Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-07-02

pounds she has given seventeen quarts III day
The quality of her milk is thought 10 be exceed
nglv good. She has been kept for family use, and
her milk used freely, ii, in the family, aud without
any reference To this exhibition, besides which she
ha. Welded eight pounds OF butter q the first quail
ity, in a week.
Rccapitulation -
Pcaccablc, kind, aud docllc.
Greatest quantity Of milk per day Il qts.
Average, 200 lbs.
Ouantty of butter per week < lbs
r. \. MERRIAM
Tap,fcM SEPT. %, 1881.
WILLIAM JIwErr's STATEMENT.
To the Committee Of the Eaet igritultmdi So
eicty, on MIDI Cones and Heiters.
GeNTlrmEN--The Cow present for your IN
spcctlon | bought AZ two years old with Two heiler
Calves by her side, which were sis weeks old July
18th, 1892 She has had ordinary keeping and 10
other. She brought me her third calf March 18th,
1891, which sucked till July 9TH in June MIXED
one hundred and fifty gallons Of milk from her,
since that time We have 10, otcn particular 10 mea-
sure, until last evening, MIXED eight quarts thus
morning SiA quarts. Yours,
WILLIAM JEWE1T.
Ncr5mypod, Sept. p, 1881.
This shall certify that have measured ten
quarts and one pint IN June when the call sacked,
lor morning milk. ELIZA JEWETT.
REPORT on TIE DAIRY
The Committee of the Assex Agricultural Soci-
cty, On the Dairy, consisting of Daniel =. King,
riah Racv, John Adams, Daniel Putnam and
Ben amin 6. Mc,calt--
That they consider IA we'll MANAGED DAIRY one
Of the most >a.:ti'' s'nscos IF farmers revenue.
Oar proximity to lrgc towns aud manufacturing
villages iuSurCS ready market and fair prices The
product of good COW, ior sluele season, III milk,
butter, cheese and the unlacablc refuse may be
estimated 1T more than -. ,an,. The same
food Consumed by other stock will hardly Weld To
the farmer htli that sum. Oven and horses ate
necessary, bat economy scegs To Indicate that no
more should he here kept than arc required for
labor. Young cattle may general, be purchased
for less money than it would cost To raise them "A
promising two wear old hciicf may be bought of
the dIovcr IN the fall for about y dollars the
butcher pays for well htted cali month old
nearly half the money and fodder and feed must be
abundant and cheap when the farmer can afford TO
keep such an animal two winters and three sum
mcrS for six, eight even ten dollars.
Like every other part of he farmers business,
the dairy requires attention the COWS must have
constant supply of nutlillvc food and pure water
and salt occasionally the dairy room should be
pose; the pans and other utensils should be care
fully scadcd, aud ncatness and order should per
wade the whole department. We iorboar To give
particular directions for making butter and cheese
referring You the annexed statements of the com
pcltoIs, whose success in obtaining the Socicty's
premiums i, the highest recommendation of the
method pursued by them
Although the dairy is comparatively profitable,
and although its products are component part in
many of the comforts and Injuries al the table
there are some farmers of our acquaintance who
have been obliged To abandon II altogether, or 10
conduct 1t ON smaller seal. on account OF the diff
GcultN Of obtaining skiu and experienced dairy
women. And here We have an opportunity OF pro-
posing to fathers and mothers the que ton, whcth-
in the varied and refined education of their
daughters, some of the most useful and important
branches have not been neglected Whether the
more iAnCu and ornamental attainments have not
been substituted for the lesson, OF the kitchen and
the dairy Whether some delicate hands have
not been SO long occupied with the pencil, the en-
hrodcrng needle and the piano. that they have
forgotten, or never learned, the cunning of the
Skinner, the cheese tub and churn Whether
SpcciouS elegance has not been more studied than
substantial usclulncsSl The former indeed, should
not b" wholly neglected, but the latter are indiS-
prnSablr TO the comfort and happiness of the COM
munttN. I'm English writer, more noted than eS-
ecmcd bat who, some subjects is good author
uN, IN his Cottage Economy, observes - | must
hear great deal more than | ever have heard TO
convince me that teaching children polite accom-
ph>hmcnt> tends 50 much To their happiness, their
independence of spirit, their manliness of charac-
ter. rs teaching them TO labor The person that
is IN want, must be a slave and To be habituatcd
To labor chcCrullv, is the only means of preventing
nuctccn-twcntlChs of mankind from being in
want"
1t was the benevolent wish of a kind hearted
monarch of France, that every peasant in his do
mnionS might have fowl for his Sunday dinner
how much moro substantial the boon if every fami-
~ might be blessed with the possession of that
most useful animal, the COW, which supplies not
food FOR SUNDAYS only, but for every day and every
meal. And this possession is within the reach of
almost every family OF almost every town in this
country II the practice of keeping cows were a
doptrd by all those who have the ability, much
MIGHT be added 10 domestic comfort. and there
would soon he no farther complaint of the difficult
" OF obtaining competent managers of the dairy
Besides the generous contributions of the COW TO
supply the wants of the family, the children may
III learn TO milk, and the females will learn TO take
care OF It: they will know the value of such ami
mails, williccdthcm carefully and treat them gently.
Curious Cdsc.--\ curious circumstance lately