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Show lug milk In (rei)sl during hot weather, four ten-gallon cans o; milk cooled to 44 degrees Fahrenheit were hauled 13 miles from a farm to the railroad station. sta-tion. Can No. 1 was an insulated type; No. 2 was an ordinary can covered with a one-Inch felt Jacket; No. 3 was covered with a half-Inch felt Jacket, and -No. 4 was an ordinary, unprotected unprotect-ed can. During the trip, witli the air temperature at SO degrees Fahrenheit, the milk In the insulated can rose one degree In temperature, the milk In the cans protected with Jackets rose six degrees, and the milk in the unprotected unprotect-ed can rose 20 degrees. The cans were then shipped by rail in an ordinary ordi-nary baggage car for more than 1,000 miles at an average air temperature of about 80 degrees Fahrenheit, to study the effect on the milk. In the unprotected can the milk had reached a temperature of GO degrees Fahrenheit Fahren-heit In two hours, or after it had traveled trav-eled about ten miles from the farm (before reachln'g the railroad) ; the milk in the can covered with the half-Inch half-Inch Jacket reached GO degrees Fahrenheit Fahren-heit only after 11 hours, or about 203 miles of travel ; the can covered with the one-Inch Jacket traveled for 13 hours, or about 332 miles, before reaching CO degrees Fahrenheit, and the milk In the Insulated can did not reach GO degrees Fahrenheit until after af-ter 25 hours, or G50 miles of travel. COW WILL INCREASE INCOME Animal Is Most Efficient Money Maker on Farm and Is Entitled to Good Treatment. E. A. Hanson, dairy extension specialist spe-cialist at University farm, renews the Inquiry, "Are you keeping cows or are they keeping you," In a collection of feeding suggestions recently Issued by blm. "Put the cow to work," he says, 'and she is the most efficient money maker on the farm today. A cow producing pro-ducing 25 pounds of 4 per cent milk dally makes one pound of butterfat a day, worth nbout 50 cents. This cow needs rations and hay and silage which should not cost more than 15 cents daily, leaving 35 cents dally above the cost of her feed. Where can you invest your time and efforts to better bet-ter advantage? Give your cows a chance. They are all capable of doing hetter when properly fed." For seed or hay, soy beans are Iroadcasted, drilled or seeded In rows. |