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'THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 21, 
Meat from Calves. 
I have raised two calves for meat in 
a good deal the same manner as T. L. 
W., page 157, tells us about. My method 
is to take a June or July calf (after the 
prices have lowered on veals) and let 
it suck the cow till the milk can be saved. 
This regulates the calf’s digestive or- 
gans. Then teach it to drink the new 
milk; decrease this and very gradually 
add scalded porridge made of middlings 
or shorts till you get the calf taking a 
quart of new milk and his porridge 
thinned with water. Now increase the 
porridge and give skim-milk. The calf 
will grow well if you feed only a quart 
or two of milk. Stake him out where he 
can get fresh grass every day. Then I 
gradually add cornmeal cooked thoroughly 
till I am feeding him a quart of mush 
thinned with a quart of milk and as much 
water as he needs to make a good mess; 
then when frost comes let him eat all the 
dry meal he will with good hay or fine 
corn fodder. Make changes gradually, 
and I will guarantee you will have some 
of the best meat you ever tasted. I can 
what we cannot keep fresh, cook it off 
the bones, press cans full of the hot 
meat, fill all cavities with the liquid, 
and seal hot; then can all the juices left 
for soups. I believe this is the cheapest 
and best beef a farmer can raise. 
MBS. C. R. 
my father asked me if I thought I would 
be able to milk that night. I thought 
I would. My father did not think what 
he was doing, but this shows the proper 
growth of this question from that day 
to this. Nowadays, we would not think 
of asking a sick man to milk. We think 
that only the most healthy of men are 
fitted for this important work. When a 
person is coming down with a disease, 
or when he is convalescing, the milking 
stool is not a fit object upon which to 
sit; neither is a pail of milk a fit object 
for him to be breathing across. The im¬ 
portance of this subject is growing daily, 
and the wise farmer will keep this part 
of his farming operations above reproach 
—this for the good of his family and so¬ 
ciety. I. J. M. 
Ingham County, Michigan. 
Producing Clean Milk. 
During the last five years there are 
few subjects which have demanded more 
consideration from the general public 
than that of producing sanitary and 
healthful milk for the market. When I 
was a youngster on the old farm, the 
task of milking was usually allotted to 
the hired men, but this condition does 
not exist to-day, and it is a good thing 
for all concerned- However, there are 
two reasons for this. In the first place, 
the hired man who will milk cows is 
a hard thing to find at present, and in the 
second place, the consuming public are 
more particular as to how their milk 
supply is produced. 
While a great many farmers bewail 
the fact that hired men do not like to 
milk, I believe that it is the best thing 
for all concerned that they do dislike 
this work. In the case of the farmer, if 
he has to tend to the milking of the cows 
himself, he will quit his work early 
enough so that the cows may be milked 
in time, and he will see that this is done 
regularly. It stimulates a greater inter¬ 
est in the cattle and more pride in that 
he knows the purity of the milk supply. 
The average hired man has seen from ex¬ 
perience that milking cows is a job which 
is usually to be done after regular work¬ 
ing hours, and so is not in favor of it. 
Now under the old system of having 
hired help milk, I have seen many a man 
sit down and milk after he had been haul¬ 
ing manure all day without even chang¬ 
ing his clothes. I doubt if there is a 
single reader of Tiie It. N.-Y. who has 
not also seen this same thing done. When 
one stops to think that of all possible 
substances under the sun, milk is the 
best feeding and breeding place for over 
.3,000 forms of bacteria, some of the 
ordinary ways of milking on the farm 
are not to be countenanced under any 
circumstances. There is another thing 
which comes under the same ban. A 
short time ago, a dairyman came to see 
me. He did not get up until I had the 
milking about done, and when he came 
out to the barn you should have heard 
him rave. The fact of the matter was 
that I had not cleaned the stables, and 
this man was of the opinion that stables 
should be cleaned before the milk is 
drawn. I am not of this opinion. I 
would far rather drink milk that has 
been drawn before the stables are 
cleaned than to drink that which has 
not been drawn until after the barn is 
cleaned. When the manure is thrown 
out, the stable looks clean, but it is not; 
that is so far as the air is concerned. 
The facts of the matter are that all sorts 
of bacteria and germs on the straw and 
litter are put in circulation and they are 
ready to get into the milk and cause ob¬ 
jectionable growths. It is best to stir 
up as little dust as possible until after 
milking is done. 
I remember once at home I was “dump¬ 
ing” around behind the stove in the 
Winter. I had been sick, and when it 
got to be about the usual milking time, 
Crumbly Butter. 
What makes butter crumbly? I feed 
the cow one pound cottonseed* meal, one 
pound cornmeal, one-half pound wheat, 
ground, one bushel corn silage to one 
feeding. For roughage I give clover hay 
and cornstalks. m. b. 
Michigan. 
The crumbly condition is caused by 
working the butter when too cold. If 
worked as soon as possible after churn¬ 
ing the butter will generally be warm 
enough to work nicely, after washing 
with cold water. If worked too warm a 
salvy, sticky texture will be produced, 
so one must guard against this extreme 
also. c. L. 
M. 
Two old colored women were having 
dinner together in the cabin. The pot 
of boiled cabbage was on the floor and the 
dog walked into the room and started 
to drink out of it. Old Aunt Easter 
drove him out with the broom, and com¬ 
ing back she gave the other old woman 
a spoon. “’Liza,” she said, “take dis 
siioon and dip dem dog-laps out o’ de 
cabbage!”—Credit Lost. 
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