The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-05-24
A Chapter of Don'ts for
Dairymen.

We copy the. following from Hoard's
Dairyman;
Don't think because the price of but
ter or milk may have dropped on 'hat
it will pay YOU to reduce the amount oil
grain fed your cows
Don't forget that every COW carries
her own time piece, and knows precisely
when the hour for feeding and watering
comes.
Don't try to make yourself believe
YOU can put her off and feed or water her
whenever it suits your convenience,
without yourself being the looser.
Don't think because the COW does not
speak the English language, she does
not understand such terms as get
around there you old foo.
Don't fool yourself into the belief
that YOU can split your stool over ne
hip bones and not loose, ut the same
time, both in quantity and quallty oi
milk.
Don't belive it if some one tells you
your cows will do just rs we'll with
change of mixers every day.
Don't fail to keep record of the time
your cows are due to calve, as otherwise
some will be MIXED too long.
Don't think because COW Is persist
ent mixer she does not need season OF
rest.
Don't believe it when some one tells
YOU her young calf will be Just as strong
and vigorous, and she Will continue &c
give AS much or AS good milk, Wher
MIXED up to the time she comes in
Don't think because she is dry, tn,
COW is well cared for with ration OF
straw or poor hay.
Don't think good ventilation means q
crack between each board an inch wide
or doors made of fence rails.
Don't expect your cows to be very
comfortable in stable where you can
not keep warm without overcoat and
mittens.
Don't be sati,i fled without striving
after the best-in everything.
Don't say that reports of 300 to l0t
lbs. of butter per COW, all came from
"dudes and liars" because your cows
have never made over l15 pounds each
Don't fail to remember that the COW
that makes II pounds of butter for ~
to Is weeks is a remarkably good COW.
Don't forget that unless you have
tried them, YOU may have one or two
such cows in your herd, and don't forget
it that one such COW is worth more to
YOU than six that will not produce more
than $50 pounds each during the season.
Don't expect the good wife to make a
first-class article OF butter from tainted
milk.
Don't expect anything but tainted
milk if the cows are kept in foul stables,
with teats and udders besmeared with
filth.
Don't tell me haven't seen farmers Il
will not say dairymen) sit down to COW
with teats aud udders completely cover
ed with manure, and then begin at once
to wet the teats with milk while the
filthy drippings went directly into the
milk pail, for have seen just this.
Don't wonder that these same parties
found il difficult to sell their butter at
any price, and concluded that dalrying
did not pay.
Don't think in this day of dairy light,
the above statement of tilthiness is Il lie,
for could give you names If chose to.
Don't fail to begin nov if you have
never done so, and try the effect of kind
ness on your cows.
Don't forget that everything you do
to add to their comfort will comc back
to you in greatly increased profits.
Don't think because you may have
been in the dairy business for number
of years, you cannot learn anything
now.