Show 10 I 1 I 1 COTTON DISK BEST STRAINER FOR MILK farm journal correspondent tells of its value the most efficient mills milk strainer we learn from G malcolm Is the dry cotton filter disk the old wire gauge strainer Is no longer in favor with milk inspectors and some of the cloths used as strainers are little if it any better than the wire mr trout finds that cheesecloth doul doubled led lets sediment through that muslin Is lit tie better than cheesecloth that flan nel 1 best of the cloths used is not so efficient as the various cotton disks there Is a difference of course in cotton d aks some will filter more rapidly and more efficiently than oth ers tl TI e temptation Is to hurry up a slow one by jarring mr trout found tn in his michigan tests alit tl it jar ring reduced eff clency it seemed to mal e small holes in the d sl s and let sediment through that had previously collected to hurry things up A 0 dahlberg suggests hiving the foot 0 of f the strain er as large as poss ble so tl at an extra large disk can an he used he ile points out that milk goes through tl e disk vertically with very little horl contal movement and for that reason the capacity Is directly related to the area of the holes in tl e metal supporting the cotton disk some of the strainer manufacturers he states have hae redesigned their strainers to in crease capacity farm journal lower feed costs big item in da dairy iry farming farmin 9 we cant can t send scrub acres of land to the butcher as we ou ought to do with cows but we cin drop some of the unprofitable alle overhead on some and put others to better use what a dairy farmer does in his fields has a m clity important bearing on what his cows will do to or tor for his bank balance failure to produce large yields per acre of crops best suite tor for feeding dairy cattle Is where many dairy farmers bark their financial shins in their efforts to make money from cow cows S the argument Is not for more milk than consumers will ft ill buy at a fair price but rather for lower feed costs of f that necessary to supply our mar oets bets hoards dairyman potato flavored milk every enery spring some pota potato to flavored cream appears it is commonly as fumed that this comes from feeling cows on potatoes but as a matter of act fact it Is usually not possible to cause potato flavor by feed I 1 rig potatoes in vesti gati ns indicate that the potato flavor gets into the cream by way of the atmosphere milk mill or cream al lowed to stand in a cellar wl ere potatoes are stored take on the potato flavor quite readily so any cull potatoes or surplus potatoes cin be fed to advantage at this time of year but be careful not to store milk or cream in a potato cellar see to it that ta tie e place where your milk and cream Is stored is given a good time I 1 1 honored go ng over by the methods so as to make it sweet and clean dakota farmer buckwheat for dairy cows aroun buckwheat makes a g od component in tie tl e graci gra mixture tor for dairy ans and iris 1 is about tie same feed n ng value as a low grade of oats advises C L blackman state stat e dairy pec alla lie ile suggests that a grim grain ration to be used with good quality civer hav and corn silage might be equal parts of buckwheat earn and oats and either cottonseed meal or I 1 eseed meil ruck carries al out 8 per cent d gest ble protein and 63 per cent total d gestl tible ble autri ants th s year considerable acreage is de devoted doted in ohio to bud bucl wheat cul ture and much of it will be used in feed i g da ry cattle and poultry ohio farmer culling the herd if dalre mena cull at the normal rate rite the animal lus 1 us bandry department of tl if e ne nev v I 1 york ork state c liege of agrical ture says new lorl ork state vill nill hive have nearly 40 more cobs v s in 1932 thin than there are now in the state at pres ent tl ti ere are 7 per cent i lore cows ind ar 2 per cent more heifers one to two years old than there were in the state in 1027 1927 the department esti estl mates that if the poorest of every seven senen cows Is slaughtered it boull remove ab ut I 1 cows from f rom corn com petition they go further and say it would be better to sell these coas at any price rather than to tike tile a loss 01 on every enery of milk ley give ghe cold storage cheese on june I 1 cold storage hold ot of all cheese in tl e united states ac al cord ng to the united states depart ment of agriculture amounted I 1 to 50 56 COO pounds as co conspired ap ired ft th 68 poun Is on tie tl e anding g late in 1940 1010 and 59 5 0 0 pounds the he year a average it w 11 be seen rl ti it from the int f production tie ft e cl eese ind astry was in good con iti ld n if consumption cons emption lad 1 ad been i p i 1 orm I 1 thre th re would have been no surplus wisconsin agriculturist |