Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-08-04

those he made only about 1000 pounds OF
butter, or about one hundred and fifty-four
pounds per COW Of twenty-six, allowing one
COW for family use. A few days ago your
correspondent was at his place again and
there he learned not only what improvement
could be made in dairying but also in farm
ing. Mr.. Skinner MIXED last season eleven
cows and nine young heifers after their first
calf, from which he made sold 600i pounds
of butter which, allowing one COW for fam
lily use as before, would leave ten cows and
nine heifers TO make the COCA pounds of
butter, making an average Of three hundred
and sixteen pounds from the nineteen cows
and heifers; or you may reckon the ten cows
at four hundred pounds each, and it would
leave nearly two hundred and twenty-three
pounds for the average of the heifers, which
would be considered large yield for first.
class dairy of old COWS. The grade of his
present stock is nearly full blood Jersey.
Mr.. Skinner has not only made an improve
ment in his stock but also in his farm.
When he purchased his present farm it was
badly run out, the moving land averaging
only about one-haf ton of hay per acre,
and last year his whole moving land cut
over three tons per acre, or more than six
times as much hay on the same ground as it
did when he purchased it few years ago,
which shows that he is not only man of
onparior INDIGNANT in tba oalaotion Of otncb
but a model farmer Any one wishing to
be benefited by his experience can call on
him at his home and he will be pleased to
meet them and relate to them his experience
or listen to the experience of Others
GARDNER $. FAssETT OF ENosBURGH
says "My dairy has done about as in 1878,
or perhaps little better, as the amount of
butter made is somewhat more and the
quantity of grain fed less. Have MIXED
seventeen cows in all, of which two were
two years old, four three years old, and one
farrow; the rest were of mature age. From
these cows were made during the season
seventy-four tubs of fifty pounds each, or an
average of two hundred and eighteen pounds
per COW, that was sold. Considering the
number of heifers, this is certainly good
record, and will show that much above the av-
erage quantity can be made in Franklin
county, with the right kind of cows and care
full management. The cows are mostly high
grade Jerseys-from one-half to sixty-three
sixty-fourths blood, or nearly thoroughbred.
There is one grade Ayrshire and one Dur
ham. These cows were fed hay and nearly
all the straw raised on the farm, with the
addition of two quarts of corn meal each,
from the time of calving until about April
10th, when only one quart was given until
May 10th, after which no meal was fed until
late in the fall, when they were given about
one bushel of soft corn in the ear daily for
the whole herd, and perhaps twenty bushels
of ground oats. One acre of Sanford corn
was also fed green" At the time of writing,
which was in January, Mr.. Fassett had not
ascertained the total amount of receipts for
the butter, but the sales ranged from four
teen to forty cents per pound. Ten calves
WOW iaioShb Woith plOpJ anu hihC
pounds of pork fattened.
oBED wHIPPLE, JR., NORTH PoMFRET,
says; ." wintered last winter seventeen
cows, nine young cattle one year old last
fall, and five calves, also two horses. / feed
my old COWS three quarts of meal aud three
quarts of bran per day, the young cattle two
quarts of each, half in the morning and
half at night the last thing. feed hay
only twice day, or feed none from nine A.
NJ. till three p. NJ. My income is mostly
from butter, some of course from pork and
some from the surplus Jersey stock. In re-
gard to high feeding l think it pays
Cows fed well make more and better butter,
which brings higher price, besides the sat
isfaction of seeing the cows look well and
feel well. The manure is worth double
from animals well fed. | believe in good
feeding, and heavy manuring, and many
other farmers in this vicinity are of the
same faith and practice, as the large new
barns built and building show" Mr.. Whip
pie and his brother, William C., now own
and occupy the farm formerly owned by
their father, Obed Whipple, Esq, each own
ing half of the original farm. This farm,
thirty years ago, kept seventy sheep, yoke
of oxen and four COWS. Now the same land,
in two farms, carries fifty head of cattle and
four horses, furnishing all the forage fed in
winter except some grain, and some young
cattle pastured away from the farm in
summer.