The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-10-13

instincts and prolonglng their flow Of
milk has been gradually finding favor
with the city owners of family cows,'
who want a constant supply of milk
and no trouble with calves.
lie practice has been denounced as
cruel and unnecessary, and is being
fought against by the same people
that oppose dehorning.
While L do not claim that
the operation ia void of pain
to theanimal, its usefulness to the
| city dweller will justify it; as it
does the casteration of males. Find
ing that the "crue'ty" argument has
no effect in checl the practice, its
opponents have dck the idea of APP
pealing to the self interest of COW
owners. They have circulated the
statement that spaying COW changes
the character of her milk and that it
| is less rich in butter fat and that the
cream will not yield butter. This is
denied by dairymen who handle
spayed cows.
Mr.. Henry Stewart writes
L have had several spayed cows, one
in my new Jersey farm, but she gave
satisfactory quantity of butter.
have heard a good deal of spaying
cows, but never that the milk was
| different in any way, except being
| richer than other milk. 1t is now to
me to hear to the contrary. The
quantity decreases, but so slowly that
the milking period may last several
years. In the case mentioned the COW
had been milking year before got
her, and on suggesting to the selel1
the uncertainty of the supply, he
said: There is no danger of that.
have had cows like this before, and
one MIXED nine years."
But so far as 1 have heard the
quantity is not diminished by the
| operation have no doubt that the
operation in some circumstances is as
useful as emasculation, for the COW
milks stady for long time if we'll fed
and may always be kept fat and ready
for the butcher. If a supply of cows
were always on hand, L think profit
able demand would always exist fol
them, as many persons who keep but
one would find such most convenient
PRACTICAL FARMERS.
A few days ago it was my fortune to
run across a practical farmer" who
was stoutly defending Governor Hogg
against an attack from Clark sup
porter. When the political combat
was ended, was bold enough to ask
Hogg's friend if he was posted as to
| current state history, did he read the
daily or weekly press and inform him.
self as to to the feeling at home and
abroad amongst capitalists and the
n nj mil IN
Hogg and his administration.
He was honest enough to confess that
ne was not so posted; that he was not
reading, but practical farmer. He
had no use for paper farmers, he
would rather go around with his eyes
open and act on his own experience.
He is fair sample of the followers
of Hogg in the country.
Looking over the National Stock
man and Farmer came across short
article that applies to my friend. 1t
reads thus:
Many people pride themselves
on being practical farmers
simply because they cling with
tenacity to old and tried ways with
out any attempt to avail themselves
of new discoveries in principle and
new methods in practice, which have
made many other farmers highly sue.
cessful. OF course, the men who thus
stand by the old ways are in sense
highly practical; yet those who are
constantly watching to avail them.
selves of advances in their pursuits
are none the less practical. Really
the most practical of all men is the
one who loses no opportunity of avail
ing himself of the knowledge and ex-
perience of others, and who is
always ready to experiment with
in reasonable limits in the di-
rection of the simplifying of his
methods and improving his practice.
Nothing can be more practical than all
this, because nothing more certainly
affects the outcome of one's industry.
Do not be 80 thoroughly afraid Of
the theoretical as to allow the devel
opement of no new principle to receive
consideration at your hand. Much OF
the real improvement in modern agri-
culture consists in simplifying meth
DDS and thereby cheapening produc-
ton, and these are things which the
man who would be practical can not
afford to ignore.
Tho Taatimnniala