The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

By more labor and greater care just as good
calves can be raised at half of the sacrifice
of the product for which the cow is most
valuable Nor can farmers afford to perma-
nently injure cow as mixer by allowing
her calf to run with her the first year. The
frequent drawing of her milk by the ever
present calf seriously dwarfs her milk
glands, so that ever after she has no capac-
ity for any large amount of milk. 1t is
very important the calves should not run
with them the first year. If in good flesh
and good health, for a few days it is i'm
portant the milk should be drawn frequent
! ly to keep the bag from Inflammation and
injury. But gradually and as fast as it is
safe, the regular periods Of milking should
be assumed SO that the udder in its forma-
tive state shall assume capacity for twelve
hours accumulation of milk.
Nor is it safe or policy to trust to the calf
to draw all of the milk for few weeks.
The demands of calf at that age are not
sufficient to take all the milk of frst-class
| COW. Hence her yield will naturally dwin-
die to the demands of her offspring. Besides
after calf and cow have been let to each
other twice day, the weaving is injurious
to both. Besides the weaving is frequently
| impossible, creating constant trouble on the
! farm. The practice also of keeping COW and
calf separate, and admitting them together
! twice day to take half of the milk, while
| the other half is being MIXED, is vexa-
| tious troublesome and saves no labor. Any
| one would rather sit down by quiet COW
and draw all of the milk than to fight with
| the calf for half of it. And if the milker
takes the first half before the calf is ad-
mitted, the cow is injured, as the milk
should all be drawn when the cow lets it
down.
| Calves should never be allowed to suck
longer than three days. But they should
be furnished with their mothers first milk,
as nature provides just the right kind OF
nourishment for the first food. When rails
ing calves by hand they can be made just
what you want them. The steer calves in
tended for beeves can be safely pushed
| from the first, by plans which have been
frequently fore-shadowed in these columns.
After feeding for a few weeks with new milk,
substitute skim milk. Then if the calf is
too poor add oil meal, or if it is too fat for
the development of the bones and muscles,
add oat meal or other bone or muscle pro-
ducing food. The heifer calves which are
intended in the future for the dairy should
not be kept as fat as if intended for veals
for the butcher. Keep them in good thriv-
ing order, with the safe development of all
parts, for which purpose it requires more
skill than is usually possessed by the
drudge.
The sooner the COW and calf can be in
duced to forget each other the better for
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the tenderest care learn both to have conf
dence in you. Kindness to a calf in its
earliest days is never forgotten. They make
quieter and better COWS. And steers which
enjoy poor presence and confde in your
care always assimilate their food better, are
not half the trouble to care for, and add SO
much to their satifaction, by their docility
and kind temper.
Calves must have good accommodations
for feeding their milk and grain or other
food rations. Each one must be allowed
its share, without being robbed by the
more greedy or pushed away by the domi-
neering They should also be so arranged
that they cannot suck each other Just after
partaking their milk. Plans for all these
matters are well understood on well ar
ranged farm.-Io,oa Register.
In THE great war against weeds we are in
danger of forgetting that we have an enc
my about of far greater power, because
working often insidiously and unseen,
which requires to be as much guarded
against, namely: the insect enemy. We
complain of weeds because they rob the
plant of food, and like the place where {
good plant ought to be; and we fight with
the feathered enemy because he takes the
fruit, which have struggled through al
other troubles but the insect which we dc
| not see, rarely troubles us very much
though after it is too late to apply rem
, edy, we see what terrible havoc has beer
done. Then overwhelmed with our grea
loss, we think there is no help for it. Ye
we have the evidence everywhere about u
| that much less labor than is often expended
by the exasperated farmer or fruit grove
| in shooting birds that are rather his friend
t than his enemies, would be more than suf
fcient to preserve fruit crop against tn
t worst insect enemies that ever existed.
) We are moved to these remarks by
. communication we recently read in hor
ticultural journal in regard to the celery
grub. All who have had experience in tn
|
have much trouble some seasons from tn
operations of very small worm, whic
, gets underneath the surface of the leaf an
feeds on it's green cellular matter. Celery
, when attacked by this insect rarely doe
: any good. This correspondent had trie
9 lime, and ashes and sulphur, and all tn
easy remedies SO often named, but with n
good at all. Finally he wrote to some on
, whom he thought could tell him what t
do, and was told to go over the leaves O
! the first appearance of the insect and pine
e them dead" He thought this very al
q surd; but he was tempted to try the advice
s and found to his surprise that it took n
e more time than one or two good watering
v or weddings, and he therefore writes t
= thank his friend for his advice, and I
d praise his own good sense in having take
it. Yet this is no more than We in thi
y department. and most other agriculture
= laborers, are continually inculcatin,
b namely: the necessity of personal labor
e we would do anything in this way wit
e much hope of success.
E. This has been exemplifed in the case {
II the curculio on the plum. All sorts {
1t easy scareweevils have been thought o
II Some dust the trees with lime, with su
" phur, with ashes-others stick tar in rag
y about the tree. Numerous other nostrun
II have been popular, but the first great bio
n at the curculio was to cut off bough clio:
up to the trunk, place sheets under til
'f trees, and with a mallet suddenly stril
n the stump and thus shake the insects OF
le which were then burnt. Do this ever
1t: morning for week, and you can get plent
l. l. y.
Of DR.. Hall, of Illinois, improved on this ide
ut He invented sort of wheelbarrow wit
I'd sheets spread on frames, which shook Q
w and collected the insects at once. He all
lie has plums in plenty and finds it pays.