The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-12-07
Chatauqua Butter Makers.

On page 632, current volume, Mr.. i.
S. Hardin mentioned his visit, with a
committee appointed by the Dairymen's
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He sent US the tabulated report Of that
committee, from which we oondense the
following modes Of practice Of the dairy.
men visited:
Nh. Mason Ames, Moons Station has
sixty acres; does bis own work except
ia haying time keeps nine or ten large
native cows, which he raiset keeps a
native bull also raised on the farm raj.
res calves oL.y from his best mixers
feeds no roots. hut oaily cut hay. oats
and corn ground, in winter. in summer
the four milk and bran keep. sult BY
them ct ell! times keeps cows till six.
teen years old sometimes never had
abortion has lost one COW 10 his life
from milk fever best COW now on the
farm gives ffty.six pounds of milk per
day. He has found it pay to feed grain
TO cows the year round, as he had moth.
ing when he begun fer himself, and now
has his farm and stock clear of incum.
brance. In 1871 he sold 203 pounds OF
butter per COW in 1872. 253 pounds
pounds. He uses the common milk pan
skins when sour; churns in a crank
churn, at temperature when commen.
cling, of SO deg in cool day, and SIS
deg. in warm day; washes his butter
till clear and no longer; puts Z to OF.
salt to one pound butter; no sugar or
osltpetre. 10 March, 1873. it took 49,
ouuds milk Tor a pound OF butter 10
April liire over II pounds, aud in
May, over % pounds.
Oliver Bronson, Stockton has 80
acres, and keeps l6 to II medium size
native cows, which he always buys, as he
raises ne,payipg from $50 TO SIS each
for them. He feeds sowed corr. neal
sour milk, and about five tons Of bran
per auDum, and ell the salt they will eat
In 1872 ho sold 300 pounds of butter
per COW in 1873, 300 10 1874, 800 :
in 1875, 225 up to September Is. He
uses the Jennings vat aud cools with wa
ter; uses a hexsgonal revolving churn,
churning at sixty degrees. Salts with one
ounce to the pound.
Asa Tefft, Stockton, has IA acres, and
keeps thirteen COWS, natives, of medium
size, generally purchased feeds hay
provender, bran and sour milk. and all
the salt they will eat. In 1873, he sold
303 pounds of butter per COW; in 1874,
300 pounds and is doing as well this sea.
son. He sets 10 common pans uses the
hexagonal churn, at 60 or 81 deg, and
uses l OF. salt to a pound OF butter.
f. Tarr, Stockton, conducts his dairy
in similar style, selling about 2S0 lbs Of
butter per COW, He uses crank chu:n,
at temperature of So deg. Robert
Wright, West6eld, sells 270 to 273 lbs
per COW, feeding grain as do the others,
summer and winter. He uses dash
churD, at q temperature of 90, Mr.. Tarr
uses the Jennings vat, without water, and
Mr.. Wright uses common pans
M. Bailey, Stockton, has native COWS
mostly Zone grade Attorney, aud is raj.
sing grade Attorney calves. lilo feeds
sowed sweet corn, aud meal, bran, and
| milk like the others Salts three times
per week. Sells from 242 to 200 los.
butter per COW. Sets milk IN shallow
watts, using no water uses a crank
ehurn; at 5S or 60 deg salts with s
CO. salt to 10 lbs. butter.
All feed meal ond bran in the spring,
bran and sour milk in the summer,
sowed corn aud bran 10 The fall, and
meal and hay 10 the winter, aud all have
found This course profitable; the cows
are uniformly healthy, and iv4 to old
age, often till Is or 20 years, before los.
ing their vigor aud profitable flow of
milk.-Co.ntTy Gentleman.