Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-05-22

their privileges aud ability; are not do
Ing as well az they know; have more
bolidays and hollhours than men of
other occupations; are waiting Tor som--
thing to turn up, and are not putting 10
the required energy TO turn things up.
W. W. ANpREws.
IGNoRANcs AND lAzlNtSS At
HEAVY COST.
"If all the COW. In the country were
charged With their care and keeping. st
a fair valuation, the selling value OF
their product. wouldn't be sufficient to
nav the bill.~ This statement Was made
by an eastern paper "hlgh up" In dairy
lorc. At fret thought the assertion IL
.hocking 10 the senses of one Who has
read and written much about "money IN
the dairy" but Investigation of the sub
Is,.t confirms the truth of the unpleas-
ant d.clsration. Take, for instance, the
state Of Ne~ York. whose cows average
about l3o pound. ~ butter q year.
r~euty cvnts q pound would BE- q large
average price to grant that the batier
bring.. AZ this rate t's' Income from
each COW would IL 81. Nov, who
would keep a coz syesr, miik her. make
the butter aud market Il fr that paltry
sum- Certainly, not q person OF aver
age busines. capacity, " he would rrfect
a moment. A. q rule, people Object TO
work for nothing aud boar,l themselves,
bu, here u IL sbundantly shown that
thou sands upon thousands are doing II
and moving along. apparently In great
satisfactiou.
There are three princips causes Tor
thl. bad showing ~ the butter-dsirying
Intere.ts of the Emplre sts,e. The tlr.t
,o be- named IL poor butter cows. This
IL caused b. general cartlessness aud In
attention In the matter % breeding bet
ter COWS, and TIL. r,missness is caused
by the dsiryman'. neglect to rad up In
tb. lin. of hl. own business. With all the
bo..t.d Intelligence of American farm
er.. there l. no elias. of business people on
tbi. continent Who Rad so little Ne they.
A. .oon a. the dalrymsn begins to read
about his own business, he acquires the
habit of studying Il, and his output of
butter asc.ud. right along from the av-
er.ge of lJD pounds to COW uP To ?n,
80, 3n0, aud some even more than that.
\ once wrote that IL would he q sound,
fins ncisl policy of the state 10 furnish =
good agricultural paper to every farmer
wthln it, borders Who does not take one
himself, and would nov add that es-
pevially would u be policy "a give every
iairymsn dairy paper Who does not
get one now. Poor cows are the result
Of Ignorance or l.rlne.., or both. i'oor
butter Ia usually an accompaniment of
poor dairy cows. The same neglect
.hos. it, cloyen foot here-a lack OF
.tudyIng one. own business. For this
cause or that or for many causes, ! am
.af, Ia saying that not one-hslf of the
butter made In the state of New York !.
Nc Ia enter the human stomach. IL IL
loaded down With vile SCENTS and tastes
Of some Kind. am aware this assertion
/. a broad Que, but Jet An expert butter
faster navel through New York, outside
Of strictly dairy districts, stop at every
farm house and taste the butter to
.m.ll II would be sufficient In most
cases.. aud I know he would not pro
nounce over one sample In ten of hrst-
rate quality.
m there IL auy one food more Abomin-
able than another, poor butter IL the
most sxecrabie. Iierciotus Was the
fir.t writer Who mentioned butter. u. Z.
seD. the spsrtans employed IL only To
anoint themselves, using II as . cosmet-
Ic. should lady to-day make use of
some of the modern butter In making
her toilet, her presence would BE- often
.l,e 10 delicate no.trils. Oleomargarine
4. enerosehlng upon the ssle Of good
butter, simply because there IL go much
poor. A per.ou Who makes lO-cent but
Ter never can prosper n dsirymsn.
Poor butter 4. the result of Ignorance or
l,lin.ss, or both.
The third principal cause Of poor
dairying Il a waste of soil fertility. ~
a rule the land In dairy districts IL gcn-
.rally rough and stony, only portions OF
n b.lng arabic. II has been devoted Ia
dairyins becsuse that VAS the beat u.e to
which Il could be put. when flrst clear
ell of timber, the virgin soil being fer
tile II WAS soon covered with sweet,
nutritious grasses, 40 IL the habit Of ns-
turr. No care being observed 10 hus-
band aud return the plant food In the
form Of manure, which VAS taken on In
the form of grass, the pastures became
PARTIALLY .'cowed out" and according TO
another Law of nature, cosrser and less
nutritious grasses and weeds took the
place of those Of better quality. A few
thinking aud reading dairymen saw this
aud set about remedying the difficulty.
They feed their cows on some Kind OF
grain the year around, avoid any manure
going To waste, and return all To the coll,
and now nutritious grasses come In fast
.r than they went out. These dAlrymen
get a double return for money Invested
in grain feed-once In milk and butter,
and once In better manure. Nop-reAd.
lug and uDobseryant dsirymen continue
I'm the well-woru ruts.
A recent public statement OF Dr. Col
lier, director Of the New York Expert
ment station, gives some astounding
figures. lie estimates that elO,WO,Uo
worth Of manure IL made annually in
thi. state. aud that probably over halt
of II goes Ia waste! II we ssy the
waste L. sGO, Coz, 600, IL would be el ,OuO,-
GO for each county. Now, II . tax of
tbl. amount MAS saddlcd on any county.
Ia be paid Ia cold cash. there would be
som- aground and lofty tumbling" by
every taxpayer, but as this loss slips
away slyly and noiselessly, few object.
4 wonder Ii anybody ever thinks what an
affinity pl,nt-focd (nsnure) has for the
ocean. Crops 90 from the Interior to
.eaboard cities to be consumed, or
across the Atlantic. The waste portion
-which IL the larger part--tlnds liz way
into the ocean. Then myrlads OF small
streams, laden With plant food, triekle
away from farmers barns Into the hrst
rayine, thence Into a creek. the1ce Into
a river, and finally into the ocean. Much
of the virgin fertility Of American coll
lie. in the bottom Of the ocean to-day.
There I. little wonder that 20 many
farm. are growing poorer and 20 many
80 O-pourd cows prevail. Waste OF Ter
tiIlty IL the result Of Ignorance or lazy
ness, or both.-New York Tribune.
Give the land to be planted tn corn .
thorough preparation, but do not hurry
In the seed. Sweet corn especially
should not be planted I'LL the last OF the
month. or better still I'LL the flrst days oi
June unless the soil be sandy and warm.
Meanwhile keep the harrow golng ovef
n at frequent intervals. 1he hoeing can
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