Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-21

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Mr. Obed Whipple has kept cows for %
years. The first year he kept four cows,
and made and sold from them 400 lbs of but
Ter. Has kept the Jerseys for ten years,
and tried other breeds with them. Had a
half blood Durham and half blood Jersey
heifer Of the same age, and with the same
keeping, the Durham gave twice as much
milk as the Jersey; and the Jersey made
just twice as much butter as the Durham,
He keeps the Jerseys entirely now, and his
cows will average 300 lbs. per COW, for the
year past. Has given his COWS two quarts
of meal, each through the summer. Mr..
Whipple's butter kept till he sold it for 60
cents per pound, contracted for the .year
When he went to contract his butter in Bos-
ton, the first question he was asked was
What COWS do you keep"
Mr.. Fred. 4. Lamberton, from hefer,
giving l9 lbs. OF milk, made l lb. l3 OF. of
butter, May 25th. The heifer two years old
the 10th of June, following. Another heifer
gave 10 lbs. 10 OF. of milk, making, under
less favorable circumstances, being hotter
weather, Id. OF. Of butter. His herd of
cows, four being two years old heifers,
made this season about 400 lbs of butter,
arge cheeses, tattened two calves, and raised
one, besides what milk and cream used in the
family Of six persons. Were fed no meal
Turing the summer
MIR. Reuben Newtons herd of 6 grade
COWS has made 400 lbs. Of butter beside
what milk used in the family of six persons
Mr. Geo. Harvey, of Royalton, from his
thoroughbred COW Daisy, for ten days in
June, got IA quarts of milk per day making
: lbs. . OF. of butter per day.
My COW Jessie, which dropped her calf
Sept. ., having been dry 40 days, gave the
ast week in September 209 Ia lbs. of milk
which made 10 lbs. II OF. of butter, rum
ming in the pasture where she had run all
summer, with feed OF rowen only at night.
Last week she gave l3l Ia lbs. of milk
which made l-2 lbs of butter. Three years
old heifer Jennie dropped her calf March 10
and comes In again March 20. From 4 ats.
Of milk weighing 8 IL lbs, made Is OF. of
butter. Heifer Brownie dropped her calf
July y, three days before she was 2 years
cid; gave last week II lbs. of milk per day,
which made 10 OF. of butter. The feed OF
all being good hay twice day and straw or
'orn stalks with three quarts of corn and cob
aud oat meal per day. Have sold my fall
and winter butter for 45c per pound, and
nave kept butter mado in July till the next
June perfectly sweet and fresh.
l would here remark that there is among
lairymen difference in the size of the quart
measures used, some using beer and some
wine measure, and many the measure they
Guy Of the peddler. | think it would be bet.
ter as giving a common aud uniform basis, il
the weight of milk was given in trials instead
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 that 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 Jer.
seys. Mr.. Geo. Geddes estimates the amount
OF milk necessary to make pound of butter
at ii quarts on the average; other writer.
place II as high as %. We have shown the
extremes of about 3 and 10 quarts, with au
average of 7 or 8, almost 30 per cent, less
than Mr.. Geddes' estimate. Good Judges
average the product Of the ordinary native
COW at 100 lbs. of butter per year, aud of the
better dairies at $50 lbs We have shown
an average of from Is to 100 per cent bet,
ter, the poorest one quoted making over 200
lbs. per COW, when four of the herd of seven
we're two-year-old heifers of which Mr.
Lewis says The milk of COWS from six to
ten years old will produce from 40 to 90 pei
cent. more cream than their offspring at two
years cid.
You all know at what prices ordinary but,
ter has sold during the season, and which
would perhaps average 25 cents. The Jer.
sey dairies of Pomfret have sold at from 80
to go cents with an average of perhaps 40
How much arithmetic does it require il
view Of these facts to find out that farmer,
cannot afford to keep poor cows2 One of oul
best dairymen said in speaking of the herd o.
a man who was dsparaging the beauty and
beef qualities of the Jerseys, if he woulC
take my COWS at my own price, and give m,
his COWS and oblige me to keep them five
years, | would not take them could no
afford to" and granting all that can be sale
against them about making beet, and selling
the butter at the same price as that of othe
good dairies, it would still be cheaper for
farmer to buy aud keep the Jersey COW, au,
when no longer seryceahle for the dairy, xii
her and throw her carcass ou the dung hill
than to keep year after year, what Mr.. Dan
so aPty calls the drones of the farm yard,
which look 50 slick, and go dry three month
every year, though they make beef and hTin
; such handsome bright red Oalvoa, which il