The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-02-22
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the Alpha Farmers Club, at Finksburg.
on Saturday evening last, the following
paper was read by Lewis II. Cole, Esq.
II have been engaged in daiyiur more
or less for twelve wears The 6rt two
vears were not 50 profitable The third and
since have given satisfactory results. The
third wear an experienced English dairy
man became near neishbor. and, taking
an interest IN my behalf, put me on the
right track. I learned first that the COW
was to be regarded as 4 machine. which
would produce according to the material
afforded to work on. Second. the material
or food. must be Of that kind to produce
the greatest quanty Of milk. cheese, cream
or butter, and that the food also OF the
cattle must be Of that kind best adapted
to the branch Of dairying pursued
Before coming 10 Carroll county tuliye.
| sold fresh milk and fed for the butcher
MY stock was mostly our native cows and
a few Of Western Pennsylvania which
we're generally grade Durham. They
proved most profitable, being heavy milk
ems and readily taking on fat. | did not
keep cows over-tried it several years but
found it did not pay. Our year properly
begins in Nav. fat cattle selling best as
well as It's being the best season 10 buy
fresh cows and springers. fed all the
time for the butcher, never keeping COW
longer than her milk would pay for her
care and feeding. and az which time cal
culated upon a price that would buy a
fresh COW and pay profit on first cost Of
COW sold. The profit for some Eve or six
wears on cows milking to the the following
Spring, was about $40 per head and her
calf. | sold one year al $50 per head
more than FIRST cost Of COW with calf by
her side, and averaged ten months milking
and over eight quarts a day Der head.
kent that year 80 head. As fat cows
we're delivered to the butcher fresh COWS
were bought. Having now an abundance
Of green feed and all fresh cows. 90
head would give the quantity SELLING 60
to IS gallons day) until change of feed.
&c. would cause decrease. The number
was then increased from time to time to
keep up the quantity. had a COW to milk
two years 10 to u quarts a day. With
few exceptions did not use bull.
In 1s63-64-65 kept 80 cows and
sold their milk at retail at an average Of
81 ceuts per gallon, amounting to some
thing over 81 900 per year. In 1861
IS wholesaled my milk at 25 cents per
gallon, delivered at one place in the city,
amounting to sl6,42 or s5,475 per year.
Thus got quantity and quality of milk,
beef and manure. Nv fat cattle would
weigh from 100 to 1900 live weight
and sell within ! TO of cent pound Of
good bullock. The solid and liquid man.
ure (stall feed, properly cared for, may
safely be estimated at IS tons a wear per
COW. From June to October, five months.
the cattle are stabbed from 5 O'Clock. p. NJ.
to A. N. and fed morning and night on
green rye. wheat. oats and broad east corn
cut up with straw cutter, as much as they
will eat, mixed with it a peck of mill feed
and quart Of corn meal, to each COW at a
meal. From November till they are de.
livered to the butcher. they are stabbed
day and night, kept as Quiet as possible
feeding three times day, at each meal /
at. of corn meal, I qt oil cake meal. 6 ats Of
mill feed, 4 to 5 lbs. of cut hay, all mixed
| in sufficient quantity of water to satisf,
their wants. have frequently had water
offered, but a stable of 30 cows would moi
drink 6 gallons in all. Ny English neigh
Dor and myself tested the difference n
cold mixed dry feeding and steamed o,
cooked food in a stable of 25 cows resulting
in favor Of cooked food to the amount ofoye,
5000 We tested the value Of oil cak,
meal, and obtained an increase in mil,
from this addition TO food to nav so ne,
cent. profit on cost Of oil cake and fount
our cattle to improve or gain faster II
flesh. We tested. also. the value of man
ure. We treated 3 acres Of land alike Il
all respects, excepting oil cake manure .,
one acre. Both acres we're sowen in corn
broadcast, the same day. and the oil eak,
gave SO per cent. more feed. We esti
mated the 2 acres to give 35 to 40 tom
green food, which, cut up and mixed with
mill feed, furnished 80 cows as much a,
they would eat for 7 weeks. As marked
a difference as that in growth Of corn wa,
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