The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-13

Is tne cows comfort. NOCn1nS eats
| up butter faster than discomfort and
fear, because they shrink the butter
fat and SO make their milk, which is
steering the butter into the manure
pile instead of into the churn. There
| fore have warm floors and warm
stables; COW cannot run a furnace
and a churn with the one feed. My
floors rest on packed earth, by which
they never freeze, and the stable is
lined and the spaces filled with
sawdust, by which the thermometer
never gets below 40 degrees. Another
butter eater is the StanchiOn. Farm
ers are very careful to have for them
selves warm floors and feather beds,
but leave their dutiful cows hanging
by the neck i'm the cruel stocks named
stanchiOns, to get what sleep they
can on frost-carpeted floor; both
should be abolished by law as cruelty
to animals. 1t is much more profitable
to keep a less number of cows by
dividing the stable into narrow box
stalls. than the greater number in
stanchiOnS.
We can also class the horns with
butter eaters, and the boss COW eats
more butter than the farmers family,
for every time she spears the other
COW. shrink goes the butter fat. Her
ally is the dog A milkman out of
Albany was known as "Old Bluemilk,
and he was the record breaker. He
fed as much as the other milkmen,
and kept as good cows, but he also
kept a shepherd dog, which he sent
every day for the cows, and which
the dog brought home on a full run.
Another. and a double eater, is the
noisy. rough mixer. Doubtless the
discomfort family eats more butter
than the human family. which means
that butter costs double what it needs
to produce. The farmer should
ponder. not how to get his COW to eat
more feed. but how to help her ap-
propriate what she does eat for her
udder instead of for the barnyard
They might experiment with the ex-
tract of repOSe.
As to the growing of our feed crops,
clover hay. with improved harvesting
machines, can be raised and put into
the barn for less than 50 a ton, and
i'm connection with silage a COW will
eat less than a ton between October
and pasture. Silage, with improved
farm implements, can be put into the
SilO for less than one dollar a ton, and
a COW will do finely Ga Jersey on a
ton a month. Carrots can be raised
for less than 10 cents a bushel, and a
COW will not require over a peck a
day. The Oat straw can be made
to pay for the oats, and the cOrnstalks
for the corn. Then add to the above
feeding one pound of linseed meal
and two pounds of cOttonseed meal,
per COW per day, and we will have
firSt-claSS butter at a profit. Wei
might add to the butter account the
value of the manure made and used
Heyond that applied on the feeding
crops. which would be considerable
if all the manure is carefully saved
i e.. the liquid as well as the solid,
as it contains over half of the plant
food that an animal vOids, so that a
farmer who allows it to run to waste |
is as brilliant as the one who allows
a neiChbOr to steal half of his manure. |
Hesides saving there is a great gain |
n spreading the manure on the sod
intenCed for next years corn as soon
as the hay is off, which saves the
wash from rain while i'm the yard. |
Still another source of saving or gain |
ing is in buying the cows instead of
raising them. 1t takes two years to |
mako a calf q DrOducer. two yaarc of |