The record-union., 1896-01-29
FARM And ORCHARD.
Cows Must be Well Treated to Get Good
Results.
To Give Good Milk the Cow Must be
HeaIthy-Cost of Producing Eggs
Borers in Fruit Trees-what 1t
Costs to Produce wheat-General
Farm Notes.

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Farm Notes.
To get the best possible results from
a dairy, the COW which is to furnish the
milk must be well understood. She
must not be regarded and treated as a
machine for giving milk if you wish her
to do her best work. The COW is an
animal with many of the instincts of
the animal, man, and proper treatment
requires that the laws of her animal
| life should be obeyed.
/ To give good milk it is absolutely
necessary that she be healthy, in order
that she may be able under proper con-
ditions to exercise her functions of Sc
creting healthful milk.
Any healthy COW can be made to do
this, but as an animal she has other
functions to perform, and other de-
mands upon her vital force. Her di-
gestion, circulation and muscular sys-
tenn may be so constructed as to direct
her surplus power in the direction of
muscular activity or muscular and fatty
accumulation; in all this she may be
perfectly healthy; but she is perfectly
selfish; her own qualifications have been
her constant aim
But in the production of milk for
which the dairy cow is valued, she en-
ters upon an entirely new service, her
work is not for herself but for her Off
spring; someone other than self, and
the function now brought into exercise
is stimulated by a desire to support
some one dependent upon her, hence
forth she has life devoted to the well
fare of others. And in proportion to
| the demand, is the effort to furnish the
supply; this is the law of compensa-
ton in all nursing mothers. The young
OF all domesticated animals are very
helpless and need and receive more
help than those that are untamed, hence
the attachment between the mother and
her offspring is stronger and usually
continues for a longer time, and the
milk producing power is much greater
than in the same species which are yet
running wild
The long domestication of the COW
and the large demand made upon her
has in some cases directed almost her
entire vitality into the production Of
milk as if for her progeny. Cows Sc
lected especially for the dairy are of
waited along with this unselfish giving OF
themselves for others, a habit of kind
ness amounting almost to love for those
for whom they live. This would be
directly expressed to their own Off
spring and would be reciprocated were
not the kindness of the COW by artificial
means directed into the channel of sup
porting the human milker, instead of
her own progeny; hence the best dairy
COWS are of a kindly disposition and ex-
press their kindness in their constant
effort to supply the demand made upon
them. This naturally expects and de-
serves reciprocation on the part of those
who are benefited by her unselfsh life.
The reciprocal kindness which has
been so faithfully earned, cannot be
better expressed on the part of the
dairyman than by taking proper care
OF the dumb % animal which has been
| so kind to him, and the man or the
woman who has not felt a return of
love for the COW from which she has SO
often received the life-exhausting and
! life-giving stream from the udder. has
/ yet to learn the true spirit of the true
dairyman
! The dairyman who has this proper
love for his cows win think nothing too
much trouble that he can do for the
comfort of his cows. And happily in
this case. as in all others, it pays to be
kind, for cows have brains and kindly
emotions if properly cultivated.
Herein may be found the apparent
! hidden cause why one mixer can get
more milk and more butter from the
same COW than others can, and that the
one who gets the most milk and butter
is not always the best milker when
| judged by his skill, but he is neverthe-
less the best mixer for that COW, be-
cause she likes him the best; his touch
and manner have in them kindness.
which puts her in a humor to give him
| all her milk and to give it in the best
possible condition
How can the dairyman show substan-
| tial kindness to his COW? She must
have stable suited to her nature. so
that may have the good health with the
most possible amount of comfort. She
must be kept clean-clean as the best
| horse-and warm in the winter. but
must also have plenty of fresh air and
exercise sufficient to keep up a good
circulation Of her blood.
She must have such food as will af-
! ford her the best means of producing
the milk which she has to furnish. This
will consist of such grains properly pre-
pared, as well as such coarse feed in
the form of hay fodder or ensilages as
| have been found most useful for this
purpose. But in these selections and
feeding the cows own individuality
must not be neglected. A clean bed and
pure palatable food are necessary for
the comfort of the COW, as they are for
the comfort of the mixer. The great
est quantity Of pure milk will be fur
nished under these conditions of clean
liness and care and kindness.
But the dairyman has not accom-
plished his purpose until the milk is in
fern for the market. If it is to be put
into the form Of butter or cheese. no
neglect can. be tolerated after the cow
has yielded her milk 1t must be kept
pure by not allowing it for a moment
in an impure vessel or surrounded by
impure air. Hence the milking stable
must be clean throughout and well ven
tilated and the milk must be quickly
strained and put into very clean vessels.
The air, which it absorbs rapidly, while
cooling. should be pure and not the foul
/ dAA VI oAA Impure bdTuydIQ. with milk
thus procured the dairyman is prepared
/ to make good cheese or butter if his
vessels used are clean, and the milk is
| kept in a cool place until the cream
separates or until it is to be used. The
care and marketing of the milk prod
ucts viii be treated in another article.
We have not entered into the special
plan of feeding nor Of the special guam
titles of each kind Of food for the COW.
because if the dairyman properly loves