The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-16
The BrattlebOrO Meeting-.-No. Z.
GOVERNOR HoARD's ADDRESS,

GONERNOR HOARD y ADDRESS.
We condense this sprightly and in
teresting address considerably, yet give
its practical points, as follows:
have got to find serious fault with
the farmers of Vermont and New York
in one matter; l have got to do it if
am to tell you of what is right and
profitable in the handling of the dairy
COW. AS travelled from Paterson to
Deckertown, last month, my face was
continually to the car window. II was
miserable, cold, stormy, rainy day,
yet in nine out of ten of the diaries l
passed, the cows were ranging the
fields from nine O'Clock in the morning
until four in the afternoon. The own
ers were probably paying $50 for cot
tonseed meal, S2S for linseed meal, S26
for corn meal, 1923 for bran and $50 for
hay, per ton-warming all out-of-doors
with high-priced food, and asking the
Lord to bless their efforts toward "the
advancement of thy kingdom, in the
cow" l was amazed. l said: In my
county seventy per cent of its popula-
ton are Germans who cannot read the
English language, but you will not find
one foolish enough to turn a COW out in
a storm like this, when he depended on
her for money.
AT our home creamery we keep appli-
ances for experiment, and we keep
accurate accounts of the quantity and
quality of milk brought in, and every
single day the temperature and the
weather is noted. Yesterday was per-
haps a stormy day, and patron brings
in his milk; it is not up to his average
quantity, perhaps eight pounds short.
l say to him: I" You allowed your cows
to run out yesterdayp' Eyes" he
says, L guess they was out. Was you
by my placer" "No," say, and l tell
him how L know the fact, and how
much he has lost by it. Not only is the
quantity deficient, but you subject that
milk to analysis by the Babcock tester
and you will find it has run down in
the amount of butter fat You can.
not expose a COW to cold, incemen,
weather, and have as much product
from her; she is like the Arkansas
jury-she finds for herself first. If q
cow is to give profitable return, she
must be cow of good capacity. We
can, by wise breeding, handling ant
feeding, make the cow larger in hel
capacity than her mother was. The
whole object of breeding is to enlarge
capacity.
We are dealing with the mystery o
maternity. The human mother ha;
been studied by all the physicians o.
the age; schools and colleges have
been organized for, and chairs have
been devoted to, the study of mother
hood of the human mother, and have
you exhausted it? To-day the human
intellect stands before that wonderful
mystery as weak and helpless almost al
it ever did. Do you think the bovine
mother is any less mysterious in he
functions ofmotherhood? In this dair,
business you are dealing with the mos
wonderful of natural mysteries. Wis,
and intelligent action must be taken
Now, motherhood requires warmth as
first necessity. Here is young heife
before she reaches motherhood; turf
,, her out of the barn and watch her; you
will see her prancing about; you will
! see her in an exposed portion of tn,
, barn-yard where the wind sweep
around. Let her become mother an,
turn her out and watch her. Sh
shrinks from the exposure because O
the relaxed effect of this condition o
motherhood. You will see her see
, the warmest, most sunshiny, best
protected place in the yard. Is Their
any lesson to be learned? Remember
= you are making money out of this ma
terniy, and TO succeed you must con
duct the business with wisdom and in
telligence.
Another important thing, that is tru
; alike of the human mother or the bovin
mother-there must be quietude ant
freedom from excitement and irritation
,, This function of maternity is nervou
function, and any disturbance of tn
nervous system instantly reacts upol
} the maternal organs, to the destruction
, of your profit. l have made experiment
in my own dairy along that line. tool
a Jersey cow that gave me over five pc
cent of butter fat on the average. /
| young chemist in my town assisted m
in this analysis; l wanted to know hoy
much it would affect the butter fat,
| abused her right in the action of Civ
ing milk. She was great favorite O
mine, pet that had never received
: blow from me, or cross word. L sa
/, down to milk her, and as was abou
, half through, she was contentedly chow
! ing her cud; ! set aside the milk sh
3 had then given and started mikin
. again. / took from my vest a pin an
, gave her a heavy stratch across tn
flank. She sprang into the stable, sh
. looked at me as if to ask what had haI
I pened. She could not associate m
= with it. quieted her down and con
{ menced milking again. The analyst
showed that in an instant there wa
fifteen per cent of butter fat eliminates
from that milk.
j In one season took thousand test
. | with tho Rahpoak applianoa and