Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-08-26
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From he Monthly Genses Farmer.
Cheese Diaries.

The best paper in the volume Of Trans
actions of the N. T. State Agricultural So.
ciety for lS46, lately publlshed,) is one
from the pen of B. Z. Johnson, Esq, on
Cheese Diaries, together with the answers
called forth by the dairymen and women
who took the liberal premiums OF $50 and
$50 offered by the Society.
Had we room, we should gladly COPY
these communications entire; as il is, we
shall attempt faithful summary, and give
the statement of Mr. Bronson Of Wyoming.
who took the first premium.
The whole number Of COWS in the State
in 1915 was 999, 400 which were MIXED.
these Mr. ]. estimates that one.third are
e"pryed IN making cheese, or 333, 1873;
P'ouuSng about | 10 lbs each or an aggre.
ga.e VI oo't4 ,956 lbs. He says:
:. IN 'ne coun., of Herkimer, where cheese
mo,e eA'ehs'vsy manufactured than in
guy o'"ei u. Tue o'aie'snd where the cheese
o' superior excellenc, much of il com.
handing in the English MAJ, ei as b;sb nr;.
ces as the best Cheshire cheese, .b. amopn,
per COW is 226 lbs. In the town oiTa;,Said
IN that county, $50 lbs. per COW a.d in
some diaries in that county, as high as uso
lbs. The annual average in one dairy, Mr.
Alonzo L. Fish's; for three successive years,
was $50 lbs. per COW, and in one. OF these
years ia lbs. was obtained. wide Trans.
N. Y. s. Ag. Soc, 1874, PIP. 227-6, 9)
The Cheshire dairies in England average
336 lbs. per COW. aud from selected cows
$50 pounds.
Did we not know Mr. Fish, and have rea.
son to credit what he says, we should doubt
whether COW ever made ia lbs. of cheese
N one year; or that large dairy averaged
$50 lbs 10 each COW. We think that The
Secretary OF the State Society does not ex.
coed the bounds Of reason when he saws that
all the cows in the State kept for making
cheese can easily be brought up TO an aver.
age OF 4OO ibe. each per annum. This
would augment the product Of cheese in N
Y.lrom 80, 744 $50 lbs. to l43, PCS 200 lbs.
from the same number of cows The an.
nual gain would be equal TO 5000 600 Of
dollars. From Mr. and Mrs Ot,ley's state.
ment il appears:
That they manufactured from the milk of
eight cows, in the months of June and Ju.
~. l24s lbs. of cheese from 400 lbs. of
milk 100 lbs. Of milk averaging 0 lbs Of
cheese. The average pounds Of milk from
each COW daily, is little over 81 lbs. The
highest yield being % lbs, aud the lowest
Is.
The cows are fed on hay and grass only,
and the calves are reared and swine are
kept from the dairy. His farm lies in the
town oil Phelps, Ontario Co., elevation above
tide water estimated $50 feet. Ii is gener-
ally level, with some small ridges. He has
200 acres under cultivation ; so acres in
pasture and 80 in meadow, the residue under
the pillow.
The soil is mostly gravel, one.third sand,
loan, snbsol gravel, and small part CLAW.
Inc meadows are timothy and clover
The dat land in meadow is red top. which
Mr. ottley states produces The best hay for
cows. lie plows up his meadows every
third year The pasture land is mostly clio.
yer, which is plowed once in two wears. il
The yield is not equal TO two tons per acre
40 the following remarks of MIR Bronson
we ask particular attention. 1t is a curious
and interesting fact, that 100 lbs. Of milk in
June, when grass contains comparatively
little heterogeneous, or cheese-forming ele-
menis, gave only 0 lbs. OF. ofgreen cheese;
whilst in Sept, when heritage is rich in nj.
irogen, an equal weight Of milk gave 10 lbs.
OF. ofgreen cheese
Without any knowledge of what Mr. Bron-
son would say or do, Mr. and Mrs Ollley re-
marx