Show COOLING MILK BY electricity NEW current Is cheaper than ice on many dairy farms the advent of electric alon as a new method of cooling milk has awakened new interest anion dairymen in the cost and efficiency of the several methods used to et low In their temperatures cooling vats 1 gald R F bucknam of the new york agricultural college in a radio talk As long as it was a question of an bother cake of ice from a well filled ice house no one worried much abbat the cost of cooling milk on farms but when the cost of cooling shows on every month on the bill for electricity interest in the subject develops rapid ly mr bucknam said although there Is considerable aart atlon in the cost of electric equipment and its installation it may be roughly estimated that the investment will be from 75 to foi each caa ca the amount of current required 1 easily ascertained studies made la wisconsin show an average requirement of about eight tenths of a kilo watt hour for each can of milk cooled ahls investigation reports studies la large size dairies where a high efel dency may be expected limited la in new york snows that the kilowatt hour consumption to can was somewhat higher at rates available in most of joew lory the cost of actual operation would be about five cents for current and nine cents a can for maintenance of equipment making a total cost for with electricity of fourteen cents t can as compared with a cost of six teen cents by ice cooling as generally figured if a farmer has a good ice house a convenient ice pond and no serious labor problems it would probably be cheaper tor him to continue with tee according to mr bucknam it on the other band it Is necessary to build a new ice bouse or go to any great expense to repair one or it labor la a serious problem the use of electricity should be thoroughly investigated calves require protein ration during winter loung calas trying to live thronia their first winter on cornstalks corn stalks etral or prairie bay will do much better if given a little cottonseed cake to gnp ply the protein their bodies need tor normal growth tests of the last ew years at the valentine experiment sta alon of the university of nebraska have shown that from one half to one pound of pea size cottonseed cake per calf per day in conjunction with prairie hay Is to produce the most economical gains in all these tests the gains were worth several times the cost of th cake the cot cake may be fed in banu or some cattlemen prefer to scatter it on clean ground by throwing a sack over a horse and letting the cats dribble out slowly as they ride around the field the calves used in the valentea Val entla tests vere continued each year on pasture during the summer and thea fed out the nest winter at the agricol tural college experiment station la lincoln in each cabe the completed tests showed that no one can afford to stunt young calves the thin stunted calves did gain rapidly oa the grasa the next summer but the never caught up with those that hsi cottonseed cakes the first winter dairy notes provide warm dry clean stalls tit fall born calves barley oats wheat and corn fab not make up a balanced ration gluten feed gluten meal and b are widely used in preparing the v ter ration feeding large amounts of cotic seed meal eyen though it Is loa price Is not advisable cows like clover hay clover i quires abolt 14 per cent protein in the grain mixture t cowa will eat mixed bay M hay requires about 10 per cent W elble protein in the grain mixture time spent in cleaning and washl a separator will pay dividends dirty separator will not skim clentry clent ly II 11 with a roughage very low in aai such as corn fodder suan or lure thy hay teed equal parts ground cc oni wheat bran and cottonseed ow al unless silage Is fed linseed ollo i aa Is preferable bof for the great majority under tn ci mal conditions some combination 9 hays Is usually available that fallar the two extremes ni my consists partly of t pounds of ground corn t wheat bran and pounds or meal |