The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-26

Mr.. G. L. Gabrilsen of Iowa rarely
ever gets a thing wrong about COWS.
His letter Dn page TIA | hope has been
read carefully by every reader of the
Review who keeps a COW. He wants
his COWS to go dry from two to three
month between calves. So do 1. He
believes the one who gives his COWS a
rest OF from so to 80 days will have
equally good returns for food and
care as n who milks his COWS to with
in a month az parturition. So do L.
Mr.. Gsbrilsen believes greed for a
short rest between calves nas entailed
disease upon the dairy COW and weak
ened her calves. l do too. He says
as calYing time approaches the cows
physical condition should be closely
watched. She should be properly fed
and well treated so she will do well
at calying time. So say l. He believes
in oats, as l do, and he believes EPSON
or glander salts should be among the
medical stores of every we'll regulated
farm. But I don't. Honor bright!
have given an ounce of either
EPSON or glauber salts, aconite or salt
petro TO one of my COWS, and one rare
ly ever fails to "do we'll" l prefer nice
cruel. turnips, etc., to cause a LAX con-
dition Of the bowels" I have asked
scores Of dairymen in the last five
years If they make a practice of Civ
An& Epson salts, ETC., to their COWS
abcus ca living time, and to cure garget,
etc. Not one in ten make any c~alcula-
tion Of giving medicine. Men with so
COWS Of more don't spend % cents a
year for medicine. And they are the
ones whose COWS don't have many af-
f1ictions. l was brought up" to not
take medicine or give medicine. 1 got
NO soothing syrup" when l was a
baby. Father said babies do not cry
for soothing syrup. Mother ate a
great many turnips and-and broths
when l WIS pretty little. The no medi-
cine policy worked well in papa's fam
lily. Os fourteen children twelve are
living, the youngest past fifty. The
second shat died had passed three-score
and ten, OF course we were born right.
Mother veaned her babies before they
were a year old, and then she had a
year on I'm average to recuperate be-
fore the aeXt one. The fourteen chill
dren wers twenty-six years getting
here. 10 was; Major, 1924; Alva,
1926; Anre E., 1928; Russell, 1880; A.
X, 1882; M. B. and Sarah J.. (twins),
1884, andy so it was continued to the
end-all Born in a year that could be
divided hy two and about two years
apart. Father did not shut mother in
her room during the winter for fear
exercise and cold would stop his babies
growing-but l have digressed.
What COWS want is to have been
born right, to be fed and cared for
right, and when they become mothers
it won't take any drugs to tide them
safely through the ordeal of becoming
mammals. Bro. Gabrilsen would have
told you if he had thought of it that
the time the COW was dry she should
take a great deal of exercise. Mother
rarely ever kept a hired girl.) / prac-
tice allowing all my dry cows and heif-
ers to go back to the spring eighty
rods every day in winter for water
once a day. l say / 'allow them to
CO."
1t must he a very cold or stormy
day for my cow not to choose to go
to the spring. In all ordinary weather
my cows giving milk will pass by a
vat full of nice water in the barn yard
and go back to the spring with the dry
cows. I generally allow them to take
the tramp if they so desire. and if they
give some less milk and eat more hay
l believe / am the gamer in other ways.
The first thirty days after a COW
calves is the time to fully adop. the
Hard Gould mo exercise" theory.