The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-07
AGRICULTURAL. A
Dairying and Raising Calves.


How is the ignorance of some far
mers about rearing calves in conjunc-
ton with dairying to be accounted for?
| Every calffrom the milch cows can be
raised without making one pound less
OF butter, and the calves be as good at
a year old as any which have sucked
their dams. Even where cheese is
made 1t can be done, though not quite
as easily as when butter only is pro-
duced. Having seen it done for forty
years, (when only seven years old |
| helped feed number of calves sum-
mer and winter, for my father dairied
all the year round and often bought
calves for raising, in addition to all
! brought by his own cOws,) and hav-
| ing done it myself, and being now
raising some from three to nine weeks
old, | can say with confidence that
any man must be little wanting in
sound agricultural knowledge who
does not understand this simple,
and In many districts universal, way
of breeding, weaving and rearing the
best dairy stock in the world. The
calves L am now weaving OH milk
which stands thirty-six hours, and
then has the cream taken off, are in as
thriving and growing state as any
can be.
No herd of dairy cows can be kept
a11 INN 10 r,,l
unless attention IS given to use a first
class bull from good milking dam, as
well as from pure blood, and then all
theheifer calves from good cows may be-
weaned and brought round to be mich
cows in due season. Some few years
since a gentleman started a large dairy
in the West. / corresponded with him
and declared that he must raise calves
to make the establishment pay, but it
was of no use, and the farm was adver-
tised for sale, as hundreds now are,
and will be, because with all these fine
cheese factories, &C., the majority of
the great dairymen do not know how
to raise calves cheaply, nor how to
force them into maturity early; nor
do thew understand the Importance of
reihg only such bull as is adopted
for the getting of dairy cows. "OId
Anthony got stock sixteen years; he
commenced as a yearling, and it was
equally good one year as another
Coat'es''u Gentleman.
MiIdew and - g.,
AS much attention is now pu.-., ,o;5
to the cultivation of the grape in Viz
ginia, it may be interesting to all per-
sons engaged therein, for me to make
a report ofan experiment and its re-
suits, on Franklin grape vine, lone,
the most liable to mildew which l
know of in the summer of 1867, when
the grapes were about half grown.
l was engaged one evening latter
sun down, in watering some dwarf
pear trees with solution of copperas
IA to 1-2 ID. to gallon of rain water,)
when | thought | would try it on the
grape vine. | did so and the next
morning vine and fruit looked black
and badly; but in twenty-four hours
after, all mildew and rot had diappear-
ed and the vine looked fine and healthy
and what fruit remained ripened
well. Should this prove to be, in all
cases, a cure for mildew and rot on
grape vines, its benefits to the grape
growing community will be immense.
Southern Planter and Farmer.
white Hard Soap.
Put box of the concentrated lye"
into quarts of boiling water; when
dissolved, take lbs of soft fat, or lard,
and 2 lbs of talloW; melt it, strain if
necessary, and then stir the lye in the
fat, gradually, until it becomes thick
and smooth as cream then cover it
well, and allow it to cool gradually.
When done and cold, cut in cakes or
bars.
Most Expeditions Way of Fattening
Fowls.
Coop them in a moderately warm,
dark, quiet place, with good ventila-
tion, and keep perfectly clean, and feed
on boiled or steamed potatoes, mixed
with crushed oats or oatmeal, and
blended with sweet milk with a little
fine sand added, and given warm, but
not hot. If in health and well attend
ed theV will he fit for uSa in a fort