Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-08-17
WHAT IT ALL FoREBoDEs
New WAYS to keep Cows.

The terrible drought which is now Cypress
ing France, and part of Spain and Italy, has
almost deprived the country people of the
forage necessary for their cattle. The latter
have been sold for merely nominal prices,
simply because their owners could not keep
them, and butchers meat, such as it is, has
hardly ever been SO abundant in France be
fore, with the background to the picture.
however, of a probable dearth, next winter
The keeping of a sufficient number of milcb
kline has become quite problem. But, a.
ALWAYS happens when misfortunes are right
" appreciated, out of this evil has sprung
some good. The French, with their usual
fertility of resources, have invented new
model system of keeping cows, which bids
fair to benefit those useful animals and their
owners, wherever it may be app led. A SO
ciety has sprung up which, hereafter, will
introduce some excellent things for the eco
nomical management of the milch kline, the
improvement of their milk, and the greater
health of the animals themselves.
- In France. the utmost care is taken to
serve the public faithfully Every attempt
at fraud in serving the fluid which may b.
come a source of either lite or death to the
consumer, accordingly as it is pure or cor
rups, is punished with relentless severity,
and the article used is rigidIy inspected
But, heretofore, there has been as much lax
ity in looking otter the method Of feeding
the animal as there had been in the United
States until the famous 80 swill milk inves-
LEGATIONS brought about reform. In the vi
cinity of Paris, the milk dealers have been
accustomed to give their cows quite as pro-
miscuous a mess as has been made their por-
ton in the vicinity of New York and our
other large cities, and as the Old country
saving has it, " a cow is a box which gives
back only just what you put into it," we
need not wonder that disease is often the
But now comes the model Dairy Associa-
tion with a kind of fodder for which il has
taken out a patent in France, and which our
farmers NAV find it worth their while TO use
Ia America. Every one knows that the
gluten, or sticky portion of the grain, is It's
richest component-and it Is upon this prin
cipIe that the society relies for its new COM
nound. The fodder that ii thus procures
Consists chiefly of the bran or starch manu-
factories. and makes q saving of 80 per cent
Of the bav. while the material itself costs al
most nothin9o,8T The very best hay contains
onIv neY cent. of starch :. 1 of azote, "A OF
slh1men. 7of sugar, and IS OF water, IN its
total of 100 parts But the gluten and Its
accomnanyine substances, when 1t eomes
from the: starch factory, contains OF fafty
material parfs, starch Ii, albumen -,
.zote Is. bran 6, water IS in the 100 The
new system of. foddering, then, admits Of zoe
economy of swe-shirds of the hay ana oarely
can be replaced by gluten. Inc company
bas already brought down the cost y. OF Keep,
inc = cow in the vicinity OF rerls, irom 2
frsncs to 60 confines, or from soou. OF cenls
70 10 cents. or Just one-hfth OF sne ,oimer
amount. In a city where Zoo'ooo gaiion' VI