The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-06-03
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yhc interests CT Agriculture III 1ottcT
County, Let pe, if you please, throw in a
few rcalarks on what / call the best busl-
less, viz, The OIL Of Grass
Every one. we know. likes TO fellow q
good busiI.ess--we know all are not farm
crs, SONG are merchants, scne mechanics,
some professional men-but for tie farm
prs' sous and grandsons these remark are
iutended The Oil Of Grass, what does
1t mean and how Is it obtained? My
personal knowledge has been mostly derry
I'd from the counties Of Otscgo, Chenango
and Dcleware, \. Y. The first items l
would name are the thousands up
on thousands Of fat cattle-I can
hot tell you how many thousands, for Of
sta istics have none The next item the
sheep and mutton, wool and tallow; and
gast though not least, the Butter, BuHer,
Bcr4Ea that would start for market from
each farmers door. Is not this the Oil
--of-Grass2
But who would wish to milk from five
10 fifty cows in a thunder storm? We viii
put up the COWS in the nice clean stables
and stalls, take an arm-fulI of pals, I'LL
one and set it back, fIl aaother and set it
back, till the COWS are all MIXED, and do
as they do in Spain-if it rains let it rain.
4 couple of crotches and a few boards
will form milking shelter in the milk
yard.
But the luxuries, comforts and profits
Of the Oil Of Grass First the Iuxurias
] shall not 20 to a cookbook for list Of
the luxurious dishes in which the Oil Of
Grass forms an important item but will
leave that part for the ladies', while / hint
a little at the profits, / have known
Chenango farmers to grow up, from farms
unpaid for to farms paid for, and milk
from ten to fifty cows,-handsome house
and barns, orchards and meadows, smooth
as an onion-bed ,-horses, harnesses, sleighs
and carriages in full keeping. / knew
one such man to groor up. The story goes
that he even borrowed the money to pay
his wedding fee--at any rate he was not
the owner Of foot of land-grew up two
farms, paid for and MIXED his fifty cows,
and his pockets weighed down By thou
sands of dollars-Oil of Grass. A dairy
of cows will make in single butter sea
son per each cow 100 l2U, and some
times have been known to make l75 lbs.
per COW. Now, dairy Of twenty COWS, at
100 lbs. each, is 1000 lbs Of butter at 10
cts per lbs.-foots up $500 The sour
milk or butter-milk, fed to hogs or ca!Yes,
is worth say s. per COW, making $40, add
ed to the $500 worth of butter, make $500
for dairy of 20 cows, at the lowest esti-
mate. Now, for another estimate Twen-
ty cows at 175 lbs butter per COW amounts
10 $500 lbs at % cts per lb.-(and some
Ehenango farmers have sold for more
than that price, amounts to 5H75,-thc
sour and butter-milk, fed to calves or hogs
at So per cow amounts to $50, added to
The SS75 worth Of butter foo:s up $935,
oil Of Grass-from the twenty Oil
Mills in one season.
How much meadow and pasture will it
take to sustain an Oil Mill "a cow one
year? Wen say four acres; OF course
eighty acres viii sustain twenty Oil Mills.
Now | think the Potter County farm
ers, may grow up and pay for their farms
those that have not paid tor them. Grow
up did | say? Yes, grow up--grow up
q heifer-calf this year good enough to b
a cow in two years next year raise tive
in like manner; the third year double
again, raise four, and soon you will have
the oil mills on hand Here let me di-
gress a moment-my little grands0nS have
learned that there is better feed fol
young calves than kicks and cuffs and il
now was the time | would tell about it.
You may ask, where is the keeping
IF we double our stock every year, where
is the hay? Browse, Potter County
Browse. One hand. with ten tuns OF
hay. will fall and trim fine the timber
and winter twenty COWS ; and thus save
thirty tuns-for it will take two tuns OF
hay to winter a COW. But browse is not
the Oil of Grass, very true; but grass will
follow right after the axe and ire if you
will SOW the seed. Follow up the Old
brush heaps and hedge fences With fire and
grass-seed, and put the gass through the
oil mill as quick as possible.
Mr.. CHASE, we, (that is Grandpa, and
the little fatherlcss GrandsonS,) expect to
attend the Fair next Fall We have .
nice pair of two years old, and a nice pair
Of ycarling steers that will travel in the
yoke-we think they can travel to the
Fair next autumn. Not because they arc
such wonderful affairs and cannot be beat
out We expect to learn enough to pay US
for attending the Fair. We extract the
essence from four Oil Mills, and, with
three heifers on hand, We expect next
gear to number up seven of these Mills.
Now, is it too much to expect that in a
few years some of the Potter County boys
will count up fifty of these Oil Mills
their faces fat-yes, farmer-fat-and
their pockets weighed down BY thousands
Ff dollars-Oil of Grass
OLD GRAND FATHER.