[Reports and Appendices] of the Irish Milk Commission, 1911.

  • Great Britain. [Royal] Commission on the Irish Milk Supply.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Reports and Appendices] of the Irish Milk Commission, 1911. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G. GALBRAITH J. (Dairy Fanner and Milk Vendor, Derry). Tlie value of milk as a food is appreciated, 29146-52. Keeps a proportion of his cows for second milking, 29161, 29224-5. Winter feeding for cows, 29165-86. Difference between morning and evening milk, 29192-3. Thinks the space specified for each cow under the Dairies Order is too much, 29208-11. The average yield per cow of his herd is from 300 to 400 gallons, 29226-04. The Ayrshire and shorthorn cross is good for milk, but not for beef, 29235-43. GALLAGHER, BERNARD (Vico-Chairuian, Board of Guardians, Glentics l^nion, Co. Donegal). There is a scarcity of milk along the Glenties sea- board and the backward parts of Co. Donegal, 27887-99, 27908. Milk is an essential, and its provision should be the concern of the Government, 27944, 27953-5. Migratory labourers from the Rosses have small holdings of poor land. 27900-7. The introduction of the Aberdeen Angus bull by the Congested Districts Board has been inimical to the milk supph, 27910-5. Description of the old Irish cow, 27916-23. Goats would be useful to labourers, 27960-3. GALLAGHER, DENIS (Manager of the Lough Bagish Co-operative Creamery, Co. Monaghan). There has been an increase in the production of winter milk during the last six vears, 26577: causes. 26578-87. Price of winter milk, 26588-9. Separated milk is sold at the creamery, 26592-6. Has never been asked to sell whole milk, 26597. There would be no objection to sell, 26598. It would not involve hardship to require creameries to sell milk retail, 26599-601. There is an agreement among creamery managers in the district not to take dirty milk rejected by one of them, 26607-12; and this has had a good effect on suppliers, 26613-4. Sour milk is received sometimes; treatment, 2H615-9. Separating and pasteurising temperatures, 26620-4. The milk yield of cows has improved, 26625: the creamer\ makes tests of individual cow 's milk, 26626-34. There is no cow-testing association in the district, 26335-40. Disposal of creamery sludge, 26641-3. The Dairies Order does not reduce the munbei' <if milk suppliers, 26648. Not all the suppliers ol' the creamei-v are iui'nil)i is, 26681-5. The creamery sells seeds and manui'es, 26686. The Order should apiilv to all cowkeepers. 26687-95, 26698. Farmers are required to cleanse their cans at the creamery, 26704-7. GALLAGHER, MICHAEL (Farmer, Collooney, Co. Sligo, and Member of the Committee of the Collooney Co-operative Creamery). Milk raised in Colloonev is almost all sent to tlie creamery, 26979-82. The creamery's receiving area, 27148-51. No scarcity of milk in the district, 26983-9.'!. The Colloonev creamery would object to sell milk, 26994-8. But separated milk is sold, 269Wt-2700L Reasons why creameries should not be io(|uired to sell milk, 27131-9. Separated milk; uses of. 27002-4, 27013-20. Is not palatable, 27005-7; but does not go bad quickly, 27008-12. Is not injurious as a food for calves with the addition of other foods, 27021-8. Cow-testing associations are of benefit to farmeis, 27029-36. 27055-68, 271.52-9. Premium bulls have injured the milk-producing qualities of cows, 27037-42, 27098-121. The Department's dairv bull scheme will be lielpful. 27101-4. GALLAGHER, MICHAEL—coJi/mifec/. Average summer and winter price of milk at the creamery, 27043-54. Farmers think winter dairying does not pay, 27047. There is not much calf mortality in the district,. 27069-75; nor loss from tuberculosis, 27084-96. Blackleg is the commonest form of disease, 27075-83> The Sligo Rural District Council were forced ta adopt the Dairies Order, 27122-30. The creamery has no guarantee that the milk sup- plied is from healthy cows, 27164-8, 27194-9; the creamery will not take dirty milk, 27140-6, 27192-3. The local Medical Ofiicer of Health notifies the creamery of infectious disease in the house of a supplier, 27200. Goats are largely kept in the district, 27176-88; farmers believe thev prevent disease among cattle- 27]82. GALLOWAY BULLS. There are some Galloways in Co. Mayo, 27539-48. 27562; in Co. Donegal, 27706-11. The Galloway is not good for the milk supplv, 27551, 27566-7. Contra, 28835-7. They deteriorate in value after the first cross, 27563-5,. 27608-11. No complaint made of Gallowavs as poor milkers (Co. Donegal), 27849-51. Difficulty of deciding whether to use Galloway bulls; good as stores, bad for millc supply, 28244-5, 28260-2. Good as stores. 28190-5. GLASGOW. Powers to safeguard Glasgow's milk supply, 30871-4. Tuberculous milk coming into the city, 30875-7,. 30884-6. Special milk supply for hospitals, 30878-81. Gradual reduction or disappearance of tubercle^ in milk, 30931-4. No opposition has been experienced from outside- local authorities or persons to Glasgow officials- making inspections, 30888-90. Objections to inspection of country cowsheds and cattle by city authorities, 30959-61: the remedy is tr) make enforcement of the Dairies Order compul- sory everywhere, 30962. The Municipal Infants' Dairv has been abandoned- 30896-905. Annual loss on the undertaking. 30948-53. Infectious disease traced to the milk supply, 30910. Co-operation from milk vendors, 30911. Difficulty of tracing disease owing to the mixing of milk, 30911, 30956. Action taken by public authorities, 30912-23. Power to deal with tuberculous cows. 30925. From 70 to 80 per cent, of cows react, 30983-96. Power to compel removal of tuberculous cows inside- or outside the city, 31000-7. The control over the city milk suppiv is exercised by visitation. 31027-31. •Incidence of tuberculosis of the udder among cows 31043. Milk is reduced to the minimum standard set up 'jy the Milk Commission, 30935-8; number of prosecu- tions for adulteration, 30940; separated m'lk is used for reducing the quality of milk, 30941-3. GOATS. 'IVthering, 32450, 32452-4. Housing, 324.50. 32481, 32496-7. l',xercise. 32450, 32481. Feeding, 324.50. 32482. Milk yield, 32463-76. 32479-80. Price.' 32468. Use of milk of, for domestic purposes, 32519-22. State assistance given to goat-keeping in Holland 324.50, 32523. In favour of encouragement of goat-keeping in Ire- land, suggested means of, 32454. Good milking strains to be preferred to good-Iookino- animals, 324,55-8. ,32461-2, .32477-8 Difficulty of impovtini,' new goats. ,32462, ,32483-9 32493-5. 2 E