Mower County transcript., 1889-10-16
a COWS CONCLUSION.
Hcr Owner Cave Her No Meal, ana She
@s@s Would Give Him No MILK,

A COWS CONClUSlON.
tIcr Owner Cave Her No Meal. NM, she
Would Give Him No Milk.
i. A cow Of mine has well-settled con-
victions respecting rights OF animals
She firmly believes that she is as much
entitled to meal rs am to milk, She
has converted me to her opinion, or,
rather, forced me to acquiesce. In
the spring, after she calved, gave her
night and morning, at milking-time, Il
feed of bran and meal. When the
grass improved I omitted the bran and
meal, but proposed to milk her all the
same. She objected to this arrange
ment, kicked and walked spitefully
away. My man and got her into
close quarters, held her fast, deter
mined to have milk on our own terms.
but Crumple Horns was just as deter
mined we shouldn't have it. We soon
found that the COW controlled the sup
plies; she wouldn't give down.
her milk. We took to coax
ing and patting her; persist
emily, but gently, squeezed her
teats; it availed little; we retired,
'worsted, thinking we would get a doub-
le portion IN the morning; but in the
morning she gave us little more than
half her usual quantity, and so on for
week. | saw that without meal she
would diminish her milk and on dry
up | said to my hired man: bad
luck to the man that quarrels with his
COW; we should remember that in all
milking arrangements the COW is a
party concerned--in fact the party of
the first part. Unless we can be on
good terms with our cow we had better
not have one. Thinking it all over /
believe the COW is in the right. She
gave us a good mess of milk for a mod
crate feed of meal. and we have no
right to ask her to do better than that;
we will give meal night and morning
as long as we milk her." This we did,
and she nearly came back to her for
mer quantity-a COW allowed to fall
away doesn't entirely recover.
l record the particulars of this con-
troversy with my cow because it sug-
gests several important considerations
l. A COW has almost unlimited control
over her milk; she bestows or with
holds it at pleasure. 1t is therefore
essential that the COW have no cause
for complaint; she should sustain
amicable relations with her mixer;
any thing offensive in his department,
an angry word. rough, uncourteous
manners, sharp tinger-nails; any an
noyance whatever, such as a sore teat.
troublesome flies, every thing that is
disagreeable. in Il greater or less de-
gree lessons the flow of milk and pre-
maturely dries up the COW. A COW
taken to new place shrinhs in her
milk, and seldoms RECEIVERS for whole
year. A cow should be uniformly
milked by the same person. 2. The
great liking COWS have for bran and
meal shows they are adapted to
the animals necessities. While
no single food is better than
grass, fed alone it does not
give the best quality of milk nor
the greatest quantity. A little meal
may be profitably fed, even when grass
| is abundant and in its best condition
my COW demanded it, and she was
right. AS the grass grows less in
quantity and poorer, l increase the
meal and put it on green cornstalks
cut fine Some persons object to feed
ing COWS at milking time because they
are uneasy and troublesome if the GUS
tomary allowance is withheld Then
don't withhold it. pays to feed meal
to COWS giving milk, and if COW in
5ists on having it every time, as mine
did, she does a good turn by forcing
us to be regular. Of all losses in
CURED by American farmers scarcely
any one is greater than that which
comes from allowing COWS to fail in
their milk for want of sufficient food
of a kind that answers their require
ments. Major H. I. Brooks in N. Y.
Tribune.