The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-07-29
Beacon Stock Farm.
BUTTER FROM JERSEY COWS.


Having seen Mr.. Crozier's COWS. ant
knowing somewhat of his system of feed
ing, and the production of his dairy, ALLOW
me few words in addition to your brie
answer to the inquiry of L. s. H., Louis
vile, KY, in Jour issue of the 18th inst.
and more particularly in relation to tn,
summer feed. as you give in your excel
lent article of the 18th of May, a particu
lar account Of the winter feed and it,
steaming.
Early in May Mr.. Crozier commence,
soiling his cows 10 the morning in their
stalls with as much fresh cut growing rye
as they will eat, after which they are
MIXED and turned into pasture. About
0 O'Clock p. Nj. they are driven up from
the pasture, put into their stalls, and a.
gain fed with green rye and MIXED. AE
ter this they are once more turned out to
pasture, where they remain till the next
morning, then fed, MIXED and turned out.
This is the daily course till November.
Before the rye becomes too large and
tough for the cows to relish it we'll, clio.
yer and orchard grass come into the sea.
son for soiling. These are followed BY
iucern, white vetches and oats, grown
sown 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
oil they desire to eat what is equivalent
to green suculent food all the year round.
Besides the above, large trough stands
ID the cow-pasture into which 100 lbs. of
oil-meal are daily placed with water suf.
hclent to make it into thin cruel. This
is for 90 cows, and they have access to it
at will when in pasture. Three or four
at time march up very deliberately to
this trough, take light sip of the oil.
meal cruel, lick their chops, and then 90
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 ev.
cry one seems to get its due share. Strange
COWS must be 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 hors.
cs, cattle, sheep and swine, and it also
causes them to digest and relish their 9TH
or food much better.
Some may think that the above is
costly and extravagant way of keeping
COWS. But the contrary is the fact for
with such food they are always in the fin.
est condition, they give much greater
quantity ola better quality Of milk, which
makes also superior quality of butter
seliing at an extra high price and in
addition to this the manure is consider.
aoly richer, and of course adds greater
fertility to the land. Thus if the feed
caa be called lavish, so on the other hand
are the products returned for it am
satisfied, from minute personal inspection
OF MIR. Crozer's whole management, that
more money can be made by his system
OF cultivation and feeding, than by that
usually followed by our farmers, except
perhaps, on very fertile land, and where
labor is extra dear and am not sure
tnat even then the latter would be the
most profitable.
Mr.. Crozier get 70 cents per TO-, in the
city Of New.York, for all the butter be
can make the year round. Allowing each
COW to produce 365 lbs. per annun, she
earns 255.5O, besides bringing a cali
worth, the moment it is dropped, from
500 to 500. Some are worth over $3.50;
LOT, recollect, every COW in his nerd 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
s2oo each, aud cutting the butter product
II one pleascs, to only 5000, it will be
seen that the keeping up of such herd
Is highly profitable investment. say
nothing as to the value of the skinned
milk and the buttermilk, but as calves are
brought up after the first month on the
former, and as the later is fed to choice
Berkshire pigs, that sell for high price,
these might pass as no small items 10 the
account OF profits Mr.. Crozicr calcul.
ates that the manure dropped from these
cows is worth more than the labor expend-
cd IN taking care Of them, milking, &C.;
Tor, with this manure alone, he is annual.
~ enrching his land, and fields that few
years ago would not summer q COW on
every hive acres, will now summer one on
asingle acre Surely here is great gain.
MIR. Crozier thinks Jersey and Guern.
:sey milk too rich for butter; this is why
ne mixes it half and half with Ayrshire.
which is not so rich. He has one noble
duernsey COW in his herd, must confess.
after what L have seen of them for the
past 80 years or more, prefer them to
all others ! know for giving superior rich
colored milk, cream and butter. Unfor.
tunately those first introduced into our
country were not Of so fine form as the
Jerseys, and in consequence OF that, and
little being said of them in the agricu.
tural papers, they have been too much
neglected, but as they have latterly been
improved IN form. and now are scarcely
inferior 10 the Jerseys in that respect,
they will rapidly push themselves into ia.
vor among us as frst.rate cream and but
ter cows.
1t is an admirable sight for the lover of
line stock to see this splendid herd of pure
bred cows brought up from their pasture
IN the morning or evening to be MIXED
and soiled. The stalls are in a single
row, stretching nearly the whole length
OF the COW house. Into these each COW
deliberately marches in Indian file, rare.
ly installing her own, and without guild.
ance thrusts her head into the open stanch-
ion, where she is instantly fastened by the
attendant. A two-horse wagon, loaded
with tresh-cut grass, is already driven on