St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-28

One COW seven years old, MIXED up
to the day of her sale land she paid her
keeping us farrOw COW the day she
was sold), live weight, sixteen hundred
and sixty pounds, 1888; she dressed ten
hundred and fifty-fve pounds. One
calf twelve months old, nine hundred
pounds, S45. One COW yielded in but
ter in twelve months five hundred and
four pounds which sold for $234.50
One cows butter, twelve months, was
six hundred and thirty three pounds,
S211. The feed of this COW was twenty
pounds of hay per day (about seven
pounds to Il feed), fed morning, noon
and night, and four quarts of potatoes
at morning and at night IN addition 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 even
ing, which was considered a moderate
feed. The result was, 1 soon had trOu-
BILE from garget. So left that off and
fed potatoes to milch cows, and | have
had no garget since.
eff cows are kept in a stable which
does not freeze, with good running wa
ter in shed near by, are let out morn
ing and evening 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 coloring
or carrot juice. If COW calves in the
fall or winter, more butter can be made
than on pasture in summer. The rea-
son is that if a COW is fed twenty pounds
of hay, cut by the middle of June, and
a peck of potatoes -four quarts morn
ing and four quarts EVENING" per day,
she will eat it all up, and then, if CON-
Portable and warm, will quietly rumi-
nate 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.
1.-The COW that made fOrty-two pounds
of butter in fourteen days, and six hun
dred 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. l have Just
weighed that COW, and she will have
been MIXED two years the first of Feb
ruary next, and her weight is one thou
sand two hundred and twenty pounds.
She is of about medium size. have a
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 February first
last-in which she made the sixty-three
pounds, has averaged more than one
pound of butter per day to the end of
December. '9-tA0 ssi-ii''
'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. 1
raised the one that made six hundred
and thirty-three pounds in twelve
months. She had been good beef ever
since she was a calf. l 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 "a good flow of milk,
with good, rich cream, which can be
brought up to the yield of these cows,
and perhaps beyond them. i think
there are such cows"