Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-13
From the American Stock journal.
BOVINE A, h. Css.
BY MADELINE.

II.
My school, please keep in mind:is not Of
the fashionable, select sOrder 81 make no]
pretent;ons ito steaching more advanced
scholars. they ofathe first, Second, and
many among the third class, will be likely
to find ADLER teachers among themselves.
But as uneducated pupils will be coming
in, Just as they do in all other schools,
ignorant of the rudiments of bovine edu-
cation, a primary department is a necessity
too, fquite as much so as a select one.
NAV perhaps lead a primary class with
credit to myself and advantage to my
pupils. Having thus defined my status, let
us consider school in" and take to our
A, B, Cs.
Beginning at A in bovine instructions
| if / we're to be division. commander of a.
half 4 hundred dairy COWS, L would have
| every bossy'" Of them apet, beginning
| their education in early infancy. A calf
or heifer-issas easily won by Kindness as
any sother animal, either qtdadruped or
biped, and the cow that has experienced
your loving kindness from early calf hood
| willgive love and gentlenessin return, as
| long as she lives Taking a calf in the
fourth day of its life from its mother, if a
| heifer, and intended for milk service, I
would rear it by hand. | would become
its step-mother, giving it all the kindness
its natural parent could do-petting and
caressing, and making believe milking as it
advanced in yheiferhood; continuing the
friendly intimacy until the petted calf
comes ina dairy COW as gentlasobedi ent,
1 well bred, and as thoroughly educated to-
stand quiet at her first milking as any ten
I years veteran can be. 20 atdj Of
Such was the universal practice at home
of making milk COWS out of calves, and
often enough | have heard my father de-
clare that in no.instance had such course
of education failed to produce most salts
factory 1esults. ! know that ever since my
i earliest recollection oursapet cows have
| been in demand at premium prices. Their
reputation for docility and good cow quail
| ties is widely known, and nelghboring
farmer or dairyman wanting first class
mixer kind, gentle, and without faults,
comes to carry off one of our educated
pets, offering. $40, $15, or $40 above cur
rent prices as an inducement to sell.
| would raise all heifer calves intended
4 for milk cows, by hand, and by gentle
practices pet them into model mixers
But there are Sheifen calves born Sof cows
in all points unexceptionable, that are not
worth the raising, though to the unprac
ticed eye they may be as pretty calves as
one might wish for.
II As generally reliable rule. gthe heifer
i calfsof any breed that atfour or five weeks
old show heavy shoulder, thick, bull
neck, square 3 unfeminIne muzzle, fore legs
4 set wide apart, and girths considerably
larger around the chest than the loins, will
never make profitable mixer. No use
spending time petting and educating such
| a calf Better metamorphOse her into cur
rency at the age of six or seven weeks.
A IL fto1 int Of
good mixer are so far developed at the age
Il oftwo months, that pretty correct, concfu-l
sions NAV be made as TO What kind of
mixer calf will make. a,..g 80.
am not among those who believe in
i heifer- cows calf mothers, if you please
Among humanity there is an immutable
law of physiology requiring maturity.
Girl mothers almost invariably make
4 helpless. wives and short lived women.
4 Who shall say that this law of nature is
not Just as arbitrary in bovine society?
Common sense and sound philosophy tell
us it, is g Gosmo, /" who has spent several
years among the wild cattle of South
America, observing their habits closely,
assures me that there,a cow seldom hears q
calf till the fourth year of her age, that
none of thedisastrous diseases that afllict
Il our cows in the United States and Europe
are known among the herds of the pam
pas and that cows at the age of twenty,
and even thirty years, hale and healthy,
bearing twin calves every year, is the COM
mon rule. .,, - ,y.f 10 .f.l.,.t
believe from all / can learn by close
observation and diligent inquiry, that
! abortion in COWS, so prevalent in the State
{. of New York, has it's origin entirely in the
unnatural practice Of making cows from
calves in the third, and often in the second
year, would never have a heifer "cOme
f in" earlier than her fourth birthday.
If / wished to purchase a good mixer,
| and was offered as Incorporating an AMI
f NAL as ever wore hoofs, having all good
points developed, and all good qualities ap
parent, with all possible guarantees given
q would never purchase until had tested
!. her milking capacity. Many people arc
led in their selections by immense udders
monstrous teats and largely developed milk
J ducts. All these are recommendations, as
rule, undoubtedly, But the rule of ma
, ture is so frequently violated IN these re
: spects that would never pin my faith upon
] them entirely without supporting testlmo
: nv, which should be something as follows
) The COW should stand perfectly gentle
/ and quiet while being MIXED, saying plain
= w in her mute way, That is a pleasant
I performance II like it." The. flow Of milk
f should be free and easy, terminating alb
f ruptly, not tedious, long drawnsou
/ dribs9 The udder, emptied Of milk, oughl
f to be soft and flabby, with no hard Jumps
f in it, and the milk ducts f1attened and elias
/ tic under. the fingers. ssy.vsE -
The COW that, as a total stranger, | can
f not walk square up to-, pat on the neck, anc
with soothing sook-sook- bossy,
D make a confidential friend Of who vii
Y stand like statue while [ am milking,
f want no companionship with. Coercet