| Show CHEMICALS USED TO CLEAN CANS chlorinated lime Is good in killing bacteria chemicals may be used instead of hot water in milk utensils and many farmers are finding this an easy method of keeping milk ans and other dairy clean and sun says L H professor of dairy technology at the ohio bbate university lime which may be procured in 12 ounce tans Is camm aly used for this purpose in prep iring lie chemical for use in milk utensils one U ounce c in ot chloal anted lime Is dissolved in a galac n of water the dear solution Is sy phoned oft stored in a tightly slop glass bottle and placed in a cool dirk in the presence of sun light the solution rapidly loses its strength after milking stales the utensils are in mediately rinsed with cold water and then washed with hot water a washing powder not a soap powder after the milk utensils have been washed with the hottest water possible to ban die they are then rinsed with a solution ande by adding a half glass of the chlorine solution to five gallons of water the Is effective in killing bacteria if the milk cans are clean but if they are dirty it will do but little good cans returned from the milk plants or creameries crea meries kiy be rinsed with the chloran cited lime alon and then drained just before milking time retaining proven bull for future Is prudent some years ao mr V A draden one of the leading bleeders breeders bre eders of short horn cattle in ontario made a comment that bears just as directly on dalry bittle improvement as on boef we will never make the improvement we should male said mr until we hive more proven sires plenty of our best sires are sold to the butcher after one or two years use and before we really know just what their progeny will be at that time mr dryden had a couple of bulls that he had used in his own herd loaned to neighboring bleeders breeders bre eders he was watching their and should they prove exceptionally good the sire was right at hind to be used to his limit for the improvement of the shorthorn breed dairymen of the scandinavian countries have long had a system of sire exchange that en ables them to hold sires until theia daughters have been tested in production good sires are then retained for service as long as they are active and the result has been a remarkably kably rapid increase in the avenge milk production per cow in these countries and we in canada continue with the hit and miss plan or lack of plan that has been the rule on this continent and every year good bulls go to the block production record of show bull proved good the question Is often asked as to whether dairy bulls which win high honors in the show ring are ever much good as sires of high producing daugh that such bulls do get progeny which make good in milk production Is being proved by one of canadas most famous bulls johanna rag apple pabst a black and white bred in the united states and bought by the mount victoria firms at hudson n eights que two or three years BLO for the steep price of was never defeated at a major exhibition before being retired after last year s koyal winter fair he had won 2 grand champion ships and times had been named all american grand cham plon dairy facts the calf can be to drink by allowing it to suck he fingers and gradually lowering them into the milk one cow often aits the profits made by another febu eich cow according to her production A high producing cow needs much more grain than a low producer cows need vacations the same as human beings A rest period of six to eight weeks before freshening with plenty of good aped will put the dairy cow in form for her work many cows must pet their water a long way the barn on cold winter dais and often the ice must be removed before they can drink un these conditions cows cannot till up on wajter as they should with a resultant dc creise in milk A cow Is so constituted as to handle large amounts of roughage but even so a cows capacity Is limited f she is fed a poor grade of roughage her energy Is expended in consuming a class of feeds from which she cannot get nutritive returns |
