Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-06-06


county to give thom an example In pro.
teoting and extending her timber lands.
Thanking tho institute for tho attention
with which they had listened to him tho
governor retired amid great applause.
willis =. unuIrd's rsssy.
Willis Z. Hazard osq of West Chester,
was next introduced aud read au essay on
dairy cows and dairy interests lie said
that authentic statistics showed that In
districts where dairying Is carried on OK
tensively, there Is moro wealth, moro in.
telligonco and refinement among the poo
Pile than in other districts. In many
dairy districts tho dairymen ars not merely
| producers of butter and cheese, but DO
como commercial men and engage in dis
posing of 1t Wholesale. Tho farmers send
their milk to the oroamaries where 1t Ia
converted into butter Mt less cost and of
superior quality to that made by tho ordi.
nary ChurninR process. AS tho quality
improves, tho price also advances, and
the farmers profit is proportionally greater.
A serious drawback to tho sale of good
butter Is the composition of those engaged
in tho manufacture OF substitutes for but.
ter, aud 1t socms impossible to overcome
this competition by legislation. 1t has
not been proved that Oleomarga rine is in.
furious 10 health, and its salo cannot
|
passed requiring tho manufacturer To
stamp his product, but this will not COM
pei the hotel keeper or restaurateur from
buying 1t and serving 1t to his guests
without tho stamp aud no law can DO
passed that will prevent a man from going
to market aud buying just what he wants,
whether that DO oleomargarno or butter.
The manufacturer of butter must there.
fore depend ON its superiority to secure it
against competition with the inferior
article.
Mr.. Hazard, after showing that the
homo market is moro desirable than a
foreign market for tho disposal Of dairy
products, read statistics TO show tho rapid
increase of those products during the
past thirty years, and then proceeded to
discuss the question OF the best breeds of
dairy cows, contrasting the beautiful
thoroughbreds now 30 generally owned by
dairymen and the gaunt animals that
formerly fed around the strawstacks. For
morly cow did not average 100 pounds
of butter per aunum; now they average
200, and many OF thom yield 800 pounds
per annum. lf the yield can DO Increased
from 200 TO 300 pounds the dairyman will
get as much from two COWS as he formerly
obtained from the three and the cost of
: one COW on every three will DO saved. 4
1 ltN 1taEb uk,O buC NON tAlhN IiOhuSuu iOuA
teen pounds of butter per week was q
, wonder; now they are numbered by thous
! auds. With a l4-pound cow you get but
l ter that sells for twice as much per pound
as that Obtained from T-pouDd COW,
while the calves OF the former soil al
much higher prices than the latter, which
. is great advantage to the obtained with
, out additional cost.
For dairy purposes, thoro are throe
breeds Of cows-lhe Jersey, the Guernsey
j aud the Tristan. The Jersey has yielded
i as much as % pounds per week, and l0C
pounds per month, and is more favorably
J.. | regarded than the other breeds. Fol-
some reason the Guernsey has not hereto
D fore attracted the attention ii deserves it
! is doubtless superior 70 the Jersey, both
! as butter and beef producer. It is the
happy medium between the small Jersey
j. and tho large Tristan. Tho yield Of milk
| from good Guernsey COW is from = OOC
to 20 900 pounds per year, tbs weight OF
; the milk being more than ten times The
weight of the COW from which it Is taken
q The Tristan is also an excellent COW, the
y milk being right and of ilno flavor. IL has
been shown by testing thirteen Fri6iar
cows that only six and half pounds o
y their milk was required to make one
. | pound of butter. NJ. Hazard urged hi,
p y
o prices must bo paid for them. The piai
3 of buying common cows at the village inr
u aud after keeping them for y year or TIVE
< butChering them is not good one. Lee
= the farmer get good registered bull o
y ono of the above breeds If he cannO
U afford to have thoroughbred cattle, anC
: from him breed with his native COWS.
scrub bull should never bo kept ON
, farm. He is never cheap at any price
d The speaker mex: described tho prom
! inent marks of good COW. Shl
should have good round body, anC
. possess all the leading points of he
. breed /; she should have large milk veins
large udder of proper shape, not cut ava!
before or behind, but tho four quarter
o conforming ono with the other. She mus
u have a rich, mellow hide, with soft, silk,
hair. Tho farmer should study the GuinOr
, escutcheon system, and in selecting IA Gov
0 he should pay proper attention to th
points as there described.
i rhe Farmer In Politics.
Jacob NJ. Frantz read an essay on th,
farmer in public affairs " and to the ques
tion, should he take a more actv
: interest in public affairs ?" he answered
i atfrmatively, and elaborated his views n
, some length, deploring the fact that far
o mers arc entirely too backward in thi
| lChptCbI anu pAt'ilOtlHS lh hSO "
steam and electricity, if they did not wax
up from their Rip Van Wrinkle sleep the,
q would be badly left.
4 VIM. II. BrOsius, assemblym an, follow
a cd on the same side, aud made rattlins
and vehement speech in the interest of thu
, farmer, calling on him to come to the from
. . where he belongs.
DIR. Wickersham called on John Z. Lin
q vile TO say something on the other side
. . bnt that gentleman declined to do 80, al
though no confessed no had no ambition t.
n enter the political arena in search OF office
h and his neighbors had too much sense Il
thrust Office upon him.
n Eph. 3. Hoover, ex-assemblyman, fol
3 lowed and said his say in behalf OF farme
q officials.
:, Governor Pattisou again.
d Governor Pattison again arose and SAT-
0 that ho who serves himself well, serve
0 his state best. There are many farmer
q who in their quiet homes, have noble ant
e valuable thoughts, but too often thes
t thoughts never get outside their quie
y homes. Now, these thoughts should b
q put on record, that tho world may hav
y the use Of them. He urged farmers Il
= put their thoughts on paper, In the form
il of question or otherwise and send then
!, to the state board of agriculture, through
b which channel they may be published,
!, worth publication. The state board o
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