Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-01-17
Westminster Farmers Club, Jan 10
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MCNEIL To make cattle raising
profitable, should select good breeds.
Feed we'll at all times. Extra feed will
make extra cattle. My father never
taught me to starUe cattle. ..
PHINEAs KEYEs.-I agree with the
Deacon in regard to breed, think the
Durham the most desirable. Calves
should not be turned to grass the first
year without receiving ertra feed. i
raised eight steers (half bloods) and sold
four of them when two years old for
$500. The next winter the remainder
brought S460. Natives as usually kept
would net have brought half that money.
Cattle pay best to sell, when about three
years old.
w. r. KMBALL.-In regsrd to the
different breeds of cattle, men differ. As
to grades, l agree with Mr.. Reyes. For
a dairy of deep mixers. l want the Dur
ham from an excellent family, and
cross with Jersey. We can increase
the milk and butter qualities By careful
breeding A gentleman in the northern
part of the State, has a thoroughbred
Ayrshire, and good mixer, out when
the butter was compared with that, from
half-blood Jersey, it was found to be
inferior. The butter made from the Jer-
sey COW, sold 10 cents per pound higher
in St. Adams market. To make the best
mixers, would cross a thoroughbred
Jersey with the best mixers l could find.
The sire should be from four to ten years
old. Many cows are not worth dollar
per head for milk. Good ones may be
MIXED ten months each year. Young
cows should come in during the summer
or fall after they are two years old. BY
SO doing they never leak their milk. /
would milk in the pasture rather than
drive them great distance. We should
feed we'll through the fall and winter
Calves should be fed with meal or oats
the first year. Keep them fat the first
year and you will have no trouble. For
oxen grades are better then thorough
breds. Steers sold young, return the
largest profit.
DEA. McNIEL.-For good COW for
milk | propose the Alderney, for best the
Durham. To make paying business Of
raising them, both should be we'll fed
when young, should not be allowed to
to grow poor through the winter season.
1t pays well to feed considerable meal.
D. G. WRIGHT.-The secret of success
in raising good cattle is to select good
breeds. For cows, propose cross Of
the Alderney, for beef the Durham
Should feed well at al+times of the year
Calves should have milk for six months
at least. They pay best to sell as soon
as suitable for market.
GEO. SABNE.-Calves should be fed
milk much longer than is the common
practice. They should not be fed meal
too young, least you weaken them,
should be, at least, two months old. AS
to breeds, much depends upon what we
wish to do with them In Westminster,
we make no speciality, but raise them
for variety of purposes. For general
purposes, think the Durham stands
among the best. For workers they are
the best. Some Durham COWS are poor
mixers, others are good as can be found
Mr.. Winslow 81 Son of Putney, are
known to possess the best grade Dur
hams found in Vermont. 1t pays aoeL
for farmers who are interested in hand
some cattle to visit them. Their cattle
are at the highest point of perfection
consequently groeo aoeU and sell eceN.-
With us, as much money has been lost
in not looking close enough to blood.
once raised pair of steers that weighed
5000 lbs, when two years old. They sold
for $400 when five years ole. Good
blood in cattle returns good profit. Ii
we wish to make large animals we mus
purchase good blood and feed high. The
sire should be advanced in years.
d. G. WRIGHT.-l don't believe in
speciality in raising crops, nor do in
raising cattle. We should raise different
breeds, keep them growing every day
and they will return us good profits. ]
prefer that they should be fed through
the winter season on cut feed wet with
hot water.
F. B. RICHMoND.-I feed from 2 to 8
quarts of dry meal per day, per COW,
usually half corn and half oats ground
together. Should prefer to feed cut feed.
Have a COW from which l received IL
lbs. of butter in 13 days besides furnish
ing my family, of persons, with butter
and milk during the time. She is a