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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 2 
MILK, BUTTER AND COWS. 
BV ONK WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THEM. 
Reading your paper, as I do weekly, 
with great interest, I notice that the 
articles in it are written by persons who 
are familiar with, or an authority upon 
the different matters therein treated. 
This being apparently the general case, 
it strikes me that an article written by 
one who knows nothing about the sub¬ 
ject would be of interest, and would 
appeal to many of your readers, who like 
myself know very little about the many 
things brought weekly to their attention. 
I have, therefore, written you upon a 
subject that I know nothing whatever 
about, but on which I am weekly re¬ 
quired to act. 
Several years since, upon moving from 
Philadelphia to this country place, I 
found that the greatest trouble was in 
getting good butter, milk and cream. 
To have the first sent from Philadel¬ 
phia, which for a long time was done, 
was troublesome and unreliable. Upon 
my wife mentioning this to my brother, 
he said, buy a cow, a churn, a dozen 
milk pans, and be independent. In 24 
hours this thing was done, and independ¬ 
ence commenced. I should state that no 
one of the family knew what a cow was, 
what it would eat or drink, or whether 
Mapes’s manures were good for it or not. 
Living in the mountains where there is 
no grass, I had to buy a mountain cow. 
A mountain cow is one that looks up for 
its food and not down. It eats from the 
trees and not from the ground, and our 
Outside Superintendent assured me that 
there were many skeletons of valley 
cows lying in the mountains where they 
had died for want of food, looking as 
they did on the ground for it instead of 
on the bushes. This does not speak well 
for either the sense of the cows or the 
truthfulness of the aforesaid Superin¬ 
tendent. Still we got the cow, the only 
stipulation on my part being that it must 
be a good one, as I knew it would cost 
no more to keep a good one than a poor 
one. 
As soon as we saw our cow, we named 
her “Beauty” on account of the extreme 
ugliness of her face, form and disposition. 
You could not go near her without hav¬ 
ing a switch in your hand. She had 
ugly, dirty yellow, or carrot colored 
flesh around her eyes and inside her 
ears, and the nearer you went to her the 
more she tossed her head at you. I was 
told that each ring at the base of the 
horns showed one year of age. Beauty 
had 149 such rings besides a number 
of doubtful, irregular lines. But all 
these were her weak points. She gave 
20 quarts of milk daily for three weeks, 
then 15 quarts per day for two months, 
and then fell off gradually to within six 
weeks of beginning again. (I think that 
“beginning again” without referring to 
what happened first is not bad). 
The excitement when the first milk 
was brought into the house was very 
great. We all looked at it with a sort 
of awe. Finally it was taken into the 
cellar milk room, and we returned to our 
accustomed life. At the end of the week 
came the first butter making. We were 
all in it, all took a hand in the churning, 
and in a few hours the yellow butter lay 
in pats before our admiring eyes, and 
that night we ate our own butter equal 
we all insisted to Sharpless’s, if not quite 
to Darlington’s (we are Philadelphians). 
This was that night, remember. It was 
not the next day. It was that one par¬ 
ticular night. The next morning we 
did not have any of that butter for 
breakfast. It was not generosity that 
prevented it. We would have willingly 
given it away. It was something that 
the butter had acquired overnight that 
prevented. It was (excuse me) the 
awful smell it had. Not the taste, re¬ 
member, for none of us got that far. So, 
to cut the story short, our triumph was 
only of six hours duration, and then the 
butter was a failure. 
But this failure insured the success. 
My wife laid it down as an unanswerable 
argument that if the butter had been, as 
it was, first-class for six hours, it could 
be made to keep for six days. So an¬ 
other trial was made, and this time the 
requirement for success was found. The 
requirement is : to make a fool of your¬ 
self. No other word expresses it better. 
You must have things ridiculously, fool¬ 
ishly, insanely clean. You must first 
clean things until there is nothing foul 
about them. Then clean them again. 
Then again for a change. Then because 
you are accustomed to it, and then once 
more. Nothing to go near the milk, not 
even butter. In fact nothing ought to 
go near the cow, and if the cow be white¬ 
washed so much the better. 
Then came the second butter making 
This time success, not only for the first 
six hours, but for six days. So much for 
the milk and butter ; now for the cows. 
First of all I would state as an axiom. 
The Disease of a Cow is the Men 
who Attend Her. 
I mean by that, that if your cow is ill 
and the man who attends her is an Irish¬ 
man, then the cow has “ Hollow Horn,” 
the only remedy for which is, to make 
a slight cut on the end of the cow’s tail 
and rub turpentine in. If, however, 
your man is an Italian, then if the cow 
is ill, she has “ Lossa Cud,” the remedy 
for which is to force the half of a salt 
mackerel down her throat. I once lost 
a cow from one of the above diseases. 
My man is an Italian, but he called in 
an Irishman. It may be, however, that 
the cow died from a different cause, for 
she got better on a Sunday, and then 
died, and a carpenter told me that when¬ 
ever a cow got better on a Sunday she 
always died. 
The food for your cow should be as 
rational as that for yourself. Give her 
plenty and a variety, hay, turnips, car¬ 
rots, chop, bran, green stuff from the 
garden, squashes, pumpkins, some of 
each, never continuous rations of the 
same thing. My wife can tell in three 
days if the cow’s feed is changed, simply 
by the condition of the cream jug. Let 
any one put his or her cow on green 
sowed corn for three days, and see how 
the milk will increase, and the cream be 
missing. 
To sum up ; any person living where 
it is possible to keep a cow can do so, 
and have plenty of milk, cream and 
good butter if they will simply attend to 
two things. First, feed the cow well. 
Second, first, last and all time have per¬ 
fect cleanliness. 1 do not mean that ex¬ 
perts who know how much albumen, or 
potash, or nitrogen, or bone dust, or 
oyster shells a cow should have, will not 
do better than one ignorant of such de¬ 
tails, but I do mean that even an ignorant 
person can economically keep a cow, and 
get much luxury from it. 
J. BRINTON WHITE 
A New Insecticide. —Bulletin 24 of 
the Massachusetts Experiment Station 
(Amherst) gives an account of a new 
poison used in place of Paris-green. It 
is arsenate of lead, formed by mixing 
arsenate of soda in water with acetate of 
lead. This mixture causes a chemical 
reaction and the result is the formation 
of a very fine white powder—arsenate of 
lead—which is lighter than Paris-green. 
It does not dissolve, but remains sus¬ 
pended in the water. The proper way 
to prepare it is to put 11 ounces of ace¬ 
tate of lead and four ounces of arsenate 
of soda into a hogshead containing 150 
gallons of water. That is all that Ib 
necessarj’' though it is desirable to add 
two quarts of molasses, which will cause 
the mixture to stick better. A mixture 
of this strength makes an effective poison 
and will not be easily washed off the 
trees. Prof. Fernald thus sums up the 
advantages of this mixture : 
It has the advantSKe of being readily seen on the 
leaves, so that one can tell at a glance which have 
and whlcn have not been sprayed, which Is often of 
great convenience. Another advantage Is that It Is 
lighter than Paris-green, and djes not settle so 
quickly, and as a result can be distributed more 
evenly over the foliage. Still another advantage Is 
that It can be used In large proportions, If necessary 
even up to 25 pounds to 150 gallons of water without 
Injury to the foliage. Many fruit growers dislike 
Paris-green on account of Its Injuring the foliage. 
This Is undoubtedly because they use too large a 
proportion, or else because they do not keep It prop¬ 
erly stirred all the time they are using It. If they 
should use arsenate of lead, no such trouble would 
arise; but to secure an even distribution, this also 
should be kept constantly stirred. 
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I 
It will, perhaps, require a little stretch of 
the imagination on the part of the reader to 
recognize the fact that the two portraits at 
the head of this article are of the same in¬ 
dividual ; and yet they are truthful sketches 
made from photographs, taken only a few 
months apart, of a very much esteemed citi- 
Een of Illinois—Mr. C. H. Harris, whose ad¬ 
dress is No. 1,622 Second Avenue, Rock 
Islandj Ill. The following extract from a let¬ 
ter written by Mr. Harris explains the mar¬ 
velous change in his pei-sonal appearance. Ho 
writes : “ Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis¬ 
covery saved my life and has made me a 
man. My home physician says I am good for 
forty years yet. You will remember that I 
was just between life and death, and all of 
my friends were sure it was a case of death, 
until I commenced taking a second bottle of 
‘ Golden Medical Discovery,’ when I became 
able to sit up and the cough was very much 
better, and the bleeding from my lungs 
stopped, and before I had taken six bottles of 
the ‘ Golden Medical Discovery ’ my cough 
ceased and I was a new man and ready for 
business. 
I now feel that it is a duty that I owe to 
my fellow-men to recommend to them the 
‘ Golden Medical Discovery ’ which saved my 
life when doctors and all other medicines 
failed to do me any good. 
I send to you with this letter two of my 
photographs; one taken a few weeks before! 
was taken down sick in bed, and the other 
was taken after I was well.” These two pho¬ 
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head of this article. 
Mr. Harris's experience in the use of “ Gold¬ 
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Marlow, Baldwin Co., Ala. 
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