DAIRY NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11227, 26 March 1897, Page 2

DAIRY NOTES.

A trial shipment of 10001 b of Queensland butter has been made to Hongkong under the Produce Encouragement Act, by the Silverwood Butter Company. Mr Wilson (Victorian dairy expert), Mr Mahon (Queensland dairy expert), and Mr Olsen (representative of the Do Laval Company) have treated 1000 gallons of milk with a Pasteurising plant, at Kyneton, Victoria, and have made butter of the same. Part of the butter is to be exported and part retained in the cold stores in Melbourne, so that a practical test of the value of the process will be made. I have not found (says Professor C. P. Goodrich, of the Wisconsin University) any food which materially increases the percentage or butter-fat in the milk of a given cow. The only way to reach this result is to feed so as to secure more milk, and consequently a larger aggregate of butter-fat. Tests show that while it is not practical to feed fat into the milk, the percentage of fat is increased as the milk yield falls off. It pays to feed a little bran or grain feed even in summer, when cows are on good pasture. They hold out longer, and the milk flow responds less readily to changes of condition in pasture. In my own personal experience this course has resulted in my cows making an average of fifty pounds more than when the practice was not' followed. The cost per head for the extra thus expended was sdol, and the increase in butter sold for 13dol 50 cents

A n experienced dairyman writes : —We make a business of dairying, and the calves must take their chances with skim-milk, and everybody knows the difficulty of feeding this bare skim-milk.' If we increase the quantity a little or have it too cold, the. calf’s digestion is upset and scours follow. laccidently stumbled onto the use of rennet extract in liquid form.andluse it of such strength that one teaspoonful is enough for ten calves getting four quarts each of milk at a feed to prevent any danger from scours. With this adjunct skim-rmlk can be fed with as great safety as new milk, and now I can put my calves on skim-milk in about five days. I feed the milk at a temperature of about eighty degrees at first, hut after two months I reduce it to sixty-five or seventy degrees. The rennet extract never fails to prevent scours.