Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-09-11
BE REGULAR WITH YOUR cow.

tnan IN man, because t0ere u ieeS VI tuet
thinking power that enables man to turn
aside or to 20 higher. Cattle, horses or
sheep are quick to take % habits and
slow TO throw them of. What Is true OF
their outward actions is alike true OF
their internal functions. Feed a COW
twice q day at 6 A. NJ. and 6 p. u. for .
year, and as regular as clock she Will
start home TO her stall In time to begin
eating to the minute. Milk her with
regularity, and with like regularity she
will have her milk on tap. Vary the
time for either feeding or milking, and
she Is thrown out of her reckoning-is
disturbed In her hsbits-becomes irregu-
lar, has to be sent for, does not give
down her milk as cheerfully nor In as
liberal quantities.
These are facts familiar, Of course, to
all who have ever handled or observed
cows. But the practicsl Importance Of
regularity In milking Is not rightly sp-
precisted. There Is no surer way to re-
duce the value Of . good COW than by
irregular milking, unless IL be imperfect
milking-not milking eleanor handling
the cow roughly.
The Oregon station has been trying an
experiment on this point. IL took six
near alike In condition ss to age and
length of time In milk as IL could. One
lot was fed and milked regularly st 5 80
A. N. and 2 30 p. N while the other lot
was fed aud milked At hours ranging
from ) to A. NJ, and from 4 to 8 Z. NJ,
which last is TOO common practice
smoug farmers. This WAS kept up FOR
three weeks, the amount OF feed being
the same for each lot. As result those
fed and MIXED regularly increased their
milk production SO per cent, while the
other lot shrauk "A per cent.
This difference OF 10 per cent Ia three
weeks between regularity and Irregular
ity only partially illustrates the value Of
the one and the disadvantage OF the
other. Both results tend TO Increase and
20 become fixed habits OF the COW. Thus
the careful man who is methodicsl will
keep his cows improving, while the cows
OF the careless man are falling of every
year. Fix your hours for milking and
feeding and stick 10 them, rain or shine.
Allow nothing else to interfere with
Bulletin.
KILL THE WITCH GRs SIS FIRST.
would certainly not advise setting
small fruits until the land Is clean. |
set one 10, Of blsckberries In land foul
with witch grass. and never was able
10 clean II afterwards. TX there Is moth
Ing in the way 10 prevent freely culti-
waiting, do not find IL u difficult task to
clean my land Of witch grass. The
surest plan would be 10 crop the land
next year, but cultivate IL often enough
so thst nothing can grow. Begin opera
tions by plowing about the middle OF
June, and run the cultivator ss often ss
once a week after that, as long AS any
thing green shows. The subscriber can
accomplish just ss good results with
some crop on the land. II he will be sure
TO keep sll green blades OF grass from
the land.
To kill such plants a. live over winter,
IL Is best to begin the attack when their
root vitality Ia feeblest. That time is
when they have expended the store OF
nutriment laid up the previous season In
mSking their drst spring growth, with
most plants this Is about blooming time.
Ii Is with the hope Of taking advantage
of this weakening Of the roots by early
growth. that advise not 10 plow until
shout the middle OF June. Piowed then,
the roots will not sprout with as much
as though plowed early In
spring. | once destroyed 4 patch OF
by grubbing them of when
In full bloom, and cutting the sprouts
which came up sfterwsrd, with q hoe as
soon as they showed up. There was not
much sprouting, however.
l, this season, plowed an old black
berry lot which Was very foul with
witch grass, and planted IL 10 potatoes.
did the plowing too early to secure
good results most easily, in killing
either the witch grass or blackberry
sprouts; but have made pretty good
ob by several careful hsnd-hoeings-l
something seldom give my potatoes
and digging the potatoes late In August,
and cultivsting the land after digging.
Any plan which will prevent the witch
grass from making show OF green
the summer, will kill IL out
Rural New Yorker.