Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-03-21

-M usY-
80 ~ suec-
essary to shoH the -, sun
der consideration.
Whether a cows milk islSeSllyItted Tor
making butter or cheese, or any other pur-
pose, is largely determined by inheritance,
as is also the amount she will give; the
economy with which she Will produce II
/ from her food, and the effect it will have
upon the animal. 1t has been sseertalned
by careful experiments that the Ayrshire
cows milk is rich in all the qualities which
constitute good milk, butter and casino,
and the cream, or fatty part, Is ln sIen
form (smaH globules, We are taught, that
4 N remains for long time ditfused through
the whole mass. Hence its adaptation 70
/ cheese manufacture; for to hold this fat IN
1.-THE cheese and have none rise on the whey
has ever been the problem with the cheese
i.maker, and in direct proportion to his sue
] cess in holding this substance has been ms
4success in makings rich, soft, clean-fa-
4 Wsred cheese.
! For family use Ayrshire milk IS well
! iaaanked. 1t never acquires the blue color
attEihuted to skim milk, fit stands ever so
dong. It is a milk Of good body, holding
! its cream suspended in the mass, and when
I the cream has arisen it is easily mixed
with the milk again. -I .--
The aualitg Of the milk being settled as
satisfactory, we come to the quantity, and
here. for the amount of food consumed the
AYRSHIRE is admitted TO have no rival. She
cannot make milk without food, but the
oryans of digestion, assimilation and secre-
tfoa are such that the teod is worked up
most perfectly in this DIGESTION. The test
of a eew is not alone which COW will give
the most On seanty pasture, bEt also which
will respeRd most freely when full fed.
Aud this brings us to the ever sgstated
| question of giving corn meal and lotRsf
rich food 10 milk COWS. Some claim thst
it dries up their COWS, and others ma re-
/ suit quite to the con trary. Our common,
or native cows, differ in every degres IN Ii
this particular. We are not surprised ~
I the good or poor mixers tnSS We I'M NJ
among them; at those tdat increase eue
milk by an increase Of feed, ana 81 mise
that dry up from 1t. Vita the AyrsnlTe'
as a rule, we find that she responds IN the
pail to the amount and quality OF her Ieed.
have noticed this in particular IN my own
herd. cannot dry them of upon .an IN
1 crease Of feed. I sold two Ayrshire COWS
| to p. A. Beardsley, of Andover, last sPElHg.
1 He tells me that they gave more milk tRaF
any other COWS in his diary, and it was Al
most impossible to dry them up. They
had MIXED themselves down poor and ne
wished to get them in condition for next
season by feeding grain, but could not, IS
it increased their milk.
l designed to have kept complete rec
ord Of my own herd the past season, but
c circumstances and grasshoPPers were
apainst me, so that / only partially sue
Gee ded. will give it as far as kept it:
Jupiter 4th, two years old, gave ia April
940I( pounds of milk; SIX pounds pei
day fClr the month; and in four months
3.234 pounds, % pounds average per day.
Dairynaan's FavOrite, when twenty days
over two years old, had given 2,S76 pORads
an average OF 251S pounds Per day sos
three months. Tbbie, five years old, gsge
/ IN six months, commencing April SOtR,
| X 53S pou.nds: average over S25S pounds
per day. She is now giving 1e pounds pei
| day. and has given since April sOth, 6sO1
| pounds Of milk. She was IN very lo loe
/ condition when she came IN, having peer
! shipped over six hundred miles WlIno9
| feed or W ai;er, few days preYlous. I'M
| is all the record have kept. and these ar
| INV best ones. lam comparatively new II
| the business. and have not obtained so taV
orable resul Is as some others OF more eA
/ perience.
Mr.. Z. lie wis Sturtevant gives com
plete record OF his herd OF both natives an an
| Ayrshires. will give the footiRgs Win
out details: 81 Ayrshire COWS gave ~ 10 ON on
year, 46, 1876 pounds more milk than oe y. y.
lives i'm the same time. The average ~
three wears. when natives were kept' va
4 569 bounds per head. When AyrsnlIs lIs
v1ore dept for 1--WE years. the average va va
kss. a a ilferencs OF 1,026 per COW IN = =
~ ~ 'l,e, ts'-sSie w y, y, HWlEi , 1Et9s.