, 1876-11-25
hay roR WINTER Use.

The farmer who neglects to provide shelter
is both coward and fool. HI
is coward because he allows dumb beas
to suffer, knowing it cannot reproach hin
for his parsimony. He is fool because
his ,neanness robs nobody's pocket but his
own. The stomach is the boiler of all an
mated creatures and food is it's fuel. An,
engineer will tell you that jacket of as
bestos about the boiler and stovepipes, will
save at least 80 per cent. of the fuel. Good
shelter for your cattle, therefore, will prove
saving of one-third of the fodder consum
able by them. Barns should be warm, LuI
not close, for COW needs oxygen for hel
lungs, and will give unhealthy milk if hei
stall be not ventilated properly. But down
about the Sound, the need is of small
hardy cattle, that will mature quickly and
be of general service both for purposes ot
the dairy and the shambles. When YOU
consider that oar moist climate. so similar
to the Channel Islands between England
and France, gives US at least two months
more OF green grass in each year than Cali
fornia enjoys, it must convince you that we
possess
A GOOD DAIRY COUNTRY,
If proper management is exercised. Take
the Swinomish flats for instance. We saw
reclaimed land there from which two crops
Of timothy hay had been cut this season;
yet there was fresh pasturage in the last
week of October. Those flats will produce
good sugar beets, two hundred bushels to
the acre, if not more. Save the oat straw
and chop it up with sugar beets for STALL
eeding. You will have fat cattle for sale in
February and "blue beef" will have be-
come a thing of the past. Look at the
money which Puget Sound pays California
for butter every year; ii would purchase
the ransom Of n prince. We have been
living here for twenty years, in daily def
ance Of every principle of political econo-
my, exporting lumber and coal to pay for
what we might as easily produce at home.
Devon cattle could be made q source of
great profit in the Swinomish country, by
saving the COWS for the dairy and selling the
steers for logging cattle. The teamster
who once uses them will never be content
to drive any others. But if you live in a
section of country where the grass is sparse
and mixed with fern and bramble, then try
the
JERSEYS or ALpERNEYS.
These little fellows are small but they are the
best dairy cattle in the world. Carefully kept
accounts show that they produce the greatest
amount of butter in proportion to the feed c,.n-
sumed, of any breed extant. The cows are of
a tawpy yellow, while the bulls generally have
brown necks. They are like deer, with their
fine curly horns and tapering heads, while their
rlxa 80 ~.
They Will feed all day on steep mountain sides,
in places where Durhams would perish from
exhaustion. No other cattle, save the Hol.
stems perhaps, afford such cheese as the Alder
neys. They cost more than common cattle, it
is true, but they will soon return you a much
larger income tor yol = increased outlay. And
to families in towns, who prefer to keep their
own COW, We say don't be without a Jersey
She will take no more room than an oversrown
bulldog and live en- little or nothing, besides
giving you such milk as you never can hope to
buy out of milkman's cart Any likely far.
mer will buy her calf for half aa much as the
COW cost you, if he knows what q good invest
fnent is. so you can't lose ON her till she dies.
See that She has
PLENTY OF SHELTER
From the winter storms, and her bills for hay
will not be very heavy assessments. All the
trouble she can give you is 10 milk her and
clean out her STILL, SO she has dry place to
sleep. You must use gentleness on all occasions
and never beat her because she does not obey
your tmperious commands, for Nature never
sent dumb animals into this world to bs kicked
and abused. And whether you milk one COW
or a h. rdred, see that Rent1eness is never de-
parted from, for even the most barbarous ma
tions always treat their cattle we'll. Therefore
1t is your duty to treat Daisy and Spot with
that Kindness which is the result of civiliza-
ton, and remember that "a goe, man is merci-
ful to his beasts,