1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
OUTWITTING A COW. 
How to Make a Nice Cow of Julia. 
I have read a whole lot of ways to 
keep a cow from kicking, but I can tell 
the Hope Farm man how to make a nice 
gentle cow of Julia. Put her in stan¬ 
chions or tie her short and, if tied, put 
a pole beside her as high as her flank, 
to keep her from turning around on to 
you. Get a few sticks like the butt of a 
cart whip, about four feet long, and lay 
them carefully within reach. Take one 
of them and tickle Julia’s leg with it. 
When she resents this familiarity and 
kicks, let the stick come back on her 
leg below the hock sharply. If Julia is 
as brainy a cow as we hear of, and as 
high-tempered, she will lose her temper 
at the first sharp blow, and the fun will 
begin. Don’t lose your temper; keep 
cool, but let the stick go back sharply 
on the leg every time she kicks. If she 
is a quitter, or foxy, she may, from mo¬ 
tives of policy, stop kicking before she 
is cured, in which case it will be neces¬ 
sary to take along the sticks and lay 
them down where she can see them 
when you go to milk, and, as she will 
now know just what it means if she does 
kick, make her promise not to do so any 
more. When a cow bellows it is her 
signal that she will be good, and a cow 
rarely breaks her promise. The Hope 
Farm man may think Julia will get mad 
and hold up her milk, or do some other 
ornery thing, but there is no danger. 
When Julia says she will be good, she 
will not chase the children or do any 
other of the many things a bright cow 
can think of while she considers herself 
the boss. 
I trust none of your readers will think 
1 spend my time pounding cows. I allow 
a calf to kick at me till it is three days 
old. After that, if it is to bo raised, I 
quietly teach it that kicking is naughty. 
During the first Winter, while I am the 
biggest, the little ones are all tied long 
enough to get them used to it, and I go 
around them, smooth them, pat them, 
and get them accustomed to being han¬ 
dled. Most of my cows, all born on the 
I)lace, were never struck a blow in their 
lives, but if a youngster shows a dispo¬ 
sition to kick it is stopped at once. We 
use oxen on the farm for part of the 
work, buying them ns steers "broken.” 
I don’t remember of having bought 
more than three pairs in 40 years that 
had not some mean trick. Sometimes 
I had to think awhile, but never failed 
of curing in one lesson, and think I was 
never more than half an hour giving 
that lesson. Man is no match in brute 
strength for a full-grown cow, ox or 
horse, but unless he can outwit any of 
these he ought to study for a profession 
and not try to be a farmer. 
Connecticut. r. s. hinman. 
CONGRESSMAN WADSWORTH AND 
THE GROUT BILL. 
I noticed a letter on page 440 from M. 
J. U., and your comments. It seems to 
me, in view of the fact that Mr. Wads¬ 
worth was returned to Congress last 
year by an increased majority, after all 
the abuse heaped upon him by you and 
others, that you would begin to think 
you were cutting very little ice. Mr. 
Wadsworth is known personally by a 
large portion of his constituents (of 
whom I am proud to say I am one) and 
they all know him to be a man who 
never could be Influenced by the oleo 
crowd to do what he thought was not 
right, neither will he be influenced by 
the anti crowd to do it, either. And he 
is thought far more of by men who 
favor the Grout bill for standing up like 
a man in opposition than if he gave it a 
half-heai’ted support like some. You 
must know that his return from a strict¬ 
ly agricultural district, honestly and 
heartily indorsed, will be likely to go 
much further with Speaker Henderson 
than all the letters from York State men 
who ask who this man Wadsworth is, 
and who appoints him. You may print 
this letter if you wish and abuse me as 
much as you like, as I am a working 
farmer and interested in the cow, and 
am seeking no political favors of Mr. 
Wadsworth or anyone else. But please 
let up on him a little, although he can 
stand it. He feels, with his friends, that 
it is entirely uncalled for. n. j. ray. 
Livingston Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—iMr. Wadsworth represents 
the Thirtieth District of New York 
State, which includes the counties of 
Niagara, Livingston, Wyoming, Gene¬ 
see and Orleans. Last year his majority 
over the Democratic candidate was 8,172. 
True, this was larger than the majority 
of two years before, but it was in a 
Presidential year. It was a smaller ma¬ 
jority than Mr. Wadsworth received in 
1896. Last year, in these counties, Mc¬ 
Kinley’s majority over Bryan was 9,418. 
Mr. Wadsworth therefore ran nearly 
1,300 votes behind his ticket. He held 
his own along the canal, but lost In 
parts of his district where dairying or 
stock growing are features. The amount 
of “ice” we can cut in that district has 
little to do with the flnal outcome. By 
his opposition to the Grout bill Mr. 
Wadsworth has become a figure of Na¬ 
tional importance. He may be the best of 
neighljors and the most popular man af 
home, but by his course in Congress he 
has placed himself in opposition to thou¬ 
sands of farmers who will never see him 
or hear of him personally. There are 
dairymen all the way from Maine to 
California who thoroughly believe that 
if there had been a true friend of honest 
butter at the head of the Agricultural 
Committee last Winter the Grout bill 
would have passed both Houses of Con¬ 
gress and received the signature of the 
President. 'J'hese men cannot go into 
Mr. Wadsworth’s district and vote 
against him, but they can go up higher 
and protest against his reappointment. 
We seldom have an issue made so clear 
and plain as this one is. Mr. Wadsworth 
says openly that he is opposed to the 
vital principle of the Grout bill. There 
is no use attempting to convert him— 
if he be reappointed chairman of that 
committee we all know that he will do 
his best to hold up the bill a second 
time. That being the case the farmers 
of this country who desire the legisla¬ 
tion suggested in the Grout bill have a 
perfect right to demand that some man 
more favorable to their interests be put 
on guard. In fact, the only thing they 
can do is to bring the strongest possible 
pressure to bear upon Speaker Hender¬ 
son, and to their credit be it said that 
they are coming into the fight by the 
thousand! 
Clean the MHk Cans. 
The milk producers can have no quar¬ 
rel with the city consumers. These two 
classes should be on the most friendly 
terms, for their interests lie close logeth- 
er. The consumer needs education re¬ 
garding New York’s milk supply, and 
he is getting it rapidly. Just now there 
is a discussion in the daily papers over 
clean milk. The following letter in the 
Morning Journal touches a vital ques¬ 
tion: 
"One phase of the matter seems to 
have been overlooked—viz., the horribly 
filthy condition in which some of the 
milk cans are returned from the city. 
These empty cans stand around, and be¬ 
fore they get back to the country the 
milk is thoroughly dried on to the sides 
and in the corners of the can. It is 
about impossible thoroughly to wash 
such cans with the facilities within 
reach of most farmers. Live steam is 
the only stuff that will do this job as it 
ought to be done, and the time to do it 
is before the milk gets dried on. Laws 
compelling city milk receivei-s to turn a 
jet of live steam into every can before 
returning it would be a material help in 
securing clean milk, and would work no 
greater hardship on milk receivers here 
than many other laws that are enforced 
in the Interest of pure food. Connection 
with live steam might be had without 
5i I 
great expense at most of the receiving 
stations. 
“Another wrong is the putting of gar¬ 
bage into milk cans. I have seen cans 
received from this city, standing on the 
platform at country milk stations, con¬ 
taining quantities of pumpkin pie and 
other restaurant refuse in such a state 
of decomposition that a self-respecting 
hog might well decline to have anything 
to do with it. Our scientific friends who 
are chasing up microbes with micro¬ 
scopes will find a good field for investi¬ 
gation in the average milk can as it is 
returned to the farmer.” 
Pigs in a Peach Orchard. 
.1. S. Woodward told us in The R. N.-Y. 
some time past, how he pastures his hogs 
in an orchard. My hogs and pigs chew the 
bark off the young peach and pium trees, 
unless protected. Would you advise sow¬ 
ing a five-year-old peach orchard to grass 
and clover, for a hog pasture? The land 
Is rich and good; trees large and in bear¬ 
ing. They would make fine shade. Other 
land is not available for the purpose. For 
Summer I hove a field of rape. 
Jackson, Mich. p. e. l,. 
From the pig standpoint, the idea is a 
most excellent one. There is no ques¬ 
tion but what the pigs will be greatly 
benefited by the shade of the orchard, 
while if it is in bearing they will clean 
up undesirable peaches that drop to the 
ground, and so assist in reducing insect 
pests, decayed peaches or sprouts which 
might follow volunteer seeding. I know 
of no experiments that have been con¬ 
ducted to determine the value of pigs 
thus pastured, only it is well establish¬ 
ed that clover is a superior Summer pas¬ 
ture for pigs, and if in a shaded lot, so 
much the better. From the orchard 
standpoint I do not think the pasturing 
the best thing. The best orchards that 
I have seen are cultivated over. Still, 
if the orchard is a year or so in clover, 
and the stubble is then plowed under, 
the trees should be much benefited. 
In regard to the pigs gnawing the 
bark, this need not necessarily always 
follow. With plenty of good food I 
should not expect the bark injured, but 
some pigs occasionally develop rather 
abnormal appetites, in which event they 
may bark the trees. Personally, I 
should protect the trees, if the necessity 
arose, by placing about them for a height 
of two feet up from the ground, a one- 
layer band of tin or wire, bent about 
the tree snugly, yet not fastened to¬ 
gether to prevent the expansion of the 
tree trunk. Such a protection need not 
be very costly, in view of the fact that 
second-hand tin or wire will do very 
well for this purpose. c. s. riyUMB. 
Kickino Cows.— I must tell you our 
remedy for kicking cows. We keep a herd 
of 19 milch cows, and have used this 
remedy very satisfactorily for 10 years. It 
consists of a strap made from harness 
leather, this strap to be 40 Inches long, 1% 
inch wide with a buckle sewn on the end. 
About inches from the buckle is an¬ 
other buckle (mintis the tongue), riveted 
on the strap with a piece of leather and 
two copper rivets. At the other end of 
strap the last 10 inches have holes made 
every Inch and a half or so to buckle info. 
Put this strap around Julia’s left hind leg 
just above gambrel joint, put end through 
the false buckle and draw up tight, then 
put It around right hind leg the same, and 
now through buckle. Draw up tight and 
buckle, which fastens legs securely to¬ 
gether, and if they try to kick they will 
throw themselves, but they usually give 
up. e. m. 
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