Stock and stalks : $b A book for the dairy farmer — John Shaqi
Stock and stalks : $b A book for the dairy farmerRoberts, James Russel
Science
Stock and stalks : $b A book for the dairy farmer
Roberts, James Russel
Dairying
=Cream.= 100 pounds of 4% milk will produce: 20 pounds of 20% cream
and 80 pounds of skim remaining, 13¹⁄₃ pounds of 30% cream and 86²⁄₃
lbs. of skim remaining, or 10 pounds of 40% cream and 90 pounds of skim
remaining.
The average cream sold tests about 30% butter-fat, so on the average
the farmer has left about 86 pounds or a ten-gallon can of skim milk
for every 100 pounds of 4% milk.
=Skim Milk.= The value of skim milk on the farm as feed is an important
one for the farmer. The price of whole milk in the city is not always
high enough so that it pays the farmer to sell his skim rather than to
use it for feeding. During the flush season in the spring when milk
dealers are all burdened with a surplus of milk, it would be a great
advantage if more farmers would separate and feed the skim milk to
hogs. I will endeavor to give here as accurately as possible what real
information I can gather from Experiment Station reports concerning the
feeding value of skim milk. At the outset it might be well to state
that on this question I have never known any two agricultural experts
to agree and experiments need to be carefully analyzed before they
yield true information.
I can prove to you from experiments published in Henry & Morrison’s
“Feeds and Feeding” that skim milk is worth only $.08 a hundred pounds
when corn meal is worth $1.00 a hundred, and I can prove that skim milk
is worth $.31 a hundred pounds when corn meal is worth $1.00 a hundred.
In fact when an experimenter undertakes to prove a thing he has very
easy sailing if he can line up conditions to suit the proposition he
intends to prove. The trouble with most experiments on this subject
has been that they are apparently planned to be used as arguments for
the purpose of increasing the feeding of skim milk and they do not
undertake to solve the real question involved.
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