VOL. XIV. KO. 40. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



387 



ON THE FEEDINU AND DIANAGGHIENT OF 

 MILCH COWS. 



It is of grcat'conscquciice in the manngemciit 

 ofa dairy that tin; cows sliouKI be trenteil with 

 gpiitU-neas, so that they may not be afraid of being 

 millted, or dislike the milker. A cow will not 

 yield her milk willingly to a person she fears, 

 hates, or apprehends ill treatment from. Young 

 cows in particidar, may have characters for gen- 

 tleness and good milkers formed l>y the manner 

 iu wliioli they are treated. This truth is of much 

 importance to all concerned in a dairy or its pro- 

 Jncts, is well established and illustrated by a com- 

 munication from .Mr Russell Woodward, puUlish- 

 I in .Memoiis of the New York Board of Agri- 

 cnlture, in substance as follows: — 



Having formerly kept a large number of cows, 

 I observed many amongst them dried iip their 

 milk so early in the fall that th«y were not profita- 

 ble, while others with the same keeping, gave 

 ilk in plenty until late in the season. I likewise 

 have often lieard my neighbors observe, that some 

 if their cows, thoiigh very gooil the fore part of 

 he season dried their n>ilk so early that they were 

 UDprotitable and they would have to |)ut them oft'; 

 accordingly found it expedient to find out the 

 cause, if possible ; and when I brought to mind 

 the ways that some of my young cows had been 

 kept and milked, I attributed the cause to the milk- 

 ing of them the first season they gave n>ilk ; and 

 many experiments since, I have found that young 

 cows, the first year they gave milk may be made, 

 with cari.'ful milking and good keeping, to givi; 

 milk almost any length of time reqnire<l, say from 

 the fii-st of May to the first of February following, 

 and will give milk late always after, with careful 

 mi kitig. l}ut if they are left to dry up early iu 

 the fall, they will be sure to dry up their milk 

 each succeeding year, if they have a calf near ihe 

 same season of the year ; and nothing but extra- 

 ordinary keejiing will prevent it, and that but a 

 short time. I have had them dry up their milk 

 in August, and could not by any means make 

 them give milk much past that time ii any suc- 

 ceedingyear. I had two heifers whii^h had calves 

 in Apri', and after gening them gentle, I set a boy 

 to milk tliem for the season, (which is often done 

 the first season on account of llieir having small 

 teats ;) he was careless, and ilried them both up 

 in August. Although I was satisfied 1 shouKI lose 

 the greater part of the profit of them afterwards, 

 yet J took it upon me the following year to milk 

 them myself and give th.tm good feed, but to no 

 pur|)ose. i could not inoke them give milk nuicli 

 past the time they dried the year before. I Ivive 

 two cows now that were niiJked the first year they 

 had calves, until ni;ar the time of ilieir calving 

 agaii:, anrl have continued to give milk as late 

 ever since, if we nulkthem. — Gen. Far. 



TIME IS MOXEY. 



Few know that time is money. Time we^l im- 

 poved will earn money, or it will procure thai 

 which money will buy, and therefore we rr'ay say, 

 time is money. 



Often remember therefore, rea<ler, that lime is 

 money. Time is money to yourself. \\ heu von 

 lay in bed in the mortiing, beyond the hours ne- 

 cessary f >r sleep, the body is weakened by indul- 

 gence, and the noxious effluvia and moisture, thai 

 have been thrown from tlie skiu, are absorbed 

 again, and the health is injured ; and time is losi 



besides, and money is lost. You suffer, and your 

 family suffer. The door-yard is not so neat. Your 

 wood is not so well cut. Your clothes are not so 

 well cut. Yom- tools are not in so good order. 

 Your clothes are not so well mended. Your walls 

 and fences are not up so well; and then you aie 

 not on so gooil terms with your neighbors, if 

 you lay in bed half an hour needlessly in the 

 morning, most likely your Bible is not read, and 

 your duty to your Maker is forgotten or neglect- 

 ed. Up then, slumbercr, time is money, and more 

 than money. 



Doyonsmoke? Remember that lime is money. 

 !t is well to know and use figures. Let me see. 

 Ten miiiutes smoking before breakfast; ten mhi- 

 utes after; ten njinutcs at diimer time ; ten min- 

 utes when a pedler calls ; ten minutes when you 

 call at a neighbor's; ten minutes when a neiglibor 

 calls; ten minutes at night. Seventy minutes 

 each day in smokhig. Time is money. Seventy 

 minutes is worth at least ten cents to a man. Ten 

 cents a day is thirtysix dollars and fifty cents a 

 year. If you smoke, very probably, you, your 

 family and the community lose the value of thirty- 

 six dolliirs and fifty cents each year by your smok- 

 ing. 



Time is money. Let this enter into your cal- 

 culations ; you mean to be saving, and you make 

 a wooden latch to your iloor: and spend in labor 

 one third of a day, and find yourself and tools an.l 

 slock;: ami all this we may call twentyfive cents; 

 when you might buy an iron latch for half the 

 money. Or you are more economical slid ; and 

 you get neither an iron or a wooden latch; bul 

 open and close a door ju.st as you can, and then 

 all your family lose, iu one year, time equiva- 

 lent to one dollar, or even two, or three, or four 

 dollars. 



Time is money to your neighbors. You employ 

 a mechanic, and you o^e him ; and if, when yon 

 call for your work, you would bring a bushel or 

 half a bushel of corn, lime would be saved. ]5ut 

 you make him call on you just vvhen he is out of 

 bread'. He has to look round for a horse and 

 wagon, and then look after you, and get your 

 corn, and he loses about half a day, and his too's, 

 shop and work stand idle ; and time, which is 

 money, is lost. 



Time is money. When you stand still, does the 

 sun staml still? Does time stand still.' Do tlie 

 expenses of a family stand still ? Does the season 

 stand still ? Does life stand still. 



You complain that you are poor. You cati't 

 lakcan-jwspapcr — the Yankee Farmer, the Maine 

 Recorder, a temperance paper, a religious paper. 

 Yon can't read the papers ; you can't buy and 

 read any books. The reason is you do not know 

 that time is money. 



But time is nwjre than money. Jf time is lost, 

 information is lost : good moral habits are lo.si ; 

 high attainments in religion are lost ; opi.ortuiiu 

 ties to help our neighbors are lost ; and finally if 

 (ime is lost, even Ihe soul may be lost— Ytmkce 

 farmer. 



PltKSERVIlVG EGGS. 



The present seasnn of the year in which far- 

 neis an.l others should provide themselves with 

 a stock of eggs for the season, as eggs are both 

 cheaper and better in May and June than tliey are 

 It any other season of the year. Good fresh 

 'ggs properly [in'p:ired « 

 and have been kept much Ion 



5p ! 

 iger. 



li-asl a year. 

 Eggs di])i)ed 



in varnish have been sent from In<lia to ICnghmd' 

 and were hatched after their arrival. The grea 

 object seems to be the total exclusion of air, and 

 the consequent evaporation of the fluids of the 

 egg. Packed in salt, eggs sometimes keoj) well, 

 the low temperature acting favorably, yru the ait' 

 is not gi'uerally sufficiently excluded, — the yolk 

 is apt to settle to the side ot the sindl' and the egg 

 ofctuirse becomes worthless. Putting down In 

 water thoroughly saturated with quick-lime is 

 now generally adopted, and is f.umd to he the 

 cheapest as well as surest mode of keeping them 

 uninjured. VVe have sometimes seen so"much 

 lime used as to [laek close around Ihe lower cour- 

 ses of eggs, and from which Ihciy could with diffi- 

 culty be extricated. This is not necessary ; ihat 

 the water should be thoroughly injpregualed with 

 the lime is all that is required, and to secure this 

 object, a thin layer of^lime on tl>e bottom of the 



vessel may be admisisble, nothing more. Gen 



Far. 



Washing She:;p in a Vat. — It may be rath- 

 er late in the day to say much U| on this subject, 

 but iieradventure it may hereafter do some good, if 

 not immediately, to- remind our wool-growing read- 

 ers of the necessity of having their wool in the first 

 rate order for market. We have said much on 

 this subject heretofore ; and much more neeils to 

 be said before every one will be convince-d that 

 there is more lost, in every sense of the word by 

 having fleeces not properly cleansed than there 

 can be gained. But what we wish to reiidnd you 

 of at present, is a metiio.i of wasliing sheep where 

 theie is no deep water sufficiently convenient, or 

 even whore there is. The method' to make a vat 

 snfliciently large to wash a slieej) in, by a small 

 brook and conduct the water into it. This njay 

 be done wlnnc there is a small fall in brooks. The 

 water may be conducted into it and the [Jerson 

 who washes stands outside and jierforms the ne- 

 cessary duties. 



When the water becomes foul, it may be let 

 out, and more let in. Simple as this- may a|)pear 

 to some, we have been told that it rs the best mode- 

 that can be adopted. Mr B. Nason of Augusia, 

 informed us that he washed hfs flock of five or 

 six hundred in this way las* spring and' never had; 

 them washed better. The stream that he usejf 

 was a small one that run'through his pasture, 'ii.e 

 person who washed them-,vias not obliged to stand 

 in the water, and every thiag was done easily and 

 comfortably. The sheep were kepp cleanly, and 

 on the whole he iireferred it to any mode that he 

 ad ever practised Maine Far. 



The Crops The season is cold and back- 

 ward, and fears are entertained tliat our crops of 

 grain wi I be veiy 1 gbt. A great deal of rye was. 

 wiiiter-Jcilled, and pieces that did not suffer from 

 the effects of the winter, hay.e been materially in- 

 jured by the <lrought this Sjiring. Of corn, little 

 hope is entertained that it wiiramountto mu<-h. 

 Most of our fanners we anderstand, have planted 

 their fields the second time, and many of them 

 the thir.l under really di.scoiiraging circum- 

 stances. Some attribute this failure to the fei-i], 

 hut generally we believe it is attributed to the sea- 

 son, f,,r the seed in many instances where it has 

 failed to come up was selected seed, and to all ap 

 pearance perfect. Grass is said to be pretly 

 good — on the umimtains we understaid u usual- 

 ly so. — Springfield IVkig. 



