Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-19
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An English Dairy Farm.

We will now descend this broad and
popular slope, and pay visit to Friern Man
or Dairy Farm, to which all these ncres--
some two hundred and fifiy-belong, togetll-
er with all these horned hcauties.' We
find them all very docile and undisturbed by
our presence, though their looks evidently
denote that they recognize stranger But
those who are reclining do not rise, aud
none of them decline to be caressed hy the
hand, or seem Indifferent to the compli-
ments addressed to them. In passing through
the COWS, we were specially presented 10
the COW queen, or master cow as she is
called. This lady hns been recognized
during twelve years us the sovereign ruler
over oil the rest. No one, however large,
disputes her supremacy. She is n short
horned, short-legged COW, looking ut first
sight rather small, but on closer examine
ton you will find that she is sturdily and
solidly built, though graceful withol. 'She
IS very sweet-tempered,' observed the head
Keeper, but when new conner doubts who
IS the master, her eye becomes dreadful
Don't signify how big the cow is--she must
give IN to the master COW, It's not her size
nor her strength, bless you it's her spirit
AS soon as the question is once settled, she's
as mild as lamb again. Gives us eighteen
quarts of milk a day.
We were surprised TO hear Of so great
quantity, but this was something abated by
a consideration of the rich, varied, and album
liant supply of food afforded to these cows,
besides the air, attendance, and other favor
abl0 circumstances. For their food they
nave mangoldwurtze both the long red aud
the orange globe sorts, parsnips, turnips. and
kohl-rnbi Jewish cabbage,) n curious kind of
green turnip, with cabbage leaves sprouting
out at the top all round, like the feaihery
arms of the Prince of Wales. Of this last
mentioned vegetable the cows often cat gree
dhy; and sometimes endcavoring to bolt too
large piece, It sticks in their throats and |
threatens straDgulation. On these occn- |
slons, with thing called a prohany in f,ct |
cows throat ramrod,l with which he rnms
down the obstructive morsal. But, besides
these articles of food, there is the unlimited
eating of grass in the pastures, so that the
yield OF large quantity of milk seems only
matter OF course, though we were not pre-
pared to hear of its averaging from twelve
10 eighteen and twenty quarts of milk dny,
from each OF these three hundred cows
four-and-twenty quarts day is not an un-
usual occurrnnce from some of the cows;
ana one OF them, we were assured hy sew
eral OF the keepers, ouce Welded the enor ,
nous quantity of twenty-eight quarts day
during six or seven weeks. The poor COW.
however, suffered for the munfcence. for
she was taken very i'll with fever, and her ,
NE was gwen over by the doctor. MIR.
wright, the proprietor, told us that he sat up
Two nights with her himself he had such a
respect tor the COW; and in the morning of
the second night after she was given over, ,
when the butcher came for her, he couldn't /
find itin his heart to let him have her. mo, ,
butcher said he, she's been n good friend I,
TO me, and III let her die qnfet natural
DEATH She hung her head, and her horns =
felt very cold, and so she lay for some time n
longer; but he nursed her, and was reward =
ell, for she recovered; and there she stapds 7
the strawberry Durham short -horn-and :
yields him again from sixteen 10 eighteen =
quarts of milk n day. !
Reverting TO the master cow we inquir- ,,
ed whether her supremacy in the case of
wns established mesmerically ,,
by gnnce-or how? The eye, we were
assured had great deal to do with it. The
stranger COW read il, and trembled. But,
sometimes, there was acontest; and n cow
right, with such fresh, strong creaiures as
'hese-all used TO their full liberty, aud able
TO run or leap well, was serious affair. II
no Keeper was at hand to separate them, and
The hight got serious, so that one of them fell
wounded, II was chance but the whole
herd would surround the fallen cow, and
kill her. This was not out of wckedness,
but sometimes in the whole affair that put
them beside themselves, and they couldn't
bear the horrid sight, aud so tried TO get rid
OF their feelings, as well as the unfortunate
object, by this wild violence. The effect ,
was the same If the herd did not witness the ,
hght, but came suddenly to the discovery of
blood that had been spilled. They would
stare At il, and glare at it, and snuff down at
II, and snuff up at it, and mowl round it
and get more and more excited, ill, vt last,
the whole would begin to rush about the
field believing and mad, and make nothing
ut last of leaping clean over hedges, fences,
and fve-barred gates. But, stranger to say ,
If the blood they found had not been split
by violence, but only from causes which the
horned brutes" understood, such as n sister
or aunt having been bled by the doctor
then no effect of il occurred. They took no
notice of il.
We found that besides beauty, cows pos
sessed some Imagination, and were moreo-
yer, very susceptible. The above excitement
md mad panic sometimes occurs as the ei- ,
feet of other causes, ,
Once some boys brought great kite into
The field, with pantomimic face painted up
IN It; and directly this began to rise over ,
lhe feld, aud the cows looked up at IL, aud 8
saw the great glass eyes of the face looking ,
down at them-then, no ho what bel
lowing and the way they rushed over each
other, so very frantic On another occasion, {
some experimental gentlemen of science, {
brought fre-balloon near the pnsturage ,
me night after dark. II rose Up started all \
he cows in panac, aud round and round \
hey rushed ill, finally, the whole herd made a
! charge at one of the high fences-tore h
lown and overleaped every thing-burst in i
o the lanes-and made their way into the n
ugh road, and seemed to intend TO leave
their owners for some state of existence
where fire-baoons and horrid men of sci f.
nnce were alike unknown. Instead of pro- al