The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-02
AGRICULTURAL COLUMN
Butter and Breeds.

Butter and Breeds.
AT the Jefferson county fair, recently
closed at Wa,ertown, Gen. N NJ. Curtis,
of Ogdensburg, recognized authority in
some phases Of dairying. presented an able
and iudicious address. From the address,
as summarized in the Wstertown Times
we make the following extracts
An important lesson is taught by this.
There is a varlegaton in the color of Amer
lean butter. and It is found difficult to place
it on the English market in that uniform
state necessary to bring the best price. We
are now producing from our factories a bet
ter quality of butter than that has been
heretofore ground cut from the men and
women us manufacturers, which butter
goes into the country at higher prices.
sSEngand imports large quantities of grain
from other countries, particularly OF wheat,
which formerly was largely supplied by
Russia. If 1872 nearly one-third came
from Russia and one-ffth from the United
States. In 1873 less than one-lllth from
Russia and nearly one-balf from the United
States, In 1874 the United Statcs, furn-
ished more than half, and in 1875 nearly
half of all her imported wheat. In 1910
Unitod Kingdom was CT beef, bacon. hams
and pork G7,900 cwts., while in 1875 there
were 1873 $50 head of cattle, sheep, lambs
and swine, and 3,1l5,S09 cwts. of beef,
bacon, hams and pork imported.
For what purpose is it worth our while
10 consider English institutions and peo-
pie ! IT is not to awaken in our breasts u
recoiiect'oh At our anceetors ; but to SO
cultivate our la.u's that we may derive
benefit from feeding people who do not
grow enough to support themseises. DIV
uated as we are with no Change OF climate
in passing between our port and England,
and possessing rich and productive soil,
we can better send to that country our pro-
duets than the countries Of Europe or
Egypt. In earlier times we sent our beef
aud pork, but we are now sending ship
loads of animals, fattened upon our grasses
and corn, 1t Is to be an Industry by itself.
If We properly manage our farms we shall
derive immense advantages from this
source, which other countries have received
heretofore. If we can so improve our herd
of cattle as to make better use of the corn
we grow, we shall derive greater benefit
TO ourselves financially.
Now about the COW and the dairy. The
stock of our country is sad TO be native
or common, and yet what is it? 1t is GER
tsinly not native. We did not find them
with the aborigines their COW was the buff
falo. Our COWS came with the first settlers
of the country, who brought whatever
they had. If you 60 into Domestic hall,
you will find that the articles brought over
from England by our ancestors were not
equal to the irst-class articles produced in
that country. 1t is a mistake to suppose
that our ancestors brought the best stock
from, tho nj lpp Thew
people, and brought such animals as they
had. The first neat cattle brought into
this country were introduced in 1909 and
10, into James River colony, from England
and the West Indies, the latter descendan nj
of those brought from Spain by Columbus
on his second voyage in 1893. They were
brought into New England in 1926 from
England into New Yoik III 1923 from
Holland into New Hampshire in l54l
fzom Denmark into Quebec soon after
from the northwest Of France. Many Of
those brought to New England were from
Devonshire, and what ale now called the
'ConDecticu red" received their color from
thee Devon ca,tle and those brought to
Quebec resemble the Attorneys and Jerseys
OF to-day. The first thorough-hreds brought
into America were the short-l orns and
came into Maryland in 1888 New York in
1899 Massachusetts III 1918, OHIO in 1884,
aud the Heretords (H. Cla,) INTO Ken ucby
in 1917 into J tfsrson county by Corning
Il Southern ia 1910. Aderney, jersey and
Guernsey cattle have been Introduced into
this country since 1925, but the lOrgest i'm
portaton by Mr. Traiuer of Connecticut in
1850 The best Of cur American animals
is that one among the whole cattle that we
think the least of, theTeXan steer, descend
ed from the cattle that Cortez brought into
Mexico "Boo1 will tell" bad rs we'll as
good. 1t is about the worst combination
OF an animal which we at present use us a
machine to convert herbs into food. We
choose the best for the butcher. 1t would
be better TO slaughter the poorest and 60
on improving the better animals. Here ia
an opening for some one 10 so improve our
herd as to produce animals which will give
as the greatests possible quantity of meat
for the food consumed. The man who
does this is no less phllanthropist than be
who makes two blades of grass grow where
but one grew before, and you remember
that the two blades must be finer than the
original one. What a work in Jefferson
county Is open for you TO do in the i'm
provement of the arabic land and your
nerd. You have great deal that can be
done easier. Life is too short TO take the
-N'-N'N ~ NNNNbipiibh Dthl ltbulb1.
Improve your stock by using bull from
those breeds that approximate nearest to
the animal you wish to produce. 1t is not
to be expected that every farmer will buy
either short horns, Jerseys or Ayrshires at
the prices asked for them and place them
upon his farm to the exclusion OF his pres |
ent stock. That would not be iudicious.
But there i, no man with farm and stock
that could not advantageously get rid of
those miserable bulls that we often see rum
ming about. They indeed ought to be very
thankful to tina Bologna sausage man from
New York who takes them off the hands at
$l5 or 800 per head. If you raise COW
that Is good mixer she will pay for her
self; If che is not you will have to lose one
half of her keeping yearly. BY introduce
ing those animals that will give size and
substantial feeling qualities, il it fails to be
a mixer it will be good for the butcher.
So with sheep. 1t is advantageous to have
a few sheep on every farm. 1t will be a