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449 
TTHK RURAL NEW-YORKER 
A GOOD FAMILY COW. 
This cow (Fig. 142) is not a world’s 
champion, or even registered as the last 
in a long line of pedigreed ancestors, 
but simply a type of a class of animals 
that wherever kept properly and fed and 
cared for as they easily can be are 
doing grand work in furnishing at least 
a partial solution to that question of 
importance which is now demanding the 
close attention, not only of most com¬ 
mon people,, but of statesmen and rulers 
as well—that is, the feeding and cloth¬ 
ing of human beings. She is jnst a 
medium-sized “yaller” cow, raised in a 
herd of stock cattle in the foot-hill 
region of California, and showing so 
much of the three-cornered Jersey type 
that the butcher who was buying others 
from the bunch did not want her, so she 
was finally picked out as being about as 
good a milker as any buyers had seen. 
She has just freshened for probably the 
third time, and may be said to be just 
approaching her prime. On dry Alfalfa 
hay and a few pounds of rolled barley 
she is now yielding from 30 to 40 pounds 
of milk every 24 hours, from which is 
at least once a month or oftener, testing 
it for butter fat so as to know at least 
very nearly just how good or how poor 
each individual is, or which one pays 
and which does not. Aside from the 
natural yellow color, the product of this 
one cow was no better than many other 
kinds of truck which may be at times 
used to grease dry bread. But the fact 
that it was ordered for weeks ahead by 
pleased and particular users in a town 
of less than 2,000 people, and paid for 
at better than creamery prices, in direct 
competition with some of the best brands 
of California creamery stock, all of them 
scoring 90 per cent, or better, shows that 
there are still a few persons left who 
hanker for butter such as “mother made.” 
The writer has at last crossed the north¬ 
ern part of this continent, mostly in the 
United States. He has been more than 
60 years about it, but he “got there” at 
last. This was because he tarried in 
many places along the way, to make and 
. sample many tons of what was at least 
known on the market as butter. And 
on all that long journey, and in all of 
those many stopping places he has never 
found a place yet where there was enough 
real good, clean, fresh dairy butter to 
fill the demand. Even when the stores 
took butter in trade, at 10 cents a pound 
or less, certain private dairies had a 
steady market for their goods at 25 
cents a pound the year round. Perhaps 
At -A-CS 
A GOOD CALIFORNIA COW, Fig. 142- 
churned over two pounds of butter daily 
In addition to this, three full pints of 
the rich, pure milk are sold every day, 
which at present prices must go a long 
way towards paying for what feed she 
consumes. Without any artificial color 
her butter is fully as yellow as the best 
creamery brand, and is sold at creamery 
price, or more; in fact, the demand for 
it is far greater than the supply—right 
at the door, too. 
To a certain extent her discovery and 
selection by her present owners was an 
accident, though of course they were 
governed to some extent by the “looks 
of the critter,” as they knew something 
of the indications of what is often 
known as the dairy type; and while they 
were picking for a good one they have 
been well pleased in getting something 
better than they had hardly dared to 
dream of. To find out her true value 
was the all important thing. All the 
while that she had run with the foot-hill 
herd her milk simply went through the 
separator with the rest of it; the cream 
was all sold together and her two or 
three pounds of nice yellow butter fat 
simply went to make up what certain 
Other cows, perhaps larger and better 
looking, were failing to yield, though 
eating the same feed and getting the 
same care. Possibly the foot-hill dairy¬ 
man noted a decrease in the size of his 
cream check after the little Jersey was 
gone, and more than likely he at least 
mentally accused the cream buyer of a 
wrong reading of his test. 
Now, the California foot hills are not 
the only place where such cows may be 
found, for they may exist east as well 
as west; the all-important thing is to 
find them and to know them after they 
are found, not after they are gone, as 
was the case of tins rancher. The only 
way that this can be done is to treat 
each and every cow in the bunch as a 
separate unit, and by weighing the milk 
they had to look for customers at first, 
and then the only way to keep them was 
to “deliver the goods.” Nor have the 
wonders of modern invention in factory 
machinery lessened this demand one iota. 
With all of this loud yawp about the 
high cost of living, it is not so much the 
price that hurts as it is the paying for 
something that we do not get. 
Stanislaus Co., Cal. w. H. bush:. 
Extra Teat. 
I have a cow with a fifth teat on the 
back part of the bag where it bothers con¬ 
siderably about milking. Is there any way 
I can safety remove it? A. R. 
When the cow is not giving milk, this 
small rudimentary teat might "be removed 
by operation, if you can employ an expert; 
but there is considerable danger of caus¬ 
ing Infection of the udder, unless the great¬ 
est possible care is used in operating. If 
you cannot employ an expert, it would be 
best not to attempt treatment. A. s. a. 
Obstructed Teat. 
1. Does it have any ill effect on a cow 
to feed silage right up to the time of 
calling? 2. One of my cows got her teats 
stepped on; it all healed up, but in the 
opening we have to use a milking tube. 
Can anything be done to heal it? s. w. 
New Hampshire. 
1. Silage, if perfectly sound, is a safe 
and beneficial feed for cow in calf, and 
may be continued right up to the time of 
ealvlug. 2. A teat bistoury should be used 
to split through the obstruction in four 
different directions; then strip away a 
stream or two of milk often to beep the 
wounds from healing too quickly, a. s. a. 
Cows Eat Refuse. 
Can you tell me how to prevent my 
cows from eating the filthy straw that 
comes out of the horse stable with the 
manure, when they are let out for water 
and exercise? It caused one cow to give 
thick stringy bitter milk last Winter, and 
I would like to prevent it from occurring 
again. I threw the cow manure on top 
of the horse manure, but. still they pull 
it from beneath ; to fence the manure pile 
iu would make it inconvenient and to draw 
it away is out of the question. Is there 
something I could scatter over the ma¬ 
nure to prevent them from eating it or 
do they crave for something? I fet'd them 
corn stover, cabbage, cotton-seed meal, 
buckwheat bran, buckwheat middlings and 
wheat bran. c. J. K. 
New York. 
Generally when cattle act in this way 
it is due to a depraved appetite caused by 
a lack of lime-forming material in the food. 
Your feeding ought to supply this ma¬ 
terial, but we should give a handful of 
fine bone meal to each cow twice a day 
In the grain. 
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