The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-11
AGRICULTURAL.
HOW TO MAKE MIXERS.

No matter what breed you have,
something is necessary to reach the
highest success in raising mixers.
Aud can farmers expect ever to raise
good stock from cows to which, for
the purpose of making them mixers,
they have been in the habit of using
any runt of bull they could pick up?
It's a great thing to have good
blood, whether it be AYRSHIRE, Jer-
sey or Shorthorn grades, but part
from this important advantage. the
course of treatment in raising milk
er is somewhat different from that in
raising beef animal, or an animal for
labor. (
The calf should be we'll fed and pet
ted while young. Well fed, to pro-
duce a rapid growth, SO as to enable
the heifer to come in early; petted, to
make her gentle and fond Of the pres
ence Of her keepers. Fondling helps
to create quiet disposition SO impor:-
tant in dairy COW land this education
must begin when young.
For mixer, we-would have the
heifer come in at two years old, and
if she has been we'll kept, so as to
have attained good size, she is then
old enough to become cow. She
will give7mo milk for coming in
early. 1t forms the habit of giving
milk, and the habit, you know, is a
sort Of secondnature. An old bull is
better. We use two many young bulls.
A three or four years old is far better
as stock getter than yearling, and
many prefer five or six year old to
any other. After the heifer comes
in, let her be fed regularly. Glover is
preferred to all others for the stall
feed. A1ittle oatmeal induces large
flow. Indian mes rs rather fattening.
In bad weather give her clean, airy
stall. =
A COW newly come in should not
drink cold water in cold weather. but
moderately warm sop. Calves intend
ed for raising should be taken from
the cowwithfn few days, and they
will be hess liable 70 suck when old.
Feed them first with new milk for a
time, then skim milk, then sour milk.
taking care that ali. the changes are
and graduallya little meal.
Calveswelf fed and taken care off,
with quart or two of meal daily in
winter, will be double the size at two
years that they would have attained
by common treatment. -
HeifeEs thus treated may come In at
two years old. and will be better than
neglected animals-at three, and one
year of feeding saved.
HeifeFs dried 7up too early after
calving,- will:always run dry in after.
years; therefore be very careful to
milk closely the first year until about
six weeks before calving. g
Hearty eaters are desirable for cows,
and they may usually be selected while
calves. A dainty calf will be likely to
be dainty COW. ~
Heifers should become accustomed.
to be freely handled before calviag,
and drawing the teats.
They will not then be so difficult to
milk. Begin gradually, and be care
| full never to startle them. -.
In milking cows, divide the time as
nearly as practicable between morning
and evening, especially at time of
early grass, that the udder may not
suffer. Persons who milk should keep
the nails cut short; animals are some
| times hurt with sharp nails, and are
unjustly charged with restlessness.
To determine which cows are best
for keeping. try their milk separately,
and weigh their butter-for some
times a2cow may give much milk and
little butter, and Uice verSd.-(OleI
mans Rurdl World.
LIQUIDsMANUREs FOR FRUIT TREES,
M. de Their recommends liquid ma .
nure to-be applied three or four times
during the summer, over the whole
extent of surface that the roots of
fruit trees may be presumed to occu-
py. He advises the surface soil to be
removed few inches deep before the
application, and replace afterward. or
some mulching in its place. He gives
four kinds of liquid manure, either of
which may be used:
First. Guano mixed eight times
with its bulk of water. Second. Oil
cake, finely bruised, and mixed six
times its bulk of water. Third. Ex-
crementious matter mixed with water,
and rendered inodrous by mixing two
pounds OF green copperas with tw enty-
two gallons, of the liquid. Fourth.
Urine 5mixed with four times its
quantity of water.
TheSuse Of gas or coal-tar in des troy
ing insects is well known to some lol
our readers There is nothing that
will more quickly kill orchard eater
rillars3than a slight touch on swab
Cotton batting dipped in it and placed
around the stems of trees, ia K ing care
not to get much on the bark, will pre-
vent insects from climbing, aud some
aver chat they have thus excludedfhe