Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-05-08
RAISE GOOD CATTLE.

tuat tnere were TWO slues 10 every QueS
ton and that saying came very forcibly
to my mind while reading the article OF
dsirymsn's stock, In the Journal o.
Feb. ed. The question IL asked: Whs
Is the farmer to do? and would answer
that question, by saying that the grea
mass OF Maine farmers should keel
good Durham or Hereford cattle, al
though l believe, as l always have be
lieved, that q farmer that Is rightly
situated, with proper management, Car
make Jersey cows pay q good profit
that is, IL he, Gas VAlancy Z. Fuller OF
New York ssys) "has . farm vel
situated for his purpose, with good
pasture, water In abundance, barns Il
properly house his stock In winter, land
enough to rsise his own grain and has
so situated that he has q good market foi
his product, he can feed out what he
raises on bis farm, TO Jersey cows at q
good profit, but the great mass Of Maine
farmers are not so situated, but they car
raise good beef on their farms, and make
butter and cheese at the same time, and
they can sell good beef for cash.
Ii matters not how far back Ia the
back country OF Maine they may be, II
they have good beef the buyers are sure
TO tind them, and II they have 10 keep
them few weeks after they are ready 70
sell, there Is no danger Of their growing
strong, or losing their flavor, which can
not be said Of the butter that some of
the experts score high to-day, for &C
cording TO {. Z. Goodrich of the Univer-
sity OF Wisconsin, there must be some OF
the buttermilk In IL to give Ii the flavor
and aroma so much priced, as has been
eonclusively proved by numerous expert
ments, aud we all know that buttermilk
Is about as perishsble as fresh meat, in
fact IL Is so perishsble that some that
have been making that kind OF butter
have given IL up. l WAS talking with a
man not long ago, who st one time had
regular customers for all the butter that
he m de xt 25 cents pound. He had TO
deliver IL once or twice week, but II
the people were away from home, or for
any other reason they did not use il that
week, he had 10 take IL back and give
them some new, and he stopped making
that kind of butter, and got a new set of
customers sni for the last two years he
has been making good solid tub butter,
and selling IL for 20 cents pound, and
taking into account labor and trouble IL
paws much better than IL did at - cents
a pound. Then again In raising beef the
chance OF loss, the risk, Is nothing ss
compared 10 the risk with herd OF
Jersey cows.
He has no fear Of his steers and beef
heifers having mill fever, abortion, par
turient spoplexy, nor Of their going far
row until they are Improbable, and IL
his Durham or Hereford cows 20 fsrrow
he can sell them for beef for enough TO
buy another that will have calf, and 1t
Is said By high authorities that COW
that is kept on hay and grass Will not
have milk fever, but the Jersey dairy
cow is liable and subject TO all these
troubles, and when she has passed her
usefulness as = COW, she Is not good
for much else, and the better she IL, the
more liable she Is 10 die young. Ii Ia
said that the good die young and so 1t
seems with the Jersey COW. Ii Ia com.
mon opinion around here, that jersey
COW will not live with the same feed and
care given 10 Durhams and Herefords,
and experience tends 10 confirm thar
idea. met man st Pennington few
dsys ago, from whose farm have gone
some OF the best steers that ever went
from this state, or any other state, and j
asked him IL he had any Jersey cows
and he looked AZ me and said: No, will
give dollar for n shot at = Jersey COW
any time. Again, WAS In Farmingtor
a week or two ago, and saw the largest
dealer In stock In this county sell = Jer'
sew calf for 81 so, aud another grade
Jersey calf for o. so, and the man that
bought them wanted 10 buy one OF the
red calves, but the dealer would not sell
sny OF them for cents pound. Now
let Us see what the profits are In beef as
compared 20 butter, and In doing so LET
Us not follow the example OF the late
Horace Greeley and some Others OF to-
day, and take account of receipts only,
but let US see what things cost Us In
labor and money AS well as what we get
for them.
AT an agricultural meeting Mr.. Greeley
said that he knew that . certain branch
of farming paid, for be had Kept sn sc-
count of all he had received from II for
the last year, when one Of the old farmers
asked him how much IL had cost, and he
said L declare l haven't kept any &C
count Of that, and IL Is said that when
Mr.. Greeley's estate was settled up, II
was found that his farming business had
cost him $4,000 a year. First, let US
consider the question OF time and labor
required 10 successfully produce butter
ana beef. Now il you have lot of Jer-
sey cows, and you take care OF them ac-
cording 70 the instructions Of the su-
thoriry, YOU can't do much else, for they
want about as much watering and tend
ing AS a six weeks old baby. You must
weigh all their feed, and each one sepa-
rately. You must weigh their milk, and
test il 10 see how much butter TAT II con-
tains. You must feed at just such .
time every day or you will lose your
profit. You must wash the cows udder,
brush her sides and change your clothes
every time you milk, and carry each and
eyery cows milk out Of the stable as
soon as she Is MIXED, and this must be
kept up summer and winter. You have
got 10, somehow, steal time enough 30
YOU can, In the course Of = few weeks In
the winter, get ice enough TO use about
your milk the next summer. The dairy
men around here have been fortunate
this winter in being able TO buy their ice
all cut, so they have only had TO haul IL.
i You can tell dairy man any time II you
| watch him q little while. By the time
be has been away from home an hour or
two he will be on nettles, keep looking
AZ his watch, and II he is detained liz
tle. when he starts for home he will 20
upon the run.
He is q perfect slave TO his cows, and
when he goes TO the store to buy grain
| for his cows he is In hurry, and buy
grain he must, for the average back
country farmer does not raise grain
enough 20 keep two cows, as many OF
the Jersey cows are kept. IL will bs
said that II q man Is In any kind OF busi
ness, he must attend TO 1t. Yes, bul
some kinds of business require great
deal more attention than Others. Now
let US see how il Is with raising beef
You take your calves In the fall and put
them into the tie-up, feed them on gooc
hsy, morning, noon and night, regulal
il YOU are at home, and II not, you feed
them when you get home, the main thinf
being to see that they have all they wan
TO eat, and that may be given them II
two feeds, IL more convenient. l hired
man 10 feed my cattle that way tw'
years, and they did just as well. Wste
them and clean out the tie-up once day
through the winter, and in May tur'
them out to pasture, and for the mex
six months all the care they require Y
20 have salt once week. will leav
these steers in the pasture, and In a.
naxt will take them out and max