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Newspaper
Hamilton Democrat Sun
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1907
Page
7
R L Haecker of the Neska experiment station details how a skilled operator can milk 28 to 30 cows per hour with three machines, or 24 to 26 if weighing and sampling every cow. He stresses intelligence, discipline, and precise regulation of pulsation, noting variations in cow teat size and milk flow require tailored teat cups and consistent cow handling.
The Delaware six basket carrier replaces the old wagon with a neat flat carrier holding six veneer baskets each about a half peck. It carries tender peaches to market in top condition and often yields the best prices. A sorting table aids packing with shallow compartments and a canvas liner to prevent bruising. A handy picking basket, made from a Delaware basket, frees both hands and dumps easily.
A Homestead writer argues that clean milking and strict handling of milk from milking to cooling produces pure cream and predictable butter quality. By maintaining low cream temperatures and pure storage conditions dairy outcomes become scientifically controllable and marketable.
A dairyman in American Cultivator argues for breeding cows by purpose and weighing milk versus butter output. He notes market distance and price trends, especially milk price dropping faster than butter away from trade centers. He stresses personal taste and strict accounting to decide which path to profit from.
Careful milking increases milk flow and value of the cow as a producer. Proper technique extends milk production and reflects intelligence patience and conscientiousness in dairy farming.
The Kansas Farmer notes a shift in what Kansans consider the four principal crops. While corn tops the list and wheat is highly prominent due to Kansas being the leading wheat state, barley now outsells rye for the fourth spot according to the latest state board of agriculture report.
The sugar beet industry yields more than crop value. Pulp and molasses from factories provide affordable stock feed, often at 35 cents to 1 dollar per ton. Factories produce about half the beet's original weight as pulp, readily stored and used by farmers.
Alfalfa is the standard forage crop of the Great Basin and the western United States. In Utah people call it lucern, the older name brought west by early pioneers, who did not adopt the California term alfalfa derived from Arabic via Spanish meanings the best fodder.
An Iowa Homestead writer says peaches can be grown in the corn belt though not every year, about once in 5,000 attempts, with better odds in the southern portion though not guaranteed.
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