Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-10-02

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We thus find individual cows of great excel
lence in any breed which has been used in
the dairy for generations, as we'll as other
individuals of pure quality, and we are ena-
bled to determine which ones are large milk
ers by external signs of structure. The
popular appreciation OF this fact of heredity
is evidenced by the generally favorable opin-
ion of the Ayrshire breed as of large milk
ing capacity and the difference of opinion
as to the milking quality of Shorthorns. In
the one case, a breed kept and reared for
milk, and milk in large quantity the recog-
nized product in the other case, a breed
kept and reared either for milk principally
or for beef purposes, and hence opinions
modified according to the character of the
breeding which is under observation. The
average yield of the sO-called native cow,
although she has been subject to. years of.
unconscious selection and often, times care,
full selection in her breeding, cannot be in,
excess of 1880 quarts yearly for the best
dairy regions of America, although 4ndivid-.
ual selection by good.farmers may increase
the average yield of first-class herds to 1900
quarts annually /; the highest average re-
suits we can figure for single years being
about thirteen quarts per COW. The Ayr
shire breed has. however, been bred for.
milk, and as a consequence the yield OF av-
erage herds can be placed at about two
thousand quarts !; Of superior herds $500
quarts and at 5000 quarts even per cow per
year. AS we near countries where breed
ing is carried on for the purpose of milk, we
there find but small yields. The wild COW
yields but sufficient for the use of the calf;
among the table lands of Columbia, where
the cattle are but partially domesticated, it
is only by allowing the calf to run with the
mother by day that a small quantity of
milk can be obtained at, night. Among the
Damaras of South Africa a first-rate animal
rarely gives more than wv or three pints
daily, and then only in the presence of her
calf. The small cows of, Brittany, on the
other hand, have yielded, as average for
five diaries, including 81 cows, l,243 quarts
in a year a dairy Of the small Kerries III
Ireland reports 1887 quarts for an annual
yield the Waushakum herd Of medium
SlZCu AyTSIlICS Ill NlStSSdCIuSClLSs dS dI dS-
erage for 13 animals, yielded 2,812 quarts
per COW in 1872; the herd of six at the New,
Jersey Agricultural College, of heavier ami
NAL under high feeding, averaged, 2,258
quarts per COW in 1872. The heavy Fries
land and Dutch breeds, 1,45e pounds, in the
neighborhood of Harlem, an excellent pas
ture, are stated by DR.. Starting, Inspector Of
Dutch agricultural schools to average 3,1SS
quarts per COW per year. The Individual
range of cows varies exceedingly. We offer
for maxima in this country-Ayrshires,
weighing 900 pounds, 9,593.pounds milk, iii
Scotland, 1896 pounds /; Shorthorn, weigh
ing 1,4O0 pounds, II, 7O5 pounds milk Hol-
stein, weighing 1a225 pounds II ,6sl pounds
milk cross between Holderness and Dur
ham. weighing 1880 pounds. ILLS pounds
milk grade Shorthorns 1O,757. pounds
milk.-Sc,entyfc american.
THE WORLDS CATTLE SUPPLY.