The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-11-24
agricultural department.
CONDUCTED BY ALBERT CHAP MAN
AYRsHIRES AND JERSEYS.

AYRsHIRES AND JERSEYS.
MEssRs. EDIToRs-It will hardly be
expected Of me that ! should reply in de-.
tail to DIR. Tildeu's article in your last
issue. In al my writings have at.
tempted to give the exact status of my
knowledge on the given subject, and have
avoided special pleading. l care not
whether the Ayrshire or the Jersey COW
10 the better. | but desire that the AYR.
shire COW shall be known as she is; and
1t it is necessary for me to refer to the
Jersey COW, do so honorably from the
facts that are recorded concerning her.
Mr.. Tilden's special pleading shows
greater desire to magnify the Jersey COW
than to arrive at the truth. 10 drawing
conclusions from my experiment Il. can.
dor should have led him to interpret it in
its relations to the article, and not as
ine point to suit his purpose. lie is will.
ling to quote this experiment with ep.
proval; yet he selects analyses, the one of
Jersey milk made from butter COW be.
longing to famous herd-ths other of
Ayrshire milk from COWS selected without
reference to either butter or cheese pro.
duct, but for another purpose.
The quoting Of my table of the com.
parstive returns Of milk with my state.
meut, These are all the facts which
have been able to 6ud on record, and it
seems correct series for the purpose OF
comparison" etc, and then going on in
mis- own language: lin order to estab.
iish his assumption that the Ayrshires
are superior to the Jerseys" etc., is Ger.
tainly rather curious. Why not show my
facts to be in error, or show other facts
which will contradict their bearings ?
Why call them assumptions? Why not
critioise and correct, and thus give me
pleasure Blu; no, it is more to his pur.
pose to call them assumptions" forget.
ting that he himself quotes my statement
that they are facts"
The moral Of the whole subject, Dir.
Editor, is what tho public wants is the
true value Of breeds. and not colorcd as.
serticns. They care not whether one
breed is better for one man than another
breed, but they do want to know wherein
the good qualities of each breed consist,
IN order to know what circumstances each
breed is best adapted
BY u skillful use Of the figures, can
quite readily write one.s;ded article
very plausible in itself. wherein | can
prove that the Jersey is very inferior
sort of COW, and is practically worthless
unless for the purposes of curiosity On
the other hand. | can show the Ayrshire
COW to be on animal Of astounding merit
If this showing dees not suit my purpose
can reject oil these figures, and by 9th.
er selected figures show the opposite tc
hold true. What does this staten ent SHOW
us3 Only that the writer who seeks the
truth must give all the facts in his posses
sion, without selecting those favorable te
his desired object and rejecting those un
favorable. BY SO doing, if his conclusion
is an erroneous one, the fault is with the
facts and not with him.
have noticed that my collection Of
facts concerning the richness Of milk O
the Ayrshire and Jersey cows gives pair
to number Of jersey breeders. Why
do they not show the contrary to be true
by giving the yield each year Of theil
herds, or giving such averages as may in
form the public Of tao claims of the aver
age butter COW of the herd?
Now Mr.. Editor, the truth Of the Who'll,
matter ia this Both the Ayrshire ant
Jersey breeds are good dairy races. Eacl
have their peculiar adaptations, and il
some places and under certain circum
stances one is more profitable to keel
than the other, There is really no com
petition between thon, for where it i
more profitable to keep Jersey COW, tn,
Ayrshire COW is not wanted. Where tn,
Ayrshire COW can give the profit, tho Jer
sey may be dispensed with.
The Ayrshire and Jersey breeds diffe
in their yield and the quality of thei
milk. Some Ayrshire cows will give
more butter than some Jersey cows, ant
vice versa. Some Jersey COWS will Civ
more milk THIN some Ayrshire COWS
What the public want to know is not tn
exceptional yields, but the average yiel,
Of herds.
Let US then, who are interested in tn
dairy, seek for truth in this way We ca
DO more good than trying to prove tina
our fayorite animals are better than the
sre,or that another animal shall be paint
ed blseker than be is,
AS for giving the butter yield of Wau
shskum herd OF Ayrshires for a month.
is impossible, Our milk is sold to sup
ply retail trade, and we have neithe
the experieEce nor the appliances for but
ter making. lu 50 far as We give state
ments, they are sscertained facts. w
have never published our largest yield
in form TO draw attention to the Ayr
shire breed, nor have we Published tn
largest percentages of cream that we hav
obtained from some OF our cows. Thes
exceptional products are OF little value
give TO the public, but what We do do
this we keep and publish, on every suit
able occasion, an exact account OF tn
milk yielded by every animal in our barr
whether good. bad. or Indifferent. Ifs
animal, through accident, misses scrvic,
and then runs dry large portion of th
year, her Weld is included. If mile
COW should yield no milk during the yea
Jan. ] TO Jan. l, she also would be il
cluded in the number of cows kept. Fac