Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-12

the year past. Has given his COWS two
quarts of meal each, through the summer.
Mr.. Whipple's butter kept till he sold it fol-
90 cents per pound, contracted for the year.
When he went to contract bis butter in Bos-
ton, the first question he was asked was.
What cows do you keep p
| Mr.. Fred E. Lamberton from one heifer,
giving l9 rounds of milk, made l pound l3
oupces Of butter, May 25th. The hefer two
years old the 10Th of June, following. An
other herer, I'm Ter less favorable circumstau-
ces, being hotter weather, gave 10 pounds Ii
ounces of milk, making l pound ounces OF
butter. His herd Of seven cows, four being
! two years old heiers, made this season about
400 pounds of butter, seven large cheeses,
attened two calves, and raised one, besides
what milk and cream used in the family Of
six persons. Were fed no, meal during the
summer.
Mr.. Reuben Newton's herd of six grade
cows has made 400 pounds of butter beside
milk used in the ia mily of six persons. Mr..
George Harvey of Royalton, from his thor
oughbred cow Daisy, for ten days in June.
got II quarts of milk per day, making 9
pounds ounces of butter per day.
Ny cow Jessie, u hich dropped her calf
September 9, having been dry 40 days, gave
the last week in September 2O9 IA pounds
of milk, which mide 10 pounds II ounces
OF butter, running ip the pasture where she
had run all summer, with a feed of rowen
only at night. Last week she gave l3l IA
pounds of milk, which made + y pounds
of butter Three years old heifer Jennie
dropped her calf March 10, and comes in
again March 90 From four quarts of milk
weighing 9 ID pounds made Is ounces of
butter. Heller Brownie dropped her calf
July %, three days before she was years
old ; gave last week II pounds of milk per
day, which made 10 ounces of butter. The
feed of all being good hay twice day and
straw or corn stalks with three quarts OF
corn and cob and oat meal per day. Have
sold my fall and winter butter for 45 cents
per pound, and have kept butter made in
July till the next June perfectly sweet and
fresh.
| would here remark that there is among
dairymen difference in the size of the quart
measures used some using beer and some
wine measure, and many the measure they
buy of the peddler | think it would be
better as giving common and uniform basis,
if the weight of milk was given in trials in
stead of measure.
| To these trials, and their results, we ask
your careful consideration, and full COM
parison with herds of any and all other
breeds, and if you have those which will
give uniform and better results, you will
find for them no more willing purchasers or
warmer friends than those of us who now
keep Jerseys. Mr.. George Geddes estimates
the amount of milk necessary to make a
pound OF butter, at IA quarts on the average
other writers place it as high as D We
| have shown the extremes of about three anC
ten quarts, with an average of seven OF
eight, almost 80 per cent less than Mr.
G dde's estimate. Good judges average the
product of the ordinary native cow at lOt
pounds of butter per year and of the better
dairies at $50 pounds. We have shown ar
average of from IS to 100 per cent better
the poorest one quoted loaking over 20(
/ pounds per COW, when four of the herd o
seven were two year old heiers, of which
Mr.. Lewis says, The milk of cows from ST!
to ten yeara old will produce from 40 to OF
per cent more cream than their offspring
TWO years old
You all know a. what prices ordinary but
ter has sold during the season, and which
would perhaps average % cents. The Jer
sey diaries of Pomfret have sold at from 3,
to 60 cents, with an average Of perhaps 40
How much arithmetic does it require in view
OF these facts to find out that farmers canno
afford to keep poor cows. One OF our bes
dairymen said IN speaking of the herd of
man who was disparaging the beauty an
beef qualities Of the Jerseys, - if he woul
take my COWS at my own price, and give IN
his cows and obige me to keep them fv
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afford to and granting all that can be sal
against them about making beef, and sellln
the butter at the same price as that Of Othe
good dairies, it would still be cheaper for
farmer to buy and keep the Jersey COW, an
when no longer servlccable for the dairy
kill her and throw her carcass on the dun
hill, than to keep year after year, what NJ
Dana SO APPLY calls the - dr0nes Of the iarT
yard . which look so slick, and 20 dry tire
; months every year, though they make be-
and bring such handsome bright red calve:
which is, to be sure, an important item {
their profit.
There is nothing in the name of Jersey {
her race to commend her especially owe
other cattle, nor would her beauty or he
: gentene,s alone be sufficient to secure he
such ardent admirers and strenuous adv,
Gates, but the great secret is just what W
have shown you, she is profitable.
: The dairy interest of Vermont, thong
now so large, is far below what it should an
might easily be- With our hilly farm
denser population and dear labor, whel
every bushel of corn we raise costs US do
lar, we cannot afford to attempt 10 compel
in making beef with the broad fields OF Oh
and Kentucky, and the broader prairies
Illinois and Iowa, where to-day they al
burning corn as their cheapest fuel.
New EngIand shares with New York an
Pennsylvania the practical monopoly of tn
production of prime butter for the Who'll
country.
Good judges estimate the amount o. bu
ter coming into market which will rank {
, prime, to be hardly more than ten per cen
and though in the market common butter ma
be dull and over-crowde there is Away
room higher up, as Daniel Webster said
the profession of law, and the demand f,
the last is always good.
Here, with the markets Of the great CT
, les at our very threshold, we have marke
y advantage, aud with better cows, gre tt
7 care in making and handling, can large
increase our product and raise its reputatic
= and price, saving millions, yes, | repea
saving millions OF dollars every year, whit
,, are now lost, and thus promote this mo
! important industry and add largely to tt
. wealth and prosperity of our State, who
interests should be so carefully cherishe
! and her welfare SO dear to the heart of ever
n son and daughter Of our own beloved Vel
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