The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-06-30

ANtIus' oi INC years 2JiJ
1t would hardly answer 10 claim the
average as over 1900 quarts, on the
strength Of the one years yield in 1858
The true average is manifestly 2l79
quarts.
10 the Transactions of the American
Dairymen's Association for 1872, VT
find manager reporting a delivery from
one herd OF thirty-iour cows OF 100, AL
pounds Of milk, an average per COW Of
2605 quarts.
Again, the smaller the dairy the great
er the possibility Of obtaining an extra
large average yield. 1t is probable that
in the majority Of cases where large re.
turns are received from small dairy il
one year, there will be falling off the
next year. When the cows all calve
about the same time, and at the most ia.
vorablc time, the yield for the curren,
year is large one, hut necessarily the
next year they cannot depend on being
again thus favored by circumstances, and
the record Of the milk yield shows less
An average given for COW cannot ap.
proximatc to the true result. unless the
figures are given for three successive
years at least. Thus. in 1868, we had a
native COW 10 our herd which gave 1888
quarts, But in 1867 her yield was but
S27 quarts, and in 1869, 1915 quarts.
Her true average was, therefore, 20S0
quarts, which shows her Il good COW.
Had we kept her another year, it is pro.
bable that, through iavoring circum.
stances, she would bsve again given a
large yield.
Most people in publishing their yields
have pride in seeing them large. We
more often sec reports which may be
true, yet convey palpably n false impres.
sion.
Such are the reports where the aver
age is made up from only the cows 10
milk, or from number Of the best cows,
or for one tarorsJls gear, or where the
calculation is from the time Of calvine
only. If true results and useful figures
are desired, let our farmers publish the
returns Of their whole number Of cows
kept, and their yield for series of years,
the more the better. Do not measure
the milk once weex, or once month,
and then calculate, but weigh at the time
OF milking, or take the account of the
number Of cans sold from your own herd
only. This weighing the milk is a sim
pie matter--a pair of spring scales hang.
ing on the beam from convenient nal,
and piece of paper tackled Oh board.
Let the trial be made once and it will be
seen TO be so feasible, that not only will
IT be continued, but the wonder will be
why it was not commenced sooner. The
man who weighs his milk will find his
herd improving each year, and he will
not only gain the reputation of being q
better farmer, but his money receipts will
be larger
To return again to large yields. A
writer in the Country Gentleman, Of
January 80, 1868, says, 1.-The largest
yield | ever obtained was 26O0 quarts
per COW. | fed during that
winter four quarts corn meal and eight
quarts screenings per cow"
John ". Dadin, of Sudbury, farmer
OF the highest character and Intelligence,
reports in the Agriculture of Massachu.
sets for 1867. yield of 2273 quarts
per COW for twenty-five cows. lie fed
five quarts daily to each COW, from
mixture Of rye, corn acl cotton seed
meal, along with swail lay aud corn sto.
yer.
The yield repeated by A. z. Fish of
Herkimer county, in lS42-3-4, of some
TOO pounds OF cheese per COW. is often
quoted 1t Is not so generally known
that Mr.. Fish attained this success
by halvng his number of cows and feed.
ing them very highly with grain and
whey.
The maximum yield on record seems
70 be cow, the details Of whose Weld
we're authenticated by the English Board
of Agriculture. During eight consocu,
tive years she gave 1920 gallons or at
the rate OF more than 1910 gallons per
annum. la one year she MIXED 32Y
days, ~ gave 1880 gallons. which yield.
ed $40 pounds OF butter, or at the rate of
one pound of butter to twenty. two pounds
Of milk.
In 1873, there was GU exhibition at
tho New York State Agricultural Soce.
Tvs Fair a COW, very high grade Ayr.
shire, which is claimed by Gen. s. b.
Hungerford, her owner. to be the champ.
ion mich COW Of the world, "havinc
yielded in three DAYS the enormous guam,
tity of 3O2 pounds of good milk, as fol.
lows June lIth. 1901 pounds; June
18th. 100 pounds June 18th, IOIt
pounds. She gave 2s2O1 pounds of milk
in the month Of June, an average of over