Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-03-10
For the vEaMoNT FARNER.
Jersey Cattle. White Solomon Oats.

have been much interested in the dis.
cussion about Jersey cattle in the FARMER
since our fair last fall. acknowledge it
must have made quite an impression on the
mind Of Brother Thorp to have seen the pens
prepared for the Shorthorns occupied by the
Jerseys, for certainly there is quite con-
trast in the two breeds. believe he claimed
they were not hardy enough to endure our
severe winters with the care the average
Vermont farmer gave his stock. think if
| was to select breed that would least show
i'll usage, should prefer Devon or Ayrshire.
How was it with the moving machine few
years ago? Was it not justly claimed that
our meadows were so rough and stony that it
would not have been policy for the average
Vermont farmer to have bought machine ?
But has not nearly every one made the im.
prOvement required for the use Of the ma
chine
believe the very fact that it is claimed
that the jersey will not endure i'll usage as well
as some other breed will in the end prove bene-
fetal. For when we learn that with good
care, we can, from the Jersey COW, make
twice as much butter, and got % to 100 per
cent pound more for it than we did in the
old way, we should naturally make the nee
essary improvements. | cannot sec as the
beef question is any argument against the
Jersey, for certainly wool and mutton pay
better in Vermont than beef, and then it is
conceded, everything else being equal, that a
creature will need II daily allowance in pro-
portion to its weight. Now it We keep our
cows until they are ten, aud they get their
growth at four, therc will be six years that
we have to support the wear aud keep up
the vitality Of the COW, and then It would
naturally cost more to get creature to dress
seven than it would FIVE hundred pounds. |
don't believe the extra weight would pay for
what more feed the heavier COW would need.
How few know which their best cows are.
We generally make our estimate by the
quantity of milk COW gives, when, in fact,
it will take twice as much from some COWS to
make pound of butter as it will from 9th
ers, and then there is US much difference in
quality, which is generally in favor Of the
COW that gives the richest milk. l know Of
no way Of telling correctly but by setting
each cows milk and churning the cream sep.
arately.
have had the native, French, grade Dur
ham, grade Devon, grade Ayrshire, and
grade Jersey, and have owned a thorough
bred Jersey bull the last three years, there
fore most of my young stock are grade Jer-
sey from oue-half to 6fteen.sixteenths. My
experience with the Jersey is limited, but |
like them better than anything else | ever
had, aud the higher the grade the better,
| thus far. d. n FARRAND.
Hydepark, Feb. %, 1876.
p. s. should like to inquire through the
FARMER about the white Solomon oats, and
it they are what -. r. W" claims, should
like to buy few to SOW. ID. N. +.
Our correspondent can rely on the good
faith Of Sd. X, W." in his description of tt
white Solomon oats lie is one of the most
Intelligent anl reliable farmers 10 Windsor
county. We have not raised these oats (as
we raise no grain) but the testimony 10 their
favor is unanimous