The Penn's Grove record., 1883-10-20

The Butter Record of a Famous
Cow


Eurotas, Bomba and Jersey Belle, Of
Scituate, have become famous for their
butter records, the yields being so large
as to cause many to suppose that the
limit of butter production had been
reached but a new competitor has en-
tered the field, and ''Mary Anne of st.
Lamberts," owned by Mr.. ". E. Fuller,
of Hamilton, Ontario, has surpassed all
others in yield.
This wonderful COW, in a butter test
made under the auspicies of the Cana
dian Jersey Breeders Association, gave
twenty-four pounds and thirteen ounces
of butter in eve days, and for three
days of that time she gave thirteen
pounds and four ounces. Being further
tested, without resorting to the forcing
system (the feed being FIVE quarts of
ground oats, with grass), the yield of
butter was 200 pounds and two and a
half ounces in sixty-two days, or at the
rate of three pounds and six ounces
daily. This yield is remarkable on ac-
count of the length of time in which
she was tested, and as the tests of other
cows have been for one week only, the
test in this case va not entirely a COM
| petitive trial. The milk from this COW
is SO rich that four and a half quarts of
itmake pound of butter, or, by weight,
nine pounds of milk to every pound of
butter. As a usual thing, over twenty
pounds of milk from ordinary COWS are
required to make a pound of butter.
/ Such an animal has proved herself a
lrst-class butter producer, and it is in
teresting to know what she is, from
what strain, and through what channels
have descended to her those qualities so
excellent and remarkable. To state
that she is a Jersey COW is not sufficient,
DIS there are several families now promi-
nent. 1t is best to classify her as u
'Rioter'' COW, since she traces in a
direct line to the Jersey bull Rioter.
Like all the celebrated Jersey cows, she
is somewhat inbred, tracing to Pedlar,
through her sire, Stoke P0gis I'd, in
several directions. Eurotas, another
excellent butter COW, also traces back
In her pedigree to Pedlar. The dam Of
Mary Anne of st. Lamberts, though
from a good family and closely in, bred,
did not possess the Alphea blood, as
did Europa, the dam of Eurotas, but
her sire, Eupper, sired a large number
Of noted cows, and her ~grandsire, Lord
Hangar, was equally as famous. These
animals, though not familiar to many,
are well known to ali good breeders of
Jersey cows.
There is something else to be observed
in relation to this COW in addition to her
famous records, and that is the import
ance of breeding for the best qualities
of an animal, instead of for ''points. I"
1t is true that the mark of the escutch-
con, the soft velvety skin and the large
milk veins are always present in the
best cows, but the minor points of color
were sacrificed in preference to breed
ing from the best butter cows, and the
result has teen that breeders now know
that they a increase the butter yield
by breeding only for that purpose,
selecting the anne family, even if it
compels close in-breeding, the improve
ment being very rapid under such a
system.
Although such cows are perhaps too
high in price for the ordinary ~dairyman,
yet a lesson is taught in the fact that if
one is not familiar with points much
can be done in the matter of improve
ment by judicious selections from our
dairy cows. An advantage may be
gained by starting with a good strain,
but it is well for the dairyman to b.
come familiar with all that pertains to
the breeds, make judicious selections,
observe closely, and although it may
not be an easy matter to derive three
pounds of butter daily from a single
cow, yet the re suits of intelligent effort
on his part will not only be satisfactory
but profitable in the end. One of the
most important objects in good breed
ing is to use thoroughbred bulls only,
for the offspring of the best cows may
be worthless when sired by an inferior
animal.-Phila. Record.
The Seed Test.
\ Professor W. C~aiuthers, Consulting
Botanist to the Royal Agricultural So.
ciety of England, gives in the Mark
i ane Express, the following plan
for determining the terminating power
of seeds.
"Let 200, or 100, or 50-as may be
thought best, of the seeds be counted
out and placed one deep on the surface
of the plate. This plate should then be
placed in a large plate or in a shallow
pan containing about a quarter of an
inch in depth Of water, and over all
there should be inverted another pan,
sufficiently large to entirely inclose the
vessel containing the water. The depth
of water should not be sufficient to
allow of its overfiowing into the plate
containing the seeds. The whole ar
rangement should then be set in a
moderately warm place, and thus the
seeds will be subjected to all the condi-
tions favorable to termination. namely,
air, moisture, darkness and warmth.
The air will circulate freely beneath
the edges of the inverted pan the at
mosphere inside the pan will be quite
saturated with moisture, for evapora.
ton will continually go on from the
surface of the inclosed water; light win
excluded by the inverted pan, and the
temperature of a reg ularly used kitchen
will very well suffice to induce germina-