Bulletin Volume 10-20 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...as the horticulturist or mechanic or tradesman is in need of the latest knowledge in his line. Modern advances in dairy knowledge have been rapid; the scientist and inventor have caused the apparatus and routine in use a quarter of a century ago to be almost entirely discarded and replaced by more profitable machinery and more accurate methods. Although inventions of improved dairy machinery and scientific investigations in the field of dairying are comparatively recent, important discoveries and corresponding changes in methods of work have already been made. It is probable that these improvements have not much more than begun, and-the results that have been obtained and will be obtained are certain to have a marked effect on the production and care of all dairy products. It is well known that the methods of butter making practiced twenty years ago can no longer be followed with profit; with modern aids more butter can be made from a given amount of milk of a given quality than it was then possible to produce. Another feature of dairying which has undergone great change in late years is the market value of dairy products. The prices of milk, butter, and cheese have recently been so low and the cost of production has so nearly equaled the market values of the products most economically produced, that it has become absolutely necessary to turn everything in dairy operations to the greatest possible gain if one would succeed in profitably producing milk, butter, or cheese. Skill and keen judgment are constantly required by the successful dairyman; no simply imitative methods can be depended upon if the best results are expected_ The changing conditions of the dairy industry, viz, its rapid advances in means and methods of manufacture, larger production of goo...