The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19
For the Consideration of Dairymen.

Conrad Wilson in recent articles on
the American dairy presents several
points of interest for the consideration
of practical farmers with view to in
creasing the value of the dairy as
source of food. He calls attention to
the total number of mich COWS as
given in the last census report for the
whole country, at that time nearly 49,
100000 head, which at the usual rate of
increase will give for the present de-
cade an average of 100000. As
Stunning the annual yield of milk from
these COWS to average 5000 pounds
each, which in Mr. Wilson's opinion is
q result entirely attainable, this would
give a total of more than 100000
tons of milk per year.
Mr.. Wilson estimates the total annual
yield of corn slower in its various forms
at not less than 120,000,000 tons, and
assumes that if this entire product
were converted into milk under right
conditions of feeding it would amount
to 6O,OO0,0O0 tons per year. In word
he considers the stalk crop has larger
influence on the increased supply of
milk, butter and cheese than is gen
of breeds, Mr.. Wilson does not hesitate
to pronounce the Holsteins as outrank-
ing all others in milk and the JERSEYS
no less supreme in regard to butter,
and compares few of the best yearly
rates of productions in substantiation
of the statement. In milk yields of
Holsteins an aggregate of 1871
pounds of milk for ten cows is given,
or an average of 1871 pounds year
for each. Heading the list is 1904
pounds, the record for the imported
COW Aaggia, of Syracuse, N. Y. An.
aggregate of Sc, 966 pounds year for
five cows of other breeds is given, or
an average of 1000 pounds per year
for each COW.
In butter yields an aggregate of 6,070
pounds of butter for ten Jerseys is Civ
en-, making an average of COZ pounds
per COW. In comparison with these
figures is an aggregate of 1857 pounds
of butter for five COWS of different
breeds, making an average of 473
pounds per cow. The rates of produc-
ton employed are claimed to be the best
known for the various breeds under con-
sideration.
The percentage of butter found in the
milk of different COWS varies materially
according to the breed, the quality of
food, etc., ranging from four quarts of
milk to twelve or more for one pound
of butter.
Many successful examples are given
by Mr.. Wilson of milk yield per day,
of the products of two-year-old heifers,
remarkable instances of duration of the
milking period, the butter yield per
week, ETC., to prove the possibilities of
the American dairy, as well as to show
the real progress made by some farmers.
While pedigree is a very essential ell
ement in the value of cows, Mr.. Wilson
believes it no less true that grade ami
mails in a well-managed dairy can be
made as rule, quite as productive as
thoroughbreds, and often more so. He
says: "Yet this does not at all imply
that the latter can be dispensed with,
for we cannot have good quality of
grades without good strain of bloodto
start from. While it is conceded that
pedigree is one of the factors in the val
ne OF good cow it is not by any means
the only factor. Maximum results in
the dairy are not the sole outcome of
any single condition. They depend not
merely on the capacity and breed of the
COW, but also and equally on the intelli-
gence and good management of the
owner, and what is equally true but sell
dom considered even the capacity of
the COW is itself to large extent the
product of human skill.
Vermont has two women acting as
mail carriers.