The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-07

Cesb WeA1 AAO 1CArA- II you give HSI
too much she will grow Fat and
saucy, and will waste great deal of
food - and food is always expensive
unless it Is actually needed. A good
way to do is to follow the plan they
have in feeding horses: give her
just so much at a time, and if she
clears it away, you may give little
more at the next feeding. II she
leaves any, st once decrease the sup,
supply. Don't let her go hungry,
but let her stand long enough with
out eating to get an appetite; then
she will relish the food, and that is
what all want, human beings as
well as dumb animals. You may
not believe it, but we are a great
deal like animals, or they are "a great
deal Ike US. 1t We have eaten
heartily, and still have moro than
we want In the dishes from which
we have eaten, it is not pleasant to
have the same dishes set before US
again with the same food on them
just as we left it from the last meal.
1t would almost make US sick and
take away our appetites. A COW
does not relish the food set before
her from which she has already
eaten what she has sorted over and
breathed on time and time again. /"
Slut yen don'tfeed your COW hay
only Uncle Zeo?"
sob, dear, no. How would you
like to eat bread all the time and
nothing eiae? Ny COW likes a
variety, and go [ always give her
some thing besides nay. liz you
keep clean what Isl left from your
kitchen, you need have little waste.
Excepting meats and one or two
other things, 8 COW relishes Stops and
eats them ag readily ss q pig; bur
they must be kept clean. I have
noticed also that good Stops will in.
crease the milk flow materially.
My cow has them twice day. In
thu morning i give her bran; al
noon she has q feed Of carrots, OF
beets,or mangel wurzel-for they are
all good milk producers; and at
night she has pail Of good slops
with enough Of bran or something
sise In it to make 1t more than
drink. Mind you, ! don't mean
dish water when [ say Stops, but
the waste potatoes, carrots, cabbsges,
Feelings, and other things of thai
character. II it is winter, I make
the sl0ps and bran warm, and give
them now and then a good dash o.
salt. | also sprinkle salt water on
the lucerDe which may not be
agreeable to her, and by this making
it tasty, i persuade her to eat uE
what would otherwise be wasted
You have to treat them just like
Children-eo x them to take what
they do not want by sugsy-eoating
the pill.
+" | started to tell you before tina
you should care for your COW just 81
you would for a horse that has reg
ular hours to work. Feed her al
regular hours, and be sure to milk
her at regular hours. Nothing
ruins a COW as much as irregular
milking, and to miss a morning Oh
an evening will work more mischief
than you can overcome in a month
You can also get a cow into bad
habits very easily, and it is one OF
the hardest things In the world tc
break her of such habits, II once &C
CURED. For instance: l have
known persons to make it practices
Of feeding their cows bran or some
thing else, just before or during
milking, In order to coax them Il
let down their milk, Now, with
the most perfect arrangements, it il
sometimes impossible to give the
bran or Stops, and the COW then re-
fuses to yield her milk, and you
can't persuade her to do It,"
elbow do you avoid such diff
culty?"
"By always feeding her after you
have MIXED. And there ia another
reason for this. A cow will move
around when she is eating and vol
cannot keep her from It; but as s
rule, she will stand perfectly quiet
when she is once used to being
MIXED without eating.
I follow the same rule with q COW
that has newly calved. It is com
mon practice to let the calf suck
couple OF teats while you milk the
other two. The practice has many
Objectionable features. In the FRS
place, it gets the COW into such {
bad habit that, when the time
comes for weaving, as it must, thu
mother will refuse to give her mill
unless her offspring is at her udder
| and it takes q long time to overcome
her obgtinacy in this respect, during
| all which time the COW Is falling
because she is not MIXED dry. Be
sides, while l would not care t
| Intimate that the milk is injured,
do not think that it improves 1t
flavor to have a calf sucking tn
tests near you; and am sur
any one who has tried to milk witt
calf bunting at the uddeT, mus
pronounce il an intolerable nuisance
| I wsan the calf from the start.
u know there ia an impression tina
the calf does not thrive az we'll WheI
fed by hand, bat my experience
has been that it does not MAKE
much differences how the calf get
the milk, so long as it has enough
i If you feed the calf by hand, yo'
never have tho anxiety Of wesnini
il. Tho cow soon becomes accus
tened &c the absence OF he
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