The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-01
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

wo-YEAR-OLD BEEF. The English
are noted for the early age at which they
force their cattle to the beef point. How
it is done was told by a farmer at meet
ing of the Kingscote Agricultural Asso-
ciation:
"Twelye cows are engaged in rearing
calves, which are fattened from birth,
and are sold at about twenty-five months
old, when they weigh from one hundred
to one hundred and twenty stone. The
calves are, of course, well bred, while
those calves which have to be purchased
are carefully selected. They are weaned
at three months old, having been pre-
viously kept short of milk, and fed partly
on cruel, and thus induced to feed on oil
cake and hay. Surprising them to be
wcaned i'm December, their daily ration
at six months old would be one and three
fourths pounds of linseed cake, with the
same quantity of bean meal, and suffi-
cient amount of grain, mangolds and
hay. The cake and meal are gradually
increased, till at twelve months old the
calves get twice the quantities just men,
toned.
In summer the other articles Of diet
which have been named are replaced by
trifolium (Which is excellent food while
it lasts), tares (Which are also good), and
grass, with second cut clover. The whole
of the green food is cut and brought to
the animals in their sheds and houses,
which they do not quit till the proper
period arrives for sending them to the
butcher, by which time their daily ra-
tions have been increased to four pounds
of cake and six pounds of bean meal, with
The principle of management is to let the
animals continually master or outgrow
their food, pushing them on rapidly the
last three months, so as to land them fat
at something under two years old.
After some discussion, the following
resolution was passed by large MAORI
ty: "This meeting is of the opinion that
well-bred calf, if kept well from the
time it is dropped, land not turned out
the first year, can be brought out fit for
the butcher at two years old, with
profit"
ECONOMY IN THE KITCHEN. - Order
is said to be heavens first law, and no
where amongst the doings of mOrtals is it
more important than the multiplied
operations of the good housewife in the
laboratory, the kitchen. She, the queen
of this workshop, has toilsome and
monotonOus time of it, to say the least,
and everything that can be done to
tighten the toll, lessen her steps, and
compassionately lift the burden from her
back, should be done.
Conveniences to do with, and these ar
ranged in such order as will shorten
labor and rest the weary feet, are the
primary steps to cheer and Tighten toll.
Her own good sense will suggest that, of
the thousand little things in use, she
must, to econOmize time, have them so
located that she can put her hands upon
them in the dark. Things thus arranged
in convenient order, and always in their
places when not in use, will save very
many tiresOmc steps and much time, and
will greatly facilitate progress in work.
There is no position connected with
farming that requires to be so instant in
thought, in season and out of season, as
that of the housewife. When cooking,
she must have her thoughts revolving at
the rate of three hundred revolutions in
the minute, or some of the numerous
irons are sure to burn. Those cakes, that
roasting coffee, and numerous other
things, must be attended to at the right
moment, or we sit down to burned cake,
coaled coffee, or dish of pork and beans
burned nearly to cinder.
"How's this?" Well, she has so much
to do, so many irons in the fire, and,
withal, has been little careless. How
could it be otherwise? Just little care
lessness on her part is sure to bring her
to grief and her husband to burned or
spoiled victuals, and to drink black swill
and call it coffee.
A good housewife must have her wits
about her all the time, or the leakage
from the kitchen will materially dimin-
ish the profits of the farm. Bits of meat,
bread, cake and pie, which could be just
as well saved, are carelessly thrown away.
In the course of a year, could they be
placed in pile, they would greatly as
tonish the cook and account for the hun
dred dollars deficit in the farmers calcu-
lations. A stream of little things daily
pouring from the kitchen in years
time would swell into small brook
which would prattle of carelessness and
waste, and kindly teach valuable lesson
to all who would deign to listen.
The swill-barrel is the key that opens
the secrets of the housewives dominions
of cookery. If in the heterogeneous
mass are floating in liberal quantities
bread and cake, pudding and pie, potato
and meat, it is Ominous of careless and
unthinking waste. What is thrown into
the hopper by the prOvident hand of the
farmer passes over the tail-board of the
kitchen into that omnium gatherum of the
swill-barrel; and the dollars that should
go to clothe herself and children are
swallowed up in the greasy waters of that
open-mOuthed catch-all.
Want of order and care rob us of a
mint of money, without our seeming to
notice the leakage, without our taking
heed to the lesson which is before us
from one years end to another. Waste
fulness is the twin brother of poverty.
At first they appear to be distant from
each other nds without family look
but as age creeps on they grow to look
alike, and ut last, when side by side in
the poor house, the resemblance is per-
feet, and we wonder that we had never
noticed it before.
The true economy in the kitchen is to
have everything in order and in its place
to save everything that is useful. A lit
tie saved to-day, and day by day as the
months glide by, will insensibly grow into
notice, and at last be properly appre-
ciatcd. Extravaganza is the other ex-
treme, and, like wastefulness, swallows
up the dollars without any equivalent
indeed, they are in their results synony-
nous, both showing the disappointed i'm
provident crawling out at the little end
of the cornucopia.
The man who has good housewife, in
whom order and economy hold prom
inent place, may consider himself AZ
blessed among men, and, If he can not
appreciate her, he deserves the execration
of all women, and to be pelted with rot.
ten eggs by unfortunate men.