St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-03-09
FARMER AND PLANTER.
TWENTIETH CENTURY COW.
4 DiRerent Aninal than That which
Saw the Openlng u the
Nlneteenth.

The twentieth century cow is q very
different creature from the COW which
saw the dawn of the nineteenth CEN
fury. Yes; even fifty years ago the
COW of our fathers yard had little in
common with the fine specimen we
call the queen of the stable to-day.
We all know what she had in the way
OF ancestry. Hardly q COW in the
country half a century ago could
boast Of a ienage worth preserving.
Her care and general treatment COM
ported well with her decent. She stood
half the winter long out in the cold,
shivering, hungry and a standing adj
vertisement of the fact that her own
err considered her simply an adjunct
liable assistant. F
But the COW of the new century:
She opens her eyes upon prospect
most delightful to contemplate. She
is recognized as furnishing the lucky
man who possesses her most de-
sirable part of his income from year
to pear. The millions Of dollars in
vested in her and her progeny in this
country, according to the latest cen
sus, show that she represents . guam
tity upon the dairymnn's cash book
by no means inconsideraRle. Then.
too, her surroundings are fairly pala-
tials compared with those OF her
grandmother. 1t is now thought
worth Will. to provide her with warm
quarters, secure from the wintry
blasts: to furnish her with the best
of hay and corn and other feed; to
keep her we'll supplied with pure and
fresh water: to shield her even from
the flies which might annoy her and
dctract from her peace OF body, IN
short. to do everything possible to
add to her comfort.
Her pedigree is carefully traced
and hung in the parlor where all may
point to it with pride. From calfhood
to full maturity she is an object of
the utmost consideration, and her
untimely departure, in case such
should be her fate, is the source OF
deepest lamentation.
What does the new century cow do
to compensate for all this watchfui
solicitude? According to the statisti-
cal report for 1885, the latest before
me. there are shout 16,OOO,OOO cows in
this country, valued at $474, 0O0. 900.
Not far from ten thousand cream
cries are in operation, in which 30O.-
100000 pounds of butter are made
each year, or one-fifth of the total
output, the remaining 1000, 000. 900
pounds represents the labor of private
dairies. The value of every pound Of
butter made should be at least TWEEN
ty cents, from which we may con-
clude that the worth of the butter
alone which our cows gives us every
year is about s3,OOO,OO0. Besides this
there is the cheese. the tallow, the
hides and all the other products trace
able to the COW.
What q beautifully magnificent
creature she is? We do well to take
pride in her. She repays all our eff
forts in her behalf ten fold every
year. Do we sufficiently appreciate her
consequence in our farm economy?
Some do not, that is true. They still
consider her just as their grand
fathers did, as an animal to be toler-
ated on the farm. 1t is time these
men wake up to the fact that the
cow is a creature of flesh and blood.
with keen instincts and a sharp sense
of justice. With what measure we
mete to her, with that measure she
returns. She is q business animal.
She knows when she is fairly dealt
with and responds accordingly. It
will pay us to cultivate more careful
ly the acquaintance of the new CEN
fury cow.-Cor. Farmers Home Jour
nal