Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-03

In Flints Abstract Of Country Returns Of
Massachusetts Agricultural Societies, 1867,
| find statement by j. G. Converse, Ar.
lington, Mass, of the yield of his Jersey
COW LADY Milton" She gave the first
week in July 35i pounds of milk per day,
and made Is pounds of butter per week.
For eighteen weeks she made an average Of
1892 pounds of butter per week
The celebrated "Oaks Cow" was owned
in Danvers. Mass. She made 19i pouuf $
Of butter in one week, and averaged more
than l6 pounds per week for months. Tho
largest amount of her milk 10 day was 44i
pounds. This l believe to be the largest
butter yield on record.
Flints Abstract Of Returns for 1874
gives a statement Of Dutch COW "Susan, 4"
owned by 7. Il, Whiting. She averaged 80
pounds Of milk per day for week.
A Bates Shorthorn, "Oxfodr Lass"
owned by j. Talcott, Rome, N Y, is re-.
ported as giving so pounds per day.
Another Bates Shorthorn, Violetta," is
reported by Mr.. Talcott as giving go pounds
per day as her best.
Mr.. Talcott also reports yield Of Is
pounds Of butter per week from some of his
Shorthorns.
A corresponds nt of the Ohio Farmer re-
ports the Shorthorn COW "Flora" "a. II.
b., Vol. VII, Page 253) as giving 10,452
pounds OF milk in year, which would make
445 pounds Of butter.
The Shorthorn COW Rosa" is reported by
the same correspondent as giving 1l,705
pounds of butter in 1873. That is surpassed
according to the above authority by "Maid
Of Atho," another Shorthoru, which is re.
ported as giving So pounds of milk per day
for ten days, and making butter at the rate
of 14a pounds per week. During the season
of 1874, she gave 1855 pounds of milk and
5l3 pounds Of butter.
A COW is reported as kept at the Jail at
Lewes, England, which gave in one year TO-.
SIS pounds Of milk, which made $40 pounds
of butter.
In Fints Abstract for 1874 is the state.
ment of the seven.eighths Jersey and one
eighth Ayrshire COW "Sybil," owned by
Henry Saltonstall, Peabody, Mass. Hel
largest yield was 60 pounds of milk per
day, or % quarts. She weighed $50 pounds
She gave in the one year 1906 pounds o.
milk.
In Fliuts Abstract 1862, is a statement
Of the Ayrshire cow "Jean Armour" i'm
ported by Mr.. Peters, Southboro', Mass
She weighed 967 pounds, and gave for tel
days in June, an average of so pounds pc
day. Her largest yield was So pounds it
a day, and l4i pounds of butter per week
BY statement of j. X. Kendall, Middle
sex Co., Mass, of two Ayrshire cows
minnie ID" gave 5lk pounds per day fol
a week; Glover" 54f lbs per day for {
week.
BY statement of s. Crosby, Lowell, Mass
his grade COW gave on average of 5S pound
of milk per day for thirty-onc days in July
1868.
BY statement of NJ. G. Graves, Spring
field, Mass, as given in Flint's Abstract
1872, of nine cows entered for premium
three of them gave, the second week afte
calving, respectively 56, "a and SO pound
each per day.
The American Agriculturist, November
1873, page 407, gives an account of the i'm
ported Ayrshire COW, "Beacon Belle,
owned by VIM. Crozier, Northport, l..
She gave, in Scotland, 36 quarts, bee
measure, daily, equal to 43 quarts of ou
milk measure, or 92l pounds per day. Thi
is large story but it was proved before
jnstice in Scotland.
Still larger is the statement in the Amer
can Agricuturist, March, 1874, Of the Ayl
shire COW, "Old Creamer," owned by S. L
Hungerford, Jefferson Co., N. Y. Sh
weighs 1850 pounds and has given 96 pound.
or 45 quarts per day, and an average Of 8
pOuRds per day for the whole mouth {
June. This is 5elieUed to be the champiO
! COW of the world.