Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-06-19

One pair IL months old........., 100 1O2OO
One pair 23i months od.......... 2Ii0 16i4O
zone COW seven years old, MIXED up to
the day of her sale (and she paid her keep
ing as a farrow COW the day she was sold),
live weight, sixteen hundred and sixty
pounds $50 she dressed ten hundred and
fifty-fve pounds. One calf twelve months
old, nine hundred pounds, Si5. One COW
yielded in butter in twelve months five hum
bred and four pounds, which sold for S23i5O
One cows butter, twelve months, was six
hundred and thirty-three pounds, S2l1. The
feed of this COW was twenty pounds of hay
per day (about seven pounds to feed, fed
morning, noon and night and four quarts of
potatoes at morning and at night in addi-
ton to the hay. The first fourteen days we
churned forty-two pounds of butter, that is,
three pounds per day. When [ once tried
the experiment of feeding grain to cows in
winter, fed two cows two quarts of meal
morning and evening, which was consid-
cred moderate feed. The result was,
soon had trouble from garget. So left that
off and fed potatoes to mich COWS, and |
have had no garget since.
IF COWS are kept in a stable which does
not freeze, with good running water in a
shed near by, are let out morning and even
ing to drink, then put back in the stable
again and fed regularly every day, they will
keep fat, and the butter will be as yellow in
winter as in summer, without any patent
the fall or winter, more butter can be made
than on pasture in summer. The reason is
that if a COW is fed twenty pounds of hay,
cut by the middle of June, and a peck of
potatoes Qour quarts morning and four
quarts evening" per day, she will eat it all
up, and then, if comfortable and warm, will
quietly ruminate and digest the whole. After
nine o'clock in the evening the COWS will
have finished chewing their cuds, and then
they go to sleep, as we do. The food goes
to milk and flesh the COW is kept fat, and
that enriches the milk, which thus makes as
yellow butter in winter as in summer.
"The COW that made forty-two pounds of
butter in fourteen days, and six hundred
and thirty-three pounds in twelve months,
had twenty pounds of hay per day, that was
cut the middle of June, and four quarts Of
potatoes morning and evening in addition.
That treatment produced the above result,
and the COW was good beef all the time. |
have just weighed that COW, and she will
have been MIXED two years the first of Feb
ruary next, and her weight is one thousand
two hundred and twenty pounds. She is of
about medium size. / have four-year-old
heifer whose weight is one thousand five
hundred and seventy pounds. They both
pay well for their keeping. The old COW,
since the twelve months-reckoned up to Feb
ruary LIST last-in which she made the sixty
three pounds, has averaged more than one
pound of butter per day to the end of De
cember.
"The cows are natives. The first one
bought at five years old, and she had been
kept poorly, and my treatment brought her
up to do what she did at nine years old--five
hundred and four pounds of butter in twelve
months. | raised the one that made six hun
dred and thirty-three pounds in twelve
months. She had been good beef ever since she
was calf, | thus account for the difference of
one hundred and twenty-nine pounds in the
two COWS. 1t is the treatment of cows more
than the breed. There is many COW, which
naturally gives good flow of milk with a
good, rich cream, which can be brought up
to the yield of these COWS, and perhaps be
yond them. think there are such cows"