Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-02-11
or until their percentage of cream was proven by
the lactometer twice q month for the date of this
report the whole time. The following is their per-
fOrmauCe:
Av'ge of all,

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character, who has spared no pains to get the best
cows of the breed, and to keep them In tne very
edge of his herd i'd not hesitate to endorse his
statements in all particulars He uses cream in his
family without STINT and has not been able to learn
from actual trial how much butter bis herd would
make in year.
l might quote other authorities, but you
are a reading people and can read of their
qualities all through the country.
l thought the statements about Jersey
COWS were a little strong But by talking
with the late Charles Kinney, and seeing
what his COWS were doing, and also Horace
Putnam, l.. c. Pitkin and others, thought
would purchase enough to test them.
purchased two cows and rec heifers with
calf, found them as represented, and am
satisfied with them. have now thor
oughbred bull and twelve cows and heifers.
and intend to have my dairy-entirely full
bloods and grades, us soon as possible.
They are profitable because they will give
milk longer than any COWS [ ever owned &;
you can milk them ten or twelve months,
then you will have to dry them off; they
will not go dry if you milk them 1 have
one that will calve in six weeks that will
make three pounds of butter week
They come to maturity earlier than
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them to calve at eighteen mon his old
they me in ut two most generally, and
are as good as other breeds at three
therefore you save one years keeping.
Notwithstanding objections on the score
of viciousness, have found them all
right; you treat them gently when young
and youlsoon have a set of pets around you
| that you cannot help inviting your friends
/ tn fThav naann. b1n w
always find them where you put them
they are not rowing around us the larger
breeds are; they will hold their flow OF
milk when the pastures become short
better than the other breeds that have
They are generally in thinner flesh. fol
the reason that they make more butter
than other cows from the same feed. [ do
not wish to be understood that high feed
ing does not agree with them, for am
convinced that they will return a much
/ larger profit from high feeding than from
our ordinary way of feeding. By high
feeding | mean to give your COWS the
value of four quarts of corn meal IN con-
nection with good hay in the winter. And
in the summer give them good pasturing
and tie them up night and morning, and
| give them meal, or its equivalent in green
| fodder-such as winter rye for July, green
oats for August, sowed corn for September
! q prefer either our northern or sweet
corn), and by October would return to the
four quarts of meal again; that is to let
them get what they can, and give what
milk they WILL
| The time has come when our farmers
cannot afford to carry on the dairy business
in the old way The dairy is our main
hold, and we must look this matter square
in the face, and not be content with dairy
that will make one hundred and fifty pound:
of butter to a COW in a season, when others
in some sections, are making two or three
| hundred pounds, and even more, from {;
single COW. Where you hear of herd o
Jersey cows, there you hear of high price:
and large yields of butter. Why is this
1t is because they are better adapted to at
tain these results thau any other breed. [
is for these results that | have gone into tn,
jersey stock, and from what experience
have had with them, expect to reach tina
high standard described by others | thinl
if the farmers of Washington count,
would wake up in this matter and lool
around them, and see what is being don
in this matter of making butter whicl
brings high price, they would see wher
and how the high prices are received
they would find those diaries compose
mostly of grades and thoroughbred Jerse,
cows. Some may say it is only fan y
Admitting it is fancy (but | don't think
is } then put afancy article upon the mar
ket, and you will get Il fancy price for 1t
1t is a fact well established that extra fin
butter is in great demand in the market
{ while ordinary butter finds a slow sale, a
low prices which do not pay for maxim,
the butter. Then let Us look well to thi
matter ofmaking the gilt edged > article
and if it requires Jersey cows to do it, the
let us have them.
, l have tried, in my farmer way, to shov
the honorable Board and the farmers 0
Washington county the way to increase tn
f income of this section, and if | have con
/, WINGED any one that high feeding and .Jer
sey stock is adapted to the interest of tn
!; farmers, then | have not labored in vain