Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1891 — THE DAIRY. [ARTICLE]

THE DAIRY.

Dairy Mote*. * Don’t let a dairy meeting in your neighborhood get away from you, whether you know much or little about the science of dairying. Skvkrai, correspondents have incidentally said recently that they are warming the water, this winter, for their cows are pleasixi with the result. We are not surprised. Evebv pound of oleomargarine that is sold takes the place of a pound of genuine butter, and for that reason, if for no other, hotels, and board-ing-houses should be forbidden by law, to feed It to their patrons without knowledge. Once in awhile, and oftener, somebody gives the public the benefit of his belief about abortion in the herd, and when we get through reading it, we know Just as much as we did before. The butterine makers kick like a “bay steer,” at the idea of preventing them by legislation, from cramming their dirty products down the throats of 5 those who cat at public eating houses, but they must be made to be decent. The practice of the golden rule toward the herd is just as important as its practice toward our fellowmen. Do unto the cow as you would be done bv, if you were in her place, is about ali there Is to the proper management of the herd. j • One of the leading live stock papers of the West tells it readers, says an ex-

change, that stunted calves will certainly, make, as far as appearance goes, “scrub”' animals, and that this will be the case without the slightest regard to the breed which they represent or to tho quality of their breeding. This is sound doctrine which all live stock owners will do well to heed. By good care and skillful feeding they can improve the appearance and increase tho value of a low grade of stock at its present degree of excellence if the younß animals are not well fed or are not given proper attention.