Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-26

cattle for the dairy q different system
should be followed than when the stock
is designed fer the shambles. 1t is .
great mistake to let calves, intended
for cows, suck their mothers, or to feed
them to such an extent that they are
made good veals-calves thus bred do
not make good cows for the reason
that there is an undue development of
fat and muscle, and consequent want
of development of lacteal qualities.
Any milking breed of cattle bred in
this way will deteriOrate, The proof
of this statement, in the history of the
ShorthOrns, which breed having been
bred on the stuffing principle, contains
hundreds of cows which do not give
milk enough to raise their own OIL
spring. Calves which suck are very
likely to have thick, heavy necks,
heavy shoulders, coarse bone and
muscles.
The most successful dairy breeder,
with whom L am acquainted never
allows his calves to suck at all. My
practice is to let them suck until week
old. 1 think this is an advantage TO
the cow, reducing the Inflammation in
the bag, and also preventing nervous
excitement on the part of the mother
at time when such excitement might
be very injurious. After the calf is a
week old it may be removed from the
mothers sight without any injury to
the dam, and meanwhile its digestive
organs have been exercised naturally
and the young animal is better fitted
to be fed. 1t is, however, a fact that a
young calf will grow faster and look
nicer when sucking a very small
amount of milk than when fed three
times the quantity out of pail. The
reason of this is because, when sucking
the saliva, is abundantly secreted and
mixed with the milk, which promotes
digestion and assimilation, whereas,
when the milk is drank, there is no
secretion of saliva. 1t will not pay,
however for the dairyman to raise
calves in this way, unless the milk of a
COW could be divided among several
calves, each one sucking its portion IN
its turn.
| To have a COW as profitable as posi-
bic in the flow of her milk, she should
be kept entirely separate from her calf.
Calves can be raised on skim milk, and
will do well. If the milk is scarce it
can be mixed with tea made by boil
ing bright clean hay. A calf can be
raised on four quarts of milk-twO at
night and two i'm the mOrnIng-witht the
addition of haytea When three weeks
old they will begin to eat little hay
or grass, and when four weeks old a
little Oat or linseed meal. If kept grow
ing all the year round. calves raised on
such scanty IatiOns will make good
animals. Many fine Jersey from supe-
riOr stock has been spoiled In the rear
ing, and instead of making a good COW
with fine udder and milking devel-
Opments, has made meaty, coarse,
useless female steer. s.l
| Calves should be halter broke when
young, and made SO tame that they
can be approached anywhere. AMI
mails thus handled are never 80 liable
to accident as when allowed to grow ND
wild and ungOvernable ; and besides.
they are so much better to manage that
this fact alone will compensate for all
the trouble i'm breaking them. Often
more time is spent in trying to force an
unbrOken COW or bull int q car or
stable than to halter brake q dozen
calves. Calves should never be
handled about the head, unless to put
the halter on them, or touched on the
horns, or have their ears pulled, as
such kind of petting is almost certain
to make them ugly and, then they
grow up, dangerous. No animal Is
more grateful for little extra feed in
the Winter. than the calf, and none
will show its effects more. The farmer
who raises few roots for his calves
and fOrgets not little meal will surely
enjoy a lively frOlic and run when in
the Spring times he opens the gate and
leads his pets into the green fields.
The Gardeners Mdgd-ine, London,
lately figured potato which produced
beneath its skin q number of small
sized specimens to all appearance pei
fectly natural and capable of reprOdu-
cling their kind. The mother tuber
had entirely withered away, leaving
only the hard, dry coating as a sort of
protection for her offspring. The eX-
planatiOn given is that the potato is an
underground branch. supplied with
buds, embryo leaves Tor scale-like fOli-
age answering for leaves, and other
organs not unlike the ordinary shoot.
Among these may be classed adventi-
tiOus buds, which give rise to other
branches when the shoot is injured,
and it may readily be surmised that the
growth starting within the covering
has developed these. possibly from
sheer inability to burst through the
covering. With the growth of the new
tubers the parent dies and delivers up
its stOrehOuse of plant food to nOurish
the coming generation that takes Its
place ana i'm the case alluded to the
contents of the old tuber were absorbed
and dried up, while the young crop
gradually occupied the SPACE.
The Best Depth Of Mlk for Cream
Experiments made to ascertain the
best depth for setting milk for cream,
gave the following results: A lactO-
meter of the usual width 10. inches
high. gave 12 degrees of cream. A
glass vessel 81 inches wide with 81
inches depth of milk gave 81 degrees
of cream. Another vessel of glass with
9 inches of depth of milk, and 10f
inches wide, yielded not quite 3 de-
grees of cream. The milk was not a
mixture, but all from the same cow,
rant the opinion that cream is not cast
up in greater quantity when not placed
in very shallow vessels. The cream
was carefully taken off the two latter
vessels, and the SKINNED milk put into
a lactOmeter; that from the widest
vessel gave two degrees of cream. and
that from the second i'm width about a
half degree. A thermometer, placed
near the yesselt ranged from a little
above AZ degrees to nearly 50 degrees
the whole time.
Manure TOR POfdfOes.-In the journal
of the Royal agricultural society Eng
land, DIR. VOelker, the we'll known ag-
ricultural chemist, records the follow
ing conclusions from careful expert
ments in special fertilization of the soil
for potatoes;
/. The greatest came from the appli-
cation to an acre of 400 pounds of min
eral superphOsphates. 200 pounds of
potash salts, and 200 Of sulpbate of am
mOnia.
9. Dung did about as well.
8. The absence of ammonia was at
tended with marked falling off, and