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Show t A Sanitary Milk Pail. Herewith wo illustrate ono ot the sanitary milk palls in uso in some parts of tho country. As will be observed, ob-served, tho top of It Is almost entirely covered. Tho placo into which the milk Is thronn Is tho strainer, so that tho milk Is strained as it enters the pall. Tho top being covered prevents tho falling ot hnlr and other dirt Inta tho milk. Any ttnmnn can manufac-I turo ono of theso palls, as It Is so aim-' pie that there Is no patent upon it Two general principles need to bo kept In mind, ono Is to covor as much of tho top of tho pall as possible and the other Is to havo a rim nround tho orlflco through which tho milk enters the pall. It seems to us thnt tho strainer Is of Ilttlo raluo in a pall so protected, for If tho udder is clean the milk Is not likely to bo contaminated with dirt Thero aro many forms of theso palls in use, somo of them dlf terlng very much from this. Ono that BBBKS'WMyjSpBBS wo saw In nso on the farm ot II. B. Gurler simply had a largo part of tho top covered, while the balance- was covered enly by absorbent cotton placed between two layers of gauze. As is known, the Gurler milk Is very clean and therefore has long keeping properties. Some of this milk, bottled, bot-tled, reached Paris, France, In a sweot condition. It had only boen kept la a refrigerator, had not been paaturlzed, and had in it no preservative. It did Hot begin to turn sour until the- 17th day after being drawn. On the day it was used in Paris, It was compared with some of thn "milk nroduced that day In Paris, which began to sour when only twolve -hours old. This shows tho difference between 'lean milk and milk that has been contaminated. con-taminated. The use of the big open-mouthed open-mouthed milk ' pall Is the sourco ot much of the-souring of milk. Hairs from the cow and mlnuto partlclos of dust drop unseen Into tho pall. Theso contain spores ot tho lactic acid ferments, fer-ments, which aro always presont In tho air during summer, Wo bellovo the universal uso of sanitary milk palls would vory greatly lmprovo tho quality of our milk, and consequently lmprovo tho quality ot our butter and cheese. Fnrmers' Review. Pumpkins as Cow Feed. In all of tho eostorn states whero pumpkins arc extensively grown they aro used for cow feed In tho lato fall and early -winter months, and as long ns thoy can bo kept without deterioration. deteriora-tion. Possibly they could be ltopt all -winter under proper conditions of cold storago, but thoy aro such a bulky food that a vory largo placo Is required re-quired to store enough of thera to last a largo herd through tho winter months. They aro not only hollow inside, in-side, but their round shapo makes thorn space-cohsumors in storage. I regard tho pumpkin as equivalent to silage for feed, but when wo havo tho problem of feeding many cows, It Is much easier to build a silo that will bold several tops ot sllago than to build a rcccptaclo far several tons ot pumpkins. Moreover, tho pumpkins must bo cold enough to prevent them from decaying, for the air will get in to any rcccptaclo in which thoy can bo placed. With sllago, the tempore-. tempore-. cure makes little difference it it does not reach tho point wbero it freezes. I havo found In tho feeding ot pump- per day por cow to advantago, and with some cows tho milk production will bo greatly Increased. I havo, how-over, how-over, had occasional cows whero tho offect of feeding pumpkins was to causo tho cows to lay on fat and do-crenso do-crenso tholr milk production. Thero aro very fow experiments to which wo can point rolativo to tho value of feeding pumpkins. In ono oxporiment that I havo jn mind thero was a gain of 6 per cent moro milk whon pumpkins pump-kins woro fed than hefcro they wore admitted into tho ratlot. This was tho result, too, when tho dry matter was so decreased In t'to ration that the Incrcaso ot milk, bticd on the units ot dry matter la tU feed, amounted to 10 por conL Tho milk did not In any way dotorlorato in quality. In another test with which I am familiar tho cows fod on pumpkins produced about G per cont moro milk than cows -fed on sllago, and when compared with dry hay tho increase of milk was vory great. The health of tho cows was not impaired by this large pumpkin ration, nor did tho butter but-ter mado show ony bad offect Tho great advantago about feeding pumpkins pump-kins is that the men that havo no silos can feed thera, and nearly all men that koep cows havo no silos. Silos aro numorous only in regions devoted very generally to the making of butter, but-ter, Gect;o Mils. SSl-S-lBMI-IIS-S-iB-B-iSISISBIS--lS1-ti |