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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
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"AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER." 
The following is an extract from an 
article which appeared in our local paper 
March 29 under the above heading: 
Stephen Badgley, of North Blenheim, who 
was gored to death by a bull a short time 
ago, was an eccentric character in many 
ways. Mr. Badgley was noted as a bee¬ 
keeper and breeder of fancy registered cattle. 
His stables were models of construction, and 
his stock received the best of treatment. He 
watered his stock four or five times a day, 
and there were individual pails for each 
cow. The water was carried from a well. 
In his barn he had more than a dozen lan¬ 
terns, which at night were lighted, and at 
midnight his stock was watered. He spent 
most of his time from dark to midnight in 
his barn caring for his stock. There were 
also individual grain boxes for his stock, 
and the hay and everything else was cut up 
fine for feeding. Behind his cows hung a 
number of blank books in which the produc¬ 
tion of milk, etc., was entered. There was 
one book for every two cows. 
Now, was he so very eccentric after 
all ? I do not think it is necessary to 
spend half of the night caring for the 
stock, nor to water them at midnight, and 
in my opinion, the water would better be 
pumped as wanted instead of being car¬ 
ried, keeping the pump and pipes, of 
course, in a perfectly sanitary condition. 
But without the slightest doubt he was 
pretty well up in the best methods of 
caring for stock. Live stock should be 
watered often, should have individual 
grain boxes and mangers for hay and 
other bulky food stuffs, also individual 
water troughs or pails; if pails are used 
they should have the name and number 
of the animal printed upon them. Also, 
each stall or stanchion should have the 
name and number of its occupant printed 
upon it in plain sight. The above applies 
mainly to cows and horses. Disease 
germs are easily spread, and proper pre¬ 
cautions should be taken to prevent them 
from going through the herd. Do not 
treat your animals as so many sticks of 
firewood thrown in a heap, but give them 
individual care and treatment, and suc¬ 
cess in the live stock world is yours. 
Saugerties, N. Y. g. m. f. 
DRYING OFF A GOOD COW. 
Having read the records made by several 
cows I am moved to tell mime and follow 
by asking a question. I never owned or 
milked a cow in my life until 2% years ago. 
when I bought one (farrow) and kept her 
one Winter. The next Spring I bought the 
one I now own, and it is this one to which 
I refer. I have never kept her record con¬ 
tinuously by pounds of milk, pounds of butter 
and sales, etc., but have made a few tests. 
Two years ago she came fresh May 5. On 
June 4 I took a sample of her milk to a 
man who owns a Babcock tester, and he 
tells me it tested just five per cent. That 
day she gave 54 pounds of milk, and some 
days gave more than that, for on a number 
of occasions during June and some in May 
I have had to use another pail in addition to 
my lG-quart strainer pai! to get all the 
milk. Last year she came fresh April 21. 
In June I saved one morning’s milking sep¬ 
arate, and kept it until the next day (even¬ 
ing). 36 hours, and skimmed off the cream, 
having three pints of good thick cream. This 
I churned by shaking in a two-quart fruit 
can and then weighed the butter, which was 
a good 1% pound. She has been milked 
now nearly a year, and is giving seven or 
eight quarts a day. The question I desire 
to ask is, when should I dry her off this 
Spring under the following conditions? She 
will not come fresh this year until early in 
June. I usually dry her off about a month 
or six weeks before freshening, but do not 
know whether I would better dry her off be¬ 
fore turning out to pasture, or if it could be 
done well after. g. l. m. 
As a matter of practice it is hardly safe 
either to credit or condemn a cow upon 
the rather loose system of testing out¬ 
lined. A single milking may not be a 
fair average either in amount or in rich¬ 
ness. A test covering say three full days 
will, however, usually be a pretty correct 
indication of her work for the month. 
Personally I feel that the widely advised 
daily weighing and testing will hardly pay 
commercially except in breeding herds 
where it will be almost indispensable if 
records are to be established. Still, there 
is little doubt that you have a most ex¬ 
cellent cow. A cow that can give 54 
pounds of five-per-cent milk in a day 
or l * l / 2 pound of butter from one morn- i 
ing’s milk may fairly be called an extra¬ 
ordinary animal. I believe that as good 
a cow as she is will repay a reasonable 
rest—say for a period of two months. 
Some cows of very pronounced milking 
type can scarcely be dried up, and will 
milk continuously from calf to calf, al¬ 
though I am sure that the milk of the 
last month, while very rich in fat is of 
poor flavor and undesirable for use as 
milk or for butter-making. Better give 
her rest enough so that she will gain 
some flesh and “make up a good bag” 
before she comes in. If she is due to 
freshen in early June it is not too early 
to begin to dry her now, and it will be 
much easier than after she goes to pas¬ 
ture because then she has the one food 
which stimulates milk production above 
all others. 
If a cow is such a good one that it is 
hard to induce her to go dry, it can be 
best accomplished by cutting down her 
grain ration and by substituting carbon¬ 
aceous and bulky foods like corn and 
bran for the heavy protein grains like 
the glutens. Then in addition to this, 
milk her out only partially and just often 
enough to prevent any serious distension 
or injury to the udder. Persuading cows 
to go dry is the least of the troubles of 
most dairymen. It is only exceptional 
individuals—the best—that fail to take 
good care of themselves in this respect. 
JARED VAN WAGENEN, JR. 
Bringing Water to Barn. 
G. L. K., Gosport, N. Y .—I am thinking 
of bringing water into my barnyard. I have 
the water 30 or 35 rods away. Will some¬ 
one who has had experience in this line of 
work say how much fall will be necessary 
to discharge the water at a rise of six: feet 
in the yard? Good descent until within 
a few rods of barnyard, then a rise of nearly 
four feet. What size pipe and the quality, 
probable expense, not including labor and 
other instructions? 
Ans.— G. L. K. should lay galvanized 
iron pipe of not less than one inch diam¬ 
eter. It should cost him about 10 cents 
per foot. The flow of water through long 
pipes is greatly retarded by friction. 
With a one-inch pipe it will be found 
practicable to pipe water the distance 
mentioned, with a fall of five feet, but 
would not attempt it with less. That is, 
the source should be this much higher 
than the outlet in the barnyard, whatever 
elevation that should be. The fact that 
portions of the pipe are lower than the 
outlet will make no difference except that 
abrupt turns greatly increase the friction. 
The discharge will be about four gallons 
per minute. This correspondent is for¬ 
tunate in having such a good opportunity 
in getting water to his buildings. g. d. 
The lady: What, thirty-eight cents a 
dozen for eggs! Why, that’s more than 
three cents for one egg.” The Grocer: 
“Well, mum, you must remember that one 
egg is a whole day’s work for one hen.” 
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