Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-02-14
Worcester Farmers Club.


formed the subject of discussion.
CosT OF RAISING CALvEs.-Some dissent
was expressed at Mr.. Brooks's advice regard
ing the raising of calves. Mr.. Bartlett thought
calf could not be properly brought up at a
cost OF only SO for the first year. Mr.. Had
wen said his calves cost him S25 the past
year. He had kept them well, and notwith-
standing this cost, he considered it the best
economy to raise them himself. He had no.
ticed that the calves eat like amount of food,
excepting the Durhams, who were enormous
consumers. Mr. Barrett, who has some fine
calves. said the reason he let them take all the
milk from the COW for three months, was be-
cause the small teats of the COW made milking
hard work, thereby, as it was observed, Illus
trating the truth that short teats make long
calves. Mr.. B. said it was an improbable ex-
pertinent. Mr.. Watson had raised calves at
a cost not exceeding SO. Mr.. Peaslee said
he had been run in debt by a calf which had
cost him S35 the first year.
OK MANAGING YOUNG CALvEs.-Mr. Bar
rett did not believe in the starving process /;
he would rather give six quarts of new milk
per day. Mr. Maynard had had good success
in the use of the tea made by sleeping hay, on
which he had raised calves that had never had
twenty quarts of milk in the world, Mr..
Gleason said his calves raised on skim-milk
and shorts were just as good when five years
old, and probably better, than if fed more lux
uriously. Mr.. HartshOrn would take the
young calf right away from the cow and give
it new milk for two months. He would never
give skim-milk. One farmer alluded to John
7 Mann's dairy, acknowledged to rank among
the best, and said his way was to take the calf
Immediately from the COW and bring it up on
stepped hay tea. The calf was quite poor
when three months old. Nevertheless no one
had a better dairy. Mr.. Esty thought calves
intended for dairy purposes should have new
milk. Mr.. Keith having expressed desire
to have calves always gain one hundred
pounds to the month, Mr.. Rice thought his
calf would satisfy him. 1t was about year
old, and weighed nine hundred pounds. 1t
had had new milk for the first three weeks,
and then all the skim-milk it wanted. 1t was
finely proportional, and was three-fourths
Durham.
1t was generally conceded that winter raised
calves made the least trouble and did the best
The BEST FooD FOR Mich Cows.-Mr
Sears, in addition to hay, gave his cows car
rots, sugar beets, and two quarts of cotton seed
meal per day. The latter, if scalded, would
produce more milk, and it was better for that
purpose than either linseed or corn meal. The
merits of the carrot were discussed. Messrs.
Barrett and Bigelow were of the opinion that
carrots did not increase the quantity of milk,
but did the cows appetite. Messrs. Harris
horn, Salisbury and Lincoln, were of differ
ent opinion The latter said he knew that, by
feeding out carrots, he had increased his milk
in body. He thought beets had tendency to
scour cattle, and should be used frequently,
as an Alternative He liked parsnips best, as
they made the sweetest milk but for produc.
ing good color carrots were preferable. As
to turnips it was asserted by several that if fed
out, at milking time, in the morning, they new
er affect the taste of the milk. Capt. Flagg
said he moistened his cut hay, and the cows
of milk. Mr.. Salisbury said that was custom
airy in England. The prevalence of wet wea-
ther there prevented the proper curing of the
hay. And to remedy the evil, the farmers
have steam boilers in their barns, and before
feeding the cattle, the hay is put in box and
steamed, by introducing steam pipe. Thus
all mould and bad results of imperfect curing
are remedied, and the cows liked it as well as
new mown hay. Mr.. Lincoln said the value of
pumpkins as fodder was enhanced by the re-
moval OF the seeds; more milk would be thus
obtained. The seeds tend to much urine and
a corresponding decrease of milk.
PROFIT OF Mich Cows.-Mr Sears said
the average cost of nine of his cows had been
twenty-three cents each per day. The yearly
receipts from the sale of their milk, was about
nine hundred dollars. His grade Durham
proved to be the best mixer. A half Devon
had given sixteen quarts (new measure), fed
on winter hay. She had for three months CIV
en- fourteen quarts per day. Her milk made
grand butter. Mr. Hadwen said his herd had
averaged during the yea six quarts of milk
N"y ~ S"SH WV lucy SOSb HIN HtJOO III
six months while in the barn, and one dollar
per week in the summer. The average re-
cepts from each COW, above the cost of keep
ing, were $l4 %. Mr. Howe said his six
native cows averaged nearer seven quarts a
day each the year round. This is an extra
ordinary yield, when it is considered that the
estimated average of the cows in the state, is
only three quarts per day, Mr.. Eames obtain
ed from his two cows one of which was half
blood cream-pot, 602 lbs. of butter. The
cream-pot COW gave much the most milk. Mr..
Hartshorn said his six cows yielded through
the winter, fifty quarts of milk day. One
of them which gave for three or four weeks
q quarts is now giving about II, per day.
MIR. Salisbury, after stating the great reputa-
ton of the famous Cakes COW, said she had
never produced good calf; and this was an
instructive lesson on overlooking and the
iault of relying on exceptional cows for good
stock
The topic for next Monday evening is
Fruit Culture.
POLICE CouRT.-Yesterday Rebecca Leon
ard, for being drunk, was fined so and costs,
and paid John O'Leary, for assault on
Michael Mulrahey, was fined 81 and costs,
and paid. L. ID. Wetherbee and II. Il. Clapp,
apothecaries at Washington Square, for being