The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-10-18

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AGRICULTURAL
/! PossIBILrrIEs IN DAIRrrNc.-Very inter
csting facts were brought out ut the last
meeting of the Board Of Agriculture. In
C0hnecticuty In regard to milk. One
farmer, from . herd OF twelve cows, pro-
duced s., i99 quarts, or an average Of 2506
quarts per cow which 10 over eight quarts
. day for a scascnsOf eleven months. His
average price for milk was a cents per
quart, which made elSl fog milk; and tho
calves brought o. each, which made the
returns for each cow e135 Per year;
In the memorial presented 70 the New
York Legislature by tbs State Agricultural
was put at i ,l23, 600, aud their pr6darts in
cheese 1t A6,5AS, le9 pounds--2lQ,zAl As
quarts; products In butter aS 108, 00g ,S6Q
pounds, O30. Oz2, 800 quarts; producta In
milk sold, 81, 900, 600 quarts - making
are pound 81 cheese 81 and
ten quarts for one pound of butter. This,
divided by the number Of cows, would give
1909 quarts rs the average annual prodnct
per cow in the best dairy State in the
there is q difference Of more than one-ha1
between the average product Of cows ~
the State and the product OF the best milk
ers. -4...s.ss.
At the meeting referred TOE. H. Hyde
stated that he once had q Durham cow that
made two pounds fifteen ounces Of butter
daily for thirty days In succession, and a.
Devon that made two and one-quarter
pounds . day. An Alderney COW was
mentioned that produced sixteen and oDe-fE
half pounds of butter in ten days. These
facts and good many others that might
be stated, show that there is great need Of
improvement among our dairy stock. 1t
is quite possible to double the product OF
milk in a very few years, without increas-
ing the number of COWS. A first step in
| this direction is to get better race OF
| mixers. Our best dairymen understand
| this, and are aiming ut it. They get the
best native mixers, and breed with thor
Oughbred bull, from good milking stock.
The grades thus produced will generally
usually be an Improvement, and this may
be expected for several generations.
/ OF course feeding has much to do with o
flow of milk. For three months in the
year, in favorable seasons, COW may pro-
duce nearly up to the limit of her capacity
on grass. But after this, the grasses be-
come less succulent, or short, and the milk
falls Off. The feed must be generous all
through the season, and q cow is generally
profitable in proportion to the amount OF
food she consumes The pasture must be
supplemented by green fodder, rye, corn,
clover, and in the winter by roots, grain,
oil cake, and other rich food. There may
be a good deal of high feeding without
damage to the constitution of the animal,
and with decided benefit to the character
of her progeny. Shelter, also, has an
influence on the productiveness of the
1 herd. Cows fed at the stack, during the
. winter, will not give as much milk the fol-
lowing season as those fed in Il comfortable
barn, although they will consume third
f more hay. Kind treatment and frequent
+. | f.,pI linz nIsn oil ts nf Irp
| production of milk. Some darymen, who
, produce mifk-fo market in the winter, feed
, as many as six times in the course of the
r day, with great variety of food, and keep
( water constantly, in the manger. A good
: mixer wants water every hour III the day,
{ and she seeretes milk much better by hav-
f ing it constantly before her. If this course
t. of, Improvement be entered upon, more
capital must be invested in man ures, barns,
% provender and stock, but there can be no
: doubt that the returns will be far more
q tisfactory.-Americdn Agriculturdlist.
y PRoFIrs OF PEACH TREEs.-An acre OF
r. peach trees, well cultivated from the start
will produce pretty well the third season
y the fourth season they will make full
Q crop An acre will hold one hundred and
: thirty three trees, and each ought to aver
: age at least one bushel. l have had
! trees at seven years old to produce -four
Q bushels. think they would pay five dol
n lars per bushel, clear money, until hun
n dreds of thousands of bushels are produced
q in the South; but, allowing that they net
q but two dollars, it yields two hundred and
5, sixty six dollars per acre, which is better
e than any crop L know of. One hand an6
lie two mules, with sulky eultivator, viii
N keep sixty acres in order with ease, but o.
is course one hand would not worm and trim
he so many. think, however, that six hands
'e1 would thoroughly attend an orchard of thai
re size, and keep it as orchards have never
E. been kept at the South.
N SHALLoTs.-These are species of onio1
or which is multiplied by dividing the clus
at tiers of small bulbs. Set single bulbs si1