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Troubles With" Milk and How to
Avoid Them
AS IS the case every year on the
arrival of hot weather, inquiries
relative to an abnormal condition of
milk are becoming frequent,, and in
variably the cow or the feed is blam
ed for the trouble. As there are sev-
eral -classes -of -undesirable-bacteria,-numbers
of abnormal conditions are
reported, but the following is typical
and suggestions as to treatment in
this case are applicable to other ab
normal conditions of the milk that
develop several hours after the milk
has been drawn from the udder:
"For a month the milk from two
fine Jerseys has been so bad we can't
use it. We have changed the feed
and pasture three times and are now
feeding hulls and meal. After the milk
stands a while water will rise between
the milk and cream, and the butter
milk soon turns to water with a hard
curd at the bottom."
We are inclined to the belief that
the trouble lies not in the cow or her
feeding but in the handling of the
milk.
When milk does not sour as it
should and develops such a condition
as you describe, after standing awhile,
it is quite evident that undesirable
"germs" or bacteria are gaining en
trance during its handling. Under
normal conditions and at normal tem
peratures, the bacteria that cause the
milk to sour are very active and pre
vent the bacteria responsible for this
abnormal condition from working.
However, sometimes these undesira
ble bacteria get into the milk, and by
means of conditions favorable to
themselves and unfavorable to the
bacteria responsible for souring, they
multiply rapidly, become very active,
and prevent the desirable bacteria
from working. When this occurs, we
have the condition you describe as
taking place in your milk.
The remedy for such a trouble is to
prevent the entrance of these bac
teria by very careful handling of the
milk and milk vessels. But it is often
not sufficient to carefully guard the
milk and vessels L against , contamina-:
tion, and we therefore suggest that
you aid the development of the bene
ficial or "souring" bacteria by keep
ing the milk at a temperature of
about 70 degrees Fahrenheit, and by
adding to each gallon of milk one tea
cupful of milk that has soured nor
mally." In so doing a large, number of
beneficial bacteria are injected into
"the milk and by presence of numbers
prevent the activity of the bacteria
that are responsible for your trouble.
To prevent this abnormal condition
of the milk, the following matters
pertaining to the handling of the milk
must be carefully looked after:
1. Milk in a clean place free from
dust. " '""
2. The hands and clothes of the
milker should be clean.
3. The flanks and udder of the cow
should be cleaned and wiped with a
damp cloth which is kept clean and
wrung out of a solution of some dis
infectants. If the hair on the uddec
and flanks grows long it should be
clipped so as to prevent it gathering
dirt.
j- 4. The milk should be removed from
the barn and put in clean vessels to
cool and kept where dust and other
matters will not get into it. f
5. Buckets or pails with small tops
or openings, or with these openings
covered with a strainer, are prefera
ble to large open pails.
6. To clean milk vessels use, first,
tepid water and a brush and some
good washing powder. Do not ever
use a dish rag for washingimilk ves
sels. Then sterilize or rinse with
boiling water, not merely hot water,
and expose to the direct rays of the
sun. A diseased udder may cause a cow
to give abnormal milk and certain
feeds may cause undesirable odors
or flavors in the milk, but generally
if the milk seems normal when drawn
from the cow, but afterward develops
undesirable qualities, it is the fault of
the handling. EUGENE BUTLER.
What v One Bank Is Doing for Its
. County in Getting Pure-bred
Livestock
TN THE fall of 1916 the National
Bank of Granville, Oxford, N. C.,
under the management of Mr. W. T.
Yancey Cashier, put out in Granville
County "under the ' "endless chain"
-plan -thirty-Duroc-Jersey-registered-pigs.
In 1917 this number was in
creased to 122 and at this time they
have put out a total of .175 registered
Duroc-Jersey pigs, with applications
on file for 75 more.
In the fall of 1917 one carload of
registered Jersey cows" were brought
into the county by this bank and sold
to the farmers at actual cost, time
payments being arranged for those
who could not conveniently pay cash
These have grown to a total of 45. A
pure-bred registered Jersey bull is
owned and kept in the county by the
bank at its own expense.
In addition to the pigs and the hogs
sold to the farmers under the "end
less chain" plan, the bank also owns
and maintains throughout the county
at convenient points eigKIhigh-cIass
pure-bred registered male hogs of the
best blood lines and type obtainable.
No time or trouble or expense has
been spared in obtaining the best.
FRED P. ROSS.
Hargrove, N. C.
- THE PROGRESSIVE FARMR
. " I,orll Carolina Market!
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Scotland Neck
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now. i -
Soy Beans Per bushel: Asherille ? ,
prices of jgajgyaagp P.mnt,
Asheville . . . .
Charlotte . . . .
Durham
Fayettevtlle ..
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New Bern ...
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Peanuts Per nnimri Va
Gastonlo: Virginia, 14c; Spanish, 12c. W pJ5
Virginia 12c; Spanish, I2c. Wand S
glnla, 11c; Spanish, 7c. - B
Hams Native North Carolina home-cured ham.
marketed within the state 30 35c lb delivered.
PBICES OF COTTON, COTTON SEED AND
COTTONSEED MEAL
wo tt el Ji'
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Our 1918 Crops Most Valuable In History of the World
THE success or failure of our armies and the armies of our Allies
will depend on our ability to properly feed them.
It is your Patriotic Duty to do everything in your power to
make your fields yield a bumper crop.
Everything will be high-priced, so if only from a selfish motive, a
big harvest means riches for you.
If anything should happen to your crops, and you are compelled to
buy your food and feeds, it might seriously hurt you financially.
Last year hail storms destroyed thousands and thousands of acres
of the finest crops. There is no assurance that hail storms won't
be even worse this year.
Xhere is only one way to play safe, and that is to insure your crops
against such losses. Insure the highest priced crop you will ever
have and one that if lost will almost bankrupt'you.
The Home Insurance Company of New York, which is the largest
fire insurance company in America, has a department for insuring the
farirrers against losses from hail storms. The rates are reasonable
and the protection absolute. Can you have real peace of mind unless
your valuable crops are assured against such losses as hail storms
caused in 1917?
Send us your name, and we will have our
agent call and explain this protection, or
apply nearest Home agent of Th$ Home.
Address
BEN. J, SMITH, General Agent,
South-Eastern Hail Department
The Home New York
' CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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Control Watermelon Diseases by
Spraying
THOROUGH application of Bordeaux
mixture will prevent the spread of
authracnose, downy mildew, and a
new disease of watermelons known
as Mycosphaerella blight, according
to specialists of the United States De
partment of Agriculture. The control
of these diseases means an increased
yield and a better quality of fruit.
Great care should be taken to fol
low directions in making the mixture.
Use the correct amounts of bluestone
and lime, as a variation may ruin the
vines. Be certain that the lime has
not air slaked. Directions for making
Bordeaux mixture may be found in
the United States Department of
Agriculture's Farmers' Bulletin 821,
"Watermelon Diseases," free on request.
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Charlotte 30.00 $3200
Fayettevllle ... 29.00 $1.05 52.00 '30W
New Bern .... 26.50
Raleigh 29.50
Salisbury 29.00
Scotland Neck 26.50 1 1)0 52.661 ""3660
OUR BliS-TOKFER
5 Is one old subscriber and '
one new subscriber q4. cq
bo t ft one year for $1 .
5 Get a neighbor not now subscribing
5 to 30'in you on this proposition when 3
5 you renew.. . . . S
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IT3 I 1 U GASOLINE & KEROSENE
J i M One of the three beet makes.
i cold direct below eomtietitinn. T jitaat wal
model; powerful, durable, low, fuel cost 2 to 22
h.p. Easy payments. Handsome new catalog free,
' SMITH-COURTNEY COMPANY,
821 East Cary Street, Richmond, Va.
Booth's Oldest & Largest Machinery & Supply House
Wants a National Dog Law
THE dogs have killed over a hun
1 dred sheep and goats around here
in the last twelve months. And the
people that have these dogs, the most
of them, don't make their own meat,
or bread. Can't we have some Nat
ional dog laws? I would think the
Food Administration would try to do
something along this line.
We are done with sheep, unless our
Government does something on the
dog question. I don't feel like spend
ing money in lawsuits for other peo
ple's 'worthless dogs. My loss has
been enough.
MRS. LEX ROBESON.
Tar Heel, N. C.
Northern Produce Markets
Chicago, 111. No. 3 white corn, $1.501.55 (dellm
ed In Raleigh, $1.651.70) ; No. 3 yellow corn, ilja
1.65 (delivered in Raleigh, $1.651.80).
No. 1 White Potatoes Sacked for old and per bar-,
rel for new stock: Atlanta (new), $4; Boston (old),
$22.15, (new) $56; Chicago, (old) bulk, (UOg
1.15; sacked, $1.302.10; (new) $5.506; New York,
(old) $1.752; (new) $4.505.75; Philadelphia, (old)
$1.601.70; (new) $4. 25 5. 25; Pittsburg, (old) $1.
1.50; (now) $56; Washington, (old) $1.501.M;
(new) $4.505.50; Jacksonville, (new) $33.50; Cleve
land, (old) $11.15; (new) $5.405.50.
Butter New York: 91 score, 421443o; 90 score, 4i
42ftc; 88 score, 4042c. Chicago: "whole, milk,"
91 score, 4041c; 90 score, 4040c; 88 score, 3
39&c; "centralized," 90 score, 4141c; 88 score,
39c. Boston: 91 score, 4343c; 90 score, 4243c;
88 score. 4142c. Philadelphia: 91 score, 8
43c; 90 score, 4143c; 88 scoro, 4041&c.
Eggs New Tork: fresh gathered, extras, 37ft38e;
extra firsts, 3537c; firsts, 3335c.
Hog Markets The market recovered some of the lo
of last week and closed 30c to 35c per cwt higher thai
a week ago. Chicago: 8th, bulk, $16.5016.95. Jersey
City, 50c higher; bulk sales, $1818.25. St. Louis:
6th, choice Southern hogs, 165-200 lbs., $16.50i6.15;
135-165 lbs., $16.5016.75; peanut and mast fed
Southern hogs, $1 to $2 under above quotations. Rich
mond market practically closed for summer, except
for hogs sold to local butchers. Receipts at 10 )ms
hog markets for five months ending May 31, 12,915,959;
same period, 1917, 11,966.073, net increase 7.93 K
cent.
Save Cowpeas From Weevils
DY FUMIGATING cowpeas with
u carbon disulphid, the large supply
of seed now in storage in the South
ern States can be saved from de
struction by weevil attacks, according
to the United States Department of
Agriculture. Southern-grown cowpeas
usually become heavily infested by
weevils in storage, and, as there is a
surplus supply on hand at present,
the Department specialists urge
that growers watch their .stored
seed carefully. Weevil are particu
larly destructive during warm weath
er, and if they are not destroyed soon
render stored seed unfit for, feeding
or planting. ;
Don't try to garden this year with
out "Massey's Garden Book." Paper
bound copy with The Progressive
Farmer one year, $1.25.
The Cotton Market Situation
THE ' market has ruled fairly steady this
week, with same spot business doing
about the, basis of 31 cents for good mid
dling, desirable lines of good cotton wiu
command a fuller premium, but the poorer
and the off-color grades are still avoided.
Good grades of white cotton are getM
scarcer and scarcer, and it looks as if u
Government will eventually have to moflw
Its requirements regarding the grades to w
employed in filling its orders. ' It is to"
served that anything that will Increase""
demand for the lower grades and diminish
the prejudice against them will oPe,ra"fn.
stabilize th future contract and bring ;
tures nearer to a parity with the spot mar
kets.
Recent market developments on theijjr
age have been rather bearish. Crop accou
have been quite favorable, and there m
to have been some further improve1"
condition since the Bureau report canw
There are complaints of the boll wL
ever, in the productive section from i rf
sippi to Georgia, that Js the lower pa
this territory. The Government has in
issued the acreage statement, but tne v
reports indicate some increase as cu '
with .last year. There are also increj,!
ports of a scarcity of labor, and a reeasterB
rainy weather over the . central anu
sections would aggravate the aunt
cultivation. , .uesfi
The appearance of hostile submar n
this sid .of-the Atlantic has necaj
some increase of precautions in
and further restricted exports win tW
and domestic. Enforced reduction
ratevof consumption has resuite
leaving of a larger surplus than was
ed. but this surplus need not . weign
market- unless it is offered for sa stenC,
. i. wtviA fATT.on 41 rti
mere is somewnai I Waller stoc, -
than anticipated, there are smaller
goods, and great deficits which w & la t
replenishing sooner or ly Way -fall,
next fall and always, the on lnj
keep the price up is to -refrain fro g
more than the demand is PrePJ he
at any given time Sell when ,t
wants it, but any attempt to w apSe , v
slack demand will result ' IA4
prices. vv
Savannah, Ga.
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