Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-24
y nsq For the VERMONT FARNHH
Cows for the Dairy.

q EDITOR VERMONT FARHER ;--Iu your re-
marks on my reply to Mr. Thorp in this
weeks FARMER you make me say what did
not intend to be understood as saying, and
any one reading Mr. ThOrp's article and mine
will see that the last part of my article was
in reply to Mr. ThOrp's idea that dairymeu
must keep large cows because they were
worth 40 much more for beef &c. have
90 often heard the same remark | thought l
would reply to it, as do not believe iP that
idea at ell, aud BY reading the editors re-
marks further fad We do not disagree at
all in our views about COWS, only was not
explicit enough in writing, 80 was misundcr-
stood when speaking Of very large cows YER
sus lesser ones.
did not refer to Jerseys At all in that
part of my article. If l had l shculd have
made the average amount Of butter per COW one
hundred pounds more than did in the '.sup-
posed" case. See address Of D. M. Tink-
ham, Esq, on Jersey cattle in Vermont
in second volume of Report of Vermont
Board of Agriculture 30. saI--.t,
i The "fss,s" in the premises ! believe are,
there are plenty Of practical dairymeu in
Vermont who are keeping cows Of medium
size which produce the supposed amount per
COW, and that six of said cows can be kept
on the feed that will keep five of the big
cows alluded to. l believe 1 can be sus-
tanned in my premises by dAirymen in this
county.
am aware that good butter COW re-
quires a good deal Of food. but the very fact
ol her digestive and secretive organs being
such that she will eliminate the greatest
amount Of butter from her feed shows that
when not in milk she win easily fatten,
hence it viii require less food to sustain hel
vitality than that of many other COWS, AnC
there is where the loss occurs in keeping
big COWS aud poor coWs,-it requires 81
much food to sustain their vitality.
In going amongst dairics OfcOWs and ask
ing the dairymen to point out their bcs
cows, have found it rare that they poin
out their largest cows. Old Creamsr, tn
challenge COW Of which we have heard $
, much, is not large cow. T. BAILEY.
Bridport, NoV 81.
1t may be true that the digestive appa
ratus capable of eliminating the larges
quantity OF butter from the food may b
turned with similar advantage to elimiuatn
the same elements for sustaining the vitalit
} Of the COW when dry, and that less food wi
! be required to sustain the vitality Of such
COW than is necessary for COW which doe
n not assimilate all the available elements !
a her food. So far we agree with our eorr'
sPoudent. But when he goes on to assum
! that there is a loss in keeping "big COWS
= because las he intimAtes but does not el
pressly say they do not eliminate the muir
, meBt in their food as well as small ones, v
a must beg to differ. The degree of perfe
! tion with which the food is digested and .
f simulated depends on the size, healthful a
: tiOn and tone of the organs which perfOr
those Offices, and not on the Hzs Of the eol
The rule that all COWS require certain pc
IF centageof their live weight to sustain the Wig
and action of their vital and digestive organs
one We are not at present prepared to acceE
10 Ii our correspondents can furnish facts
70 sustain their respective positions the rsSdc
% Of the FARMER will be glad Of them.