The record-union., 1892-07-15
SIERRA VALLEY.
CampbeII's Hot Springs--A Dairy Ex-
pertinent.
Cows and Calves - Butter aking-
Breeding for special Re-
SultS-Swfne.

lhECoRD-CNIoS'S Travelling Correspondent
LoTALToN, July 12.-Sunday was spent
at Campbell's Hot Springs, only one and
half miles from Sierraville on the new
cutoff to Truckee. With valley and
meadows on one side and the pine forest
on the other, it is very pleasantly located.
With little salt and pepper you can
easily persuade yourself that the water
is warm chicken soup. In the swimming
bath the temperature is such that you
feel like staying always. When severe
cases of rheumatism come and the land
lord offers big bets as to their restoration
to health within few weeks, no one
dares to take the bets. The waters seem
to do their work through the kidneys
and remove disease By purifying the
system. Besides benefits of the water
pleasant crowd is there enjoying fine
country fare and quiet recreations, and
the children have splendid opportunities
to romp through fields and woods.
A MOUNTAIN CREAMERY.
At Sierraville the veteran stage pro-
prietor, a. S. Nichols, has gathered a
dairy OF nearly an hundred grade Dur
ham COWS. He has nice creamery, with
DeLaval separator and modern ap-
plianceS, and sells no butter less than
% cents per pound. He has hill range
for dry cows and beef cattle few miles
from the home dairy and carries on quite
butcher business, as man needs to do
who is buying cows for dairy purposes.
He bought three high-priced sires be-
cause they were Holsteins, and has now
reached point in his dairy education
where he is in the market for a bull rep
resenting a long line of ancestors noted
for prepotency in the direction of butter.
He is well pleased with the beef qualities
of the breed, but wants stock that will
produce butter as well. His grade calves
look almost as fine as lot Of thorough
breds, but it is partly owing to his excel
lent system of feeding the warm milk
directly from the separator in such a way
that each calf gets his share in a clean
pan.
lie has row Of forty stanchions with
gates leading to two outside pens and a
third to the calf pasture.
For the first week or two the calves are
kept in the kindergarten on milk as it
comes from the cow. Here they are
taught to drink. Then they are promoted
to a place in the pasture. When feeding
time comes forty calves are turned at
once from the pen to tue stanchions.
Each has his share of milk in a clean pan
that was scalded since last feeding. No
one can disturb his neighbor. The older
calves are getting a little oil cake every
day and many of them are now fit for
veal.
Mr.. Nichols intends to keep on testing.
selecting and breeding cows until he gets
one hundred that reach his high standard,
producing not less than 800 pounds Of
butter per year. He is almost equally
interested in swine, and is a good GUS
toner for the best Berkshire breeders. He
killed for the Fourth grade Berkshire
that was ninety days old and dressed
sixty-eight pounds. The mothers pro-
duce seven to eight at a litter and the
whole crowd will average one pound
live weight for each day OF their age. A
large snare of this remarkable result is
due to their being fed on plenty of milk
| as it comes warm from the separator.
Mr.. Nichols success with butter and
milk stock is such that he could realize
something OF margin for profit in buy
ing milk from neighbors at price in ad-
vance of what it nets them, but here as
elsewhere, large class are so preiudiced
against improvement as to live by the
maxim, GOOD enough for father, good
enough for me.'
These are the very men who are deter
mined not to admit TO themselves or any,
body else that there is any room for i'm
provenlent In their methods, or ANYTHING
Tor them to learn. If a neighbor shows
more enterprise, silurians regard it as so
much of a personal insult that they will
extend the criticism of his methods TO
the extent of an attempt to injure his
credit.
When one constantly meets this ele-
ment of human nature it goes far to make
him weary of his race.
FRANK s. CHAPLIN.