Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-01-13
Cows and Medicine.

Mr.. C. L. Gabrilsen of Iowa rarely
ever gets a thing wrong about COWS.
His letter on page ia hope has been
read carefully by every reader OF the
Review who keeps COW. He wants
his cows to so dry from two to three
months between calves. So do l. he
believes the one who gives his COWS a
rest of from GO to 80 days will have
equally good returns for food ana
care as one who milks his cows to with
IN a month of parturition. So DO l..
Mr.. Gabrilsen believes greed Tor q
short rest between calves mas entailed
disease upon the dairy cow and weak
ened her calves. I do too. He says
as calving time approaches the cows
physical condition should be closely
watched. She should be properly 1ea
and we'll treated so she will do well
at calving time. So say I. He believes
IN oats, as 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! l
have never given an ounce OF either
EPSON or glauber salts, aconite or salt
petre to one Of my cows, and one rare
ly ever fails to do we'll" prefer nice
cruel, turnips, etc., to cause "lax con-
dition of the bowels" I have asked
scores of dairymen in the last five
years IT they make practice of CIV
ing EPSON salts, ETC., to their COWS
about calving time, and to cure garget,
etc. Not one in ten make any calcula-
ticn Of giving medicine. Men with so
cows or more don't spend Is cents a
year for medicine. And they are the
ones whose cows don't have many af-
flictions. I was brought up" to not
take medicine or give medicine. l got
no Soothing syrup" when I was a
baby. Father said babies do not cry
for soothing syrup. Mother ate a
great many turnips and-and broths
when was pretty little. The no medl-
cine policy worked well in papa's fam
lily. OF fourteen children twelve are
living, the youngest past fifty. The
second that died had passed three-score
and ten. OF course we were born right.
Mother weaned her babies before they
were year old, and then she had a
year on an average to recuperate be-
fore the next one. The fourteen chill
dren were twenty-six years getting
here. It was: Major, 1924; Alva,
1926; Anne E., 1928; Russell, 1880; A.
X, 1892; M. B. and Sarah ]. (twins),
1884, andy so it was continued to the
end-all born in a year that could be
divided by 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 I have depressed.
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
mammas. Bro. Gabrilsen would have
told you if he had thought of it that
the time the cow was dry she should
take great deal of exercise. (Mother
rarely ever kept a hired girl.) l prac-
tice allowing all my dry COWS and heif-
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rods every day in winter for water
once day. say "allow them to
co."
It must be a very cold or stormy
day for my COWS 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
believe am the gamer in other ways.
The first thirty days after a COW
calves is the time to fully adopt the
Hard Gould mo exercise" theory.
(Father looked out for mother about
them, but after that no need of boxing
up good strong cows Or
Mr.. Editor, I am sorry so wise a
mortal as Mr.. c. L. Gabrilsen cannot
get over the idea that cows in perfect
health need that nauseating EPSON
salts!" l wonder if he don't mix in
any ginger? Goodbye. / will write
again.
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