The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-06-13
The OakesCOyy.

nc OakcS Vow.
Here is brief Essay upon this old
COW, presented to the Essex Agricultural
Society, by j. d. w. French.
In the fourth Report of the Agricul-
turo of Massachusetts, by Henry Colman,
published in 1871, may be found an ac-
count of this famous COW This COW was
owned in Danvers, and produced in 1913,
$50 pounds of butter; in 1914, 300
pounds in 1915, over 400 pounds; in
1916, 4s4 pounds. During this time
one quart Of milk was reserved for fami-
ly use. and she sucked four calves for
four weeks each, in the course of those
years. She produced in one week 194
pounds Of butter, and an average Of more
than Ii pounds a week for three months
in succession, The largest amount Of
milk given in one day, was 44l pounds.
She was allowed 30 to 80 bushels Indian
meal per year, all her own skinned milk,
and most of her buttcrmilk. At one
time the owner gave her potatoes, which
increased the milk, but not the butter
In the autum, he gave her about 6 BUSH
els of carrots,
After reading this, we must admit
that she was an extraordinary cow and
at the same time we must admit that she
had extraordinary feed. Can it be posi-
Bile that more than fifty years have gone
by, and with all our boosted improve
mcnts we have nothing equal to her =? |
for one do not believe it possible.
THE COW sYBIL.
A COW, named Sybil, owned by Henry
Saltonstall, of Peabody, 18th Ayrshire
and weighed $50 pounds. She calved
April 7, 1868, and from that time until
April 7 1869 gave 1905 pounds, ormore
than 6l tuns Of milk. In July, on poor
and dry pasture alone, this milk made
12l pounds of butter week, or l pound
for II quarts of milk. Her food wa;
poor, upland pasture, helped out for six
weeks with green corn fodder, about q
bushel of grain in all, between grass and
roots, and in winter, dry hay and one
peck Of roots day. She gave in the
rest of
April, 1869, 23 days, % pounds day
May, 1869. 81 days, 19!pounds a day
June, 1869, 80 days, III pounds day
Thus in IA months of continuous milk
ing, she gave 14,700 pounds, or about
100 quarts of milk. Average for the
year, 354 pounds per day. Her greatest
yield was 60 pounds, or nearly 80 quarts
day. Sybil certainly surpasses the
Cakes COW, at 90 cents per pound, s242,
12l. Besides this, we must make allow
ance for the sucking off calf four weeks
and the quart Of milk used in the family
Even this allowance would not make hel
as profitable an animal as Sybil, wht
was kept at far less cost. Allowing
II quarts of milk for l pound of butter
Sybil would have yielded 500 pounds o
butter during the year.
LADY MILTON.
In the fifteenth Annual Report Of tn,
Secretary of the Massachusetts Board o
Agriculture, is statement of j. g. Con
verse, of Arlington, in regard to his Jer
sey COW Lady Milton. She was kept il
pasture in June and July, and in Angus
and September received green foddel
corn at night In addition. Her aggre
gate yield of butter in July was 7!
pounds. From June LIST to October 18th
on green fodder without grain, 293,
pounds or an average of Is 92-100 pound
per week for Is 81 weeks was not an ex
ception to the general steamed hay
steamed roots and corn fodder, mixe(
with a small quantity of Shorts. Thu
Cakes Cow averaged more than 16 pound
Of butter for three months; but Lad,
Milton averaged nearly 16 pounds TO
more than 4 months, on green feet
without grain or milk food. Her yielt
Of butter for the year would undoubtedly
(if any account had been kept have gon'
up to 800 pounds.
JEAN ARMOUR.
| shall mention only one more of oul
modern cows. Jean Armour, an Aryshir,
COW imported by Mr.. Peters, of South
poiO, S"NO ilOili ~ uilC ist W LcptcHlUcl
23d, 5,612l pounds, on an average O
II 3-16 pounds ofmilk per day. Allow
ing 20 pounds OF milk for ! pound o
butter, this would make trife over 90
pounds of butter for period of not quite
four months. During the second 10 day
in June she gave 521I pounds of milk
or % pounds day. During the secont
10 days in September she gave 46:
pounds Of milk, or AZ pounds per day
Her weight was 967 pounds. She wa
in good pasture after June 10Th, and haC
three pints Of corn cob meal, and three
pints Of bran, and late in the season greer
corn stalks once day, think we ma,
safely estimate that Jean Armours yiel(
in butter would have been at least 50(
pounds for the year. During the periot
that the account of their yield was kept
Lady Milton was the equal if not tn,
superior Of the Cakes COW in butter
Sybil and Jean Armour were her superio
as mixers, and all three were more profit
able animals to keep.-MassachuseH
Ploughman