The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-16

WOulu ulCJdJe W you duu 10 me JnAt we
conform to that law. Every intelligent
father and husband knows, and every
mother knows, the effect on lactation
that follows a disturbance of her men,
tai conditions. And after great dis
turbance, when the mother has given
the child its food, it has been known to
throw the child into commissions. Can't
you see there is a deep law here2 SO
we have two things, so far, that are
requisite-warmth and kindly treat
ment.
When the cow is giving milk, with
all its constituents in their normal
quantity, she is making most tremen-
dous draft on all her nervous machinery,
and she cannot endure nervous dis
turbance without serious loss to you.
These are well known laws, yet see
the average farmer is Indifferent to
them, as much as though they had been
recited to him in Greek; here and there
we see a man who inclines to an obser-
walton of them. l wish, for the sake
of The COWS, that the cows were in the
hands of the women of Vermont. l
don't know of a single woman to-day
who handles dairy Of cows but what
is making a success of it. A Dutch
author says concerning the cattle of
Holland, that they do we'll because they
are in the hands of women. Obi if we
could only get little femininity into
this stupid masculinity, it would be so
much better for our profit.
Another point. The dairy COW must
have dairy feed, as well as dairy hand
ling. 1 have left unsaid a good many
things. | can only state to you the
principle, leaving you to supply its APP
plication. Sanitation is another inn
portant matter. Our dairy cattle need
stables that are comfortable; there
must be cleanliness and healthfulness.
You heard an excellent discourse last
night on that subject. You go through
Vermont to-day and you will find hun
dreds of stables where the cows are
shut up in a noisome, filthy atmo-
sphere, not a single attempt made to
keep it pure. You must keep your
stables clean and pure. You cannot
do it by excessive ventilation, if you do
you are losing the animal heat, and
that means lessened production. You
must make it pure by the absorption of
deleterious gases. One of the worst of
these is ammonia. So hurtful is this
gao Ohdb WOlnCu al UCCOlElug
to-day by the use of ammoniacal SMELL
ing-salts; horses in livery stables lose
their eye-sight; step into any stable in
Brattle boro, and I'll guarantee you will
smell hartshorn, strong. 1t is so power
full an element that it will rot your
harnesses. Yet the average farmer
will shut his cows up in barn that is
reeking with its fumes. And mark, too,
the value of this very material that is
escaping; farmers are paying nineteen
cents per pound for its equivalent.
The use of little common land plaster
will hold this ammonia, and you can
use it where it will do most good-as a
fertilizer; at the same time you are
purifying the air. All this is along the
line of intelligent treatment of dairy
animals.
had started to say something about
feed We must feed the dairy COW &C
cording to the draught made upon her
body. We must feed her, as well as
handle her, according to the demands
of her motherhood. Some men will
talk about giving her exercise. My
friends, she is exercising herself to the
very extent of her ability, in supplying
butter.fat and caseine. There is no
profit in giving her any exercise when
she does not want it. Oil if men
would only be Observant. Did you ever
see COW that was giving large guam
tity of milk, ranging the field in mad
quest for exercise. What is she after?
Food. Give her food right around her
feet, what will she do? Lie down and
take it with thu least possible effort
down she goes on her side. If she is
farrow COW, and pretty nearly dry at
that, she has surplus in another di-
rection, and needs exercise. But if she
is giving milk, you will see her lie
down, she knows inslinctively that she
does not need exercise.
l have wandered from the feature I
was on, which was dairy feed. l said
the secretion and giving of milk was
great draught on her nervous system.
You must give COW nerve-supporting
food, if you expect 10 get large
amount of butter fat. A man said to
me the other day, " butter-fat is not
proteine, an albumenoid; why does the
COW need proteine food?" | said, is
that all the product of the milk? You
know how Jacob married Rachel, by
first marrying Leah; he had to take
two women in order to get one. You
cannot get your butter fat without get
ting the caseine, and that is pure pro-
teine. Therefore. the COW must have
nerve-supporting food to uphold her
machinery, and you must give her
proteine. What is it? 1t is that food
that supports the muscles and nerves.
Bran, cottonseed meal, pea meal, lin
seed meal, clover hay, all the glutens
are such food. You have been buying
such products from the West until you
have made Minneapolis rich, but every
farmer in Vermont should raise his
own proteine food for himself; make
the farm you have do the work it
should. Pea meal is one of the best of
proteine meals: it is one of the richest
and finest of all the proteine foods.
have been studying it for three or four
years, and made up my mind 1 would
agtate it with all my force.