Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-02
That IS Extra COW,O


EDS, COUNTRY GENTLEMAN:- Il notice
in your issue of the 22d inst, page 1879,
an article headed Extra Cow" some re-
marks made by one of your correspond
ents, in relation to an article by my
brother, Dir Newell, in your number of
March Slh, in reference 10 my grade AL
derney cow, Lady Nellie, ayerring that
there must have been some mistake in
his figures, and Discrepancy us to her yield
of butter during the eleven months and
two days, and suggesting that it would be
well to revise the count. The following
is u copy of my statement in regard to her,
when exhibited ut the State + ,ir, held ut
Waverly, N. j., in September, 1876, when
she took the first prize OF $50;
" CRUDE jersey Tor AlderneyJC o~, Lazy
NclIie.-She has produced in 337 consec'
utive days, or II months and 2 days, g.
SS4 quarts of milk, by measure, being an
average of 14.49 quarts of milk per day,
or 111.43 quarts Of milk per week, and
23-l6 pounds, or 80 o., of mcrchantabe
butter from II quarts of milk, which is an
average of 20.3l pounds of butter per week
for the 337 days Exhibited by John w.
Newell, New Brunswick, N. D.
And | might have adde that POSI-
pounds per week is equivalent to 91I12
pounds of butter for that period.
Accompanying that statement was the
following affidavit by her previous owner,
Alex. b. Steele now residing at No 4l6
Carlton ave, Brooklyn, N. Y, but for
merly an old resident of this place, where
he has u well established reputation for
truthfulncss and integrity
"That he was formerly the owner of the
grade Alderney cow, Lady Nellie" while
II resident of the said city of New Bruns
wick, and that the said cow is now owned
by Col John w. Newell Of said city, and
that during said ownership he took from
the said COW from June 2Sth to the sue
ceeding June LIST, a period OF three hun
bred and hirty-seven days, four thousand
eight hundred and eighty-lour (49S4)
quarts of milk, and that The said quantity
of milk WAS asccrtaincd by strict mea,ue
ment on every Saturday during the said
period of time, and that the said Saturday S
measurement was taken rs the average of
the preceding seven days, and that the
aggregate was computed from the said
weekly measurements, and that the same
was recorded at the time of said measure
ments, in book kept for that purpose,
and that the average daily yield was four
teen and forty-nine one.hundredths IA
40 1907 quarts.
And the deponent further upon his oath
saith that ut the time when he ceased to
keep the record us aforesaid, that the said
Lady Nellie' gave on that day nine (9)
quarts of milk.
And the deponent also further upon his
oath saith that during the period of time
before mentioned that he devoted II por-
tion Of the milk taken from the said
Lady Nellie - for the purpose of making
butter, and that he obtained from twelve
(l2) quarts of said milk, two pounds and
three ounces e 3-l6) of butter, which is
equivalent to twenty and thirty-one one
hundredlhs pounds GO 31-l0U per week,
and that the said butter was weighed al
ter ii was washed and thoroughly worked,
fit for use and merchantable."
Lady Nellie came in on the Goth Of
April, 1876, and yesterday she gave ten
quarts Of milk, not having been ut pasture
since the summer of 1875.
On several occasions within the past year.
have-without any special experience OF
facilities-obtaned two pounds of butter
from twelve quarts of her milk. HeI
weight is about 800 pounds, and by any
one not an expert, would be taken for Il
thoroughbred COW. have Il close account
of all the feed she has required, and u rec
ord of every milking during the time ]
have owned her.
am still her owner, and she can bt
seen in this city at any time by any one
who may take sufficient interest to call fol
that purpose. j. W NEWELL.
New Brunswick, N. j., March IS, 1877
REMARKS. We have had occasion sew
eral times to speak of "eStjnlateS and o
conditions and uncertainties in trials oil
COWS with u view of ascertaining thC
amount of milk and butter they woulc
yield, and always considered estimates un
satisfactory, because uncertain. Who
knows now whether justice was done The
COW Lady Nellie or notP We learn from
the sworn affidavit of her former owner
that Saturdays milkings were taken II
the average of the week, and Saturday il
not much of a day for milk any way. w
think it is, Mr.. Arnold, or possibly Mr.
Lewis, who said he had known q COW t.
shrink twenty per cent of her milk from
being worried by a dog, and we ostimat,
the number of dogs in New Brunswick t.
be two hundred, which would give NJ
average of about four dogs per week
Again, it is well known that neat to Il dog
small boy will worry u cow the mos
thoroughlyi Prest. Mason doesn't hold t.
sending dogs or boys after his COWS, anC
says they will not show as much cream b,
ten per cent when so driven. Now oh
serve-Saturday is holiday in the schools
and we estimate the number of boys il
New Brunswick to be eight hundred
which gives dog to every four boys, ant
being holiday of course the COW wa
worried, and twenty per cent should b.
added to the amount of milk she gave
making the total $3.50 quarts.
We once had COW that made IS ounce
of butter from four quarts of milk, which
shows the COW Lady Nellie was laboring
under some disadvantage of bull-dozing
when she gave only about two-thirds ~
much; so adding the estimated loss o
cream to the probable yield of milk W,
get the amount of the probable yield ~
l465 67.l00 pounds, which is something
more like.
And yet there will be some old fogies SC
criminally skeptical as to doubt the accu
racy of these figures and estimates, forget
ting that figures can't lie, and would pre-
fer the actual weight of each and every
mess of milk, and the butter made of it, as
Lo;on, n m orn norTnct nj nd nnrtain chouino n.