Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-10-18
Remarkable Cows.

Remarkable Cows.
4 correspondent Of the Mn England |
Fd,mer has collected a list Of cows remark |
able for their yield Of milk or butter which
we extract and classify below:
COMMON srocK.
The Ameyican Agricdnuisi, january 1874,
page g. reports % native COW, owned hN j. NJ
Bassett Independence. y Y. She gave filty.sevcn
pounds or twenty-six and a half quarts OF milk
per day. and made fourteen and q half pounds
Of butter per week
The Indiana Farmer reports Thomas llansell,
Guilford, as having cow that averaged sixty
pounds Of milk per day in June. This same COW
and heifer from her made fifteen pounds Of butt
ter each in a week
Mr. Scott Craftsburv VI H. reporiedas having
q COW whose milk yielded five hundfed and four
! pounds Of butter In year
By statement Of NJ G Graves, Springfield,
Mass, as given in flint's Abstract 1872, OF nine
cows entered for premium, three OF them gave
/ the second week after calying respectively hity-
six, fity-iour and hty-threc pounds each perdAy.
The celebrated oaks Cow was owned 10
Danyors, Mass She made nineteen and quarter
| pounds Of butter In one week and averaged more
| than sixteen pounds per week for months. The
largest amount Of her milk In day was forty Hour
and half pounds.
4 COW is reported as kept at the Jail at lewes.
/ England, which gave in one year ten Thousand
| Ave hundred and seyenty-eght pounds Of milk,
| which made five hundred and forty pounds OF
| butter
GRADES ANp CRoss-nlu.p
Rs statement of s. Crosby Lowell Mass, his
grade COW gave an average Of hity-eght pounds
Of milk per day for thirty-one days in July, 1865
4 correspondent Of the Ohio FdrDer reports
grade Devon COW, which gave siAiy pounds per
day of milk
A. A. Moore East Berkshire, Vt, reports in
the Vermont Farmer, q thrce-fourls Durham and
and one-foufth Ayrshire cow that gave sixty
| pounds OF milk per day, and made sixteen pounds
Of butter in a week
In Flint's Abstract for 1874 is the statement Of
the seven-eighths Jersey and one-eighth Ayrshire
COW Sybil," owned by Henry Saltonstall, Pea
body Mass Her largest yield was sixty pounds
Of milk per day, or twenty-eght quarts She
weighed nine hundred and fifty pounds She
gave in one year thirteen thousand and siXty-iiye
pounds of milk.
DUTCH
Flints Abstract Of Returns for 1874 gives state
nent of Dutch COW Susan" owned by T. T.
Whiting She averaged hity-threo pounds Of
milk per day for week
DEVON
Two Devon cows are reported by L l.. Jameson
| in the VERMONT WArCnMAS, as yielding larg,
amount Of butter one Of them, Helena 10th,
No. las. made fifteen pounds Of butter in week
Nctu, No. Lob owned hN hnNfINui iiNut b
Connecticut has made fifteen and three-fourthi
pounds Of in butter n week, and has made two anr
threc-fourths pounds In a day
p suoHfnoRN
g A Bates Shorthorn "Oxford Lass owned b,
j. 1alcott, Rome, \. " is reported A. giving hlt'
pounds per day.
r Another Bates Shorthorn, Violoita,' is re
ported by Mr.. Ialcott rs giving sixty pounds pc
day, at her best.
Mr. Talcott also reports a yield Of fifteen pound
= Of butter per week from some of his Shorhoms
q A correspondent Of the Ohio FpJror report
the Shorthon COW " Flora" "a. II. b., volum
l VII, page two-hundred ffty-three) rs giving tel
e Thousand four hundred and hity-two pounds o
r | milk in year, which would make four hundrei
Il and forty -fiye pounds of butter
n The shorthom COW Rosa is reported by tn
4 same correspondent as giving eleven thousan,
~ seven hundred and five pounds Of milk in lSl,
Y That is surpassed, according to above authority
| by Maid of Atho" another ShOrthorn, whic
- is reported as giving fifty-eisht pounds Of mil
I, per day for ten DAYS, and making butter at tn
N rate Of fourteen and three-fourths pounds pc
week During the season of 1874, she gave lively
e thousand eight hundred and seventy-iiye pound
:, Of milk and five hundred and thirteen pounds o
; butter.
t, AYRSHIRE
n In Flints Abstract 1862, H. a statement Of tn
AYRSHIRE COW, Jean Armour imported by Mi
: Peters S0uthhoro', Mass She weighed nine hun
" bred and sixty-seyen pounds and gave for te
=, days in June, an average Of fity-two pounds pc
II day Her largest yield was fiity-eight pounds i
n n day, and fourteen and a half pounds of butte
per week.
- By statementofJ II. Kendall MiddleseN county
Ell Mass, Of two Ayrshire cows, " Minnie ID CAV
, ffty-one and half pounds per day for week
y Clover" ffty-four and three-fourth pounds pc
le day for a week
m Ia the american Aqricuifuria of Novembe
1874 is an account of the AYRSHIRE COW, " Lad
y Kilbinie, owned by Sturtevant Brothers, Fran
ingham, Mass She gave, in one year, seye
thousand four hundred and twenty-nine pound
of milk, equal to three thousand four huudre
and ffty-fye quarts. Her weight is eight hun
drcd and fifty pounds
lie In the same paper is an account Of Ayrshi
!, COW, Georgia" owned by Stuuevant Brother
TX Her weight is eight hundred and ninety pound
a. She has given seven thousand one hundred an
twenty-seven pounds in a year, or three thousan
" three hundred and fifteen quarts of milk,
TX The American Agrirulturist, November, iS7
vy page four hundred and seven, gives an account
y" the imported Ayrshire COW, " Beacon Belle,
owned by William Crozier, of Northporti J.,
-, She gave, in Scotland, thirty-six quarts, be-
no measure, daily equal TO forty-three quarts OF OF
rs, Tx measure, or ninety-twO and one-half poun'
st per day. This is a large story, but 1t was prov,
'' before justice In Scotland.
n, Slill larger is the statement, in the tmerico
Agricuiiurisi, March, 1874, Of the AYRSHIRE coz
Old Creamer," owned by ; ID. llungerior
us jefferson county, New York She weighs t,
C. hundred aud eighty pounds, and has given ninet
. six pounds or forty-fve quarts per day, and
us average Of ninety-four pounds per day for Il
e whole month Of June.
y, JERSEY.
ii The Anericdn Agricmtarist, September, 1877
'" reports a three-year-od Jersey hefer, Muller
at ID, owned by MIR. Mckee, which made tbirte,
10 and One-fourth pounds OF butter in one week,
grass alone The american AgricufTist,, n
yember, 1879, reports Jersey COW, Myrtle I'd
nj owned by Thomas Fitch, New London, Com
w which has made fifteen and three-fourths poun
d. Of butter in week.
Va The american Aqriculhrisi, January, 1876, Civ
an account of the Jersey COW, Maggie Mitchell
d. owned by NJ. T. Tilden, New Lebanon, n.
lr Her weight Is one thousand and twenty pound
=, She gave seven thousand five hundred pounds
H. milk In year, and has given thrty-eight poun
re per day She made at the rate Of eighteen IN
three-fourths pounds Of butter per week.
In Flint's Abstract Of County Returns Of Mass
chusetts Agricultural Societies, 1861, fluid a stat
o8 ment by J, C. Converse Arlington, Mass, of Il
w. Weld of his Jersey COW 80 Lady Milton N
COL gave the first week In July, thirty-fve and on
s'i half pounds Of milk per day and made eighties
"A, pounds of butter per week. For eighteen wee
she made an average Of fifteen aud nnety-tv
m one-hundredths pounds of butter per week
.. In Flint's Abstract Of County Returns for lSi
u" find statement by J. 5. Munroe, LeNngto
ey Mass, Of his Jersey COW, MAY Day" She ave
al aged in June and July, fory-throe pounds p
i" day Of milk, which made fifteen pounds OF butt
IT. | lNi WIN
IN 1t will be Seen that these remarkable COY
W. are found in every breed, and wonderful
re- some Of the yields are, we are satisfied tn
" there are thousands of cows in the countr
ht with natural aptitude for milk seoreti,
N or butter production, that, in the hands
or skillful feeders and care-takers, could
= made 10 equal the average of this list, The
Tn are good cows everywhere, that never she
er their full capability, simply for the want
rd proper management. And not only "
10 skillful handling thus bring out the late
ne possibilities Of a COW, but continuance
* it, generation after generation, with carei
~ selection, will make these CHARACTERISED
IN prominent in any breed while the want
ro- this care aud skill or It's partial diversion
at secure other characteristics, such as sil
be form or color, will give us great inequali
'er of dairy characteristics, even in the san
ge "breed" How high the average of milk
he butter yield can be carried in particul
mt herd, family, or breed, remains to be show
IN, There must be limit, beyond which il
proyement in this direction is impossib
ny and it is very likely that such a limit
zee been reached in some of the instances cite