Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-20

than that II the digestive organs Of
the COW are strained, she is injured per-
manently. I have visited several sta
bles in Orange county, recently, and in
every one detected a smell that show
ed plainly to me that the cows were
being fed too much grain. 1t had
passed undigested and had fermented.
One should watch the droppings to see
II the grain is all being digested. Very
many dollars are lost by over-feeding.
Then. too, one cow pays for her food
in the milk pail; another one, turns her
foods into fat. One COW will eat, d.
gest and assimilate certain amount
of grain, another will not, while an
other will eat and pay for more. Iadi-
vtduality Of the animal must be stud
led by the feeder. in order to nationally
feed herd of dairy cows. All these
conditions must be considered when
answering the question just as the price
of milk is considered. The manurial
value of food must also be copsid-
cred in calculating the worth of a food
for the dairy cow"
Now, while the conclusions drawn are
quite correct, yet farmers must use cere
in feeding all grains, especially cotton
seed meal. AS shown by an article in
the Farmers Review two weeks ago,
the feed should be small at first and
gradually increased.
The Cow and Prosper1ty.-"You show
me a community of farmers who are
largely interested in the dairy induatry
and 1 will show you community Of
prosperous and happy people, no mort
cages on their farms, plenty of money,
children properly educated and all on
joying the luxuries of life. Hard times
do not materially affect them. On the
other hand, in community where the
COW is left out or is of secondary constd-
Grafton, where they keep but few and
those not half cared for, picking their
own living in the winter from corn
fields or straw stacks, where .hey
make little butter and trade 1t at the
stores for groceries, kick at the cream
cry, claim it does not pay to keep
COWS, and feel sure 1t does not for tn EN-,
and will show you community that
is continually growing about the times,
this or that administration" etc.-Prof.
T. L. Hacker.
Poultry Products Last Year.-Poul-
try statistics for 1894 give eggs to the
value of $1O2, 900 900, and poultry $50
900 900, or total of 152 million dollars.
Oats and cotton are given at about
5000, 900 900; tobacco about the same as
eggs, while the whole mining interest
of gold, silver, iron, ETC., only aggre-
gates $265, 100000, and wheat a tride
more than $3.50, 900 900. Our poultry fu-
terest is just in its infancy, and will
rapidly increase and become an import
ant source of income for American
farmers.
Suppress Filled Cheese.-Never were
the dairymen of the country more alive
to the necessity Of decisive action On
the subject Of filled cheese than now.
From every cheese district in the coun.
try is heard the Macedonian cry for
succor. and Judging by the bills now
before many of the legislatures. an Of
fective damper will be put on the ille-
gitimate sale of such goods. No reason
able man can complain Of the manufsc-
ture OF skim cheese, SO long as 1t is sold
for what 1t really is; the crime consists
in supplying the place of the natural
fat with foreign article and then max
ing the product masquerade as fill
cream goods. and attempting to palm it
off on the consuming public as the gen
uine article, thus robbipg the buyer
and injuring the sale of pure goods.
American Cheesemaker.
A driving trade-coachinE.