The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-09-07
BILLNYE'S LIFEINN.C.
The RISE AND FALL OF a FELLO"
NAMED FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
A Buxzzrd IneId~u, sh"w ting How Exciting
the Life ls-something About IA. Guinea
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Agricolturist. Peculiar. No, writes 10
know: /. How long should calf be per
United 10 associate with its mother be-
fore vealing: 2 What do YOU know
about farming lands in Dakota? 3. How
do they compare with those Of North
Carolina, especially in Henderson and
Buncombe counties: l. What do you do
with your asparagus beds in summer?
Ftrst-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 80
that he will not be restless Of nights.
Once kept calf six years as an expert
ment to see how much milk he would
require as he grew older. MY report TO
the farmers convention of Erin Prairie
from which ! 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
have heard him sound "A"
We had him for tea at the close of the
sixth year, just as he began to get cum
ming. We had a veal symposium with
green peas raised on the place. They
grew in rows along by the mortgage. |
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 was
leaving the farm to go back and work on
a salary again. The name of the veal
was Florence-Florence Nightingale. He
was named by poetic lady from Paris,
aged 69 years, and | hadn't the heart to
change his name. for she was of q sensi-
tive nature and trifie over feet in
diameter. Living in Paris, she knew
very little of the world.
We missed Florence good deal after
his death, for he loved US all. and to see
him toss off a 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
| a hand on him.
Every time he got in the pound it cost
me $l0-$lO per pound. as it were.
| wanted to call him Patti myself
then could make veal patti of him
but the children said no; Nine. 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 mako 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 docs. 1t is
just as hard to get sour milk on the regu-
lar bill of fare with wild roam calf
whose ancestors may be traced with the
greatest difficulty not farther back than
two years ago.