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Show - 8HORT DAIRY TALK8. A money-making combination Is tho cow and tho sow, Glvo tho latter warm skim milk. Avoid feeding hny or dusty rough-wo rough-wo JiiBt previous to milking. Thoro ' is too much dust to drop Into tho milk pall. Dairying is a ready money business, , nnd no other branch of llvd stock l keeping enn compare with It for en- jl rlchlng tho farm, r Thrco common faults In butter mhk. fhi5 nro ovcr-rlpo cream, over-churning . 1 nnd over-working. The first means strong butter, tho second nnd third soft butter. Ono Now York dairyman sells his milk for seven cents per quart tha - !'" year round, and with good Jersey nnd Holsteln cows his hord produces on an Jjjkl -. nvorago of $1G worth of milk per w- " month. It requires 85 pounds out of ! evory 100 pounds to pay expenses. Tho Jorsey cow Is a highly dovol-. dovol-. oped milk-making machine. Sho has jjjt thnt her characteristics have become , fixed, nnd tho doscondnnts of n well- f- j'itf rcd dnlrycow can bo depended spon. Ajk, .j f. Tho, amount of milk that she will make dependa largely on tho amount - of food that you can got her to use. To soparato buttoi' from tho buttermilk butter-milk I get a yard of choesccloth, wet V ' it In cold wator and spread over ttio 'il top of ft crock. I then pour tho but- iaz , tcrmllk and butter Into tho cloth from tho churn. Taking it up by tho cor-ners cor-ners and working It back nnd forth ' easily I am soon ablo to drain out all of tho buttermilk and have tho butter ready to put Into a crock and salt. |