The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-01-20

of peas | ever saw while the barley
yielded at the rate Of "a bushels per acre,
we're the results for 1872, while the
hcrdsgrass stood some three feet, and the
clover in proportion, the present season,
with crop OF some three tons per acre
the Goth Of July, and the second crop
would have cut more than double,I think
treble, that of the orchard grass in the
month OF September. l would also say
that sheep refuse the orchard grass,
only making paths through it, while the
cattle relish it very much.
My conclusions are that on moist,
rich sol it may do Ia SOW orchard
grass, but on dry mellow liam give me
herdSgrd@ and ciocer.-A. D. ARMS,
Montpelier, in ". Farmer.
BREEDING DAIRY SroCK. There is lit.
tie prospect that the perfect dairy COW
will be produced to any extent until the
practice of breeding and dairyipg through
the same herd shall be adopted The
practice of dairymen is now quite unfor.
tunatc and destructive to their own bust.
ness 1t is great point with them to
pick up through the country the best
milking cows, and to use them in the
dairy until they shall grow old, without
raising from them single calf. by this
cause the very cows which ought to be
kept for breeding being devoted entirely
to the dairy, and their calves slaughtered
at an early age, are entirely lost as breed.
ers, and the greater proportion OF cows
are bred from second or third rate milk.
ers. In this way the dairy stock is con-
tinually depreciating.
Why will not dairymen make an effort
to make their mark by establishing race
or breed of distinguished mixers? The
task is not difficult or expensive one.
Let dairymen bring into their herds as
largo a number of first rate mixers as
practicable and breed them to bulls whose
ancestry are or were from the best milk
ing stock. Let them rear the most prom
Using calves from the best mixers, and
let each heiler pe brought into milking at
the earliest practicable age, and be prop.
erly fed and treated, with view to the
greatest quantity of milk.
1t is not of any great Importance upon
what breed the ideal milking herd shall
be based. 1t may be upon careful sc
lection Of cows from the common stock Of
the country, from the Ayrshire, the Hol-
stein, the Norfolk yolled COW, or the De.
Won, or Durham, or from a mixture Of
any Of these, provided calves for the dai.
ry are bred only from the best milking
stock. 1t must be remembered that each
COW must have good pedigree-she
must trace her lineage on both sides for
many generations through the first rate
mixers. 1t would be well if nerd
book of distinguished mixers should be
established, in which should be recorded
the most distinguished milking cows, and
their exploits at the pail, and that pre-
miums should be offered at the agricul.
tural fairs for the most distinguished
milking cows whose lineage should he re.
corded in the herd book.
The cows KEEP. for milk do not pioba.
bly, produce in the aggregate more than
half the value in milk that they might
with proper breeding keeping and treat
ment. am not disposed to overlook
beauty in form, but for dairy stock this
should be secondary to milking capacity.
Culture is as essential to the perfect milk.
ing COW as to the perfect horse, or the
perfect boefmakiug Durham.--Observ
Lyons, n. Y, in Country Gentleman.