Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-02
cow AND CALF CARE.
A Small Matter, but Important One Ii
Stock Raising

A Small Matter, but Important One in
Stock Raising
Always speak to COW before you begin
to milk her. Don't take it for granted
she knows you are going to grasp her teats !;
she may have her head in the manger, and
when you suddenly catch hold of the teats
she may jump or kick Then you may
yell at her, or perhaps strike her. That
is the way to begin the spelling of good
COW. The best COWS are nervous animals
and it pays to be always on the watch SO
that their nervousness will not be ex-
cited. Keep the cows quiet and contented; !;
1t is the only way to get the hest profit
out of them.
Calves should be made tame from the
start; they should show no more signs of
fear of you than your pet dog does. 1t
pays to loaf around among the calves, and
1t pays well, too, as you viii find when the
calf becomes COW and you attempt to
milk her. Your cows and calves, in fact
all your stock, should look upon YOU as
their best friend. Get them to feel that
way towards you, and you have made a
very important step towards success. The
man who looks on his cows as mere ma
chimes to turn feed into milk, and has no
further thought about them, does not, you
may depend upon it, get all out of their
ownership that he ought to-
When one of your COWS seems to be sick.
do not go to work and drench her with ali
manner of nasty doses prescribed by your
neighbors, but wait and see if there is any,
thing serious the matter with her. If
there Is. then get competent advice. If
you can't get that kind, don't get any, and
if you let your COW alone she stands a bet
ter chance of getting well than if you
"doctored" her. Cases of constipation,
choking or things of that sort are ex-
cepted, of course. How often do we hear
a man tell of having had sick COW, and
how he drenched her with this, and rubbed
her with that, and she finally got well ::
but if he hadn't taken her in time she
would have been "goner" Now, the
chances are hundred to one that if had
let the COW alone she would have got we'll
much sooner and with far less pain.
When your COW loses her cud, +" don't
"hy off the handle" and proceed to give
her new cud in the shape of salt mack
erel or herring. This is often done, and
sometimes the fish is wrapped with wisp
OF hay In certain mysterious way. What
kind of an idea have such people of the
internal organs of COW? When COW
stops chewing her cud. it isn't because she
has lost it, but because there is some-
thing wrong with her. She is, in fact,
more or less sick As soon as the cause
passes away-as it is likely to do if you
don't dose her-she will go on chewing
her crd as usual.
When you over-feed calf or give a
very young calf cold milk, and it gets the
scours," try and refrain from giving it
laudanum, castor-oil, salts, burnt flour,
boiled milk, hay tea, and two or three other
remedies, all in the same day; but let the
poor little thing alone until it is secured
out clean; then use some judgment in your
feeding, and, beginning with very small
feed, work up carefully until you get to
point where it gets nearly all it will eat
Stop there, and never go beyond that
point. This advice will hold good as to all
animals, man included; the latter never
will follow it, but as he has to pay
promptly for his own want of Judgment, it
doesn't matter much.-A L. Crosby in
Prairie Farmer.