Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-08-31

lungs and muscles III a cow, give her a Dlg
range and tell her go Craze or die, and do
this for a succession of generations and the
thing will be accomplished in thoroughbred
style but if, on the contrary, the object is
the conversion of food into rich milk, there
is no better method than that pursued BY
the Jersey farmers. In order to understand
precisely what this method is we quote the
following from Mr.. LeCornu's essay on Jer-
sey agriculture:
elm order to derive the greatest possible
advantage from his cows, the Jersey farmer
endeavors to arrange for them to calve dur
ing the first three months of the year, that
is, when vegetation speedily advances. In
the winter, cattle are always housed at
night. When they come in (about 4 o'clock
in the a%fternoon), they are MIXED, after
which each receives about three-fourths ola
bushel OF roots and a little hay. The fol-
lowing morning they are attended to at 6
O'Clock, or even before that hour. Having
been MIXED they again receive the same al
lowance of roots and hay, and at 8 O'Clock
are turned out, if fine, in some SHELTERED field
or orchard. Cows are dried one month or
six weeks before calving. Bran mashes are
given to them about the time of parturition,
and continued for a fortnight after the calf
is born. At no other time do they receive
this food. Two weeks or 50 after calying, if
the weather be very fine, they are turned
out to grass in the day time. It is the Gus
tom in all the Channel islands to tether cat
tie. The tethers are made Of small chain
a spike about one foot long is attached at
one end and driven into the ground; the
| other end is tied to the cows halter, the lat
ter being made fast at the base of her horns.
The length of these tethers is about four
yards. During the day cattle are frequent
ly moved, generally every three hours.
Drink is given them in the morning on leay-
ing the stable, and at noon; in the summer
they receive it also in the evening. About
May they are allowed to remain out at
n1gnu, anu continue SO Till JrIe vna OF 4Octo-
Der, when the system Of housing recon-
mences. During the summer COWS are FREE
quently MIXED three times . day, and when
the weather becomes very warm they are
brought into the stable for d few hours, else
they would be tormented by flies. A cow is
in her prime at six years ofage, and contin-
ues good till ten years old A good COW, on
the average, gives fourteen quarts of milk
per day, or eight or nine pounds Of butter
in one week, but that is above the average
figure
Tt must be remembered that the climate of
Jersey is very different from that of New
| England or the Middle States. The lati-
tude is higher, being a little above 49, but,
being surrounded by water, and receiving
the warm breezes of the Gulf Stream, the
grass is green all winter Geraniums and
fuchsias need no housing, and against south
walls the orange ripens its fruit. The slope
of the island is also from north to south,
which fact adds much to the effect of the
SUMS heat. The heat OF the summer is, how
ever, tempered by cool sea breezes, SO that
no extreme of heat or cold is suffered at any
season of the year. The water is also excel
lent, pure springs gushing QUITO the rocks
everywhere, and there is hardly a house
that has not a spring or brook near it. Jer-
sey is the paradise of cattle breeders, land it
is no wonder that a good herd. OF butter cows
is indigenous to its soil.
Another noticeable feature of the island is
that the farms, are small, not more than six
or eight in the whole island containing over
fifty acres. and the usual size of the larger
farms being from fifteen to twenty acres, and
the majority of the farmers making a COM
Portable living from much less handsome
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