Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-06-07

Decemb Der 10th, made no less than four
hundred and sixty-seven and quarter
pounds of butter, and, at the latter date, |
she was still giving eight quarts of milk a |
day, beer measure, equal to ter at the pres |
ent day, and if she had been followed up !
for the forty weeks which we allow for Mr.. |
B. cows, there is no knowing how much !
butter she would have added to the |
yield already stated. but it is easy to see
that she would have gone up to five hun
bred pounds year. The weight of her
milk in the height of the season, in June,
was but forty-fOur and half pounds, not
so great as that of many COWS Of the pres
ent day on far less feed in proportion to
their size.
YOuatt, the well known writer on cattle,
estimates the average yield of herd Of
Ayrshire cows, taking them as they run, at
eight hundred and fifty gallons of milk
year, or two hundred and ffty-seven lbs.
Of butter, or five hundred and fourteen
pounds of cheese, and this he calls fair
and rather low average in an Ayrshire dali
~ during the year. And Alton, living in
Ayrshire and being perfectly familiar with
the stock, sets it good deal higher The
first Ayrshire COW imported by the Massa-
chusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture
in 1887, yielded sixteen pounds of butter d
week for several weeks in succession on
grass feed only
The COW Jean Armour" imported by
Mr.. Peters, of Southboro', gave in June
1858, having calyed on the Goth Of MAY.
one thousand five hundred twenty four and
Il half pounds of milk. an average of fifty
and fve-sixths pounds per day. In Au-
gust, one thousand four hundred and forty
one pounds, an average of forty-six and a
half pounds per day. In September, one
| thousand two hundred and forty pounds or
forty-one and third pounds a day. The
total product from June | to Sept %, a
period Of one hundred and fourteen days
was five thousand six hundred twelve and
half pounds, or an average Of forty-one
and three sixteenths pounds a day. Dur
/ ing the second ten days in June she gave
! five hundred and twenty-one and a half
pounds of milk, or ifty-two pounds a day.
/ During the second ten days Of September,
she gave four hundred and sixty-two lbs
or forty-six pounds per day Her milk
was set three days in July, and six pounds
and three ounces of butter made from it.
Her weight was nine hundred and sixty
seven pounds. She was in good pasture
all the season after June 18th, and had
three pints Of corn and cob meal and three
pints of bran, and late in the season green
cornstalks once q day.
An Ayrshire COW owned by Mr.. William
Birnie Of Springfield, with her milk care
fully and accurately weighed, gave in
April, after calving on the 18th of March
one thousand one hundred twenty seven
pounds of milk; in May nine hundred and
thirty-tOur pounds; in June one thousand
and twentyfour pounds; in July nine hun.
dred and seyenty-twO pounds; in August
nine hundred and twelve pounds total in
five months of four thousand seven hundred
and ffty-three pounds, on pasture feed
and part of the time green hay and corn.
stalks. This was her own weight every
month for the FIVE months of the trial anC
four hundred pounds over. The milk wa:
not made into butter and so the amount i
would have made cannot be stated. 1t i.
perhaps fair to say that twenty pounds
would have made a pound of butter, anl
that is what Ayrshire milk Is generally es
timated at by Youatt and others who hay,
experimental with it. That would Civ,
us two hundred and thirty-seven pound
and over of butter for the five months, anC
the amount for the year would be mucl
larger.
Now the Ayrshire is by no means re
markable as a butter COW. She is respect
able in this line, but it is not her FORTE
Let US therefore see what a Jersey can do
Lady Milton" a COW owned by Mr. J.
+, Converse, of Southboro', gave in the frs
, week in June, 1868, one hundred and TWEEN
, ty quarts of milk, which made fifteen ID,
! of butter. In the first week Of July, he
. yield of milk was one hundred and four
, teen quarts, and of butter eighteen pound.
r In the first week of August she gave on
q hundred and fifteen quarts of milk tha
r made sixteen pounds of butter In tn
first week of September she gave one hur
|, dred and seven quarts of milk, and fiftee
e! pounds Of butter. In July her aggregat
+ yield Of butter was seventy-nine pound
n and from the first of June to the 9TH
d October, on green feed without grain, he
d butter amounted to two hundred and min,
= ty-three and a half pounds, or an averao
d Oftifteen and ninety two one hundredtl
Is pounds of butter a week for eighteen weel
g. and three days. The yield for the yea
10 had it been kept, would have gone up
If five hundred pounds. This was no exceI
ton to her ordinary yield, nor was the
any special effort made to feed her up
o her utmost capacity as was the case wit
ar the Cakes COW. Pasture grass constitute
p her food in June and July, and pastu
re- and little green corn fodder at night,
ID August and September. This COW wa
h. perhaps, better than the average of GOV
Of of her breed, but the same general chara
r teristics are to be found in them all, a ri(
no and golden colored butter and abundan,
h of it.
. Now these are individual instances,
b. be sure, and we could go on multiplyiI
n them till the reader would be heartily tire
and even Mr.. B. would be likely to or
"Hold, enoughw
n Let us turn, for moment to her
IN where we shall get fairer general averap
ID we mean herds where, though not all pu
-le bred, different course of breeding h
h. been adopted, pure bred bulls alone bei
r. allowed. There are an abundance of the
ka pure breds and grades, but we take the
h n at random. We could mention scores
n them equally striking, and perhaps me
he so, but we have space for only one or t.
: now. If these are not conclusive and s,
90 isfactory, we will multiply them to any e
;s tent that may be desired
John G. Dillon, of Weston, now the 5
perintendent of the Massachusetts, Ag
ay cultural College Farm at Amherst, show
n herd of eight COWS and heifers at
ng Niddlesex County Fair in 1864. Tn
were mostly grade Ayrshires, none of the