The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-08-06
One Cow.


The enterprising publishers of the
American AgricultaNa.ist have recently
offered prizes for essays setting forth the
practicability and profit of keeping up
COW, even for families living in cities
and towns The first of these articles
they published in the June number. On
the subject they say:
Every family on a farm, of course,
keeps one or more COWS, but we claim
that the dwellers in villages, and very
many cities, can and should each keep a
COW. Good milk is the best of all food
for young children, and it goes great
way in saving butter bills, and in the
preparation of palatable, nourishing food
of many varieties. Actual results show
the economy of keeping ones own COW.
Two to five families, according to size
and numbers, can readily unite in having
one COW kept, dividing the milk and ex-
penses, and thus always have good,
pure, rich milk at very moderate cost.
The suitable refuse from the kitchens of
three or four families would go good
way toward reducing the cost of pur-
chased food. In rural villages summer
pasturage can be obtained near at hand,
which, with daily feed of good meal,
will furnish large supply of rich milk
at low cost. A boy can be secured at a
small price to drive the cow to the pas
ture in the morning, and return her at
night to the stable. A stable or stall
can always be obtained at trifing rent,
and be kept clean. There are always
plenty of gardeners or farmers who will
gladly take the manure away SO fre-
quently as to prevent it being nuisance,
or disagreeable.
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Villages, manufacturing towns, ETC., can, !,
an abundant supply of pure, rich, fresh,
healthful milk at less tl,an three cents
per quart, and at the same time add
greatly to their home comfort, and save
the health, if not the lives, of their little
ones.
MANS AaE.-Few men die of age.
Almost all die of disappointment, pas
sion, mental, bodily toll or accidents.
The passion kill men sometimes, even
suddenly. The common expression
choked with passion has little exaggera-
ton in it, for though not suddenly fatal,
strong passions shorten life. Strong
bodied men often die young--weak men
live longer than the strong, for the
strong use their strength, and the weak
have none to use. The latter take care
of themselves, the former do not. As it
is with the body, so it is with the mind
and temper. The strong are apt to
break, or like the candle, to run, the
weak to burn out. The inferior animals
which live temperate lives have gener-
ally their prescribed number of years.
The horse lives 25; the OK Is or 20; the
lion about 90; the dog 10 or IL; the rabbit
8; the guinea pig 6 or Z years. These
mum bers all bear similar proportion tc
the time the animal takes to grow to its
full size. But man, of the animals, is
one that seldom lives this average. He
ought to live hundred years acrording
to physical law, for five times twenty are
one hundred; but instead of that he
scarcely reaches an average of four times
his growing period; the cat six times; the
rabbit even eight times the standard of
measurement. The reason is obvious
man is not only the most irregular and
the most Incorporate, but the most
1aborious and hard worked of all the
animals. He is also the most irritable of
all animals; and there is no reason to be-
1ieve, though we cannot tell what an ami
NAL secretly feels, that, more than any
other animal, man, cherishes wrath to
keep it warm and consumes himself with
the fire of his own secret reflection.