The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-22

ny lee OF barn and waiting lmpauently |
for O chance to enter. Let your cows by |
all means have warmth, light and repose.
This is in every way comfortable to them
and profitable to you.
You will hear much said about the ne
cesslty of providing variety of food for
your cattle. think, however, you need
give yourselves no uneasiness on the &C.
count. There is no great variety of grasses
In our pastures the grazing lands of Cal
ifornia and the West, where cattle thrive
and fatten with great rapidity, the blue
grass pastures of Kentucky, are not re-
narkable for variety but for the quality of
the grass which they produce. During six
summer months in this climate, and
throughout the year in the milder regions,
the cattle Craze without any other variety
than that furnished by the few natural
grasses themselves, and they supply all the
requirements of nature. The hay which
is stored IN our barns is made up of various
kinds of our cultivated grasses, generally
herds grass, redtop and clover and this of
itself seems to be sufficient for the wants
and tastes of our domestic animals. At
any rate, good hay and grain, either corn
meal, or shorts, or oat meal, with few
turnips, can be fed day after day with
manifest advantage to our COWS and
working oxen, as hay and oats can be to
our horses. That little green food in the
shape of roots is useful for our cattle in
the winter season, as is also a cessation
from grain for two or three wiuter months
in each year useful for our horses, do not
doubt-in fact ii is reasonable and mani
fest. But there is no necessity for going
beyond this, either to obey the law fixed
by experience or to accommodate the
structure of the animal.
In conclusion, let me remind you that
cleanliness IS really as indispensable to the
comfort and health of the animal as are
good food, warmth and repose. This |
urge as a preservative of health. AS a rem
edy for disease, except such as are local
AMI require local remedies, and those which
are considered epidemic. l would urge
warmth and rest. Medicinal agents may,
probably do, control the diseases of au-
finals; but / am confident that the effect of
the remedy is as bad as the disease itself.
Domestic animals are very sensitive to the
effects of drugs, much more so than man.
And while they bear disease with less I'M
punity they also bear medicines with less
safety. That medicinal agents must be re-
sorted to do not deny; but, as general
thing, the acute diseases of animals, if ia
ken in season, will yield to good care,
warmth and repose. The difficulty is, we
are unwilling to believe that our animals
are ailing until they are almost past cure,
and then the remedy is too late. Recog-
nize the first symptom, attend to it, and the
work is half accomplished.
| beg the Club to excuse the generalizing
manner in which have presented my views
and l assure them that l shall be more
happy to learn from their experience than
| have been to set forth my own theories
THE DEBATE FOLLOWING THE ESSAY,
The chair announced that debate was in
order. Peter Ilsley rose and said "Mr
President. have head the doctors lee
lures with good deal of pleasure. l think
he has helped me considerably. l have
been bothered good many times In buy
ing cattle; and / have wondered how l got
cheated as bad as | did. | can tell good
COW about every time, but when | thought
a cow good and she turned out poor l new
er could tell exactly where had been mis-
led. Now l see what the bones and hide
and head and horns all mean; and l be-
lieve rs much as do that the sun shines
that the doctor is more than halt right
when he says one kind of a skeleton is
made for all kinds of business. l suppose
q man can get whatever he wants among
if he only knows how to do il. But the
trouble is to know how. l have seen in
some places good cows, shaped just right.
Of good, nice size, neither too large not
too small, which had come by ac-
cident or chance, nobody knew how,
and were the best in a farmers barn.
They had come from the rest of the herd
not so good, and how they got there no.
body could tell. Now l want to be able to
make such cows to order; and somehow l
think DR.. Parker has limited away. Now,
before we go on discussing breeds and feed
ing, l want to offer a vote of thanks to the
doctor for his lectures, and l move that
the thanks of the club be given to DR.. Park
er for his kindness in coming with his lee
ture and helping us out in our debate; and
that his remarks be entered on the records
of the club.
John Thomas took the floor to second the
motion. He was much obliged to DIR. Park
er, also, for what ne had said on the sub
ject of cattle. For himself he was salts
tled that all the difference between profta-
BILE and Improbable farming, when man
fept good many cattle, was to be found in
the business of selecting and feeding The
first business is to buy good cattle-the
next is to feed them with economy and
skill. He had understood that the profits
of factory lay in the economy with which
labor was applied to cotton and wool, to
make the most ofthem at the lowest price
He thought the same law applied to COW
and he knew that if he could make
fifteen quarts of milk out of cows
laily food he was better off than he would
be If he made but ten. And SO in crops
He had so applied labor and manure to
land, properly chosen, as to get hundred
bushels of corn from an acre of land and
he had so applied them as to get only forty.
There was profit in one and loss in the
other. lie should have something to say
on feeding at the next meeting and he
should give his own experience and what
his neighbors had done. He hoped the mo-
ton of Mr.. llsley would be adopted.
The motion was unanimously adopted
and DR.. Parker felt for the first time the
satisfaction of having done something for
the public good of the community IN which
he lives And when the club adjourned he
walked home with the crowd, little
anxious to know and reishing more than
he dared to tell, tho kind things that the
members said to him about his public en-
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