The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-06-25
Common Sense Dairving.


who have good common sense, and desire
to have flock Of sheep good for mutton
and wool too will be particular to start
with ewes and ram known to come from
breed which are noted for having weight
and quality in both articles and if a
dairyman wants herd of milking cows
good for beef and milk too, he must take
the same kind of steps to gain his ends,
viz, start with COWS and bull he is GER
tain came from a race Of good mixers.
which also have the characteristics OF
fattenipg fast when not giving milk.
There is good example given to dairy
farmers by horse breeders of the present
day. See how they are discussing the
subject Of how to obtain the great desid-
eratum, speed in trotting, and most Of
them agree that every animal. must be
descended by sire and dam from the very
best animals in direct lines from one foun-
tain head, Dairy farmers cannot do this
with milch cattle, for, strange as it may
seem, there is not any breed Of cattle
which have been bred from, through sires
and dams, with single eye to the pail
although the chief aim in milking stock
ought to be the quantity and richness Of
the milk, yet fauciful points, and par
ticular style of beauty which is prominent
only when heavily laden with flesh, will
win premiums from the best mixer in the
world,and farmers whose living and future
fortune depend upon their having mich
cattle of the best descent, will not know
whether the bull they use had "deep"
milking G. d., much less how his G. g.
e. g. d. MIXED. Yet a successful butter
or cheese.making farmer must, for the
future, breed every calf he raises for his
dairy herd from his best mixers, and be
more especially particular about his bull
and the sire Of his bull for the dam OF
the grandsire will have an influence on
the shape of the udders and the DISPOSE
ton to give great deal Of milk, as mu, b
as the grandsre' dam of a race horse will
increase or decrease the chances of speed
and lasting qualities.
Consequently every man who will have
to look TO butter or cheese as an essential
in his income, will be guilty of great folly
to use bull because he has long pedi.
gree, aud know nothing about the milking
qualities Of the COWS he sprang from in.
deed many are more foolish than this, for
they know very we'll that there is no milk
worthy of the name in any of the favorite
and most fashionable blood of the presen,
day, and even the Attorneys are having
their former propensity for giving a great
quantity bred out of them by those who
find it to their interest to have show
cattle all the year round and it will
come to be as bad as it was formerly with
the fne.wooled, greasy-coated sheep, the
breeders of which bought an equal nun
Der of grade ewes, which they contrivet
should yean about the same time as tn,
highpriced ones then the common lamb
we're knocked on the head" and tn,
high-bred lambs raised by sucking tn,
grades; thus the whole focks of pure
BREEDS were always fat.
i have had charge of genuine goot
mixers, and as was allowed to buy an,
sell when and where l pleased, for four
teen years after the starting there wa
never bad mixer in the herd. | AWAY
saw the cows MIXED from which my bull
we're descended, and raised every heife
calf, and when they came in turn to b
MIXED, every one not coming up to tn
standard was fattened off or sold +
drovers. 1t is easy to bring herd O
any number to give double the quantit
usually given by the average dairy cow
Of the country-it is only to use the sam
precaution necessary to gain particula
objects of other kinds, and to treat tn
offspring right, bringing them to calv
with full flush of milk, and feeding 8
as to back up the disposition for produc
ing abundance.
Bulls should be of pure breed, and
would cause deal of extra trouble
search out the milking properties of IL
family, but it would pay to do it, for
is easier to breed out and spoil good mill
ing qualities than to promote and ga
them. There is no greater proof Of Il
bad management Of dairy herds
America than that, though butter of Il
best quality sells as high as it does
Englsnd-iu fact higher when retailed-
the tenant dairy farmers Of that count
pay from ten to fifteen dollars per &C
rent and taxes more than are paid her
and then get good living, and som
thing besides.
have known large herds in Weste
Nsw.York and some 10 New nglaI
which hsye DO. made three pounds
bate. Yvf COW per week, and half d