Milk For A Pound Of Butter

The amount of milk required for a psund ot butter has long been a mootet gestión ; and cven yet it is not de&utel; íettled. This is owing to tho various con tingencies that occur - tho differonce ii cows ; tha temperatura in which the cream has been kept, the time which hasolupsei since the cow was fresh in milk ; whethe the cow was fresh at the time of the ex periment, or liad given milk for a long tuno sinco calving ; whether farrow, o again in ealf ; whether the wholo milk, o only the strippings were set ; the timo o the year in wbich butter was made whether it was produced from grass, hay roots, grain, meal, or somo of these or al combined ; and not th least of these, by any means, the peouliarity of the anima" producing the milk. It is well known that some cows wil give a oertain quantity, for a few month after calving, of exceeding rich milk, anc then suddenly fail in qúactity, and often also in quality. Others will givo a uni forra quantity for a long period afte oalving, of various degrees of richness and often mako a better averago than others, with largo records for short per ïods. A great raany faets huve been collectec through the butter faetones, where a cor reet account is kept of the milk received and the butter made. In order to show the result of some data already collected in relation to thi subject through tho butter factorios, tliL observations oí' Mr. O. S. Bliss, of Ver mont, as communic-iteJ to the Mattachu teüs lJlo'irinait, will demónstrate some re sults in this dire;tion : William Lytle flold Spring Factory; S dono, made from 451,267 pounds of milk, 151,780 pounds o butter, or at a rato of one pouml from 231 100 pounds oí milk. II. Iïoy's Unioi Butter Factory, Bangor, from 223,101 Eounds of milk, made 9,022 pounds o: otter, average one pound f roni 24 48-100 During a portion of tho seasou he made a pound of butter irom 22 1-2 of uiilk, but in the worst of the season he liad a very limited supply of water, henea the largo average quantity required. A. M. Bennett, Bailoy Spring Factory Chatoaugay, made % from 270,811 pounda of milk 12,012 lbs of butter, or 1 Ib from 22 55-100. üoraeo Dickinson, Moira made a pound of butter f rom 23 1-í pounds of milk; uggregaluamountof butter not given. Tho Keeler l-'aetory, Malone, f lom 102,829 pounds of milk, made 7,387 pounds of butter, averaging 20 6 7 pounds to one. . ThcBouy Factory, Malone, mado one pound of butter from 25 1-10 pounds of milk. Their arrango ment for a supply of wator was not good, and they feel confident that they eau do jnueh better heroafter. Several private eslablishments were albo visitod, where a pound of butter had been mado from 22 to 23 pounds of milk, though Mr. Bliss stated it was exceodingly ditüouit lo find a farmer wlio had taken the pains to wejgh his milk ami butter. It will be geen that in tho Kooler factory tho greatest amouatof butter was inade from it given amour.t of milk, and that the lk-rry factory required the greatest quantily of milk,- 25 1-10 pound?, to the pound of buttor. In tito milk from four faetones in which a oúi'reot acoount was kept, 1,088,068 pounds of milk produced 48,697 pounds of butter, averaging one pound of butter to 22 1 3 pounds of milk; and since milk weighs within a fraction of a pound to a pint, it follows that from this record tho averago, so far as shown, ig at the rate of ono pound of butter from Jl 1-6 quarts of milk, This coincides with tho experionce of farmars that it takes 10 to 13 quarts of milk to tho pound oí butter, If theso exporiments wero oontinued from year to yoar, with tho various breeds f' milking stook, wo might very Roon arrire at. tho relati ve valué of tho (Ufibrent breeds fpr d.iiry purposes. When arrivod at, it would hivo a direct money valué. Must we wait for the practical solutiou of thcsi' qu -Ntions to bo attninod through private entorprise? or would it not be botter if thsy oonld como through institotioiu eníiowed by tho pooplo's monoy, called Agricultuoral Colleges or Industrial Uhivorsities, ouo of their legitímate pyoviuces 'J