Show WILD ONION AND GARLIC FLAVORS one on ot of the first pastoral plants to re spond respond to the inviting rays of the spring sun BUD Is the wild onion a relative of the it will be tar far head ahead of the first growth of pasture grass when mr farmer turns out bla big cows its tender shoots will make up op a large proportion of the cows dally daily ration with a resulting onion flavor in the milk everyone who drinks milk knows this typical springtime flavor of 0 course it wont be found in the milk later in the season because the onion matut plant soon eoon reaches maturity arid and dies or the more abundant grass will have crowded it out it presents however an aa important short time problem wild onion and garlic flavor Is a problem 1 lm for or the farmer because this pr flavor a cannot annot be removed from milk in any practical way will help in its ita removal but only when the milk Is mildly affected aeration and the forcing ot of air through the milk will not completely remove it the whole question therefore according to prof forrest 0 button of the dairy department of the new jersey state college of agriculture resolves itself around the time interval between the feeding oo on wild onion and milking time many experiments at various stations have been run to determine this period of time in some tests one half pound in others one pound of wild onion tops were fed at different periods of time before milking it was found that increasing the length of time between feeding and milk milking decreased the unpleasant odor and flavor there was only a taint faint onion flavor in the milk drawn from cows tour four hours after feeding this faint flavor disappeared when the milk stood for a few hours in all cases the cream was affected most and the skim milk very little these feeding trials show that the producer should keep his cows from pastures badly infested with wild onion for at least four hours before milking liking 1 in order to avoid onion flavored milk this rule may not be always safe however if any cow ifould eat more than a pound of orl onion ton t tops 0 biest the he best way to solve this problem Is for every dairyman with onion infested pastures to try for himself and deter determine mIrie bow long it Is safe to allow cows in the pasture before milking |