The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-21

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progeny at one time constituted half my
herd, and was valued at a thou |
sand dollars. Yet the Ilerefords are not
considered good mixers. | MIXED that |
COW for sixteen yeors-and she was not
dry over three weeks in any one year.
cannot recommend them for the dairy, but
for work and for beef they have no supe-
riors
AYRsulREs.
The Ayrshire is a breed of cows brought
out as n class by the people of the county
of Ayr, in scotland They endeavored to
perfect the breed for their own domestic
use. The section OF country IN which they
are bred resembles some parts of Vermont
In justice II should be remarked that in
proportion to the amount of food consumed
the Ayrshire viii produce the greatest
amount of milk of any breed. and are un-
doubleday the best breed for the Vermont
dairy. ! have endeavored to improve the
breed. They produce large flow of milk.
My IIerefbris failed to meet my expecta.
tons / had COW from the famous
"Whiie Lilly which produced GO pounds
of milk for GA days in succession.
.HoLDERNEYs
OF this class | know less than of any
other. a friend Of mine gathered herd
of Eiolderneys. He went about the county
and purchased every lined back COW he
could find, and thus started aherd he called
Holderneys. lie thought the cattle and
his friend the greatest humbugs, except
himself, in central New York. The cattle
as bred in England are good mixers.
noIsTElN OR DUTCH CATTLE.
We have in this country some Ilolstein
Ia IN 90 ,,,;lGorc
chusetts importation of Dutch cattle are
some of them great mixers, but they are
not rs certain AS the Ayrshire, by at least
one hslf. They are race of cattle that
require large amount of food to keep
them in condition, and large mixers of this
breed are. great eaters. The Holsteins
milk bears importation to the city better
than that of any other COW, because i,
is firmer and does not break as easily. /
should not depend upon them as upon other
breeds.
NATIVE CATTLE.
This class embraces a very large number
of cattle. Their name is legion. They arc
the descendants of the best herds of cattle
in colonial days of the American republic
and have become really the American breed
of cattle. Many of them are as good as
any breeds we have. 1t Ia not common
sense to discard the native breeds. He
preferred them in many respects to jersey
cattle or Indiana scrubs.
sHoRT-HoRN OR DURIAMs.
The Short-horn becomes a Durham at
noon, and u Durham becomes n Short-horn
at evening. They are in fact one and the
same breed. a uan once came along and
asked, what breed is that? 1t was replied,
ANY fool might have known il was Dur
ham but any fool might know that a
Durham was Short-horD." They have
been brought into great repute as mixers
| because they have the natural capacity to
eat and assimulate the largest quantity Of
food. They arc always kept in show con
ditlon. 1t ia rot advisable to make them
very hardy. The breeders in this country
| have bred for the eye, and not for the milk
part. The only trouble with them is they
| give too much milk. The endeavor has
been made to strike out the short-horns,
TO make distinct family of them.
AT the New York mills herd sale six
months old heifer calf brought $50, 900
| The short-horns have become the golden
calf, but the Aaron's golden calf bears no
| price in competition with the modern Dur
ham. The progeny of single COW, the
mother of the calf referred to, realized the
sum of $500 She herself sold for $40
600 muking over 100000 for one animal
The Durhams have been bred for show and
value. He had purchased animals of this
| Jfeedtnat fancy breeders did not want.
He aimed to get the best mixers, desirrr.
utility rather thon beauty. | have in this
| way secured as good inilhcrs as can be
found anywhere. This class have been
blown into reputation. | know of no
breed Ct cattle, large or small, for the food
consumed, that will produce as much milk,
butter, cheese and bcef rs the short horns.
For beef, especially, they eclipse all other
breeds. This is what mas been done for
us, and from the Durham the farmer can,
at small expense, improve their breeds.
| Select small animals for side hills and larger
animals for low lands. There is no owner
of native breeds IN Iierkimer county. n.
Y, but what has. improved his breed from
one-third to one-halt by mixing his animals
with some of the best breeds.
MIR. Lewis address was listened too with
much interest and was complimented with
applause at its conclusion.
Mr.. w. L. Rutherford of Washington,
New York, one of the foremost citizens
and leading breeders OF Jersey cattle in St.
Lawrence county, was then introduced,
who read o valuable paper of which the
following is an abstract:
BUTTER FACTORIES AND THE IMPORTANCE
OF IMPROVING BUTTER STOCK.
On general principles butter can be made
as well and as cheaply at one place as at
another, all things being equal, so that
when man knows what it costs him 10
carry his milk to the factory, he knows
Just about how much he looses by doing SO,
provided that he proposes to keep the same
class of COWS from which to make his own
butter that he does when he carries his
milk to the factory, but this is not neeessa.
ry or desirable, as butter can be made with
saving of more than one-fourth the labor
when made from better breed Of cows
From the consideration which | have
given TO the subject Of butter factories,
have come To two important conclusions.
First, that they increase the cost of manu-.
facture; and second, that they discourage
the improvement of butter stock.
From an estimate based upon the time
required to carry the milk of twenty-cow
dairy two miles to factory, and the price
paid for making the butter, compared with
the time occupied in the manufacture OF
the butter on my farm, find a saving of
50 20 per COW for the factory season, and
as the factory is open about five months
your cows may be MIXED with profit, il
properly fed, for ten months. You are left
to manufacture your own butter the rest
of the year with class of cows selected on
bred with reference to quantity of milk
and consequently not suited for the butter
dairy, as all who have tested their mill,
know that the cows which yield the most
milk do not produce the most butter.
The quantity of milk varies materially
in the different breeds of cows, and to some
extent in different animals of the same breed
yet the quality varies even more than the
quantity. The quantity required to pro.
duce pound of butter varying from 0 to
46 pounds, and in extreme cases even
more. The majority of farmers select the
COW which yields the most milk, and sell
dom take the trouble to test the quality,
but when they do they often find that their
(supposed) best cow is the poorest.
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