Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-05-16

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In Vol. /, the cow Blanche, owned ny
". $. Dezeng, Geneva, New York, for SIN
wears. when fresh usually gave twelve
quarts of milk three times a day. Her but
tor one season. for six weeks, averaged tour
teen pounds, two ounces per week. Lacy
Althrop, same volume, lam of Crearnpot
owned by J. r. Sheaf, Duchess county
New York, gave thirty quarts a Gay lol
several months. in succession.
In Vol. IL we find the cow Ruby, oWnec
by George Vail, was the first prize milk
cow al the New York State fair OF lso0
having made from June 10th to 10th, anc
from August 10th to Goth, u period OF TWEEN
tv DAYS. forty pounds and two ounces Of
butter; her feed being grass only, and or
the same feed, gave, during the same sea.
son. in eighty days, (40oH1) four thousand
and nine and a halt pounds of milk. In ia
yorable weather she has made WI and one
half pounds Of butter Il day.
In Vol. LII will be found the following
Eunice Second, dam of Eunice Fourth
property of George Vail, Troy, N. Y, gave
thirty-tour and a half quarts per day, and ir
seven days wade nineteen and a half pounds
of buttel. The COW Flora, (dam of Guy
l442, property Of r.. Baker, Elyria, Ohio.
was tested for milk and butter for the State
fair, in 1871. Ten days in July she gave
$50 pounds of milk, and made 'twenty-one
and a fourth pounds of butter. A test o
every ten days through the season, showed
that she gave ten thousand four hundrec
and tifty-two Q0,452) pounds of milk, ano
made 445 pounds and seven ounces of but
ter daily average OF milk, $50 pounds, OF
butter. one and a half pounds. And tc
come down still nearer the present date, {
find in Vol. x, the COW, Maid of ,Athol.
gave during the season of 1873, twelve thou
sand eight hundred and seventy-ftpe o.
500 pounds of milk, and made 5l3 pounds
of butter. Her largest yield of milk i'll one
day was 54} pounds, and OF butter in ten
days, 2l4 pounds.
Any one who will carefully study the re
corded milking and butter making capaci-
ties of Shorthorns, need have no further
doubt of their superior excellence for the
dairy, as we'll as the butchers block. !
know Of several cows OF my vicinity. that
will put a gain Of 100 pounds,pe month on
their calves, till they are six or seven
months old, and, although they have never
been tested at the pail, they must be milk
ers of no mean quality. [ haye a COW at
this time, with a heifer calf seven months
old. which, [ think, will weigh 600 pounds,
and although she is still sucking, she is not
able to take all Of her mothers milk.
deem it of the greatest Importance that we
should use every effort to continue, and al
so improve the milking qualities of our
cows, for when we come to reflect that a
careful analysis will show about :lle same
amount of the elements necessary to sus-
tain human life, in a c quart Of good milk, as
is contained in a pound OF good beef, and
then consider that 4 gOOa COW will yield, on
the same amount OF feed, at least twenty
quarts of milk to where we can get one
pound of beef, we begin to have some ap-
probation Of the value of a good dairy COW.
would say in conclusion, that as the
is the best feeder and digester Of
food, of all our donesticated cattle, as the
more a COW consumes, the less per cent. of
it is required to repair the waste OF the sys-
and as q COW is but a machine for
manufacturing feed into milk and butter, |
conclude that The Sliorthorn, which is emf
nently the best of all cattle for beef, is also
second to none for the dairy.
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