Show SUITABLE DAIRY HOUSE FOR DAIRY FARM should contain nothing but necessary utensils the milk house Is one farm structure which should not be big accord ing to EL ross of the dairy depart 1 anent of the new york state college of agriculture who says that it should be lost large enough to contain a milk tank suitable for cooling and storing the alil and a rack for bold ing utensils with only enough adal space to permit the attendant to work conveniently it the milk house Is larger than la necessary for the proper handling of the milk he says there Is always the temptation to use it for storage purposes and for other purposes than tor which it Is built says that this storage practice should never be followed because of the possibility that the milk may become contaminated he adds that storage practices are also likely to be forbidden by most boards of health other recommendations which professor ross makes are that the milk house should be near the stable and it should be connected to the stable by an enclosed passage provided with swinging doors at each end A plen ticul supply of clear cold water should be available and the milk house should be convenient to the ice house though not inside the ice house it should be distant from any point of contamination and should of course be built that wagons or trucks can be driven directly to it all of these points are thoroughly described and illustrated in a new bulletin by professor ross published by the new york state college of ag ri culture this bulletin Is available to those who want it and will be sent tree on a request to the office of publication li at the college of agriculture ithaca new york ask for E weed out boarder cows in building up a herd by weeding out his boarder cows raising heater calves from his best cows only and feeding mill making feeds in proper amounts it Is possible for a good dairy farmer to practically double his dairy herd income in four years without increasing the of his cows just how this can be done on the average dairy farm Is well shown in the record of a herd of cows in one of minnesotan Min dairy herd improvement associations by following these practices the average production of this herd increased from pounds of but a year per cow to pounds four years later the income over teed cost per cow during that time jumped from 58 to As this farmer had 10 cows in his herd he in creased his income over from the same cows in four u time the first step in building up a profit able dairy herd Is the use of dally records of milk produced and teed eaten by each cow these records are simple and require only a few minutes time to male the dally milk record of each cow makes it possible to feed her according to her milk production which usually means at the rate of about one pound of milk making grain to every three pounds of milk produced and all the alfalfa hay and corn silage she will clean up the milk and feed records will also show which cows are profitable and which are not dairy notes from a better ball raise better cows than you can buy even in zero weather milk should be artificially cooled cooling with circulating water ts 21 times faster than cooling with air at the same temperature it Is advisable to have a good vari ety of feeds tn the grain mixture soch a mixture gives a better quality of protein and provides a teed that Is relished by the cows if proper could be made of all dairy herds it not only would con serve good feed but it would greatly improve the whole dairy market and bring the owners much greater net profits to test the cream separator take about a half pint of skim milk as it comes from the separator and have your creamery test the sample thia test will tell how much butterfat la going into the skim milk A tried sire known to put good mam organs on his daughters Is a goed acquisition in a herd only cows capable of eating lots of feed are able to make the greatest profits give good cows plenty of feed it never pays to skimp on their feed bill twenty six cows in the penn state herd in 1801 averaged pounds of milk last year 71 cows produced pounds each better breeding it primarily responsible for the increase |