The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-03-23

Ing, as cOnlpaTeu WIFI BOou Dutlei
cows. / believe that not half of the
common cows in the state will average
one hundred and twenty-five pounds
of butter per season.
Who has known of a Jersey coming
to the shambles on account of q
deficiency in butter qualities after a
fair test? They give fair amount Of
milk, rich in butter, come to maturity
early, and are remarkable to hold out
their milk ut the close of the season,
all of which are prime qualities, and
with out improvements in care and
keeping they will endure and thrive
equal to any known breed, taking on
| flesh when not in milk, attaining 1t is
claimed) when fitted for the shambles
large amount of meat of the best
quality. Also it is claimed by many
that they are comparatively small
eaters, not producing like the Ayr.
shires large quantity of milk, but
large amount of butter, for the amount
consumed. Besides all this the product
is superior, the cream is thick and
elastic, the butter is hard, being as
easily handled in hot weather as that
from the common COW with the assist
ance of ice, retaining its form and
mould when so warm that that of other
breeds will become flattened mass,
and when the butter comes to the palate
it possesses that waxy, fine grain and
rich flavor so desirable TO epicures.
1t is said by soma that they are
small mixers, only suitable to produce
a little cream for the gentleman's table.
Facts prove them to be fully equal to
the average of common diaries and
superior in the product of butter, as
witness every known instance, some
times exceeding all others. See state
ments in recent papers of the produc-
ton of milk and butter, the former
having attained the enormous amount
of 10000 pounds from a seven-eights
Jersey COW, and the latter in many
instances going above 400 pounds per
season.
Again, it is often said. as one of my
neighbors recently expressed himself,
admitting them to make more butter,
they are small and homely and worth
nothing for beef when through with
the dairy" which is not so. But sup
posing it were, who can afford to keep
an animal the usual milking life, say
ten years, for the sake of an hundred
pounds of beef in the end at a loss of
from so to 100 pounds of butter per
annum, and perhaps double that
COW.
1t is claimed by some that the
superiority of the Jersey COW is due to
extra care and feed. The Jersey like
any other breed will give better results
from good feeding, sometimes even out
doing themselves, but from the idea
that to feed alor is due the excellence
of the Jersey l must dissent, having
tried them side by side.
When the Jersey first came to attract
the attention of dairymcn, [ was
advised to try them, but like many
others 7 could not believe the reports
n circulation until they became so
common and prominent that l could
not deny that there must be something
70 them, and after corresponding with
concluded / would not he humhuggeC
to pay fancy prices, but / would give
them fair trial, and | purchased a
half Jersey calf from good so-called
native COW, but | think the mother
showed points indicating some Dur
ham blood. Here let me say that fol
all practical purposes would as soon
have a grade as full blood Jersey.
The calf put with one of the same
age from my best stock which / had
bred over twenty years, but which
| originally sprang from the Canadf
Ayrshires, raising them up alike Will
as good q chance as | could command
without feeding much grain. The two
animals came in last spring at two
years of age. They are good size and
may say each is good type of thei
breed, and each has done well through
the season. The native gave fai
amount of rich milk. l think she i
ahead of any native have raised for
long time. The grade having tn
largest frame has consumed the mos
feed at the barn, and l presume als'
at pasture. / have calculated TO Civ
them all they would eat although a
times not of the best'quality. AS We
the grade is ahead in quantity of mill
and quality of cream. The butter i
all right
/ Every dairy with which I am &C
quainted of which have examine,
the record of products and having
Jersey blood to any extent has don
better in financial point than Others
Therefore l am fully of the opinion
that the introduction of foreign o
Jersey blood into our dairies is an i'm