Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-11-18
A gricultural.
Small and Large Mixers.

tAIthOt &c
A few poor cows are quite apt, 10. one
way or another, to work into dairy, and
by their diminutive yield barely pay. tor
their keeping and perhaps not even that,
but cause an actual loss. A dairyman OF
my acquaintance, having forty cows, found
by measuring the milk that he had FIVE in
his flock which did not give milk enough
in the whole season to pay for their keep
ing by So piece, He had Eve others
that paid for their keeping and So head
more. The profit and loss of these cows
just balanced each other, he kept the ten
COWS year for nothing, losing the whole
of his time AMI labor in caring for them
and their milk, besides the depreciation of
stock and the interest on their cost, which
was not taken into the reckoning.
When was collecting cows for the first
dairy set up, an aged and observing dai.
ryman said to me: Look out for poor
cows there is greal deal of money made
in this country BY dairying, but 1t is all
made from the good cows" l have often
been reminded Of this remark, and have
always found it true. The injunction is a
good one and well worth remembering. i
The difference between good COW and
poor one is not generally appreciated.
Ofteucr than otherwise the price at which
cows are bought and sold is made to ac-
cord with the amount of milk they will
give. But this is not Il sound way of es-
tmatiug their value. Beef cattle may be
estimated by the pounds Of teef they will
make. A bullock that will make 0O0
pounds Of beef may be worth halt as much
rs one that will make 700 pounds bu,
a COW that produces only one hundred
pounds Of butler year. is not worth half
as much as one that will make 200 in the |
same time, as it will take the former COW
two years to make as much butter as the
latter will to get the same amount. The
butter from the poor COW costs double
what it does from good one, aud at a
.uinous rate to the farmer. Such COW
will not pay the cost Of keeping, and is
only ct for the SHAMELESS She ought GER
tainly never 10 occupy place in dairy.
But the loss Sustained by a small yield
of milk is not all occasioucd by bad Sc
lection of COWS. Many cows which other
wise might be classcd as profitable mlkers
are made Improbable by the treatment
they receive at the hands of the dairymen
Careless milking, harsh treatment, worry
ing and exposure to severe storms and to
extreme heat and cold, abate the flow of
milk and occasion much needless loss.
Twenty-Five per cent variation in the an
nual product is easily made by kindness
and severity Comfort and satisfied qui-
etude are very efficient in promoting lib-
cral flow of milk. Full feeding is equally
important, and the want Of it is, perhaps,
the most profit, cause Of abatement in the
returns of the dairy. @
I'M large percentage of diaries tho yield
of milk is annually made to dwindle down
to the limit Of profitable production, and
sometimes below, from deficiency and IT.
regularity in the food supply.
Very few dairymeu give their COWS as
much as they need to eat, except for a
short time in the season. In the spring
and early summer, when the ground Is
moist and warm, q vigoro is growth Of
grass is produced and a flush Of feed sup
plies the COWS for time will all they can
appropriate and crowded bags and flow
ing pals attest their full supply. But
presently in the long hot and dry days of
July anl August, the ground becomes
parched and the grass stops growing and
dries up. If the cows can fill themselves
during the day, they are commonly al
lowed to run without any additional food.
As grass fails in quantity and quality aud
more labor is required tc get 1t, less is con-
sumed aud the milk diminishes. - The
Farmers Adrocate. ra..'