COMMON SENSE ABOUT COWS.

Northern Advocate, 1 September 1888, Page 3

COMMON SENSE ABOUT COWS.

I know a cow, of no particular breed, now fourteen years old, which in her prime made fourteen pounds of butter a week in June, and a proportionate quantity the remaining months of the year. She gave milk at two years old, went farrow the next year, being in new milk every year Bince until this year ; is now farrow, and will go to the butcher next year, because it is not thought advisable to keep a cow beyond this age. She never knew what it was to be hungry ; has access to salt at all times, with plenty of water : is never forced, haviner nothing but her pasture in summer, and in winter never more that* six quarts of meal a day (generally corn and oats) with roots (usually potatoes) and cornstalks or hay, and a run at the strawstack through the middle of the day, unless it be too stormy, then she is foddered in her stable. *Of her I calves : her heifers arß as good milkers as herself; her steers make good beef cattle ; and all are as tractable and docile i as herself, all being treated with the same consideration. Perhaps one farmer in a hundred is able to keep pure-blood of whatever breed his fancy may dictate ; and such a farmer is a boon to his neighbourhood; but tUe ninety-nine must be content with what they have. Their success lies in making the best of everything in their hands. Lot these farmers breed to the best they can afford, of course, but let them tike as good care of their inferior stock as they would of thoroughbreds and mark the result. To the good food and warm shelter let them add the currycomb and brush; exact kindness of their hired help, in their care ; and in a few years they will be as proud of their stock as the neighbour of his thoroughbreds, and in most ways they will bring just as good return, without that heavy expenditure which the ninety-nine cannot afford. — (Amelia Louise Smith. " Buchtj-paiba." — Quick complete cure, all annoying Kidney, Bladder, and Urinary Diseases. At all chemists and druggists, Kempthorno, Prosser & Co., Agents, Auckland. " Rouon os Piles."— Why suffer ! Immediate relief and complete cure guraitepd. Ask for "Rough on Piles." Sure cure for itiching, protruding bleeding, or any form of Piles.