Year: 1875

Mr.. Wizards new practical Butter
Book has the following suggestions
on the care of milch cows:


The success of butter dairying de-
pends so much upon the care and feed
ing of the stock that no manual on
butter-making would be complete with
out touching upon this branch OF the
business 1t is really astonishing what
large difference in the yield of milk it
makes by attending properly to num-
ber of small things in the management
of stock-things which would seem to
many quite too insignificant to be
worth observing. The, dairyman should
have a genuine, hearty, love for the
animals under his control, attending to
every detail for their comfort, providing
wholesome, nutritious food, pure water
and pure air-everything of this kind
in abundance-keeping the animals pro-
perly sheltered from storms; feeding
always with great regularity paying
the most marked attention to the time
and manner of milking, and, wlthal,
preserving a uniform kindness and
gentleness extending even to the tones
of the voice.


Generally speaking, that COW will do
her best that is loved the best and pet
ted the most by those who have her in
charge If you wish COW to do her
best YOU must cultivate her acquaintance
Intimately and be unsparing in little
acts of kindness. You may whip and
torture COW into submission, but she
will strike the balance against you in
the milk pail. One of the greatest
faults among dairy farmers to-day is
lack of Kindness and consideration to
domestic animals. Cows should be pet
ted daily, and be made to feel that man
is friend and protector. All pain,
fright and uncasiness checks the secre-
tion of milk, and the man who is pas
sionate and abusive to his herd never
did and never can realize full yield OF
milk from it. | think that any one who
has the charge of animals should study
their character and disposition. 1t is
an interesting study, and, under the
law of kindness, you will now untre-
uuently bring out wonderful traits and
exhibitions of affection, which will show
forethought and design which may
well be ranked with the higher intelli-
gence Of reasonable beings.


QUESTIONS FOR pAlRYMEN.


Every daryman should have print
ed list of questions posted in some suit
able place on his premises, where his
family and those in his employ, as well
as his visitors, will have opportunity to
read frequently We give some ofthem,
but the list can be extended;


Do your cows feed in swamps and on
boggy lands?


Have you good, sweet running water
convenient for stock, and is it abundant
AMI permanent in hot, dry weather?


Have you shade trees in your pasture,
or do YOU think that cows make better
milk while lying down to rest in dis
comfort in the hot broiling sun?


Do you use dogs and stones to hurry
up the cows from pasture at milking
time, thus overheating their blood and
bruising their udders?


Do you cleanse the udder of COWS be-
fore milking by washing their teats
with their own milk, and practice further
economy by allowing the droppings to
go into the milk pail!


Do you enjoin upon your mixers to
wash their hands thoroughly before sit
ting down to milk, or do you think that
unceanlness in this respect is not i'm
portant for milk that is to be treated
for butter-making?


When cow makes 4 misstep while
being MIXED, do you allow your mixers
to kick her with heavy boots, or to
pound her over the back or sides with q
heavy stool, accompanied by sundry
profane remarks addressed to the COW
to teach her manners?


Is the air about your 'milk barn" or
milk house reeking with the foal ema-
nation of the pig sty, the manure heap,
or other pestiferous odors?


Good, fresh, clean water, and in abun-
dance, is one of the most important
requisites for milch cows, and it should
be in convenient places, where stock
will not be required to travel long dis
tanees to slake their thirst. If springs
and running streams cannot be had in
pastures, a good well, with windmill
and pump, makes an efficient substitute
and the waste water may, if necessary,
be conducted back into the well, so as
te Keep up constant supply of good
fresh water