Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1853-07-14

o0Cb OIL a ttmte SD VIC RuC*s
farmer was so fortunate as TO possess a
goose who laid every day golden egg
No, gold color merely, but all solid gold.
Now one would think ,ha, the possession
of such a rare bird would have been a
treasure sufficiently valuable to satisfy
the cravings OF the most avaricinus dis
position, and tina, the acquisition of
lump Of gold of The size of a goose's egg
daily, to the farmers "pile" must have
made him the mos; conrented man in the
world. if wealth could bring contentment.
And so il diu while. lie saw his pos
sessions extending and improving, and
as he daily couDtet over his gains, he
saw in the not " far distant" future, the
time when he should rank among the
:. miiiioadires" of the land. But ere
long change came over him. lie want
I'd large sum all at once. Whether he
Waited to buy more land, or To build =
fine house, or to shave some of his poor
rr neighbors' notes. We cannot sa,--in
fact. history 10 rather obscure on the
point. But a, all events he wanted his
money all in pile, and so he killed the
,"ose to get all the eggs Immediately
The result, was he got no more eggs. but
learned the lesson thar the way 10 get
golden eggs is to wait tor the goose to
lay them. Bought w.t." Gays the
proverb. "is the best, if YOU do not buy
it TOO dear"
We do not cay that those farmers who
are selling off their best breeding cows
10 the Csl:fornians. saving only i-w
miserable refuse cattle to replenish their
stock with, are killing the goose ,hailays
the golden eggs, but Ia US it looks might
lily like il. We have no statistics by
which TO form anything like just est
mate of the numbers al such caule taken
from Missouri, during the past four
months. but we presume the aggregate
is far greater than what is generally sup
posed. Our own opinion is that there
is MT now in the State more than ! as
many milk cows ~ there were five years
ago. Aud what is more, in many in
stances the best animals have been driv.
Ell away. The consequences will be
that for many years 10 come all kinds "f
stock Of The COW kind will be sclrre aud
high. But this, says the farmer, will be
good for US. Not too fast, friend for
If you have sold of all your cows tins
spun,, where your ANIMALS to come
from which you expect to sell hereafter!
On, we will 20 inm the back counties
and buy mole. We got twenty. five
dollars piece for our cows. and we can
60 and buy others for ten or twelve.
Perhaps you may. but we doub, il
You will find that the specuia,urs have
been there before you, and instead OF
buying at the rates which obtained them
four or five years ago. you will find il
difficult To &c, good Cows at any price
| The farmer who has All animal that neith-
er works nor breeds, should di.p 'se of
II As soon as practicable, if II has obtc in
ed lis growth. bui il is different case
with the mmhers Of his herd, and we
sincerely believe that many farmer in
this State and Illinois and Iowa will rue
the day they sold oil their cows.
This condition of things will also effect
the supply OF butter and cheese; though
not TO SD great an extent as il will the
supply of beeves, from the fact tina, most
of the farmers who have sold their cnws
are of that class who think the manufac-
ture Of butter and cheese too small bust.
ness Tor them, and requiring too much
hard work to make it profitable. We
suppose we shall have To look to Ohio
and New York Tor some tine 10 come
for our principal supplies of these ar,i-
,cIes.- Vailey Farmer.