The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-02-14
THE COUNTY FARMER HERE
AGAIN


The Wayne County Farmer was in
Honesdale again Saturday to shake
hands with all those who read about
him in last weeks paper. While in
town | met a lot of my farmer friends
west of the pOstoffice and told them
about the new breed of cattle | ex-
pect to get from Florida. If | get
them | will drive the herd through
Wayne county and give every reader
of this paper sample of the milk.
Now don't take me too seriously,
but anyway, these cows are wonders
according to the directions that go
with them. Each COW has pedigree
as long as a bed quilt and as wide as
kitchen apron, but | don't figure on
the pedigree giving much milk so it's
the COW I'm after. I'll give my
friends in Wayne county a little de-
sCription of them and perhaps we can
order a car load together. In the
first place these COWS are what you
call slanting mixers; they are built
just the reverse of other cows. You
know that the hind legs of our cows
are longer than the front legs, maxi
ing them a little higher at the tail
end than at the beginning. Well, it S
different with those I'm going to get.
This breed has the hind legs in front
and the front legs behind, and has a
head where others cows have a tail
t.u TAN wuere other COWS have a
head; so you see the whole thing is
turned around. This makes a COW a
little higher at the front end than at
the back end and allows the milk to
flow down hill to the reservoir with
out any effort on the part of the COW.
This will make milking easy as roll
ing off a sofa. You know that cows
generauy close their eyes and snooze
when you milk them and forget all
about their business of pushing the
milk along, thus making you pull so
much harder to make up for the
cows neglect to push. Well, with
these new cows that are built on the
slope the milk runs down hill by the
natural force of gravity brought
about by this re-arrangement of the
running gear, and any child can do
the milking no matter whether the
COW is awake or whether she is
dreaming of Xmas or the Fourth of
July. Tne feature of having the
head on the tail end and the tail on
the head end is this: In summer when
the flies are as thick as the wool on
Rastus' head they will always light
on the tail end where the COW can't
get at them with any advantage, but
if the head of the COW is where the
tail used to be the COW can snap the
flies heads off before they realize the
change, and thus the fly population
will be cut down considerably. And
another thing: These cows have a
tail with a loop in it like the average
hog. When you go to milk all you
have to do is to hook this loop over a
fence picket, etc, and milk in peace.
But the banner feature about these
COWS is the quality of milk they give !;
one bucketful of this milk will go as
far as a wash-tub of ordinary milk,
and, frankly speaking, it isn't milk at
all, but soft butter that they give.
After you get done milking, stand the
dope in a cool place or put it in an
ice box and you. have hard butter
that needs only salt to complete it.
When you want milk you have to
put this butter in a butter churn and
pound just the other way from what
you now do and you will get cream,
| mean that instead of pounding up
and down you pound down and up.
After you have churned the butter
into cream, stand the cream in a
crock and next morning skim off the
milk. like this feature alright, but
believe in Wayne county we would
experience some trouble in winter
when it's cold. Before we could be-
gin to drain this new milk or soft
butter we would have to build a fire
under each COW and warm her up.
This fire business under the COWS
would not meet with the approval of
the insurance companies and I don't
think 1t would meet with the an
proval of the COWS. Cows are a lit
tie tOuChy on the south side, and
the fireman would be in danger of
getting his head kicked off. If
get the COWS | will get Lena to
make a good warm mustard plaster
for them and save the fire for his
cults. Watch The Citizen for furth-
er particulars.