Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-05-17

others these, therefore, ought to be search
ed for with care, and their breed reared
with attention, as being peculiarly yalua.
bic.
Few persons who have had any expert
ence at all in the dairy way, can be igno-
rant, however, that in comparing the milk
Of two COWS, to Judge cf their respective
qualities, particular attention must be paid
to The time that has elapsed since their caly.
ing; 70, the milk of the same COW IS always
thinner soon after calvlng, than it is afier-
wards: as it gradually becomes thicker.
though generally less in quantity, in proper.
ton TO the time the COW has calved. The
color of the milk, however, soon after caly.
ing. is richer than it afterwards becomsS
but this, especially tor tAs xnseSks,
is a faulty cotoF. thai oc.a! MOTTO be cove
ted.
TO make the cnws give abundance Of
milk, and of good quality, they must at ell
times have plenty Of food. Grass is The
best food ye, known for this purpose; and
that kind of grass which springs up spon.
taneously ON rich dry soils is the best of
all.* If the temperature of The climate be
such as to permit the cows to graze at ease
throughout the day, they should be suffered
TO range on such pastures at freedom; but
If the COWS are SO much lncommoded by
the heat as to be prevented from eating
through the day, they ought, m that case, to
be taken into,the cool shades for protection,
where, after allowing them proper time 10
rumina!e, they. should be supplied with
abundance OF green food. fresh cut for the
purpose, and gwen to them by hand fre.
quenly, in small quantities. fresh and clean,
SO as to induce hrm to ia, it with pleasure
When the heat Of the day Is over, and they
can remain abroad with ease, they may be
again turned INTO the pasture, where they
should be- allowed to range with freedom
all night during the mild weather Of sum.
mer.
Cows, if abundan''y fed, should be MIXED
three times day during the whole of the
summer season # in the morning early, al
noon, aid in The evening, just before nj ,llt-
fall. In the choice of persons for milking
the COWS, great caution should be employed;
for if that operation be not carefully and
properly performed. not only The guam
tty of the produce Of the dairy will be
greatly diminished, but lis quality also will
be very much debased for if all the
milk be not thoroughly drawn from u COW
when she is MIXED, that portion of milk
which is left in the udder, seems O he grad
ually absorbed into the sys;em, and nature
generates no more Than to supply the vase
, OF what has been take II away. Ii this les
sened quantity be not again thoroughly
drawn off. i, occasions yet farther dimi
mutton of the quantity Of milk generated =,
and so on it may BE- made to proceed IN
perpetual progression from lit le to less, I'LL
none at all is produced. In short. this Is
the practice in all cases followed, when It Is
meant TO allow cows milk 10 dry up en-
tirely without doing her hurt. In This man.
ner, therefore, the profits Of a dairy nigh
be wonderfully diminished so that It much
behoves the owner of i, to be extremely at
lentive 10 this circumstances, if he wishes to
avoid ruin. 1t ought to be rule without
an exception, never to allow this important
department to be entrusted, without control.
to the management Of hired servants. Its
$50 little attention Las hitherto been be.
slowed on this subject, that do not know Of
any regular set of experiments that have ever
vet been made with view to ascertain the effects
Of any of the natural grasses that sponto neously
spring up in abundance on our fields, either on
the quantity or the quality of the milk of COWS,
and few that have been attempted even with re-
gard to those plants that have been cultivated by
art, as green forage for them; though it be well
known that some particular kinds of plantsf
strongly effect the taste, and alter the quality o
particular products of milk. It is, indeed, in all
cases. confidently asserted. that old pastures alone
can ever be made to affor rich butter or cheese
This, however, know from my own repeated
experience to be popular error, as have fic'
quently seen much richer butter made by one per-
son from cows that were fed in tho house, chiefly
clover and rye grass, tkan that which was made
by others, where the cows were fod on very rlcn
old pastures. Mankind are, in general, disposed
to throw the blame of every failure upon some
circumstance that docs not reflect on themselves
as bad managers. Hence it is, that the grass OF
fam is often blamed for the want Of richness
OF the butter produced upon it; when, if tho cir.
cumstances were fully investigated, it would be
found to be occasioned by the unskilfulness OF
the dairy maid, or the want Of attention in tic
choice Of proper cows.
.=st In very warm climates, where the heat 10 cx-
tremely oppressive TO cows, and the flies are ex-
ceeding'y troublesome, sheds open on one slde'
tho roof being only supported there BY pillars
would not afford them such effactual shelter as
they would require In these cases, the sheds
should be walled up on both sides, and DO LETT
open only at the two ends, which. if properly
placed, would produce continued stream OF air
throughoutth whole building, that would prove
highly salutiry to the cattle.
! If cows be mked only twice in the day, GA
hcurs) while they have abundance of succulent