| Show dairy interests Int eretta of argentine the dairy of the argen arcen tine republic are just now ree receiving iving some atI attention cation from the foreign consuls located in that country hitner to Arg argentina ntina has been a great cattle producing country but baa has ev evid otly paid no attention to dairying in tact fact on ranches where hundreds bund reds of cattle were kept it was sometimes sometime 1 imps bible sible to get enough milk for coffee so little ha dairying been considered that at the great agricultural shows no classes hine been a made tor for dairy cattle however a rapid change Is taking place as is butler butter la Is being demanded more and more in addition to the increasing local demand the farmers of argentina are considering the possibility of imitating new zealand and australia in sending butter to england they have the adran advantage tage of the australasian in a shorter distance to transport their product they have the same advantage as the aus in having a summer contemporaneous with the european win ter they should thus ba be able to put grass butter on the english market any time after new years 11 water and salt in butter butt 11 the germ german germin in government has passed a law that all butter must contain at least 80 per cent of butter fat tat and that none shall be sold that falls below this standard unsalted butter must not contain more than 18 per cent of water and salted butter not more than 16 per cent of water the difference Is ts made to accommodate the conditions that preva in butter making since salted butter contains less water than unsalted butter A butter containing 18 per cent of water would lose at least two per cent of it if salted at the rate of one halt ounce to a pound of butter in fact the weight of salt put into butter Is generally less than the weight of water it causes to be thrown out every scientific butter maker knows that salted butter weighs viel glis less than before it was vms salted provided the method of salting be that known as dry baiting balting the cooperative BAtter B maer thomas NV Ittig the t f a operative cooperative co creamery has a larger field of labor and a greater variety of work than the maker employed by individual creamery owners or operators of i u line of creameries who have coutont com comp stant tont men in charge of each and every branch of the business in the average operative cooperative creamery the ter maker la is usually the only one connected with the enterprise who has trained or fitted himself for the business bustness and frequently the success or failure of the creamery in hie his charge Is dependent upon him to fill his position successfully he should have fair knowledge knowl edgo of the breeding and general management of dairy cattle how to formulate balanced ons and disposing of the products byproducts by of the creamery are pro problem bleir which the up to date butter makere makers should be able to solve the cow the principal thing about dairying Is the cow if more attention were paid by the dairymen and farmers to this factor we would have more profitable herds it hardly pays to keep cows that produce less than pounds of milk per year but the average Is less than pounds it a man does not lot want to test his milk for a year he can at least weigh it for that period the coat of feeding and caring for a small la Is just as great as the cost of feeding and caring for a heavy the profits are found only with the good the sooner the farmers weed out their unprofitable cows the sooner will the bank balances of farmers show a healthy increase in size cowa cows that are profitable axe the only ones to keep A sleek cow la is seldom a profitable dairy animal relative decrease of cows W P mcconnell the high price of beef has tempted some farmers to t change from dairying to fat cattle and tho the high price of feed baa has led some dairy farnic rs to so se i a portion of their cows for beef beet we venture the assertion that 25 per cent of the cows now in our dairies are able and noura nonpaying nou paying ying and should for the financial interest of their owners find their way nay to tho the butchers block very few people especially us affirm era bavo have weak eak eyes from looking on the bright side of things but my friends there la Is no bright side to a cow that does not pay for her keep leep in 1850 wo no had 77 cows to each 1000 ot of aur inhabitants while in 1900 eta ista show that we havo have but r 7 cows to each of our population the product production tion of dary products Is 1 cot rot keeping paco with tho the ot of |
