1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
311 
SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT COWS. 
BREED, WATER, FEED. 
Where do you get your cows ? Do you 
buy of Tom, Dick and Harry any time a 
man offers you a cow that looks half¬ 
way decent ? If you do, unless you are 
a better judge of cows than most of us 
are, you get stuck on four out of five you 
buy. Why ? Do you suppose that your 
neighbor, if he's a sane man, is going to 
sell you his best cow and keep the scrubs 
himself ? No ; he is, or ought to be, all 
the time trying to improve his own herd, 
and he wants to get rid of the poor ones. 
If he sells his best cows every time, his 
dairy will soon be so poor that there will 
be no best cows in it. If he is charitably 
inclined, he won't try to sell his scrubs 
to some one with a little less judgment, 
to wear away their lives trying to get 
water out of a dry stick ; he will turn 
those cows into beef, bologna sausage or 
chicken feed. 
If you are farming for profit, and are 
situated as most dairymen are, you 
would better raise your own calves from 
your best cows, and have a purebred bull 
whose mother was a hustler for milk 
with plenty of fat in it. Some of the 
gambling farmers in our vicinity let the 
bull run with the cows the year around, 
and never know when a cow is to come 
in, how long to have her go dry, or plan 
to have her come in at the most profit¬ 
able. time of the year which, to most 
dairymen, is from October to January. 
If they raise the calves, they will let the 
calf stable get filthy, as it soon does 
without care, and feed them irregularly; 
the milk to-night may be 40 degrees, and 
to-morrow morning 120, sometimes two 
quarts of milk, and occasionally 10 
quarts; then they wonder why their 
calves have the scours, are pot-bellied 
and never amount to anything. Suppose 
that you try a clean calf stable, and have 
the milk warmed to the right tempera¬ 
ture, about 95 degrees ; you can’t guess 
within 10 degrees of that. Try a ther¬ 
mometer ; it will be well worth the 
quarter it costs. Calves will eat bran 
and early-cut hay before you are aware 
of it. Keep them growing, but not fat ; 
don’t feed them corn meal, gluten feed 
or cotton-seed meal. 
If you have found that good cow, keep 
her, but keep her in the right place. 
You may think that she will do well next 
Winter kept in a barn where she can see 
through the side anywhere, where she 
stands up to her knees in manure, or 
where she drinks water daily or only 
once in two or three days when com¬ 
pelled to satisfy her craving at the brook 
or mud puddle, where yom have chopped 
away the ice so that she can get her nose 
in the dirty water. You may presume 
on these things, but you would lose 
every time. If you want her to pay, 
keep her in a warm, well-ventilated barn, 
where sunlight gets in. Let her drink 
where she can be comfortable, cold water 
if you think best. Did you ever see a 
cow drink, stick out her hind foot and 
kick with the chill, or come back into 
the barn and shiver? Did you ever 
think that you had to pay to warm that 
water up to about 98 degrees ? Well, you 
did! The cow had to get it there! Perhaps 
you can figure out which is cheaper. 
Did you ever see a successful dairyman 
who drove his cows a quarter of a mile 
away to the brook, once a day, to water 
them ? Have you ever seen cows, driven 
out of a barn during a cold, driving 
storm, and trying to run back without 
drinking? Ordinary milk is about 86 
or 87 per cent water. If you are after 
milk, you would better give your cows 
plenty of clean water in a place where 
they c*i,n drink it in comfort. 
If you sell milk or make butter, you 
surely want clean milk, or if you send 
cream to the creamery, you ought to 
have pride enough in your own creamery 
to furnish it clean, pure cream. 
When you see a lot of cow i on a Win¬ 
ter day trying to get on the sunny side 
of the barn or a hay stack, their backs 
humped up with the cold, and their hair 
two or three inches long, you needn’t 
expect to find their owner booming the 
dairy business. Some farmers take fairly 
good care of their cows in some respects, 
but like to gamble on the feed question. 
They say, “ I don’t know much about 
feeds anyway ; my father fed corn meal, 
and so do I.” Or if some feed dealer who 
wants to make an extra dollar on some 
oat chaff, says that’s fine for milk, they 
buy it and are stuck. They say, “I don’t 
understand feed analyses ; I never went 
to an agricultural college.” Never mind 
if you didn’t ; you can, if you want to— 
and there’s the rub—find out what are 
really the most economical. How often 
you will see a farmer in buying bran 
look at the different samples, and take 
the one that has the most flour in it. 
You get much more for your money in 
the coarse bran. You have plenty of the 
material in your hay mow that the flour 
in bran is valuable for, and why buy it ? 
You can buy corn meal at about 5515 per 
ton, but you can buy twice its value of 
food material in gluten feed for 5513 or 
5514. Oil or cotton-seed meal will cost 
from 55? 1 to $23 per ton, but you’ll get 
four times the value of the corn meal, 
better study the feed question, and don't 
fool away good money, either to the 
miller or the cow. 
If you are looking for cheap foods that 
will fill the pail with good milk, and 
that can be grown on the farm, you 
ought to have a silo. When you see a 
man who says that ensilage is no good, 
you’ll generally find that he has never 
had one, or somewhere or other, has 
seen a little decayed ensilage that 
frightened him. We like the octagonal 
form best, because it requires less lum¬ 
ber, keeps the ensilage better, and can 
be cheaply built. We covered our ensi¬ 
lage last Fall with sawdust, and the en¬ 
silage has never come out better. So I 
would advise you, as the old minister did 
the lazy young man who imagined that 
he continually saw the letters P. C., and 
thought he was called to preach. The 
minister said, “ P. C. is plant corn, and 
lots of it.” H. G. MANCHESTER. 
Connecticut. 
For Hoarseness, Coughs, Asthma and Bron¬ 
chial Troubles, use “Brown's Bronchial Troches .” 
Sold only in boxes. Avoid imitations.— Ado. 
Army 
of those successful 
thousands of cow keep¬ 
ers and dairy farmers 
who arc using the labor 
scmlng, money making 
SHARPLES 
SEPARATORS. 
Some men are so situ¬ 
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keep a few cows; they need 
to get all the money there 
is in the few. They know 
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tor. Those who keep more 
cows use the LITTLE GIANT SEPARATOR. In 
either case they get all the butter-fat the milk 
contains. 
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Save the COWS. 
General Cow Drink on hand Is cheap insurance, 
joe each: $ 5.00 dozen. Circular free. 
MOORE BROS., Veterinarians, Albany N- Y 
Give your Sheep a Gymnasium 
Save Yourself Unnecessary Work 
Stop the Leak in Your Pocketbook 
BY USING AN 
IMPROVED UNITED STATES SEPARATOR 
AND 
FIRST PRIZE DOG OR SHEEP POWER 
I Stopped the Leak. 
Morgantown, Pa., Jan. 31,1898. 
The Improved U. S. Separator and First Prize Dog Power that I bought of you 
are doing good work, and run quiet and easy. The sheep learned quickly, and now 
[as soon as the door is opened, will go and get on the power. As soon as the milk- 
I used to send my milk to the J 
Creamery. Since I have had the U. S. 
I am making 1 lb. of butter more from I 
every 100 lbs. of milk than I was paid) 
for at the Creamery, and am getting 
1 cent to 2 cents per lb. more for 
the butter than the top market price ; 
so you see there was a small daily leak 
in iny pocket, and in one month !t was 
a pretty big one. S. H. MAST. 
ling is done, the skimming is done. 
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Sheep Gained in Flesh. 
Conway, Mass., April 30, 1897. 
The No. 5 Improved U. S. Separat or ' 
is doing all that we can aslc of it, and 
we are very much pleased with it. It 
tests on an average .03 of 1 per cent , 
which we think is close enough for any 
separator to skim. 
It was reported when we first began 
to run it, that the sheep had to work 
too hard and would not stand it long, 
but he is not quite dead yet. After 
running it one month, he had gained 
s lbs. He now weighs 175 lbs. and runs | 
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