| Show learning LEARNING THE rhe DAIRY BUSINESS rr from m an old F dasher churn t to sit silo nd 1 u C Y mr W 11 II gilbert is a prominent new now york dairyman baio man who chow s 0 pl place aco la is rt at richland eight miles south of 6 lake ontario ilia ills firm is a sandy loam by gravel and on this tills unpromising soil mr air gilbert has gradually built ft it famous dairy farm and creamery he ile begun began in to 1876 by losing money he only kept tho farm because he lie could not sell it meantime lie studied books and dairy papers his first progress avys rio when lie changed old fashioned native cows for jersey stock ilia his next waa was improved methods of churning chortling things most worth knowing now cany caw to b him tin through losses for want of bf at acquaintance with the better way war and ana these things be never forgot lie ile wanted granulated butter and learned that by adding water to the cream ho he could coald set get it neit next lie found that it waa was better to wash buttermilk out of butter than to work it out Us made no money to speak of for several years but dut there was this difference between u sir air gilbert and many who jakeno makee no monay when first going into the dairy or butter business they give up lie ire kept on in ill ft a short time he lie trin triumphed Ln plied the next great stride forward was when he lie learned the supreme advant advantage aga of silage feed after that things airn ca ra easlen aad faster so that in 1881 he built a cream 1 dry and eng engaged a ged in the bt butter itter making I 1 1 usi 91 s 1 1 L aan I 1 all a T Y ww I 1 afa own dairy cows sough lie also toys I 1 alck for or the creamery cr eita tery in 1884 4 he had 0 oh liia his plit place ninety nety two cowa cows 1 ail I of his own rearing in explaining his methods to t the he editor said of or the tile rural new yorker mr gilbert 1 I it i cooler cooley cre cremers creim mors cr revolving box churn and cunningham butter worker with corra gated rollers when the milk Is brought brough into tinto iho the creamery la in winter inter I 1 13 12 per cent of water sufficiently war warm m to raise the th a temperature of tha the mago man from 93 to 08 dogs it I 1 t Is 13 at once pot put lu in the cooler creamer and M rapidly aa M possible cooled with ice down to 40 or V dogs it to skimmed after about eleven loven hours setting we milk at 0 a xa and a 8 p B M i tha the year car round I 1 ue tha the boyd starter j to ripen the cream this is as you know made from rom sweet sw acet Thop roces of ripening require twenty tour four hours I 1 when tha the cream Is put into the vat anil the 1 starter added I 1 maim warm it up to in winter and 65 deg in n summer I 1 bao or this purpose a C pall or of tin about four our inches in diameter and ind two feet acet long I 1 nil this with hot water and then stir the milk with it keep inc loga a thermometer ia in the other hand when the required temperature Is 1 reached it Is covered air tight and act abt allowed allow ed to go lower than dogs in winter I 1 churn at a temperature of 03 3 dees and in summer at kl 0 dees dots I 1 us ua tha the barn same cylinder for or warming tho the cram cream for or churning when the glass dear or abo butter separates I 1 stop the churn open it and rinse it down with cold brine pouring it through a hair ale sieve e BO so as a to make it like a spray I 1 then carefully draw off the buttermilk when cold water enough t to cool 0 I 1 it below tt 53 dees dem in is added before the c churn h au r n Is galu agla agitated it disturbed before that temperature Is reached it will gather in m masses mases ases and you cannot wash it clean it la Is desirable to get got all the to milky alky matter I 1 casein etc out before the I 1 ho butter jamed 1 massed I 1 luse repeated until the water come comes ti away clear to work it properly the butter must bo be alfil 1 I to about CO dosa if below W deg it will wilt bo be crumbly crumb linot not compact to get et it to tho the proper temperature in cold n ithel I 1 use for the lost last water u atar warm n rn enough to bring up tip th butter it is s then t he a malted I 1 use from three quarters of an ou ounce nc e to an ounce 0 u nce of salt to the pound of butter I 1 work it but one n hen it Is put in n prints or packed in tabs rigby from tho the batter worker no mature cow that produces lem than KIO pounds of butter annually should be kept in to the dalry I 1 would a oung young cow that mado made aw pounds in a her first year shu she may mar do bettor each succeeding ear and at maturity be a valuable dairy animal my best record was in one year when I 1 milked liked eighty cows c 0 ws which aich averaged Z 71 pounds of butter each ach tor lin a t do you do with your our skim milk and bu buttermilk t ilk feed them to calves and pigs I 1 prefer grade Bork berkshires shires for alno they seem to thrive a admirably with me what prices have you ou realized for tors your butter butt crt V i 1 I figure d up before sofas going to a dairy meeting moiling in the spring of 1800 and found that for or the seven or eight preceding years aars I 1 had bad received an average of forty cents it has been a little lower since the editor the rural new yorker says mr sir gilberts bain barn is a long iong low cirild ins ing with only an for a mow he reasoned that with ensilage much less mow room would be needed and he lias has found what he lie his has amply large the drop is covered with a grite grate through winch which the droppings puss pass into a water waw I 1 tight trench into which some absorb en isare put at intervals the wagon is driven right light around the tile stalls and tho tile manure is handled but once from the drop to tile wagon and thence to the fields sawdust is used for beadi bedding 4 and find plaster is sprinkled through every dy day thus absorbing all the odors ad apo adding addingto to the tile value of the fertilizer A swinging stanchion is used in he tile stables the leanto lean to is used for oa 05 bof for cows about to drop dio calves and for oung young stock water is i carried to each cow in a trough and she helps herself when ats it s wanted van ted the tile bottoms bot of the silos are on it level let el with ith the stable floor and the ensilage is loaded into a car which taked it to the cows cotts ml gilbert has al ll 11 in tile stables under way his success is ft a capital ct pital of what perseverance coupled with aitelli ni telli gent and stud studious ions methods may acconey he ile lias has proved that the that section is fertile and that tha t dair dairying ang may be made a profitable industry not by controlling the pi ice of the tile finished products but by reducing the coit of production 1 I 1 |
