The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1868-07-31
A Short Horn Daily.

Of two pure and eight high grade
cows belonging to W. II. Sessions,
South Wllbrshan,, Macs, was made
10 the nampden County Agricultural
Society. whicx awarded a premium to
Mr.. s:
Two IL the herd ! offer are pure
Ehorthorns. and the others high grades
There are three nine years old, tour
six years, two tive years, and onel
three years. Their milk haze been car
Yied TO the Wilbraham cheese factory
the past summer. The cows aver
aged 'twensy-eight pounds OF milk 2
day.in May. thirty pounds in June,
twenty. eigh, pounds in July. twenty
i,ur pounds in Angus. and twenty.
three pounds 10 September The feed
was simply pasture with the addition
OF green corn stalks the last part OF
the time. On the morning Of the 23d
at September the milk was tested Tor
butter as follows: weight OF milk.
l39 pouuds; yield OF butter, S ] 2
pounds, OF good color and quality
sixteen pounds OF milk made pound
OF butter.
The following experiments were
nade.with tour of these cows previ.
cusly. in order to test their quality
Polly. y grade Short horn. now nine
years Oh, calved in February when
three years old. The following March
she gave 655 pounds OF milk end
made .twenty-sevcn lbs. IF bitter on
hay slond. Al four years old che av-
craged TWENTY-FIVE pounds OF milk n
day TOR four consecutive months on
grass. and an average day's milking.
May 10th yielded 7-16 pounds OF
butter.'
Daisy. another grade Shorthorn. at
four years DID,: June Goth, gave 34l
ronnds OF milk, which made ga
pounds Of butter, and at that rate OF
prodnc, for three months, by actual
weight Of milk, or grass alone.
FaMy Bell. pune Shorthorn, gave
nj a single milking, on the morning
OF June Is, 1866, i03 pounds OF milk,
which made seventeen ounces OF but.
ter; also on grass.
l;eauty, a grade Shorthorn. at four
years old, on the morning OF May 9Th,
gave fifteen pounds OF milk, which
made thirteen ounces Of butter. The
week following che gave 224 pounds O
milk, or an average OF thirtytwc
pounds day. !, is not uncommon
Tor Yer in the flush OF feed to give for
fy.two aud torty.three pounds OF milk
q day.
On single cows the society awarded
the frs, premium to j. M. Thompson
Springfield, who said: My COW is sew
en- years old. weighs 1920 pounds. and
is one.iourth Ayrshire and three
four,hs Durham; she calved Septe,n
her 2Oth,- and averaged twenty-five
quarts of milk day mp to October
let. Her feed was grass and 81,
quarts OF shorts a day. Last June
on grass feed and seventeen month
after calving she gave fifteen quart
OF milk day. From the 81 OF DC
tobir to the 10Th OF November, sh'
averaged thirty quarts Of milk day
and from the 18th Of November I,
December 1st, twenty quarts. Sine
November 18th che has been kept il
the stable and been fed with rowe
hay, cornstalks and eight quarts @
shorts day.
The second premium to William
Pynchon. Springfield, whose cow
eevcr eights Durham and seven year
cid. She calved the last ct July
Her feed has been grass, corn todde
and rowen hay and she has average
twenty quarts Of milk day since.
The third premium to A. B. Mar
ley Of same town, who made the TO
lowing statement: Ny COW is grad
Durham. and nine years old. Sh
made 2s3 pounds OF butter from til
Goth Ct March, 1866, to the sam
date in 1867. which sold at an ave.
aye OF forty.five cents per pound, {
for 1927 35. About 54S quarts I
new milk were used at the. same tim
in the family, worth at five cents pr
quart, S40.32; alsoS40 worth OF 90,
iuilK were sold at two cents per quar-
Tire calf ut three months old brOugl