The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-06-06
Milk and Butter.

We saw a very interesting account
recently in the ANDERSON INTELLIGEN-
GER, of the wonderful. product of good,
rich milk, from COW that we almost in
ferred had developed her remarkable
lactescence since the Inauguration of
the fence law in Anderson County.
Be this as it may, if it be true, she is a
sensible COW, and we have nodoubt there
are many, very many like her in the
State. If the homely, uncouth, abomi-
nable-well, we won't call it-worm fen
ces could be abolished, and the faithful,
patient creatures, that have all the past
warm winter and spring been compelled
to search for enough food on the COM
mons and in the public road to exc out
miserable existence upon, we're to be
taken up, housed and fed as that
Anderson COW was, We would ere long
have country flowing in milk, and no
doubt the honey would be coming along
after while.
Treated, however, as the COWS of South
Carolina are treated, they are extraordi-
nary creatures in many respects. We
think we have seen some that could live
through any winter on the anticipation
of getting a plenty of grass the next
summer. Thousands of them have
other qualities that are as hidden as the
mines of the earth, because no effort has
ever been made to develope them. They
have all, at one time or another, been
tested as to their resistance -to-starvation
qualities, and generally proved very
valuable on that score. But seldom have
many of them been experimental with to
prove their powers of endurance in re.
verse way and if our people could only
be induced to try the experiment of
proving how much any one or all of their
COWS could eat daily, for say three months
at time, there would be such surplus
of good rich milk in every mans dairy
that we would have to send for Our neigh
boris pigs to come over and help consume
it, especially if we didn't care about
going to the trouble of having our own
pigs, which is possession that very
great many of our people are nowadays
averse to.
And then too, if we had q surplus of
milk we would in all probability have
superfuity of butter, and could use it to
both eat and cook with, and would there
fore avoid the necessity of eating or using
oleomagarine, or that lard made from
suffocated hogs, an account Of both which
articles we recently gave in these COL
umns. But it does not follow because
man has abundance of milk, that there
fore he has surplus of butter, for but
ter is very valuable product from the
lacteal fluid of COWS. We once imported
a COW from Scotland, that could not be
made to give over eight quarts of milk ut
each milking; and yet from that quanti-
ty of her milk we have often seen more
butter produced than we could get from
sixteen quarts of other cows milk. Her
eight quarts poured into two gallon
jar would float cream in due time three
or four inches thick, whilst the milk
from some others would be covered with
cream no thicker than wafer, and the
milk when the wafer was taken off would
be nothing but "Blue john"
We simply throw out these hints at
this time fo- our readers who live in the
"no fence" sections of the State. Keep
up and feed your mich COWS highly;
test the milk from each by aceight, not
by measurement. When COW gives
fine flow of milk, and that milk turns
out good supply of butter according to
the weight of the milk, take care of her,
for she is a treasure. When another
gives no remuneration for what she eats,
either in butter or milk, butcher her, for
she will make good beef, but will be a
horse leach as milch cow.-D. Wyatt
aiken in the NeiOs and Courier.