Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-08-14


MANAGING Cows.-What a difference there
is in cow management There across the fields,
three .tourths of a mile away, Is Jones wide
awake, driving fellow. In fact, he is too wide
awake He keeps every body AMI everything
about him stirred up. | am awakened in the
morning by hearing him yelling at his cows.
and by the barking Of his yellow cur of a dog
that he sends after them. You should see the
cows start the moment they hear him yell =
From their peaceful, pastoral rumination, or
from their cvol-of-the morning breakfast off ths
dewy grass, they are galvanized by the veil of
the farmer aad the yepng of the yellow cur
into race for the milking yard. Half of them
come through the lane on the run, painting like
high-pressnre steamboats,. They eougs and
gore each other with desperate abandon. They
switch their tails about with restlessness that
suggests perpetual motion. There are, saw
twenty of these kline, and by the time they have
swept through and tumbled over the half-drawn
bars into the yard, Tim, the hired man, Susan,
the hired girl, Betty, the farmers daughter, and
| Sam the fourteen-year-od sou of the farmer,
| are clamhering over the fence into the yard
with one to three-legged milking stools and
wooden or tin pals in their hands, ready to
make these heated cows $50 !" ''Stand still ~
"Hist !" and submit to have the lacteal fluid
| squeezed out Of their udders.
| Jones told me yesterday that his cows We're
'beginning to shrink their milk bad" lie did
not ''see why it should be feed was uncom-
monty good for tho time O. year. Reckon the
| flies and the elderberry bushes have some thin
to do with it." didn't tell him that thought
| his cur and himself were most to blame, but |
| thought so.
| Right across the street from him Ia his neigh
Dor Gibson-one Of your quiet, Systematic care
/ full, sensible farmers. He, too, gets up betimes
in the morning, takes his long staff, quietly
walks into the pasture and gently says
"Come boss Come boss /" The cows know
his voice and heed 1t as surely as Jones' COW s
do his. He walks slowly around them, scarce :
ly speaking to them, quietly gathers them to-
gether, and they cop the sweet heritage as they
| slowly travel toward the stable, which they en-
ter without goring each other or violence from
any one. They take their places in the stan
chions, are quietly fastened, the mixers are at
hand; no noise Is made; the milking is quickly
done, the cows sailed and turned loose. Glib
sons cows do not ssshrink their milk" They
are not allowed to do so. When the pastures
do not yield heritage enough, or "ay time" pre-
vents foragng, there is soiling material for them
As is the man, so is the brute beneath him.
The nature and habits Of the one are reflected
by the 9TH err. Jones hasn't got COW that will
not jump staked and ridered fence to escape
him or his cur. Gibson hasn't COW that knows
how to jump Jones hasn't COW but expects
stoning or maullng with milking stool, or
kick on occasions. Gibson hasn't cow that
has received blow or a kick since he owned
| her. Jones hasn't COW that will not run from
him at sight IL there is possible chance of get
ting away. Gibson hash a COW that will not
come to him at his cal.-Rurat Neap Yorker,
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HARDY, BEARDLEss AND PRoLiFIc.-T, r
DiiwOrth, of Port Penn, Del, publishes his ex-
perience with the new kind of wheat received
from the Agricultural Department, through
Senator Bayard. He says he received 2SS lbs.
of wheat; "new, hardy, beardle IS and prolific y
| sowed it on 1-2 acre of land on tho End OF
October of 1871. The yield was $50 lbs or IA
29-Go bus. of 60 lbs. weight per measure 81 10
lbs. perl ushe.
sowed the whole of it last fall, but, owing
TO my peach and tomato crops, not till very late
part on the 22d of October, the remainder on
Nov. list, and some Of it did not come I'M iii
this Spring. The yield was about 20 bus. per
acre, have 1t threshed; the quality Is very good
the straw stronger and sitter than that Of our
old Mediterranean, and think altogether a
much bardler wheat. The Mediterranean see,,-
ed THO same day [Noy. 1st,) did not yield much
move than half as much. have not been able
to detect any fly In it, In either Of the two years
have sowed 1t, and IL Is few days earlier than
the Mediterranean.
intend to SOW field of II this fall but shall
| have more seed than need, and If any Of nv
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