Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-08

pints a day, which is four pints or ! two quarts apiece.
 Any heifer calf I've ever associated with, if I should offer her two quarts
 breakfast, say would drink 1t dry in two bunts of her head and three
 shakes of her tail and then say, in
 unmistakable calf language, Yep. the
 samples all right; now give us somel" The last heifer calf raised took an
 average of from six. to eight quarts of milk every morning for breakfast, and from four to six quarts every night for supper, and ate clover hay tween, according to the season, and whether she had to be kept stabled or could be begged out.
 She's the COW I'm milking now She is in her seventh month of lactatien;
 gives me a pint a day to drink; puts twice day; furnishes plenty of cream for our twice-a- day coffee. sauces, desserts, etc, and fills the pans with enough to make about five pounds of butter week, in addition. She is neither coddled nor kissed goodnight.
 She gets good mixed grass hay, all she wants; sweet cured corn stalks twice a day, all she'll eat up clean; bi-daily messes of pumpkins or roots; is sta- bled nights; has the run of the barn. yd1d dIlu d pcaSlO1c 4Ol udyS WILL plenty of sheds to get under if it
 storms; goes to the brook for water. even when she has to wade through ordinary snow to get there; never has
 had sick day nor a sore teat. She didn't cost me "S19" to raise to six thought of selling her. But $13.50 was the best offer anybody would make for her, even then. I thought she was
 worth more and so kept her. which
 was one time that I guessed right.
 She was and is worth more-a good
 deal more.
 But if I'd had to buy whole oats
 and bran and ltnseed meal and flax
 seed for her when she was a calf,
 and boil the flaxseed and weigh and
 measure tfa other things and gen. erally monkey" with her after the
 fashion described by this truly re-
 naarKable western experimenter, doubt
 less l should have got so tired of her
 before she was a year old that I'd have sold her for less than $1350 and been glad to see her tail-end disappearing down the dusty road.
 Pm not dairyman. keep but one
 COW, because that's all we need for
 home supply of milk, cream and but
 ter I don't profess to be adept in 1 dairy lore nor expert in dairy man agement But, IS a mere amateur and onc-cow man-which is perhaps an even more opprobrious epithet than one-hoss farmer"-seems to me this wonderful experiment of this west ern experimenter comes pretty near to being what I've heard called pop pycock.''
 Perhaps it doesn't affect you that
 way. but it is. actually irritating to me
 to have. some fellow who wasn't born
 when I was having to earn my own living off the farm. undertake to give
 me points about something like l calf-feeding. Such a man would consider himself capable of teaching
 his grandmother how to suck eggs. And, if his teaching consts in
 going through such rigamarole as
 this out-west chap advises, with such
 an outcome as he reports in the way
 of costs. then the irritation takes on
 a shade of ugliness.
 The trouble with too much of the advice we farmers get is that it doesn't fit. We're most of us, out of the kindergarten stage, and don't need pap so much as we do spon- dulix. There are thousand farmers who can raise calves and keep dairy
 cows and get good yields of rich milk where there is one farmer who can | get faair pay for his calves or his | cows or his milk.
 Just at present the help we want | is not so much in being. shown how
 to increase production as in being l shown how to get renumerative
 prices for what we already produce 1 When the minimum price for his milk to the New England farmer is
 reported at $1.10 per hundred pounds and the minimum cost of producing
 the milk is corresponding1y reported l at s1.0911 per hundred pounds, it oc- l currS to a man up a tree that what
 the farmer needs is not so much
 knowledge of how to get more milk
 as knowledge of how to get better price.
 We need less advice upon how to suck eggs or raise calves, and more
 help in getting what our goods are worth.
 !! Just at present, the marketing I problem is the one which, from the
 farmers w-point, demands first
 attention. It is the one which we
 are, as a class and by reason of oul conditions, least able to tackle for Yourselves. It is the one wherein | economy students and nrantioa1 h,.c