Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-07
BILLNYE'SLIFEIN NC.
THE RISE AND FALL OF A FELLOW
 NAMED FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.

A BuEzard Incident Showing How Exciting
 the Life Is-s ething About the Guinea
 Hen and the psSS It Has-Nye's Home
 made Refrigerator.
 Copyright, 1Sa3 by Edgar W. Nye.l
 Agriculturist, Peculiar, Mo-, writes to know: 1. How long should a calf be per mitted to associate with its mother be- fore vealing? 2. What do you know about farming lands in Dakota? 8. How do they compare with those of North Carolina, especially in Henderson and Buncombe counties? 4. What do you do with your asparagus beds in summer?
 First-For market calves are generally vealed before they are fully aware that by sin death came into the world. Here, however, on my place, we allow the calf to nurse from six to seven weeks. The last two weeks we add another COW so that he will not be restless of nights. Once kept calf six years as an experi- ment to see how much milk he would require as he grew older. My report to the farmers convention of Erin Prairie, from which 1 quote, shows that at the end of the sixth year he had closed up the cheese factory at Hudson and had diverted the output of the Saltwater dairy entirely in his direction.
 But he was a big, hearty fellow, with a joyous, curly face and voice that shook our apples off the trees prematurely.
 never knew a calf that could neigh so freely as he could. When he had slipped couple of washboilers of fresh milk and cleared his voice, you should rJ bi,,, eO,nl
 We had him for tea at the close of the sixth year, just as he began to get cum ming. We had veal symposium with green peas raised on the place. They grew in rows along by the mortgage. I tried to raise them together, the peas and the mortgage, allowing the peas to clam Der up the side of the mortgage, but could not raise them both together.
 We gave the symposium just as I was leaving the farm to go back and work on salary again. The name of the veal was Florence-Florence Nightingale. He was named by a poetic lady from Paris, aged 6S years, and l hadn't the heart to change his name, for she was of sensi- tive nature and trif1e over feet in diameter. Living in Paris, she knew very little of the world.
 We missed Florence a good deal after his death, for he loved us all, and to see him toss off few dishpanfuls of new milk and then walk around in the pans would please anybody who did not own the pans. He was ever full of life-that is, up to the time we killed him. He had light ring to his Forepaugh bleat and a heavier one in his nose.
 He got into the pound II times one summer and violated two ordinances and statute before anybody dared put hand on him.
 Every time he got in the pound it cost me $10-$1O per pound, as it were.
 wanted to call him Patti myself then I could make veal patti of him but tho children said no; Mime. Patti was liable at any time to make another farewell visit to America, and she might hear of it.
 Milk fed veal does not pay the farmer after the sixth year. Kill the calf at the end of the seventh week while the mother is looking the other way and hang the little speckled pelt over the balcony or nail it to the gable of the porte cochere
 Calves of high degree make just as good veal as the low born calf. Full blood Jerseys and Holsteins also show the same amount of sense in their early days that the unknown calf does. It is just as hard to get sour milk on the regu- lar bill of fare with a wild roan calf whose ancestors may be traced with the greatest difficulty not farther back than two years ago.