. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. PROGRESS IN CANADA. -199 are still green, tender, and sappy, and when the ear of corn is still " in the milk ; " this will be about the time when the plant has attained nearly its full growth in height. Cut at this period, the plant retains the nutritive properties which have been elaborated in it during its growth; it has a smaller proportion of woody fibre, is sweeter and tenderer, and an altogether better article of food for stock. smaller ones of which are either less nu
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. PROGRESS IN CANADA. -199 are still green, tender, and sappy, and when the ear of corn is still " in the milk ; " this will be about the time when the plant has attained nearly its full growth in height. Cut at this period, the plant retains the nutritive properties which have been elaborated in it during its growth; it has a smaller proportion of woody fibre, is sweeter and tenderer, and an altogether better article of food for stock. smaller ones of which are either less numerous now than they were before the forests were cut away, or are dry when they are most wanted. This question, indeed, is one which forces itself on the attention of dairymen in most parts of North America, and it has to be met either now or in the future by wells and ponds and meres. In various Canadian provinces cheese-factories. Fig. 303.—Creameet of Messrs. Hettle and Inglis, Teeswater, Ontario. than if cut when the ear is fully formed and the stalk and leaves are turning yellow with ripeness. Turnips, mangels, carrots, and the like grow suc- cessfully, and even luxuriantly, in many parts of Canada, and seldom better than in Ontario. It would seem probable that such soiling and forage crops as lucerne, vetches, the rye-grasses, and the various trifoliums, not to mention rape, mustard, and the like, would grow well on the loamy soils which are almost everywhere found. The chief want of Ontario, generally speaking, is that of streams and springs and running brooks, the 66 are already very numerous, and creameries, for the production of large quantities of butter on the associated system, are spreading in many parts. These institutions have at once increased the pro- duction and improved the quality of Canadian dairy produce, which no longer ranks behind that of the United States, and they are now counted by hundreds. In the annexed engraving (Fig. 303) we give a view of a
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