The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-06-21

other than the lg-5cG hofse-Sars tnas
| infest this city. thought il vas high
| time 70 take bout in the country for
. day. 70 to-day l ran out thirty miles
| ON the Baltimore 4 Ohio. TO visit .
dairy Of hundred COWS kept by Mr.
Boyd. At Boyd's Station.
Apparensiy everybody has station
on this road If he viii put up : plat
form and sign; II any rate there were
numerous stops MI the way. in many
places where there vas not even .
house near ut hand
A good many fields we're passed m
which the rye was headed out and IN
1T condition for SLIDING. None of II
| seemed 70 be used for that pnrpose
| though Looking across the undulaf-
| inr country 3 number Of fields could
~ seen at once. some parts Of which
Al times would bend low in waves
from the effect OF q moderate breeze
| that would strike some fields OF or
chard grass, in full head, reminded
me that that is grass we in wash
| inrton Territory have neglected, that
| i veIi worthy OF attention, coming TO
maturity as il does 50 near with clover.
ait furnishes us our earliest and latest
| pasfure.- one of the farmers seen AZ
Iterwarsis said. land is one OF cur most
| profitable crops.' Another said, Il
saved one hundred and eight bushels
| Of seed of that land last year. point
| ing to an eight-acre lot We were look
| ing at.
The dairy visited had ninety-eight
COWS in. the stalls when we visited the
stables and five persons were milking,
| four colored and one white. We pay
| ten dollars per month for the milkmen
when We hoard them, and twenty
when they board themselves As ]
spoke to one, lad not over fifteen
wears old, he turned his large white
ewes upon me, seemingly intent
enough TO look me through and illu-
inmate the stable. He had the black
est face and whitest eyes ! ever saw,
| but he was q good mixer, black or no
black. You mustn't say that to our
men or you will give US deal OF
trouble, said the foreman, when !
said We paid twenty-six dollars for the
same work, and so, not to abuse the
hospitality and courtesy bestowed
upon me, I came away with my lips
closed. while yet having applications
from others for this same work at the
wages named
found another advocate of the anti
| fat COW theory. Remarking to my
| friend, the foreman, that his cows
were not as fat as mine, "0h, you
must not keep your cows too fat to
give milk Too fat to give milk r
said, "you can't do that" where
upon We had a debating school right
there and then. noticed in the even
| ing. when the milk came down to the
station, there was but hundred gal
Ions. The superintendent had said in
fact, they were getting but little over
two hundred gallons per day from the
ninety -eight cows. Yet, the pasture
was FIRST class. The fact was the cows
had run down." thin in flesh and
could not give the best results either
in quality OF quantity, although they
we're ON the best of blue grass pasture
in the evening when seen after milk
ing hour.
The stables were almost what one
might call a model-conerete floors,
watering and feed troughs and drains;
all sweet and without the least faint of
any kind. Plaster was freely used to
sprinkle over the exposed parts of the
stall, but Mr.. Rinehart, the foreman,
thinks Stacked lime would be as good
for farmers situated as we are in
Washington Territory. AT the end OF
the drains flor there were several
sstrings of cows'D there were sinks,
leading to an underground pipe, which
in turn led to a cistern some two
hundred feet distant that was situated
on lower ground. From there the
liquid manure was pumped into cart
tank and distributed on the fields.
The manure pile, of which there was
but light accumulation, was as close
" guarded as il it was gold in the bank.
This was on what had been slightly
descending ground toward the liquid
tank mentioned. but bad been graded
so that everything liquid from the yard
went into it by force of grayitation and
ii any accumulation occurred from
there into the tank below. Meanwhile
The manure pile had been sprinkled
with plaster and emitted no odor.
The same old question, docs it pay"
came uppermost in the conversation.
The milk was sold and delivered at the
station in ten gallon cans for twelve
cents a gallon in the summer and
eighteen in winter, and yet Mr.. Boyd,
the proprietor, said frankly that it did
not pay, in the sense of an Investment,
except in the rise of property, unless
it might be said that il supplied a
hountiful crop of cares" The fact
was, the land was too high-priced to
run to the dairy protitably.
The whole thirty mile stretch out
seemed as il it were making prepara-
tons for putting on city airs. Here
and there were small parks laid out,
a. IL IL -
tells, half hid by the deep foliage, pre-
paratory for the city exodus that had
already begun; and no wonder people
came in crowds. The fare out to this
place. thirty miles, is twenty-six dol
lars a quarter for trip each way for
each OF the ninety days; or. in other
words, a triiie less than thirty cents
for the round trip of sixty miles.
There are beautiful camping grounds
all the way along the route, and no
wonder the trains were crowded and
frequent to accommodate the crowds
seeking the country.
The question of the silo naturally
came up while looking at a splendid
stand OF corn near by the barn. which
Mr.. Il. said must have produced any
way forty tons 10 the acre. He said:
II never saw but one silo and that
stunk so | did not want To stay near
il. and have never looked into the
matter since" Upon my giving him
the detailed experience Of how to
avoid the sinking" silo by filling
gradually so the ensilage would heat
up and remain sweet, he was almost
persuaded, and doubtless will be fully
and will put IN silo and have it filed
before the Snow flies. He had been
also saving off the horns ''by degrees
an inch or 80 of the tip, not having in
vestisated the system where they
went the whole hog" but some day
soon would try one TO see how it
works, ]" speaking while We were look
ing nj a fine young cow that had
cash in her flank from some vicious
cows horn. The Scotch brogue of
mine host betrayed the fact that he
was not one OF those 10 the manor
born, but came after the war" and
had instituted ways that we're net
common tken or now, with the multi
tude in Maryland. E. N.
Two discoveries OF prime importance
to farmers are the one announced by
the Austrian government of reliable
preventive OF pleuro- pneumonia In cat
tie, and the other from sweden, dis
covery for keeping milk in fresh con-
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