Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-08
hardy They will pick up living and
look well where Durham would starve.

high, the Durham is the best but they
fare not adapted to rough and hilly farms,
Besides, some of them are such poor
jmilkers that they cannot raise their own
calves. But I have found the great
mixers accidents in all stock. No breed
either thoroughbred or grade, is sure OF
being superior for the pail. When first
went into the dairy business 1 bought all
the famous mixers I could hear of
i Then | went into Devon stock, and got
some fair cows that would average six
teen quarts day in the flush. Then 1
got me the Ayrshire bull, and tried that
stock. i like it very much, and think 1
get more milk for the fodder with hardy
small stock than with big cattle. I like
a small cow. She gives more milk to
/ the food she eats.
/ have steamed feed for ten years it
surely pays ON stalks and poor hay, but
don't think it does on good hay. l
have never given over Two quarts of
meal a day, but use some cotton seed
meal, generally three quarts day in all;
this give in the form of warm, thin
cruel. My determination is to have the
best dairy in the State or in New Eng
land, and the standard 1 set is that a
COW shall either give twenty quarts a
day inthe flush or two pounds of but
ter. IF she fails to come up to that
standard she goes.
Prot. VIM. Ell. Brewer, of Yale Scien-
tifc School, gave the result of his OBJ
servations in France and Germany. He
said they had found the best cow for
milking was a cross between the Short
Horn, the native, and the Ayrshire. In
Brittany they have breed of COWS re-
markable for thriving on miserable
pasture, and giving good milk when 9TH
er breeds would perish. In Kentucky
they have got the best mixers from a
Long Horned Durham imported thirty
or forty years ago by Henry Clay. In
Germany the cow that yields the great
est amount of milk to the food she eats
is grade Ayrshire. We can hardly
expect union Of all the fine qualities in
one animal.
Mr.. Blakesley, of Litcbfeld. said he
had been breeder for thirty years, and
had never been out of the Devon stock
We had that stock when first introduced
into the country by Mr.. Hurlbutt. and
surely there were never better cattle than
those we had from that. first Devon bull.
The Chairman of the Club said there
was one use for which an Alderney cow
was especially valuable. The milk of
one of them would color the butter of
six native or Durhams. He referred to
COW in his neighborhood, thorough
bred Alderney, that made two and a
half pounds of butter day from eight
cen quarts, and another that made with
in one ounce of three pounds a day. He
had found the milk of the Devon next in
richness to that of the Alderney.
Mr.. Welles said-We keep at present
nineteen cows. Most of them had calves
in the spring. -Four came in in Septem-
Der. In passing from summer to fall and
winter feed there was little or no falling
off in the flow. We sow about six acres
of rye on the best land we have, in Au-
gust. This is big enough to cut in No
yember, and it takes our cows over that
month or three weeks of it.
Then we commence with roots and oil
cake, or cotton-seed meal, and start our
steamer about the first of December.
Our cows are kept up all the time. They
do not go out of the barn from Decem-
Der till May. Water is brought in tubes
and supplied at each stall. Our barn is
warm-water never freezes. The ther-|
mometer is never lower than SO degrees
in the coldest weather.
We keep our cows very quiet, and are
perfectly uniform in our mode of treat
ment. They are fed often, FIVE or six
times a day, and they drink often; in
one case COW was watched, and she
took water seventeen times in one day.
We have found this a great deal better
than allowing animals to fill themselves
once day with ice-cold water. We
keep our cows in separate barn, where
they will never be disturbed or excited.
We found that the noise of thrashing
machine made them fall off fifteen OF
twenty quarts. We put little salt on
the food every day. Their first meal
in the morning is steamed fodder, about
one bushpl to COW. After breakfast
they have roots, at noon long hay,
otOdihSo 1ouuVi a an az HI Sht, oiiu oOiiO
grain in the intervals. When we fall
back to dry food from steamed, there is
a decline of fifteen per cent. in the flow
of milk. The average yield of our cows
now is nearly nine quarts day. Our
cows are never wet or cold. They are
bedded on shavings; the urine absorbed
with dry muck. they are carded every
day and kept as clean as COWS ever are
in summer. They are fat at the time of
bearing, and to prevent milk sickness
we generally physic with salts and sui
phur few days before the birth.
Mr.. Barnes, of East Haven, gave his
system, which differed very little from
that of Mr.. Webb and Mr.. Collins. He
had found the best meal to use was
mixture of corn, oats and buckwheat.-
Of this provender he gives to milch cows
and stall-fed cattle peck day. In
stall feeding he gives food very often
he has found the animals will eat more
when fed every hour than when large
quantities are laid before them twice
day. r s5-