The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-06
BEACON STOCK FARM.
Butter From jersey Cows.

| tleir Stalls Win as mCcn Iresn cut Sroh-
ing rye as they will eat, after which
they are MIXED and turned into pas
ture. About five o'clock P. N. they are
driven up from the pasture, put into
their STALE, and again fed with green
rye and MIXED. After this they are
once more turned out to pasture, where
they remain till the next morning, then
fed, MIXED and turned out. This ia the
daily course till November.
Before the rye becomes TOO large and
tough for the COWS to relish it well, clo-
yer and orchard grass come into season
for soilipg. These are followed by lu-
Germ, white vetches and oats, grown
Gown together; cabbage, Indian corn,
turnips, and beets-the three latter last
ing all winter to the following May. By
this system it is seen that the COWS have
all they desire to eat of what is equiva-
lent to green suculent food all the year
rounc. Besides the above, a large
trough stands in the COW pasture into
when 100 lbs. Of oil-meal are daily
placed, with water sufficient to make it
into a thin cruel. This is for about 60
COWS, and they have access to it at will
when in pasture. Three or four at a
time march up very deliberately to this
trough, take light sip of the oil-meal
Cruel, lick their chops, and then 60 to
feeding again in the pasture. This each
COW does several times in the day. AS
they are accustomed TO it, they only
take small quantity at time, and
every one seems 10 get its due share.
Strange COWS must he gradually broken
to this cruel, or they might take so
much at first as to physic them. We
know Of nothing equal to small daily
ration OF oil meal to keep the bowels
in good order, OF horses, cattle sheep,
ard swine, and it also causes them TO
digest ard relish their other food much
better.
Some may think that the above is q
costly aud extravigant way Of keeping
COWS. But the contrary is the iact; for
with such food they are always in the
finest coalition, they give much great
er quantity Of q better quality OF milk,
which makes also a superior quality Of
butter, ceiling at an extra high price;
aud in addition to this the manure is
considerably richer. and OF course adds
greater fertility to the land. Thus if
the FEED can be called lavish, so on the
other hand are the products returned
for it. an satisfied, from minute per-
sonal inspection of Mr.. Croziers whole
management, that more money can be
made by this system of cultivation and
feeding, than ty that usually followed
hy cur farmers, except perhaps, on very
! fertile land, and with labor extra dear,
aud am not sure that even then the
latter would be the most profitable.
MIR. CroZier gets 70 cents per h. in
the city OF New York. for all the butter
be can make the year round. Allow
ing each COW to produce 365 lbs. per
annum, she earns $3.50 SO, besides
bringing 2 calf worth, the moment it is
dropped, from $50 to 500. Some are
worth over $50; for, recollect, every
cow in his heard is either pure Jersey
or pure Ayrshire, and that each animal
is among the best Of its kind. Taking
the cows at an average Of $3.50 each
and cutting down the butter product, il
one pleascs, to only 5000, it will be seen
that the keeping up OF such q herd is
q highly profitable investment. l cay
nothing as 20 the value Of the skinned
milk ard the buttermilk, but as calves
arc brought up after the first month on
the former, aud as the latter is fed to
choice Berkshire pigs. that sell for a
high price, these might pass as no small
items in the account Of profits. Mr..
Crczic- ca,cula!cs that the manure
droup,l from these COWS is worth more
then Tie labor expended in taking care
at lrem, milking, &c. +; for, with this
mature alone, he is annually enriching
his land, and fields that few years ago
would not GUNNER q COW on every five
acre, viii rOw now summer one on a
eiugle acre. Surely here is great
gain.
1Ir. Ciozier thinks Jersey and Guern"
sey milk too rich fer butter; this is why
he pixies it half and half with Ayrshire,
which is rot 80 rich.
! l. is an admirable sight for the lover
Of fine stock to see this splendid herd OF
pure bred COWS brought up from their
I paslure in the morning or evening to be
milked and soiled. The stalls are in a
single row, stretching nearly the whole
length OF the cowohouse. Lotto these
each COW deliberately marches in In
dian file, rarely mistaking her own, and
/ thursts her head into the
open stauchion, where she is instantly
fastened by the ctteadant. A two horse
wagon, loaded with fresh cut grass is
already driven on 10 the covered floor
at the end:of the stable, from which the
food is rapidly distributed. What a
pleasure it was for me to stand by and
see these beautiful animals, sixty or go
in number, then fed on this fragrant
grass, and what q high qualification to
mark pailful alter paliul ofrich, toaBy
milk poured out from their ample ud-
ders, and borne Of to the dairy house.
We could not but envy Mr.. Hrozier
this daily happiness, and wish that
every farmer in our goodly land would
initiate his laudable example, so far
As his location and and means allow Of
breeding choice dairy stock, and above
ell, cultivate q proper succession OF crops
for feedingit. :,
But properly cultivsting the land,
selecting and feeding the cows, is not
the whole story; for to this must be
added Mrs. Croziers part in churning,
working and putting up the butter
for market, on which need not ems
large.
Mr. Crozier he's no iancies about