Show HOME TEST COSTS MORE THAN new york dairyman tell of his experience by 0 0 BRADT new tork atte coll of agriculture derric let the dairy record club kee your milk records for you is th advice of george heabler of chathan N Y a farmer member of the dalr record club the record club ca test the milk samples cheaper thai it can be done at home and then thi club records are more complete am mean more mr kelbler says mr heibler wag formerly a mem her of the dairy record club in co ambia county he was in the do three months and then discontinue he decided to keep the records on h cows himself at home and save th money which he was paying the dalr record club each month to keep in figure these records for him while doing his milk testing am record keeping at home mr helble decided to find out what it was cost ing him lie figured the cost ot hi add and other testing supplies B charged up the time which was r quiren after a few months of home testing and record keeping h concluded that he could get his rec through the dairy record caul for less than he could afford to keep them himself mr heabler told hit farm bureau agent he expected tc go back in the club dairy farmers can keep their cwi production records but which thy figure the time it takes from farm work they will find it does no pay effect of white clover in producing bloating according to prof andrew 0 me candlish sh formerly of the iowa aarl cultural experiment station and noi of the west of scotland agriculture college white clover not only has J varying content of W the possibility of a content having a distinctly haraf effect has also ao be considered would also appear probable that in clover forage may act i a preventive of normal belching of gi from the paunch and so help to cau serious bloating of that organ it this that Is supposed to cans canse 6 frothing of feed in the paunch an that frothing tends to cause aloa le these subjects are being studied an wo there Is need of more 1 work on the question in america as meanwhile it may be stated that th heroic four ounce dose of pure tw e e pentane and four ounce dose of an y marlc spirits of ammonia in a quart of new milk astl proves remedial in a severe case 0 ste bloating while many owners pin the faith to a large dose of solution similarly diluted with mill ID and others get good results from kero raa sene in milk hoards dairyman leop production cost figures the feed necessary to produce as pound of butterfat may vary from the to more than 17 cents even in tested hey herds according to figures tabulate hat on 22 herds in the walte carroll amrhei by tester dale haselby on ed cow which produced less than 20 nt pounds of fat annually consumes 32 68 worth of feed or 17 8 cents to each pound of butter four cows in the to pound fat class tn feed or cents per pound of fat the feed for nine cows in th to pound group cost 37 95 pei cow but averaged only centi per pound while six cows producing between and pounds consumed only worth of feed or 93 cents per pound the two cows in the to pound class were fed worth of grain and roughage at cost of 77 cents per pound of tai produced although it cost more bov feed for the higher producing cows they were far more efficient in pro indiana farmers guide DAIRY HINTS s through the record club a dairya ra 1 man knows that he will get a bulj years record on his cows that lon what counts in dairy record work r till cows producing under eight quarts eai of milk a day need no grain at this met time hut the high producers should mee have at least about a half feeding concentrates eal ettli fresh la a good protein feed for dairy cows and will be readily it mixed with grain pounds of will equal pound of linseed meal y I 1 B it Is undeniably true that the low ataee producing cows are the cows that ate surpluses of dairy products aloys well water may be pumped a milk cooling tank and if the milk lyeen stirred occasionally it Is cooled ly so that bacteria do not increase cea rapidly gt nor in a milk house the chief consider atlon Is that of cooling the cooling equipment adnes more work than should be required of it unless tha cooling house Is thoroughly ehly insulated evl |