Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-08-19
Agricultural.
Milking Cows,

There is moral in the following
from Moore's Rural Ne,C YORKER. too
good to be lost:
What difference there Is in the
cow management. There across the
fields, three -fourths of mile away,
is Jones-a wide>awake, driving fellow.
In fact, he is too wide-axaKe. He
keeps everybody and everythidge
about him stirred ND, l am awakened
in the morning b h :aiiIg h m 9 ling
at his COWS, and by the barking of his
yellow cur Of a dog that he sends af-
ter them. You should see the COWS
start the moment they hear him yell,
From their peaceful, PASTORAL rumina-
ton, or from their cool-of the morn
ing breakfast off the dewy grass, they
are galvanized by the yell of the
farmer and the yelping of the yellow
cur into race for the milking yard.
Half of them com up through the
lane on the run, painting like high
pressure steamboats,. They gouge
and gore each other with desperate
abandon. They switch their tails
about with a restlessness that sug-
gests perpetual motion. There are
say, 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 We IT
old son of the farmer, are clambering
over tie 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
so :" "Stand stillr "Histr' and
submit to have the tactical fluid
squeezed out of their udders.
Jones told me yesterday that his
COWS were beginning to shrink their
milk bad" He didn't "see why it
should be /; feed was uncommonly good
fer the time O year. Recon the flies
and the elderberry bushes have some
thin to do with it," l didn't tell him
that thought his cur and himself
were most to blame, but [ thought
so.
Right across the street from him
is his neighbor Gibson, one of your
quiet, systematic, careful, sensible
farmers. He. too. gets up Defines
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 it
as surely as Jones cows do his. He
walks slowly around them, scarcely
speaking to them, quietly gathers
them together. and they crop the
sweet heritage as they slowly travel
townrd the stable, which they enter
without goring each other or violence
from any one, They take their places
in the stanchions, are quietly fas-
tened, the mixers are at hand; no
noise is made the milking is quick
ly done, the COWS sailed and turned
loose. Gibson's COWS do not "shrir k
their milk" They are not allowed
to do so. When the pastures do
not yield heritage enough, or ''hy
time prevents foraging, 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 other, Jones hasn't
got COW that will not jump a staked
and ridered fence to escape him or
his cur. Gibson hasn't COW but eX>
poets stoning or mauling with a milk
ing stool, or kick on all occasions. -
Gibson hasn't cow that has received
a blow or a kick since he owned her.
Jones hasn't a COW that will not run
from him at sight if there is posi-
BILE chance of getting away. Gibson
hasn't COW that will not come to
him at his call.