The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-12-19
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
Saturday Morning, December 10, 1860.
The Best Feed for Ru,,or
PORJTANU

The Best Feed for Ra,tcr.
In order to have upon the table tue sweet.
est and best fl rvored bntter, it is indespensa-
bly, necessary that c, ,ws should be properly
ted And this is not ALL The coss sh )uld
be ofthe right breed, and well cared for. And
iurther, the person who makes the butter
should not only be thorough neat, hnt also
understand tue business in all its Details
And again, there must be good milkl00m
and the convenences. Now ge are so
uncharitable as to believe that there are
many farmers who have not all the conyen-
fences, ard yet they make business OF man.
uacturlng butter for the market.
The Valley Farmer says that if you aim at
a great flow of milk, feed young Timothy and
white ciover;if you aim at the best result
both in quantity and quality of butter, feed
on fresh pastures OF with clover al timoth,
aud wheat bran in winter. The grass must
be cut when beading out, or better, young
aftermath well cured. Avoid roots and car
den stuff in general II you wi b good quail
ity OF butter, although it is now held that
those ed while milking, or Immediately before
will remedy the evil
To have good cows continue to be oood
and Profitable, they must not only be well led
and properly cared for, but they must also
be regularly MIXED. The best COW in our
State may soon be spot ell by careless and IL
regular milking while common kind OF ccw
may be made to yield more milk thar usual
by the rigl performance OF the milking oper.
alton. 1t Is mote diff cult task to find a
first rate mi ker than to find a good cow
Farmers and their wives are not aware OF
the great importance Of having their cows
not only regularly milked out also scisely and
property MIXED. Bad and egular milking
i. a severe drawback upon the profits Of the
dairy.
At recent meeting of the Massachusetts,
Board OF Agriculture Mr.. Willard OF Utica,
n. T.. gave an essay on cheese and cheese
making, in the course OF which he alluded to
to the Importance OF a ,-ractical education of
the female sex. He would have them in
structed in the lighter farming work and in
the use OF some OF the labor saving machines
VI VIZ 'NA A4S oOOhC VI lilc lIluISpeQS1Dip
need OF the co operation and sympathy OF the
farmers wife and daughters in the work on
the tarm. Now we very well know that in
cur State many farmers have wives who un-
derstand something about farming and take
Quite an interest in it. And should they be-
come widows they could continue the farm
work with profit. But we can hardly say so
much tor their daughters; for too many of
them think mole OF chignon than Of know
ing how to milk cow. Somehow the girls
feel above farming. But we can tell them
that many or the most refined, cultivated and
aristocratic English and German ladies take
pride in knowing all about iarm work in all
its branches. For young woman to know
how to milk and to churn the cream after it
rises into good swee: butter is a noble accom-
plishment.
But this Is depression. Mr.. Willard
spoke oil butter making. He did not consider
1t SO difficult an act as cheese making, Stock
requires variety of grasses, and an acre OF
corn'foGder Should be raised for every eight
COWS, to be fed to them during the season
when the pastures ale affected by droulh.
The requisites in good butter making were
al even temperature IN the dairy, the thor
ough expulsion OF the butter milk without
breaking the grain of ihe butter, and clean
oaken tubs, made so as to be perfectly tight.
He added, mo kicking or abusing the COWS or
racing or dosging them to the stalls" ihese
last suggestions are wise, more SO than some
farmers suppose.
How many tunes we have seen bows race
the cows home from the pasture, and some
fuii grown men have occasionally set the Digs
upon the animals to hurry them along to the
milking yard. Now this is an exceedingly
bad practice. The nervousness of the cows,
when frightened, has direct and injurious
effect upon the milk. There can be no qucs-
ton aoout this fact Frightened, worried,
doS-dri7en cows give poor milk tor butter, or
Tor cheese. There Is an unnatural heat in
such milk which has very deleterious effect
upon it. Nothing pays so well as kindness
to cows. Owners OF cows ought to think of
1t. Dumb brutes never fail to appreciate
kind treatment. Even hogs, the most log
glsh of all farm yard creatures, know how to
appreciate kinduess. There is a proft as
well as a pleasure In treating dumb animals
with kindness. Thus treated they will grow
fat faster, give more and better milk, do N ore
"olk and yield more profit generally. Even
the selfish principle prompts 10 such action,
and yet strange as it NAV seem, thousand
are cruel and every time they come In COR
tact with their animals they give EN- harsh
words kick them or make thea feel the lash
or the goadstieS Seldom do such men pros
| per in this world, and wha. their stare and
condition will be in the ,xt is not for US to
| predict. But as the tree fails SO it lies.
| AGRICoIA.