Show k BUTTER QUALITY CAN IMPROVED BE D the del delivery ivory of good cream was wab as it la is today eastern markets have often 1 to price as much ns as ten cents per pound between classing as firsts and that classing as se coLde idt A ought difference in the score of butter has often made a difference of three cents per pound in the price it la Is impossible to make good hutter from poor cream cream more afore attention must be given to the production of if good cream on the farm cooling of cream promptly tins ahna much to do with the quality worm warm cream should never be mixed with cold cream it should be cooled before being mixed with other s otherwise wise bai bad flavors and poor quality will result the best way to cool cream Is to place it in cold water cream quickly cooled coole dand and afeld b ald in cold v ter will keep in good condition cream should be immediately put in a small can when separated and kept in cold water stirring occasionally allows the animal hent bent to escape and ini proves the qurill ty cream should be delivered to tile the creamery frea frequently bently in hot bot weather if held more lhnn three days it Is apt to get moldy ship eldr every y other day if possible every farm does not not have a supply of coldwater but most farms do A tank so situated that all water pumped for stock purposes runs through the cream think tank will serve to keep cream creain cool many binny manufactured tanks are now on the market which 11 can be purchased likewise a common barrel barrei may be made to serve the purpose very satisfactorily hillda nelld a cooling tank on your farm and you will produce less second grade cream and dius raise the quality of butter colorado state dairy commission healthy dairy herds are always most profitable in a preliminary survey of pure ared hers herds u in three localities but one herd lifts has been found free from the disease tills this ayner has been een very particular about purchasing beeding stock hulls bulls are bought only subject to abortion artion test na as well as the tuberculin test the value of clean herds Is becoming thoroughly appreciated each year and breeders bleeders bre eders of purebred pure bred cattle who belleve believe their herds tree free from infection should attempt to confirm this suspicion by blood testing the advantages ot of dean herds fire are well known first of all and most important por tant health herds are more profitable abortion disease control Is thus a business proposition for every herd owner breeders bleeders Bre eders who protect their customers against this infection by selling clean animals are building on a sound basis on the other hand prospective purchasers cannot afford to invest in pure alired animals that harbor abortion infection home raised calves are best for replacements there are two principal reasons why most daliy men prefer to raise the cattie that are needed for their herd re phi cements one Is a question of economy and the other Is that of disease control und and elimination both are im considerations for practical dairymen often when people depend upon purchasing the mature cows needed in their herds they the find th thit hit it they are forced to take cows that are not en arili desirable de sometimes the cows are hard to milk sometimes buyers find B R bad quarter q barter after the cow comes fresh and sometimes the cows are not ns as heavy as expected disease control 1 one of the haz ard ards of nf dairying tilts this applies to con abortion ab as well as to tuber present tests indicate that lint tuberculosis bercu losis Is more easily eradicated than abortion when cattle fire are imported they should he be purchased under a sixty day retest for tuberculosis |