Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-26
#eek1g gntelligenfer,
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
soME COWS.
From the Prairie Farmer.


The question has been asked us,
"Whet amount of butter ought q
good COW to produce in a year"
Al COW that will make 200 pounds
of butter i'll a season is u fair one.
The skim milk of such a COW, fed to
thirty pigs, will make 200 pounds OF
dressed pork. A COW that will do
this will pay the dairyman. but he
should strive 10 improve his herd so
that every COW will make a better
record than this.
The dairy stock of the country is
steadily improving. 1t is a matter
of necessity SO far as the profits OF the
dairy are coucerued. AS an evidence
of what may be accomplished, we
give the we'll authenticated records OF
some remarkable cows. 1t is not
claimed that entire herds of dairy
cows may be produced to equal these
remarkable mixers, but such M
stances show that a vast improvement
in that direction can be made.
The "Oakes COW" has a trial ecord
showing that her milk yielded six
teen pounds of butter per week. from
Nav 18th to December 20 following,
besides furnishing o quart OF mink
daily to the family. This was in 1916.
The COW is described as being OF
moderate size. with q straight back I,
q ine clean head, broad hips, with
milk veins and udder of the bes:
form and capacity. There is nothing
to show how much improved blood
entered her composition, but as a
good many shorthorns had been %
ported in the vicinity of Kennebec,
Maine, where she was bred, it is not
improbable that the claim that she
was q high grade is true.
An authentic record is given OF a
COW kept at Lewes, England. In
eight consecutive years she gave all
average of 1.210 gallons of milk per
year. She was MIXED one year for
1928 days, aud gave All aggregate of
1880 gallons from which $40 pounds
! of butter were made. The record
does not state what the breeding OF
this COW was.
A COW belonging to. P. Snyder of
Vineland. N. j., of no particular
breed, hut Indicating, from the de-
scription given of her, a considerable
portion of shorthorn blood, gave i'll
291 days, 5,69S pounds of milk from
which 1856 pounds of butter were
made in 1875. She dropped her calf
again January g., 1876, but her milk
. was not, saved until January 10, aud
from that time until January 10, 1877,
S66 days, she gave 10, 612 pounds OF
! mix. |. The yield of butter from 1916
pounds of her milk was 1896 pounds
sos pounds of milk were sold, which
if made into butter would have raised
the yield to 423 pounds of butter for
the year ; q pound of butter to 25.O4
pounds of milk. She was kept III q
stable and fed 20 pounds of dry hay,
uncut, three quarts of cornmeal and
nine quarts of bran divided into
three feeds per day, with q pint of Oil
meal added.
OF later records the most notable
are the Jerseys Eurotas, Jersey Belle
of Scituate, and Jersey Queen, and
the Hoistein COW Zwaan, the latter
belonging to DIR. Joseph Tettt, OF
Elgin. in this state.
The last named cow, from and III
cluding May IL, 1873, to and includ.
ing March 5, 1879, or 298 days gave
,12,6104 pounds OF milk, or 1,462 4-6s
galiOns- within a small fraction OF
five gallons per day. DIR. Teftt says
it cost $40 to keep her the year, and
the milk brought him an average fol
the year of 10 cents per gallon or 8
fraction over $146 20. The butter
record of Jersey Belle of Scituate
embraced a whole year. At bel
height she produced over twenty-oue
pounds per week, and held an aver
age OF nineteen pounds for the frs
five mouths; at the termination o
her year she had given 7O5 pounds o
butter and the figures showing th'
amount of butter produced by Euro
tas slightly exceed these. THIS COW
produced 778 pounds and one ounce
of butter in eleven months and 81
days. This is her actual record
Those who had charge Of her say tina
had a full test been Kept the previou
year she would have exceeded thi
record by at least 100 pounds.
The cow Jersey Queen. owned a
Barnett, VT, surpasses these by he
record of last year. She dropped he
fourth calf March 10, 1879, and froI
shat date to March 10, 1880, she mad
TAG pounds of butter beside the crear
used in the family of her then owl
or, and milk sold which, upon inves
tigation, showed that thirty pound
OF butter might justly be added
the figures given.