Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-04-03
A Great Help.


and their surrounding regions have not
more universally initiated the example
of the poor emigrant, who, on the mo-
ment that he lands, looks about him
and proceeds to get his potato patch
and his COW into action. OF course in
cities and their immediate neighbor-
hoods such thing is impracticable, if
not impossible; but in towns built like
the most, loosely aud over large terri
tory, and where almost every house has
its bit of land about it or behind it, a
dead waste takes place, and a great
help is thrown away in failing to pro-
cure "the little cow" as the affection
ate Irishman is wont to call this gener-
Gus provider. And this was never more
worthy of consideration than at the
present, when, for some fortunate
reason, the price of COW is SO Won
derfully moderate that the animals are
all but given away, and a good one
can be procured without trouble for
thirty dollars. A couple of acres of
land will comfortably pasture the crea-
ture, once in possession, through all the
summer months; or, if one has not the
land, a small sum of money will pay
for the pasturage elsewhere, and the
winter feed is less than three tons of
hay with few bushels of meal. The
work Of taking care OF her is so light
that no man in any family OF moderate
circumstances needs to grumble if called
upon TO do it; but as he very probably
will grumble, it is blessing to know
that a small boy, in consideration of
fifty cents a week, and often for quart
of the days milking, may be had, in
the greater number of towns, able and
willing TO do all the service that the
Dame of the Crumpled Horn usually
requires.
As this is subject which comes
home directly to the housekeeper, we
shall be pardoned if we dwell upon it
moment. 1t will be seen that the out
lay is not large which procures and
maintains this household comfort; and
what a comfort it is it will not take long
either for the householder or for the
mother of children, or for the cook dis
tracted over her desserts, to discover.
Wherever there is cow giving the
usual quantity of milk, there need never
be actual hunger; it supplies a score of
deficiencies; and even where hunger is
not in question the bills of the butchers and
grocer are very sensibly and healthily
diminished by large rations of milk
served to those that can drink it, which
even the most delicate and dyspeptic can
do with the tasteless addition Of little
Gme-water, especially if they remember
the favorable action of milk-cures in
many cases, which probably means
nothing more than cure by means of a
nourishing food easily assimilated, as
other food may not be.
Very few families feel themselves able
TO contract and pay large milk bills, and
they are apt to 90 without more than
Just enough for tea and coffee, or per-
haps the exact needs of the baby. But
when the milk is in the pans, and they
are not feeling the cost of it, they find
its advantage not only in the pleasure
and comfort of bountiful draughts, but
in this thousand and one varying dishes
which it makes possible, and which were
previously reckoned as too expensive
for daily use. Thus in the more gener-
GUS table made possible the well-being
of the family is increased, as enriching
and blood-producing diet can not help
doing.
What comfort it is to the house.
keeper to have her pans of milk ready
to surrender their rich skins of cream
only those can tell who have been sud
denly taken unawares by "company
without satisfactory dessert on hand,
or who are at a loss for something just
a degree nicer than common for break
fast; since this cream is capable of
being whipped and poured into count
less number of hurried forms, each
more palatable than the other, and is
delicious poured plain and untutored
over the simple breakfast cake, while
served with common apple pie, or
with even dish of boiled oatmeal, or