| Show f HIGH QUALITY OF DAIRY PRODUCTS one of most important concerns of industry prepared by the un tea ted state states depa dep amet of agriculture I 1 raising the quality of the nations supply of dairy products particularly market milk and cream until the point Is reached where all the people whether they live in city or town or on the farm will be universally pro vided with an abundance of dairy foods of high wholesomeness and ity Is one of the most important con cerns of the dairy industry of the united states says 0 G 0 reed chief of the bureau of dairy industry in his annual report to ta secretary hyde of the united states department of ag ri culture reporting upon the bureaus bureau s milk quality improvement project mr reed says that this Is considered one of the most important features of the work of the bureau and the regional dairy extension specialists considerable progress in quality improvement has already been made in several states this Is the result of the operative cooperative efforts of the bureau and the extension services of the state colleges of ag ri culture the report says to reach the goal of general high quality Is largely a matter of getting before the dairy farmer and others of the industry the facts regarding the practice which have been found to give the best results says the report to stimulate the development of a comprehensive plan for improving the quality of milk a great deal of work has been done not only in planning programs but in making them effective in ila some of the states the importance of interesting the boys and girls of the 4 11 II clubs of the country in the program for improving the average quality of the milk pro deuced on american farms has been recognized by the bureau and the ex tension service in the quality improvement activities says mr air reed lie ile says that suggested programs iams for ity improvement have been drawn up for the use not only of the adults who are the dairy farmers of today but also for the club boys and girls wh i will be the dairy farmers of tomorrow the quality improvement work Is now in progress in many places with the bureau the state extension ices state and city departments of health and other agencies all cooper oper aang some dairy communities have made marked improvement in th the e quality of the dairy products which they produce and market says mr peed reed good method of rearing calves with nurse cow here Is a method of starting calves without skim milk that comes from a dairyman who has used it for years the calf Is left with the mother tor for the first four or five days it Is then removed to a holstein II nurse cow a low tester that can start three calves nicely at one time it if the nurse cow is prod producing acing more milk than the calves should have the tile cow Is partly milked before the calves are allowed to her when the calf Is three or tour four weeks old a mixture of equal parts of coarsely ground corn rolled roiled oats bran and half part of powdered skim milk Is put in a hopper in the calf pen good alfalfa hay and water are kept before them from now on at ten weeks the calf Is eating regularly of other feeds and can be taken off the cow the amount of powdered milk in the meal la is doubled and fed twice a day all the calves will clean up until the calf Is six months old clean milk important for human consumption no greater field of usefulness exists than tl ti e production of milk for hu man consumption milk Is the food on which growing groining children are reared and from which they should receive tl ti e strength and vigor necessary to make them strong useful citizens adults too invalids and those weakened Led by improper nourish ment need milk in the diet to re pair waste and build up strong new tissue recent investigations in nu brition have shown that milk contains COD certain other substances which are essential for the proper growth of the human body milk production also carries cespon ties NN I 1 en carelessly produced and improperly handled milk may be the means of spreading disease ev ery cry owner of a dairy herd should con sider it his duty to himself and to the comman ty to keep only healthy cows supply them with wholesome feed an I 1 keep them in clean comfortable affect milk flavor outside of the unfavorable effect of molda and deceased teed feed on the health of the cows such feels are UPI apt to LU am L 11 part to in ik and its products unde und L s rable floors resulting from these de feet th s mol mot ly straw and I 1 iy ay I 1 liv iv or sour silage and grain de el r etc give gle in 11 ak and its r di d i ts rl fleors witch jie 17 C I 1 e r i irl et v bilue certain 13 1 ruch as alige beets turnips 11 II e etc g ve in ik cream and sitter atter ali ors aich are not desired |
