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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1908
Page
14
A farmer explains pasteurized skim milk weakens solder joints in milk cans causing frequent leaks. Hot milk on rough roads loosens solder, leading to leaks and costly repairs. Acid buttermilk returned in the same cans accelerates contamination risk and bacteria growth. Hand separators raise can replacement costs as cans fail on trips.
A long-standing claim notes that inflating a cow’s udder with pure air can save milk fever cases. Symptoms include constipation weakness staggering and collapse. treatment involved washing the udder, sterilizing a milking tube, then pumping air into each udder quarter and propping the cow upright. Within hours the cow often recovers. readers are directed to contact a college experiment station for more details.
A feed trial fed three hogs skim milk at 70 cents per hundred and corn meal at 70 cents per hundred and one cent per pound for 186 days. Hogs consumed 7.47 pounds skim milk and 418 pounds corn meal, gaining 801 pounds. The data highlight practical feed losses and economic value for growers.
The fragment describes increasing feed or input amounts to enable hogs to gain to 2 or 2 1 2 pounds per day, making the cost per pound of pork profitable. It emphasizes adjusting quantities to achieve a profitable growth rate and pork cost.
Government experiments at St Petersburg tested market milk with 80 guinea pigs. Fourteen died, including four from tuberculosis and nine from other causes. The report argues pasteurization gaps in creameries leave patrons at risk, urging fresh milk under personal supervision and use of a cream separator.
An article on hog tuberculosis shows 1906 losses from condemned hogs under old law. It notes 95,396 hogs were condemned for offal and used as fertilizer, 193,491 affected in part, with new law raising strictness. If fourfold, losses could reach 5,723,760 in hogs fit for fertilizer only. farmers bear the price drop per 100, compensating through reduced market price.
The article outlines factors affecting milk richness noting the cow’s stage, from heifer to mature, and that richness remains high through early lactation. It discusses the period of lactation and implies a decline may occur later, though specifics are cut off.
Excerpt notes that milk quality varies little between pasture and winter feed and that daily yield remains steady in a fair sized dairy herd. Large fluctuations suggest testing error or gross mismanagement, with radical changes during the final drying-off weeks. Compiled from Michigan and New York cow records by Prof. C. D. Smith.
A woman in Iowa profits by separating cream from 200 pounds of sweet milk daily using an Iowa. She sells the cream by the quart and converts the skim milk into cottage cheese for her patrons gaining about $1 per hundred for the skim. With $1.80 per hundred paid for fresh milk, she earns a handsome profit with modest labor. The piece ends with a proverb on life and choice.
A renowned New York philanthropist cut infant death rates dramatically by replacing store milk with high grade bacterially clean milk from his depots. The tale notes that baby and calf diseases extend beyond infants to other creatures.
A debate portrays farmers arguing over dairy practices and hand separators. The piece cites milk quality, marasmus risk in children, and calf scours, and defends experiment stations for publishing methods and reasons behind successes or failures.
A Reinbeck Indiana farmer reports 14 cows losing calves amid a contagious abortion scare. A separator agent recommends immediate separation of aborting cows, scattering lime and carbolic soap near the straw, and repeating the procedure if another cow aborts to slow spread.
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