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Show Canadian Cheese Exports. The Canadian forolgn chocso trade continues to grow. That country long ago passed tho United States In the matter of exports of cheese, and has been ever since Increasing Its lead. A report from Montreal says that this year that port was virtually cleared of old cIiccbo by April first, whereas, that docs not usually occur till the first of May. Tho cheese export season sea-son of 1902-03 Is theroforo closed. There had boon exported from that port up to tho first of April 2,432,682 boxos of cheese, as compared with 2,235,561 boxes tho provlous season, which means an Increase of 197,121 boxos for this year. The valuo of cheoso exported from Canada In the last twelvo months Is estimated at $21,000,000. Tho Canadians aro planning plan-ning groat things tor tho future, and are expecting a grent run of cheese-making cheese-making this coming season on account ac-count of tho One way In which the pastures are starting out. Nono of the moadows aro reported to havo winter killed and the recent scedtngs arecom-ing arecom-ing through tho winter In good shape. At the present time a large hay crop Is looked for. In England tho cheese market Is Bald to bo demanding large supplies, which cannot be filled before tho beginning of summer. It Is believed believ-ed that choeso making In England Is on tho decline, which would bo a further fur-ther factor In favor of tho Canadian chee3o makers. Typhoid Spread by Milk. Tho wntor supply Is nlmost always connected with outbreaks of typhoid fover. Sometimes tho connection Is Indirect, ns through milk, which has been contaminated by a contaminated water supply. Could wo but know tho facts, It would doubtless appear that thero aro hundrods of local epidemics each year that havo been started by a contaminated milk supply. Only last fall wo reported an epidemic in a small villago in northern Illinois. which was due entirely to milk from a small dairy in tho outskirts of tho village. About thirty cases resulted and at least two doaths. Just now typhoid Is raging at Stanford University Uni-versity In California and dispatches say that it Is due to milk from a local dairy. About 100 students aro down with tho disease. Tho dairy that was known to have been the cause for tho outbreak has been closed down, while some other dairies undor suspicion havo had to go out of business temporarily. tem-porarily. Tho fever has also appeared In the university town of Palo Alto, duo probably to the use of the same milk that started the disease In the university. One-third of the pupils are out of school. This Is but another costly lesson of the dangvi of using unclean milk. ,lf there were no other reason for waging war on dirty surroundings sur-roundings of the dairies, the readiness with which milk conveys disease should be sufficient Build Slloi. There are several very good reasons why men should build silos, It they have large numbors of cattle to feed. There Is less waste of fodder when It Is preserved In the silo than when taken care of In any other way. It requires very much less room to store In silos than in any other way. It Is claimed that when the fodder Is dried and stored In tho barn It requires three times the room It does when stored In the silos. Sllago Is also more valuable than tho dry fodder for milk production, Just as June pasturage gives more milk than dry hay. Silage is as succulent and far more valuable that roots. Sllago keeps tho dlgostlvo organs of tho cows In excellent condition, con-dition, and thus disastrous outbreaks of disease aro prevented. Sllago can be put up when It would be Impossible Impos-sible to cure the crop, on account of wet weather. It Is less trouble to get sllago mado right than It is to get a crop of corn In tho glazing stage cured properly. If sllago Is left ovor In tho spring It may be usod for help-Ing help-Ing out tho pasturago with the best results, for It Is even superior to good pasturage. With sllago there Is no sudden chango from green to dry food, which always means a shrinkage of the milk flow. Feeding Grain to Milch Cows en Pastures. From the Farmers' Ilevlew: My experience ex-perience Is limited In tho lino referred to and I am governed by circumstances, circum-stances, If pastures contain a large per cent of protein, as alfalfa and some of tho clovers, and aro sufficiently sufficient-ly luxuriant that a cow will nil up In an hour, I do not believe a grain'" ration Is best. With grasses low fn protein, or where It requlros constant grazing to satisfy, It would Justify to supplement with grain containing a good per cent of protein provided wheat bran could be bought at $12 per ton and butter fat was worth 17 cents. The above basis will do to figuro upon. If you figure for Immedi-ato Immedi-ato profit; It you consider the future welfare of tho cow go slow with concentrated con-centrated feeds containing a large per cent of protein. The last observa-tlon observa-tlon opens up another question not well understood nor appreciated and could not be properly discussed here. A. A. Adams, Shawnee county, Kan. |