vol,. X»II. NO 40 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



387 



For the N. E. Farmer. 



RAISING CALVES ON SKI.MMKD MILK." 



Mr Hreck — In the New England Farrupr of the 

 7th of April last, we h:ive another Ion;; Rrticle 

 iVum the pen of" .^nti-Skimniilker," which would 

 inve been noticed before this, had not more impor- 

 ant matters occupied my time. 



•' Anti Skiinmllker" tacitly, if not positively, ac- 

 cnowledfje.'! that he has no knowledge of the snb- 

 '■ct, e.\cepl friiin the clear convictions of hi.i ren- 

 ;on and the e.\perience of others. Practical knowl- 

 •dire on this subject, I consider important, and 

 'xperience the best teacher ; although I may not 

 )0 able to state facts so elegantly or learnedly as 

 ho writer, who appears to be quite a scholar, which 



have the misfortune not to be. 



A long article is quoted from Jaques: very good 

 luthoritv, to be sure ; but it is doubted wliether 



true, as he says, there is less trouble in " brrnUmg-' It is a piiy llinl physicians do not bend their at- 

 cows or oxen, raised by this method, because they j tention to ihni and oiher pmnls of Hyceine ; to the 



arc more docile. 



And now, sir, I have done with 



prevention of disease, by proper diet, clothing, 

 Anti-Skini- exercise, &.C., rather t.'ian merely to its cure — But 



milker," liavin<r more important concerns to attend I inkty will not, then the farmers (who may almost 

 to. " SKlM-MlLlvER. .-...-... I 1- 



MnyiiO, 1844. 



(I5=\Ve arc much obliged to our esteemed 



friend for the above communication. Willi it, wn 

 trust, the bloodless batile between "Skim-milker" 

 and " Anti-Skimmilker" will cease. We suppose 

 both parties have other business to attend to for 

 the present. We are glad to get the opinions of 

 all, however diverse, upon all subjects relative to 

 rural affairs, especially from practical men. The 

 practices of fanners situated in different parts of 

 the country, must of necessity vary: the course 

 pursued in one soclion or location, would not be 

 , advisable in another. Some sell their bolter and 

 s method is the most profitable for a farmer, <ir ^j^^^^^ ^^^ ^1^^ j^p^^ advantage— ithers the;rmilk; 



be called the community,) should themselves take 

 heed lo these things as a part of domestic econo. 

 my. Surely, the worst prodigality is that of 

 health. Respectfully, yours, 



— SoiUhern Plnnttr. 



Medicus. 



or all farmers. It is a fair inference that, in the 

 opinion of the writer, Col. Jaques has made some 

 'leic discovery in the raising of calves. It is noth- 

 ing new : many farmers about the country raised 

 :alvc8 by letting them suck a cow until six months 

 old, before Col. Jaques ever raised a calf in his 

 improved method. I would not by this be under- 

 stood to speak disrespectfully of Col. Jaques, or 

 his exertions for the improvement of farm slock. I 

 know him well, and esteem him a most excellent 

 judge of neat cattle — in short, of all farm stock. 

 Col. Jaques has informed " Anti-Skimmilker" of 

 the weight of some of his calves at certain ages, 

 and of the sums he received for them. But does 

 this prove that it would be profitable for all far- 

 mers to raise all their stock by his method? In 

 my humble opinion, it would impoverish any com- 

 mon farmer, who had not other means than what 

 he could obtain from his farm, — except he had a 

 peculiar faculty of recommending his cattle .10 as 

 to obtain very high prices, and more than ordinary 

 farmers could obtain for such as were equally 

 good. But is nil the stock on Col. J.'s " Stock 

 Farm," equal to those fine calves which the Col. 

 sold for such enormous pric-s .•' Some good judges 

 say they are not. 



Anti-Skimmilker" thinks I have not tried both 



i and for other farmnrs, the raising of stock will be 

 I most important. In whatever way our friend 

 I " Skim-milker" raised hii cattle, we must say he 

 has been eminently successful, for we have had the 

 pleasure of looking at thom repeatedly, and it 

 would be doing him injustice not to say that they 

 are as likely looking, handsome animals as are 

 generally seen. — Ed. 



RIPE BREAD. 



Mr. Editor : — Mrs. Dorothy Dumpling is right 

 in commending bread several days old. Both 

 science and experience prove it to be far whole- 

 somer, as it unquestionably is the most ecomical, 

 than bread just baked. Yes, economical, in sav- 

 \n<r not only flour, but doctor's fees and time lost 

 by sickness. 



RiPK BREAn, besides parting with the poison- 

 ous carbon, and imbibing nutritious oxygen in the 

 clean cupboard, (as pointed out by Mrs. Dump- 

 lin",) promotes health lor another reason. It is 

 eaten more slowly, becnu.se it cannot be swallow- 

 ed without perfect chewing. In this (irocess it be- 

 comes thoroughly mixed with saliva (.spittle.) 

 Moreover, each mouthful goes to the stomach so 

 deliberately that the gastric juice has time to min- 



Measuring Corti. — Hunt's Merchants' Maga- 

 zine, gives the following rule for measuring corn 

 in cribs, wagons, boats. &c. 



" Multiply the length by the width, then by the 

 depth. The proiUict multiply by 4, which will 

 give the contents in bushels shelled. To get the 

 bushels in the ear multiply by 8. In either case 

 cut off the right hand figure, which is the frac- 

 tion. 



EXAMPLE. 



methods : I would now inform him that I have tritd \ gle perfectly with it belore another mouthlul goes 

 both methods thoroughly, and raised calves by let- 

 ting them suck till six months old, before Col. 

 Jaques raised calves by his improved method — that 

 18, if he is not an older man than 1 think him to be. 



For many years I have practiced the ekim-milk 

 method, and in that way have had a slock of cat- 

 tle that I would risk to compare with any other — 

 (yol. Jaques' always excepted. 



" Anti-Skimmilker" may say that I am boasting. 

 Be it so, so long as the truth is told. He may al- 

 no say that this Skim-milker is no judge of cattle. 

 If so, I would refer him to other individuals ; al- 

 though 1 profess to know something about cattle. 



It is not at all surprising, that when we see 

 calvfcs raised on skim-milk till ten weeks old, and 

 then turned into a poor pasture, and kept on poor 

 meadow hay in winter, that any one should be dis- 

 gusted at the sight of such calves, and condemn 

 the practice. Mine are not served f^o, they are 



down to interfere with the combination : and the 

 mingling of this juice with the food, is the chief 

 efse"ntial to digestion. The gastric juice is a liq- 

 uor, powerfully solvonl, issuing in small drops 

 from the inner coating of the stomach, whenever 

 food enters it, the food goes down so fast, or badiv 

 chewed the juice, which exudes in very small 

 quantities, and at intervals of forty or fifty sec- 

 onds, cannot mix with it, at least for a long time ; 

 so that it lies too long undigested in the stomach, 

 and lays the foundation of disorder in that organ. 

 Now it is ascertained that the time which the gas- 

 tric juice requires to mingle with a mouthful of 

 food, is percisely that which is required to chew it 

 well. And ripe bread, both by the small mouth 



AMERICAN APPLES. 



The Northern and Eastern papers are frequent. 

 ly urging farmers to plant orchards, and among 

 other inducements are holding out the demand for 

 apples and consequent exportation to Europe. The 

 apples from the U. S. are far superior to those of 

 England, and are retailed in London at 6d a piece. 

 They are considered by the medical faculty as 

 very healthy, and are recommended by them lo 

 convalescents. Dr. Dick of Edinburgh in his late 

 popular and valuable treatise entitled " Derange- 

 ments primary and reflex of the organs of Diges- 

 tion," a work which ought to be in the hands of 

 every dyspeptic, says in page 211, (where he 

 is strongly recommending herbaceous aliment,) "j? 

 ripe Anerican .'Ipple ; well masticated, has beon 

 employed by me as an auxiliary and occasionally 

 as a principal, in the treatment of the irritative 

 and hypero;mic forms of gastric derangements." 

 •'A ripe Jlmericaii tipple, or two or three dozen of 

 grapes, or Iwo or three oranges, or part of a pom- 

 egranate, taken at these times, act as valuable re- 

 ducents of the chalews, doulenr, rongeur, temeur of 

 the gastric mucous membrane." Those four con- 

 ditions are, as Broussacs justly remarks, the essen- 

 tial ones of all inflammation. J. Boyle. 

 — Jlmer. Far 



Caution. — The Boston Daily Advertiser says 



fuls, and the thorough chewing it enforces, most : that within three wrrks, three boys have died soon 



happily meets with that requirement of the stom- 1 after eating fruit sold in the ma.ket under the 



Chewing the food is important, not only in name o( checkerberries. On a post mortem exami- 



so causinn- it to mix more ' nation it was ascertained that poison was the cause 



ach 



making it finer, and 



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as to be fit for the butcher, and freqi eiitly the 

 butcher is desirous to purchase them. 



A writer in your paper of the 8th in.stant, over 

 ihe signature of " Economy," has, in my opinion, a 

 correct view of raising calves on skim-milk. It is 



saliva, which i 



These consideratiniis, torlified by universal ex- ' ries resem 

 perience in Great Britain and our own 

 States, make the superior wholsomcness of bread 

 some days old, perfectly manifest. 



hie each other in sixe and color, being 

 eastern' of a bright red— but while the clieckerbcrry is a 

 larmless and agreeable fruit, the dogberry is taste- 

 less and poisonous. 



