1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
6o7 
DAIRY AND FARM NOTES. 
Taking a Vacation. 
Vacate the Farm. —Can a dairy farm¬ 
er, or, in fact, any other farmer, afford 
to take a vacation? A quarter-century 
ago such an innovation was a pretty 
sure indication of approaching insol¬ 
vency. The frequent days of “visiting” 
when the gossip of the neighborhood 
furnished recreative material, the 
putting it on the market much more at- not deny that it would be safer to apply 
the remedy after milking, as we prac¬ 
tice the feeding of silage afterwards. 
These facts coming from good and 
trustworthy sources, were also good 
pointers along the line of purer, better 
and more wholesome production on the 
in- 
tractively. I had noit been privileged 
to see outside of a narrow radius, and 
if there is any one thing that will grow 
conceit it is a narrow vision. This first 
visit was followed by others of a similar 
nature, and soon I found that opportu¬ 
nity for study and investigation of mar- part of the farmer. As all dairy soc¬ 
ket needs and quality of products was tions now practice milking the year 
not at my end of the line. Then another round, if it is possible to affect the milk 
surprising thing developed. These same deleteriously by the use of kerosene or 
dulging at the “corner store”—have ^ity people seemed to know just what any of these other mixtures, what must 
given way, in the up-'to-date commun- j^j^ey wanted, and frequently how it was be the effect of the milk being produced 
ity, to a discussion of principles and produced. To-day there is no question- in badly-ventilated stables, cows lying 
methods of farm practice, and to the the knowledge of a good business jn their own filth, and breathing an at- 
ciirrent events of the day. It all means j^^n; he comes in close contact with the mosphere laden with all the smells such 
consumer, and he is the final arbiter in vicious surroundings could produce? 
these matters. Another false notion in But when you find a farmer who so far 
the country is that farm products lose forgets himself and his duty to his cows, 
their identity as soon as they leave the and his customers, you will find that 
farm; a most mistaken notion. I have there are no educators like The R. N.-Y. 
known deception to be practiced in the or any of our many agricultural papers 
that farm practice and economy call 
for more active nerve and brain force 
and less of the muscular energy of 
earlier days, and it is just this nerve 
force that makes agriculture successful. 
Is not the farmer, then, who uses during 
12 months of the year this same vital country by people who were not natur- on bis table; that he simply exists, and, 
ally dishonest, in fact, they were reput- as a creamery man said to me “brought 
able citizens, and given to square deals anything that would help to make the 
contents of his can weigh.” It is no 
excuse for a farmer that he is poor, and 
can’t afford the comfortable surround¬ 
ings of his more prosperous neighbor. 
A man can wear a patched and ragged 
coat, but it is not necessary that it be 
dirty. One or two men in a community 
force employed by the professional and 
business man, entitled to a vacation—a 
couple of weeks in which he can forget 
the demands of feeding and breeding, of 
plant foods and crop growth, and the 
endless detail of everyday work? 
Times Change. —I suppose the reader 
will query what place has such stuff in 
an information column of dairy and 
farm notes. Formerly I would have 
said that it had no legitimate place, but 
my mind has changed upon this sub¬ 
ject as upon many others. This idea 
calls to mind an experience several 
years ago at Margaretville, Delaware 
Co., in which I answered a question on 
handling cream in a manner that called 
forth a sharp criticism from a listener 
who observed that I had given a differ¬ 
ent answer two years ago at the same 
place to a similar question. It also'gave 
an opportunity to discuss change of 
mind and sentiment, which should be 
indicative of growth. Yes, a vacation 
for rest is a good investment, not only 
for health but financially, because a 
sharp keen mind is a safeguard against 
a relentless competition, which is to be 
sharper and closer each year. 
Hard to Get. —After all it is more 
easily said than done; to get away dur¬ 
ing the busy season is a sacrifice, and 
particularly is this true on a dairy farm, 
where mouths must be fed ana milking 
done twice a day. It comes to be a 
question therefore whether this vaca¬ 
tion may not as well be taken in the 
Winter, when time is not so valuable, 
and a trip to the city be made instead 
of a sojourn in the mountains, which 
the city people so thoroughly enjoy. As 
I write the eye can take in the beauties 
of Seventh I^ake, Fulton Chain, and the 
lungs fill to their utmost with an air 
pure and vitalizing that so thoroughly 
oxidizes the system that one can almost 
eat and digest the proverbial rubber 
lioot. Again this same natural tendency 
to equalize, and we find Nature, over a 
vast tract that is not crop producing, 
and where commerce and mercantile ex¬ 
change cannot take place, preparing 
men and women by the thousand to bat¬ 
tle with the modern agencies of civiliza¬ 
tion with a stronger arm and cl care.'’ 
brain. 
An Education. —I firmly believe that 
this city vacation may not only be made 
recreative but educational beyond the 
first conception of the reader. One of 
the crying needs of the day among 
farmers is a more general and also defi¬ 
nite knowledge of market demands. I 
was recently discussing this question 
with W. H. Blodget, a large dealer of 
Boston and Worcester, a former resident 
of our town, who but recently addressed 
Gie fruit growers of western New York 
upon the subject of marketing fruit. 
Mr. BlodgOt, very pointedly said that 
“you farmers need education in pack¬ 
ing and handling farm products for 
market.” I could not dispute him, be- 
caus I well remember a first city visit 
about 21 years ago, and to my then great 
surprise, other people were really 
making better butter and cheese and 
who had such a false notion on this 
matter that they would cover or attempt 
to do so, imperfections in their goods, 
only to have them rejected in the mar¬ 
kets, and with the usual condemnation 
of dishonesty or unfairness on the part 
of the city dealer. It is to overcome 
this so oft repeated difficulty that I ad- of 25 or 30 can furnish leaven enough to 
vise every farmer to set apart annually 
one week and sufficient of his crop re¬ 
turns to visit the city and get recreation 
and profit. 
The Wife’s Share. —Take the good 
wife, for she is usually the equal, and 
not unlikely the best of the team. Wo¬ 
man’s intuitive judgment rarely for¬ 
sakes her; she may not be well inform¬ 
ed in commercial phrases, but she knows 
the right and wrong of good or poor 
packing, and when she sees another 
package with better appearance she does 
not fail to recognize it, and to appro¬ 
priate its significance for her own wel¬ 
fare. Yes, take a vacation, wherever 
you choose, but see to it that the results 
are for your improvement directly or 
indirectly. Do not dissipate; there are 
a thousand ways of dissipation—waste 
of energy and vitality from which no 
one profits—but the recreation that 
changes scenes, puts new thoughts in 
the place of old ones, that gives us a 
broader and more comprehensive view 
and conception of creation and its mani¬ 
fold laws and blessings is a Christian 
duty, whether we come from town or 
country, whether we produce the ma¬ 
terial or traffic in it. So God speed the 
American custom of taking a vacation. 
II. E. COOK. 
leaven the whole lamp. Educate the 
farming community up to the highest 
possible standard of clean, wholesome 
production. Then, with the best of 
goods on the market, we shall have 
gained the support of the consumer in 
our just fight against oleo, skimmed 
cheese and the adulteration of milk 
after it leaves our hands. J. e. h. 
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CLEAN vs. "CONTAMINATED” MILK. 
Is there danger in the use of any of 
the different sprays now on the market 
to reduce the worry and torment of that 
pest, the Texas fly? Not being satisfied 
with my experience in this line with 
kerosene alone, as a spray for my cows, 
I have been inquiring of those who have 
a line of customers they supply with 
butter the year round. They have used 
other mixtures, but made the applica¬ 
tion after milking, and as the cows then 
went to pasture, they could not see 
v/here any bad effect could result from 
such applications. These men were 
farmers who have a line of customers 
whom they supply with butter at 25 
cents per pound. One of them supplied 
a hospital for four months at 20 cents, 
the other eight months at 25 cents. 
From their customers they had received 
no complaint, nor had they lost any. I 
also conferred with the proprietors of 
three large creameries, who have a re¬ 
tail trade and supply some of the best 
houses in Utica, who do an extensive 
business with the best families of said 
city, and they failed to report the loss 
of a customer on account of any “queer” 
taste or flavor. Those who used the 
spray previous to milking claim that 
windows and doors being open, there 
was small chance for milk 'to be affect¬ 
ed while they wei'e milking, but sti\l did 
Some Indiana Fodder Crops. 
Have begun cutting and feeding the 
second crop of Alfalfa for the season 
from a two-acre patch. This was sown 
a year ago lasit April, with an equal 
mixture of Red clover and Alfalfa seed. 
It yielded a fair cutting early in June 
this year, but it consisted mostly of 
Red clover, as that variety seemed to 
thrive better than the Alfalfa during 
the cool cloudy Spring. At this cut¬ 
ting there is about an equal amount of 
Alfalfa and Red, but a very slim cut¬ 
ting of the two combined. I have been 
reading the comments of The R. N.-Y. 
on the Alfalfa patch as a cheap bran 
factory, but as yet I am not very en¬ 
thusiastic over this bran bus'inese, for 
iwdth two cuttings I estimate that I 
have not got more than 1,000 pounds 
per acre of Alfalfa hay. 'The soil is 
rather diry, gravelly loam. Strong lin 
lime, and produced (my renter says) 36 
bushels per acre when last in wheat. 
Wiith this estimate the bran product 
miight be slightly in fevor of the Al¬ 
falfa, but the bread and straw would 
easily balance the account in favor of 
the wheat crop. However, Alfalfa is 
said not to get to its best until the third 
year, and I shall give It one more year 
of grace before condemning It with a 
plow. All stock seem to eat it readily, 
and the cows never need to be driven 
home, when they are expecting a feed 
of it in waiting. 
I have also grown rape, cow peas. 
Soy beans ana sorghum in a small way 
for three years, but sorghum is the only 
one that has won my enthusiasm. 
Peas, beans and rape do fairly well, 
but the weeds will get all of them If 
you don’t watch out. I have sown sor¬ 
ghum on the richest and also the poorest 
land on the farm, gave it no attention 
from sowing until h^vest, yet it al¬ 
ways manages to take care of itself and 
of the weeds as well, and produces a 
perfect wilderness of feed, relished alike 
by horses, cows, hogs and chickens. 
Indiana. j. f. m. 
R. N.-Y.—We doubt whether it pays 
to sow Red clover with the Alfalfa. We 
would rather sow it alone. Next year’s 
crop will undoubtedly be heavier. We 
endorse what is said about sorghum. 
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