Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4384, 11 March 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

<§*»: tr--£~ - ' ■ NG BUT lER FAT INTO , MILK ' . D. Hoaid, of “ Hoard’s j,” a dairy fnnmr of large ixp tieme, addressing himi,lns subject at I In- annual yf the Connecticut Slate if Agriculture, said: “In iconsin Experiment. Station, ) gone through experiments re . ci st us over £4QO, to see ould feed butter-fat ipfo th!e ■ increase the percentage of it. it cannot be done. "We pi-ee that a cow iB giving four butter-fat in her milk. Can her so that she xill give five L ? Many men think so. I sd it in bo many ways- that I up trying because it candime. I can increase tht> per day, temporarily, : of at, but I have never been able e any perceptible change in ati>.n .of the solids to each F.ir instance, there is '6 b per em -7 : per cent sugar.'; and mi of butter-fat, and there it I have never been able in all > that I have been at work at t'ect any change in the relation oiid constituents. . r- r - were so, don’t you see that it »e very easy to take a Holstein ike a Jersey of her ; or very > take a Jersey , and make a. n of her,; if you?'-could change centage. ' What is the reascn ;hat some cows- give a richer an others ?, r Because they are i, and not, because they are fed 5 our creamery there have been r ,OOO tests made on milk. We 2,000 tests at one time in all able ways—chemical analysis, ir the Babcock apparatus, and ts, obtests, and I want to tell iat I know. There is a tom variation sometimes. It passes i down like the mercury. But istanding that, I know it is hot , because there are certain causes which change it the way, and change it back to the normal standard. All sorts litions affect the cow’s cream — r conditions, stabling conditions, ill these things produce a ternvariation. Some of these may make a difference in the md hence a change of feed may mes stimulate the secretive I, and yon do improve the r, and your lactometer will i up and down in the milk, but mply temporary. The average tage remains the same.”