Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-16

lesson OF high significance. Cattle
will transmute this grass into gold.
Ia the dep rs of thao great carcass the esd
chewi1g beast cares an aopaPatCs which pc
forms milacle OF tIansmu o, w ch the
search g eye OF science has no. yet sol we'd.
The COW ca"ries her own secrev; and tue Eocest
old beast goes on with her Oasi9ess il oign 6e1
indifference as to Uhe eiforts OF Ag3ss'z and the
leaIped mea to pepe,cate her seLce Jus asd be,
mystery. The close alliance between grass aod
ca,tlejs the most important affinity fos Tue agr-
culiural word. 1t involves the comfort OF mar
kind end ne wealth oi nations.
To America belongs the high honor of discov-
e"lng tlat he nacdI3 grasses could be I'M oSed
ana iacveased by care-uly CO. ectng acd SOW
| ing the seed. Whel tde Pllgl ms CO me n 1920,
red clover was unknown il England as a
cultivated crop. En- lard SILL relied
upon the nsp'Ve grasses. Glover was
introduced into England ia 1862, and re cr'
vatol OF timothy was taugh5 the mo,ner cor.-
try by our Purit9l fathers nearly centc ~
larer. 1t was not Il the bes 'nu'og OF t9e
present century lbat the great lesses Gssumed TIE
vast impoI ,sut COW I. acsed to en IS cult
waited crop. Wisely enoIgh fOdde plans ere
| universally dihJsed o,er the gIpoe. Grcss IS
cosmopolitan. But n cooler lat ,uGes, whe e
pu e water abounde we sec The closs-ma,.e Ell "a f
and tue more sucCrlent {. asses, supe or o, emf
far more lasting, tnan me s"a.tecel tui,s of
WdtIl lEOiliCdl Cll LAT =. Due 8FSSc, T6tt
aad white cIoVet and 4cuald 6 ,ss accli A3Gt9
through tue wnole No,,qwe>t, aud
here a, ain their higdes5 nCtt-t've prope.v es
The physical Co1ditl0ls OF a Gouq.-.', Combiped
with climatic influences. largely del etIh re is
htoes5 60: a yea pursuit. Measured Nv treae
essential conditions; the Moan west IS Tue best
home for daoy fsrnllng. NJ K keeps he. 80;
butter is ease p e9a' ed foc msrAeS nj for ule
CONNIE Gel void. than V,hef les fa7o III re-
aioas. 100 far South bu; &c becomes me Q !,
and the manufacture o. olee4e Is Unkaown. and
cIeameyieS aud dan isCYof,es will never be es-
tablished. OF ,he H. millions OF ceres under
cultivation i'll Great Bntair, less tlan TIVE ye
millions e devoted 20 the cereals, While ovec
twenty vs. millions IN permanent pasturage.
Forvy-two acraS IeVeIy one hund. ed IN gland,
are I pasture and the fame of he. matchle. )
herds and flocks las spread over the whoi Vi
The land is thus kept ny 10 its highest produc-
tive power. They nave taught US that an ace
o grass is beVer than an acre o. wheat, because
of its correlation TO SOCK and deiry Purposes.
rave spoken o. ibe importance of grass, and for
the reason that IL is SO common we may be obi
vious TO It's absolute utility. Let us consider is
value.
The grass crop. green and dry, is worth more
than auy other 10 this corny1J. As between raw
ard pastura2e, the ]aI.ec possess the greater ic
t,insic value. The hay crop &C the United ST Il e5
for 1881 was Reported at So, LIB, 064 tons, Il
$4l5 13I, 1886. The value of pastuIage woC'd
swell this amount to over one tuorsspd milliors
OF dollars, value before which al ether crops
sink into insignihcance.
THE COW AS MACH NE TO GIVE MILK.
Apart from her beauty, and her symmetry as 81
animal, COW must be considered as machine
to give milk. 1t is the business end" ola COW
with which we are copCe, 1ed. If that ''busi-
ness end'' will produce Two tons of milk, O,
rrvhI ~, IfG C1ofo
worth $50, aud still yields a calf besides, an
other self, surely that COW is worthy of good
breeding and good care. There is ohe, au'-
NAL grown by man, which, wnen felrly cared
for, every year can yield product equal to It's
own full value, except the COW. She lawfully
stands as queen of qUa5rupe0s. The two great
duties OF COW are rarvuriUion and to give milk.
These twin elements of her usefulness are TO be
studied scientifically and practically. This ma
chine for producing milk must be treated kind
ly; no logging, no fast diving. no kicking or
i'll usage. The machine must take life leisure
ly, quietly and in digniied repose. The law of
kindness must govern her whole treatment.
And above all, she must be fed.
She is wanted to give milk and rich milk. She
can not make the rich laceal fluid out OF air, nor
out of straw. l have learned something by be-
ing among the locomotives. Take one of tines
powerful engines with news of brass and ribs
of steel harness II down to tIsin out on the
wild prairie, with blizza1d blowing its breath
of ice and snow upon the fire-fed dragon, and it
takes Just three times as much coal to make
the engine do its work as in moderate day. The
wind and ice have carried away the elements of
force aud power. There are Minnesota farmers
who leave their cattle unshelterel f ON the
storm aud Winds, cleaning for themselves a
shameless ptttance of straw, eh,yeriug in every
JOINT of their skeleton frame, and then expect
COWS SO careu for, to give milk. You may get
from such a thin, white liquid, which hS s
already been SKINNED by the fingers of the
who'd. The machine must have shelter and feed
Not only must the system be maintained. waste
repaired resp cation sustained, bat the COW
must eat and digest over sud above the main
taiuance OF the animal all that which goes to
make milk. What goes in at the mouth comes
out al the pail.
The COW must be induced to consume sur
plus. Milk is a secretion by the action of a
gland from the blood. These glands have a
mysterious power of appropriatlng paris of the
organism Of the food. If it is rich and album
dant food, the unseen fingers of the glands pick
out the rich, oily substances aud convert it into
globules diffused throughout the liquid, and
these make ibe cream and the constituent ele-
me1t of buiter. Feed the machine all that it
will digest, and then, and then
o1ly, you may rightfuly e1pecs
results. The difference in the feed is
Give her the albdminOus and oily material out
of which to elaborate the milk and the cream
and butter will follow. Learn how to feed and
work your milk machine for all she is worth.
A good COW has a iot within her structure that
will turn your grass and oil cake into gold, if
she is but sheltered and fed with fullness and
care.
There is difference in the milking qualities
of COWS, and some difference in breeds. If you
have bad mixers, fat them and send them to the
SHAMELESS. Don't be annoyed with them or their
progeny. Keep all the good mixers you have
and get all you can keep. And this, too, with
ont respect to breed This simple rule intelli-
gently followed, will result in success. If you
want cattle for beef, that 8 different thing.
We learn from the statistician at Washington
that in 1881 the long horns of Texas shipped East
averaged 1854, while Northern blooded beeves
averaged $9968, or one short horn was equal to
six Texans.
The difference between good cow and poor
one is the difference between success and fail
ure. 1 incline myself to the short horn grades
for milk. The great dairies which supply Lon
don with milk use short horn grades. So also
do the Shakers at Union Village, in Ohio l
want no COW on the premises which I can't
readily turn off for beef when 1 am done with
her for other purposes.
THE PROFITS OF THE BARRY AND ITS FUTURE
No strictly grain-growing community ever yet
became rich. They sell their farms away by the
bushel. On the contrary a stock and dairying