The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-02-16
BEST COWS FOB MILK AND BUTTER.

At a recent meeting of the lllinols
Dairymen's Association, some discus
sion was had on the respective varietie
IF different breeds of COWS, aud the
following points of general interest
were made:
Mr.. Seward thought one third of the
COWS throughout the country not
worth milking; did not pay for keep
ing. He preferred Durham or Hol
| stein. He had the largest flow of milk
from the largest COWS. They ate very
little more than small COWS, and would
sell for much more for beef.
Mr.. William Patton had raised Short,
horns since 1865; preferred them to
others. Had some that MIXED fifty
TO sixty pounds each day: usually sold
COW as soon as he found her not a
first class mixer; SO be kept the herd
in good condition. He thou hit the
Holstein stock very vigorous, and many
good mixers, but could not say how
they would average nor how they
would sell for beef, which was the great
consideration.
Mr.. Gilbert said there was great di
versity of opinion in regard to breeds.
He thought the most essential points
was to select the best arimals and raise
calves from the best COWS, irrespective
of breed.
Mr.. D. G. Scofield would raise calves
from the best COWS. using a thorough
bred Durham bull of good milking
family. In five years good herd could
be brought up to first-class condition.
He would pay as much attention to
securing bull from a good milking
family as in selecting the best cows
Prof. Hall had used Jersey cattle for
five or six years, and reported his ex-
perience, which was that for dairymen
making butter there was no breed like
them, for the reason that the Jersey
COW disposed of the feed, over and
above the amount required for keep
lug, ia a much better manner than
COWS of any other breed. Whereas
the Durham COWS use .od on their
backs, the Jersey COW use it to increase
their supply of milk. He would not
have a fat, sleek COW, for she must pro
duce the fat at the expense of her
milk. His cows make on an average
ESQ pounds of butter. Common cows |
only make 200. If he was raising cows
for beef, he would use the Durham; If |
he wanted COW that gave the largest
quantity of milk, to sell in Chicago, he
would use the Holstein; but if he want
ed to make butter that would bring the
largest returns per COW. then the Jer
'ey was the animal. Both the quaint
" and the quality of the butter was
to that made from any Other
breed. Another fact was that the Jer-
'ey is not dry, on an average, much
over two weeks each year, and he has
;wo COWS that had not been dry for
;wo years, notwithstanding they both
lad calves during the time.
he experimental one Cay with his
heard of six COWS, keeping their milk
'eparate, and churned separately. The
'esult was, for twent-four hours milk,
,ne pound of butter from sixteen and
'wo thirds pounds of milk from the
pest COW, full blooded Jersey and in
as the grade of the COWS de-
'reased, until the one common COW
which he had only made one pound of
'utter from twenty-five pounds of milk.
The cows were all fed the same and
lad the same care, but the fact was
hat the common COW put the feed on
Ter back (shs was fat, sleek animaD,
md the Jersey put it where it was most
leeded-into the milk pail.