The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-08-12
Hustle" on keeping Cows and Rai>-
ing Grasses

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Hustle" on keeping Cows and Eai>-
ing Grasses.
Eiltor PALiTkA NEw>.
Horace freely, when in his PAINE. met
IA large assembly Of farmers in convcn-
tim, think. at Auburn, y. y. Throw
ing aside his ,luSter, AMI a,ing oil his
travel solled white hat, and wiping the
preparation from his fac. with his rr,l
ban,lana, II a'ing Il fearful hot day ia
midsummer, he at once uisned his ai-
dress by saying;
"Feilow citizens: have come IA long
ways, ON this very hot day. To talk to
you little while on the very common
and honely subject oi grass" The en-
phas!s, and the peculiar intonation ui
voice, with the IL. q. ,lrawi IN the word
grass, prepared every one t. listen at
tentively To what lac might say.
The burden Of his address was to ,hOn
that the prosperity oi any civilized coun-
Try depended, more than on ANYTHING
elise, upon tho cultivation of gE,as. and
the use 1t WAS put a.. ! have 1t to-day
that II all tho people who have come /
tins State tor orange culture, had mryri
heard at the name of AN orange Tree
hut had given their time and the monr,
they have expended Tor orange groves
to the raising Of grasses, and OF cattle
horses AMI hogs, tl. prop.i ie,ultS al
grass, the state would to-day h. better
oil in its finances and in tlr comforts OF
its people. | am en,l"iiened to- say TIM
thus publicly which ! hav,. sanl IN Irl
vate, oh, NEWS, since You have solve,
the problem, ami told us we can u,
longer defend upon truck RAISING I'm,
grange growing for permanent success
II then we turn from these subjects
which have been the ,lrcri,ing phantom
Of the past. We must be- careful that ",
rush not as blin,lly into some othot folly
just now the peach, pear AMI plum Graz,
IL likely to have u hlg iun. Afttr "A col,
northern winter ever, thing IN shape ~
Il peach and plum tree has frultcd frr.l,
and fully, and Ia, lhs is now the be-
hanZa.
Let us 'go slow" on all now and un
tried schemes. That our STATE can rair,
horses. cattle. sheep AMI swine has beet
known ~ Il demonstrated since It's iirs
settlement. That the promise ot hil
profits are not c,ual to those 1T orang
culture IL matched by the certainty e.
these profits, and the assurance that one
| .lt Al tl., Ia,
manept one.
And now since some one has asked !
il IN profitable Ia keep COW, we vii
investigate that matter little.
might Le replied to very briefly and cot
rcctly in the recently invented slang
THAT depends And as in evrrythln
else, the what and the how have all to Il
with 1t. II will not pay to keep po,
cow, or mule, or horse, or pig. NIwa,
the best, or the best attainable. shuul
be the rule.
A COW worth sixty dollars is AZ gou
IA three or four worth twenty-five ,
thirty dollars apiece. One good COW I
each family, in Il new country, will max
large difference in the demand for ful
eign supplies, and It IA not only rossihI
but practicable that tins number Of cow
should le kept in any cuuntr, place i
Florida.
Years ago swung tle birch and III
ferulr ut pcdagoguc IN The city Of Ga
lena, III. | had no property in the cit,
hut when moved in took my be-.
COW. The range about the city and u
, the common was good. by feeding IT.
, COW good slopof bran and water, st
| came homo faithfully. and supplied II
the milk and butter the family could lis,
The expense for the summer season ":
thrilling. In winter the cow was stable
p and fed with hay and the bran slol
: Almost every lanll, IN the suburbs ,
the city, ana many IN the thlehrst part
kept their COW. Ask these men ii
were profitable to keep II COW, and the
would smile at the question. II rr
tainly was very profitable, AMI 10 taxi
away the COW from II poor taml, ";
like taking away their support.
Now have adopted similar ,li
+ here IN Florida. have Florida rnv
: ejocted two that tried, before lin,
ING the one | now own. This one
found would develop. From four to
I quarts Of milk per day, have lrourl
her mp to- ten and twelve quarts. ii
/ ranges at will during the day, com,
. home at night, and is yari.t till ,norl
+ ing. | allow her calf to- take part
i the milk, but teach it to eat ~ soon "a
4 can, which is when from two to fot
weeks OLD feed the calf oats az
timothy, or crab grass hay. soon
!, learns (" to- eat the same slop give Il
!, COW. keep the calf in ward adiol
ing the COWS yard. where hr can put h
: head through the fence and allow Il
COW To- lick it. She will CORE hon
), to the calf after he il w,anrd as well
:, before. if this is allowed. feed wit
bran and cotton seed meal two poun,
of the former and one of the latter, at
Is feed, at a cost Of less than four cent
l. For six months ut the year this is all Il
feed the COW needs.
=. lInt 10y feeding crab grass, corn foid
IL and COW peas a. they may lc raised AZ
gathered fresh. the quantity Of the mi
II will I've Increased. The milk saved
worth, at the lowest estimate. thir
Y cent, per day, giving n profit of ov
twenty cents, or 81, Sl,'o icr week,
-, So per wear
:, l'v careful attention to the yard,
barrel Of fertilizer can be- saved eve
two weeks, worth perhaps one dollar.
- 500 per wear. which. added To the vail
Y of the milk. will make one hundred Il,
n lars per year for one good COW.
You may say figures vt this kind q
n dClusive. Perhaps they are. We hu