it is weaning time, and all is changed. Bill - hasn't learned hardship but , he' learns it now; for the herd is brought , to the barn lot; Bill, with ; his ; mates, . goes into, a dry lot, where not a blade of grass can , be found. Perhaps there Is a tub of for hogs, when the hogs, harvest water off; in one corner of the lot: them. It costs to harvest these crops, but when the value of the vines, and the beneficial results to the land t if the manure is returned) In growing these "crops, and their high value when fed in connection That is a thing ot terrbr to poor Bill. This, and a rack in which are a "few v armsf ull of shucks is what ' Bill has come to after his summer of luscious green things. ; He stands around, in a half stupor-r-thinkingi with from one-fourth to pne-half a perhaps that; this turn is only a dream until night closes down. All at once is heard a faint lowing from the back pasture. Bill mute Un til now comes to a realization of what he has been deprived of and his terror-stricken,' outraged calfhood enters protest in a heart-broken ans wering call that is 'repeated all' the night thru: Morning finds . him gaunt, his face the picture of des pair", not much such a calf as when he stood contemplating the meal he ration of corn are considered, why can we not have peanuts and soy beans for the winter feeding of the hogs? - - - Of course, when tfie weather will permit of grazing, this should, be available, and then- less grain ''feed will be necessary r but at "all times it will pay to feed a mixture of soy beans and corn as a part of the hog ration. The soy beans need not be threshed, if hay is abundant and some waste is permissible for. the had just finished inthe pasture. , Of hogs will eat some of the straw and all the beans if given the whole plant. Sows and pigs over five months old can be wintered at a low cost if furnished green oats or rape for grazing, soy bean hay, including the beans, and a very small amount of corn. If the green grazing can not be provided, then silage or some root crop like sweet potatoes may be used. "But," says someone, "soy beans, sweet potatoes and peanuts when harvested and stored are also too ex pensive to feed to hogs." . Yes, if only , one of theseform the - entire ration for the hogs; but if these be combined with corn and, fertilizer and feeding value consider ed, they may be profitably fed to hogs at present prices. But there is reason.. at this point, and if the hogs are to be kept entirely for any con siderable length of time in summer or winter, on harvested feeds, the course, he will recover from this strenuous weaning ordeal - and start growing again after a month or two, if given abundant dry feed of good quality, but he will never make the fine animal he would have made, had his weaning" and feeding been handled & little differently, and his final cost per pound will be actually greater than it would have been had his early good living been kept up un til in his year-old form he could go on grass again. Milk is a wonderful feed for young animals of all kinds, and when they arrive at the age where it is neces sary to substitute other more solid foods, the change should be most gradual. I know well that it re quires time to fool with calves, but not such a great amount of time, af ter all, when figured in hours and minutes. : . We are preparing to wean some young stuff at this time, and; L have profit will bev small or will fail en- ascertained by. the watch that, only FEEDING THE HOGS THIS WINTER tirely. The hog must harvest his own feed as far as possible. Is this the line along which we have tried to raise hogs? i It certainly is not, and there is no better time than right now, while 15 minutes 'per day is required to bring the .calves and their dams from the near-by pasture, cut the calves out very quietly and turn them into the bpx stall, where the shelled corn, shinstuff. cottonseed meal and soy largely is that of milking cows three Rations Available For South- planning the crops for next year, -to bean hay is awaitingf them. They times a day. Mr. Jorgensen, of the Lyngly .experiment farm, told the writer, however, the results of. a careful series of Government 'experi ments have just been announced, and these indicate that while the extra midday milking does result in a slightly Increased total production, the gain is not enough to justify the effort. Moreover, cows milked three times a day do not keep up as well as cows milked, only twice. As .bearing, upon- the. question of 'cleanliness, some official regulations era Farmers. IS THIS pure-bred pig, which eVery Prbgreselve Farmer' reader should own, and his offspring, going to be fed corn or corn and some other purchased feed like shorts or tank age? If they are; we can predict right now that the owner will soon be numbered among thse who be lieve that It pays a cotton farmer bet ter to buy meat than to raise It. provide a reasonable and business like method for raising and feeding the hogs. The cow it the Individual unit with which the dairyman has to deal, and It ia Impossi ble to treat the whole herd as a mass and expect to- get satisfactory results. ' This means that individual records must be kept. The dairyman must know the Intake an(J . output of each cow . in order to ascertain whether they are being fed at. a profit or less. If every dairyman . would attempt to Keep sucn records he would be astonished When the man who raises the corn. !tiV?.AhaA B.e..! 5 re- 2yLn ana the dealers, get their profit OUt year as other cows In the herd kept at ot it and the railroad company gets SSSltS'-' th am exeneImon are handled in this way for about two weeks, until they all have formed the graln-eatlng 'habit-. Then, tliy are turned with their mothers only long . enough for them - to extract their warm lunch twice per day and after a week of this only once - per day for a week. Their grain appe tite has by this time about mastered their milk appetite, and there is sel dom little protest when the cows are driven as far, from the barn as pos sible, and the calves know' their ; 'r (Continued on page19.) V r