Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-30
Stable the Cows in Winter.

Those who would profit by the ruling high
prices of butter should stable their cows.
The weather, it is true, has but little the APP
pearance of winter; the days are warm and
the nights not cold, but we cannot expect
continuance of the present favorable weather
much longer, and we should be prepared for
the change. Our cold rain will produce
decided shrinkage in the flow of milk If the
COWS are allowed to remain out in it. Even a
frosty night will tell materially in the lessen
ng of milk the following morning. These facts
are recognized by every observant dairyman,
and every thoughtful dairyman can account
for this falling off of milk if he will. Milk
comes from the food that the COW eats. De-
prive the COW of food, or give her
but scanty supply, and her milk
very soon cease TO flow, or will grow less In
proportion to the less food she eats In
warm weather very little of the food con-
sumed by the cow is required to keep
up the animal heat, and hence the flow
of milk is more plentiful in warm weather
than in cool or cold weather. Does it not
follow, then, that by giving cow warm
place-an artifcially- heated climate-the flow
of milk can be kept up during cold as well
as during warm weather? Experience shows
this to be the case. Experience teaches that
even in our mild climate it pays to stable any
kind of stock during winter weather. Stock
stabbed eat much less than stock allowed to
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The food saved by ssabling large number OF
cattle during our winter season will more
than pay for the necessary buildings to stable
them in. If this be true of stock not giving
milk, how much more can be saved and
gained by stabling mich cows. Every time
a COW is MIXED a certain amount OF animal
hsat is taken from her body, and proper
tional increased amount of food will be re-
ouired to be appropriated to the renewed
supply of that animal heat thus drawn away,
and proportional less amount can be spared
to renew or reinforce the supply OF milk.
Cows stabbed will eat less and give more
milk than cows allowed to run out in
the weather, so that we have double protlt
one by saving in the cost of food, and
the increased product of that which brings
money. Cows do not require very expensive
or very tight stables in this climate. An or
dinary rough-boarded barn will be warm
enough Where a large number of COWS are
kept in such stable or In stable thus sided
the natural heat of the COWS will keep the
temperature well up-so warm that mixers
REQUIRE their coats off early of mornings to
milk. While the stable need not be very
tight it should be so constructed as to avoid
all drafts Of air through it. In pleasant
weather COWS that are kept in the stable
nights should be allowed to run out in the
yard or pasture in the day time. This should
be done to give them exercise and fresh air to
keep them healthy and strong. With butter
worth from forty to forty-fye cents pound,
good stable can very soon be paid for by
the increased production of one hundred
stabbed COWS.
Neglected Orchards and the Cooling Moth.
The danger from the cOdling moth In this
State does not come from the well.cultiyated
and paying orchards, but rather from the
neglected trees and orchards scattered here
and there over the country There are more
of these than is generally supposed, both in
the valleys and in the foothills. IN a former
day, when California was just making for
herself a reputation as great fruit-growing
country, there were numerous small orchards
set out in the low foothills by miners who
were engaged in working surface mines.
While this mining continued to pay. these
orchards were well cared for, and gave their
owners grateful and bountiful supply OF
fr..it. As the mines became exhausted, and
were abandoned or sold to Cinnamon. the
orchards were neglected, and with neglect
the trees made but a stunted growth
and produced but small crops OF lnte-
rior fruit. So in the valleys many
small orchards were set out by men who were
located on land that has been proven to be-
long to other people, and when thus proven
has been abandoned, leaving the orchards un-
cared for and uncultivated. These, too, are
bearing annual crops of poor fruit OF no &C
count to anyone In various ways and for
various reasons small orchards, sometimes
consisting of but half dozen trees, have
been left without care or cultivation, and
since the advent of the cooling moth into
the State these abandoned and neglected
orchards are producing greater crops OF
worms than of fruit. Could all such ORCH
ards be destroyed the destruction would cause
but very little loss to any one, but would
prove of immense benefit to the real
valuable fruit interests of the entire
State The active orchardists may
spend time, and money, and exertion
in expedients to kill the worms that are al
ready lodged in their trees, and to prevent
their reintroduction, but so long as these
neglected orchards are allowed to remain
they will act as breeding grounds for new
armies that will spread over the country each
year, and thus each year the work of de-
struction will all have to be done over again.
We think there is great need of legislation
to get rid of the evil and damage arising
from neglected orchards. Here is field for
the State Board of Agriculture and the local
Boards of the district societies to do some
practical work in, and we might also call upon
the State Horticultural Society for its aid In
the same direction. The evil is too great to
allow of longer delay, and we hope that
some real practical and effective machinery
will be put in motion by the authority
of the next Legislature, by which all these
neglected orchards and fruit trees throughout
the State shall surely be destroyed. This
being done, there will be some hope OF get.
ting rid of the great orchard pest that has al.
ready done hundreds of thousands of dollars
damage within the past few years.
swill-fed Cows Give swill Milk.
In most of the Atlantic States there are
| stringent laws against feeding mich cow:
kept for supplying milk for towns and cite;