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Show Intermountain Dairymen Should Have Little Trouble About Feed Proper Cooling Important For HJgb-Quality HJgb-Quality Milk While our cows on Irrigated farms have been luxuriating on well watered pastures with abundant fine hay in their racks, In certain sections of th country there seems to be a milk shortage, while In others there seems to be a surplus. We do not know of any place where conditions are Just right, and It Is doubtful whether human hu-man ingenuity can ever bring about a situation that will be entirely ac- ' ceptable to all farmers. The well managed dairy farm al- . ways has a good supply of good silage and hay which can be used to supplement sup-plement pastures when they are short. It Is not profitable for any farmer, regardless re-gardless of the market, to permit his cows to shrink in milk flow when pastures pas-tures are short. Just a little feed at this time brings a splendid return. - The Intermountain dairyman, if he. protects hay In the rack from rain has few troubles aflout feed. ro other re-. glon presents so many advantages nor ' crops that rotate so conveniently with dairying of high money value. , In discussing the production of high quality milk, M. J. prucha of the University of Illinois tella ua that milk cooled immediately after milking to 40 degrees F. will have no Increase ; in bacteria at the end of twelve hours teid at this temperature. At 50 degrees de-grees F. there is a slight increase; at . 00 degrees F. each bacterium has Increased In-creased to fifteen new - ones ; at " 70 r degrees F. to 70Q new ones and at 80 degrees F. for twelve hours each bacterium bac-terium has produced 3,000 new ones. Proper cooling Is an Important practice prac-tice in the production of high-duality . mlhV... .... ... |