Show r alry N from fro the tb e banners Fan F earm ners e rt V review the american home market fo or r attly products la is tho the one that should engine the attention of american cow keepers we have tho the best market in the world and a market that la is continually increasing its demand many of our states and territories do not make enough butter to supply their home demand in a recent report 0 of the dairy commissioner 0 of tho the state of washington we find that last year that state imported from other states pounds 0 of butter and 3 pounds of cheese though thero there are creameries crea meries and cheese factories in the state the supply ot of dairy products Is that much short the populations in these western states Is increasing at a great rate la well as are the populations in the great cities of the country although some of 0 the western states that import dairy products are really so BO situated that it would be possible to produce the dairy foods needed yet the habits ot of the people are such that no i great and rapid advance in that direction can bo be looked for or they are absorb absorbed Ld in other pursuits that thoy they deem more profitable these theae markets are susceptible of great development and with proper methods ot of distribution the ain amounts consumed would be very much greater than at the present time an australian australia n dairyman W B D wylle wylie kapunda kakunda Ka south australia mattes makes a rather remarkable statement as to the gain arising from the covering ot of his cows we have seen cows covered at night in the stable and have heard ot of dairymen that even permitted their cows to go into the pastures with the blankets on moreover it is well known that in some parts ot of europe the dairy farmers cover their cows in the pastures but as a scheme that brings profits we have not seen it generally recommended it looked like carrying the care ot of cows to the extreme but the australian in III question believes that he reduces the cost of 0 making butter nearly one half in III fact he says that before the use of blankets the cost of making a pound of butter was 22 cents and after the practice had bad become well established the cost was 12 cents per aund we doubt it if this remarkable decrease in cost was due to the conservation of heat but the australian seems to have no doubt on the matter n part he be says it took me two years to get the whole of my twenty six cows under cover because I 1 wanted to proceed cautiously and see what the result would be and I 1 was so surprised that I 1 had bad to go over the work again and again to be sure that I 1 was waa making no mistake every cow that was put into a cover gave the sama gains satisfactory results by increasing her produce on a smaller quantity of food and getting into better belter condition the effect of the covers on the cows was marvelous my system of ma manael ng the covers Is to keep a record of the outside temperature and when the thermometer goes above GO 60 degrees I 1 take the covers ok off when it goes below GO CO degrees I 1 put them on and always keep them on in wet weather the tha material I 1 use Is grain sacks two of them sown together forming tho the cover with a rope round behind fast to each corner to keep it from going forward and a leather strap fastened in front behind their forelegs fore legs to keep it from going back I 1 thought at first that I 1 would have to oil the covers but was surprised to find that after a cow had worn one for about a month the grease and hair from her skin made the sack waterproof underneath so that in the heaviest rala rain wo we have had I 1 have never known the cover to wet through to see cows feeding irk in tho the rain with covers on when it la is blow ing a gale and taking do BO notice of it Is a surprising sight and gives mg me great satisfaction |