Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-04-02

THE ELLMS COW.
Jersey Belle or Scituate (TS2Sl, better
known as ''the Films COW, is a H. r. Jer-
sey, bred by Mr.. E. D. Sohier. Boston,
Mass, and owned by Mr.. C. o. Films,
Scituate, Mass. She was dropped July
10, 1871. Her color is yellow fawn and
white. She weighs in her prime $50
pounds. She came in at two years old,
and her milk, churned with that of an
other COW, so increased the amount of but
ter and deepened its color, as to impress
her owner that she was a superior heifer.
Next year she calved while the other COW
was dry, and by churning her milk by it
self, its remarkable richness, though am
pie in flow, was discovered and led to sub
sequent tests from time to time. She had
her fourth calf, February %, 1877, and
her test for year commenced March 5,
from which date her milk was set and
churned separately. For one year, ending
| with March 4, 1878, she was fed one quart
of corn meal per day throughout the year,
running at grass in summer, and having
hay and fodder in the winter. The first
day her milk made 3 pounds 6 ounces of
butter, and the three following days gave
pounds 9 ounces the week, 81 pounds
5 ounces, and eleven days made 80 pounds.
For five months she averaged 10 pounds
per week. To August lst she had made
400 pounds of butter to September 1st,
472 pounds ; to October 1st, $50 pounds !;
to January lst, 1878, her yield was G52
pounds. During January she averaged
one pound of butter day until near the
close, and up to March 9Th, one year from
the commencement of the test, she had
made 705 pounds. She calved again May
10, 1878, and during seven days Of that
month made her largest score for single
week, viz : % pounds l3 ounces, but did
not go higher any one day than } pounds
ounces. which she had done the year be-
fore Her flush yield of milk does not go
above A pounds per day, which shows an
extreme richness.
1t will be observed that the animal is
not large, nor has she been highly fed,
her great product being mainly owing to
the extraordinary richness of her milk.
Two other cows of the same breed are re-
ported, one of which gave a yield under a
heavy feed of 3 pounds ounces per day,
and the other % pounds G ounces in
week.
OF other kinds of stock, notice is made
of Short Horn COW weighing 200
pounds which i'll six consecutive days
made 19l pounds of butter on grass alone
equal to % pounds II ounces per week.
Another, the Scott COW Of this State, made
on hay and grass alone 50i pounds in a
year.
To these might be added the full blood
Jersey cows Lady Milton and Cream Pot,
the former of which made 2i9 Is pounds
of butter in three months, and the latter
239 45 pounds in the same time less six
days.
With these recorls, and many more
similar ones might be added, the writer
thinks the standard for good butter cows
should be 400 pounds per annum.
1t seems evident from the foregoing
that the possibilities of our dairy stock
have not yet been reached, and our
opinions on that point need modifying
The high price of butter which now pre-
walls and which, with one exception,
has prevailed for long time, should be
sufficient inducement for giving more at
tention to the subject.
The present average Of our dairy stock
is probably not 100 pounds per annum
Cows whose product is 200 pounds. are
not very common and wherever owned
are Justly held at high prices.