The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-25
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
HALF HOUR WITH BUSY HUs-
BANDMEN.
yhere Is More Than Ono Way to Make !
Coed Cow-And You Should Know
How to MILK er--Pcrtinent
Pointers for the Season.
How to Make q Good Cow.

How to Mtla Her--Pertinent
Pointers for the Season.
How to Make a Good Cow.
How to mike a good COW. Begin
with your scrub if you will. But feed
her well and keep her warm and COM
Portable. Breed her too some good
bull reared by some Christian farmer
that is. one who will do rs he would be
done by, even to his cattle; for this is
the essence Of Christianity as taught
by the Great Teacher. When the COW
is dried off previous to calving, don't
stop feeding. but keep her in good.
sleek condition. When the calf comes
1t will have q belly full OF good. rich
milk, and will start we'll. Continue
the well-doing by feeding sweet skim
med milk, and ns soon as it will eat a
little crushed oats give !. few by hand,
and treat the young thing gently and
gain its confidence and good will. Give
itgood pasture, specially provided and
prepared for young stock. Give 1t
milk always sweet (and it will never
need alum to dry up its bowels) tits
four or five months old. Give it IL stall
in the stable in the winter, with the
best of the hay aud its regular ration
of oats. Continue until the second
year, and breed it to q bull better if
possible, than its sire. Perhaps you
think this will never payo Well,
count up the cost Of it. put the amount
in your pocket, and go around and try
to buy as good an animal with the sum,
and you don't get one, for your neigh
bors are not selling such young heifers
for the cost OF them. You will find it
cheaper to rear them, anyhow. And
you must have them or you will be
going around declaring that farming
don't pay"
Milking.
Milking is a tedious Job, and few
mortals are to be found who like the
occupation. Good wages is the only
incentive to keep the man at such
work. What u benefaction to the hui
man race it would be to invent good
practical milking machine. How i'm
mortal the man would become who
puts such y machine on the market
In the absence OF such an invention
let us all do what we can TO ameliorate
the suffering Of mankind. With view
to this end we publish the following
from the American Cultivator:
lit is most essential to the profit of
the dairy that the mixers attention
and muscular energy be focused on the
labor under his hands II he sits in q
cramped position, with knees gripping
Ii heavy pailful Of milk. the stripping
OF the teats becomes of secondary i'm
portance to his physical comfort. If,
on the other hand. he employs a stool
with low projection to support the
pail, or perhaps better yet, has a pail
with stout ears on the rim to lay on to
his knees, the milking can be per-
formed with ease and facility, and full
justice can thus be done to the task.''
In summer time we all know that a
COW full OF milk is the hottest thing in
all creation aud draws more flies than
a9tish market. The hot weather makes
her FESTIVE and the mixer nervous.
The flies irrit4te both parties to the
contract, and the result often is that
there is o collision ruinous 20 all con-
cerned. Let those of us who work in
more pleasant places be charitable in
our criticism aud blot out the record
OF N''cuss Words that come from the
mixer and kicks of the long suffering
cow. There nre greater sins in this
world than those shown by the beasts
and mOrtals who lose their tempers un-
der trying circumstances.
The Rare Lotus Flower.