Elementary agriculture with practical arithmetic Elementary agriculture with practical arithmetic elementaryagricu01hatc Year: 1906 THE DAIRY 123 whole secret of keeping milk sweet lies in preventing the bacteria from getting into it. Next in importance to the care of the milk comes the selection of the herd. Since most creameries and cheese factories now pay by the test, that is, pay for the amount of butter fat that the milk contains, it is important to the dairyman that his milk tests well, and that his cows give a reasonably large flow of milk. In general, no cow is profitable to the dair
Elementary agriculture with practical arithmetic Elementary agriculture with practical arithmetic elementaryagricu01hatc Year: 1906 THE DAIRY 123 whole secret of keeping milk sweet lies in preventing the bacteria from getting into it. Next in importance to the care of the milk comes the selection of the herd. Since most creameries and cheese factories now pay by the test, that is, pay for the amount of butter fat that the milk contains, it is important to the dairyman that his milk tests well, and that his cows give a reasonably large flow of milk. In general, no cow is profitable to the dairyman whose milk tests much less than three per cent of butter fat. A MODEL cow BARN. (Edg-ewood Farm.) Neither is one which gives less than twelve pounds of milk daily, no matter how rich it is. Every farmer
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