Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-05-26
2fericlllfural department
I. D. R. COLLINS, Editor.
TO HAVE A GOOD MIXER.

Joseph Allen Lane, of Bourbon coun-
ty. Kentucky, writes to the Kentucky
Home Journal his views of how the
above end should be accomplished, as
follows:
The milking qualities must be in the
animal, but human skill and manage
ment have much to do with its develop
ments. The best mixers, by far, |
have ever owned have been bred early.
A heifer calf that came so early as
March, and had been we'll cared for.
might with safety be coupled with bull
near her own age. and not too heavy. in
the August after she was one year old.
Her calf would come. if impregnatcd,
the ensuing Maya pleasant season
here, and when the grass is abundant
When she brings her calf, my course
has been to get them into convenient
and comfortable stable, and as soon as |
was satisfied that the calf had sucked,
and this is generally before removing
from the place of calving, have her
bag entirely emptied by very careful
and gentle milking. 10 do this she
must be kindly approached and treated;
first midst and all the way through be
kind and gentle with them. After milk
ing thoroughly and stopping, leave the
door open and let the COW and calf have
access to grass lot where there is plen-
ty of good water, and no other stock that
would disturb or injure them. If the
weather is too bad for the calf to be out,
keep both cow and calf housed and see
that she has plenty of water and food,
but no corn or other food that is too
stimulating See that the uddar is eff
fectually emptied three times day
that is, early in the morning, at noon,
and at night, as the calf will take for a
while but little at time. After ten
days, if the bag appears to be in good
condition, | turn the COW, after the
morning milking, away from her calf on
pasture she is brought up at noon, and
after the calf sucks is thoroughly milk
ed; the same process being repeated
late in the evening. suffer her to re-
main with her calf at night for a while
after the first separation. This course
is best to guard against inflammation of
, the udder; when this is all right, and
| the danger is past, say when the calf is
: about two weeks old or more, according
, to circumstances, l reduce the milking
5 to two each day, morning and evening.
e If the object is to rear fine calf, lei
t it have all the milk it will suck before
: any is MIXED; but be sure to leave none
in the udder. Never let a calf rur
/ with the COW after the first week or tel
e days-if you desire good mixer. Th'
? udder must be enlarged by distcnsiol
It from day to day, and the milk vessel
excited to their greatest production il
order to have an abundant mixer
When the calf runs with the cow all tn
- time, sucking, it may be every two o
. three hours, she will very soon only Sc
;. crete what the calf draws or less at on
time, the udder will remain small ant
-, contracted, and she will be etfectuall
ruined as mixer if this course be Ion
persisted in. 1t is all important in OIL
der to secure great flow of milk, to Sc
= that your cow has an abundance c
wholesome, succulent food; nothing
;, better than choice blue grass, and tn
N more tender. fresh and juicy the better
= let salt be given sparingly, but often
say two or three times in each week.
good rich slop of wheat bran is fiji
mt when first stabbed, or when grass is n,
of abundant.