The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-19
OUR FARM BUDGET.
i JERSEY Cows Remarkable Yield
Rob's Fruit Farms
New Method of Preserving Grapes
-Eon,e Simple Truths-The
Age Of Trees.
EsssA0Gs of Preserving EGSs-E.emedT IN
Chicken ChOlera-HOusehOld Hats
Farm Notes, Etc.
A jersey Cows Remarkable Yield.

Philadelphia ReeOrd.l
That COW should produce So pounds aud
12I{ ounces of butter salted and reidy for
She market in seven days is scarcely to be
credited, and yet such is the Official test of
the JERSEY COW Mary Anne Of st. Lamberts,
owned by Mr.. Delaney Fulie, OF Hanl.
ton, Ont. The test was not made by her
owner, but under the direction OF com.
nlittee OF experts appointed by the Jersey
cattle breeders, and the COW was placed
entirely in their possession for the
period of one week. On the morning of Sep
TENDER %. at $50 a. M, the COW was MIXED
dry, and the first milking for the test was
done at $50 p. n. of the same day, the COW
being MIXED regularly at $50 in the morn
ing and at the same hour in the evening of
each day during the week of the test. The
milk was locked in creamer and the look
sealed, except at such times as it was person
ally attended to during the several processes
to which it was subjected. The milk was so
rich that one of the committee stated that it
had the appearance Of being entirely cream.
The milk was ehurned twice during the
week, each churning consisting Of seven
milkings. The first churning required
one hour and quarter from the time the
milk went into the churn to the time at
which it was gathered, and the product in
butter was II pounds and Z ounces, IN
salted, but worked. The second churning
was done IN one hour and five minutes pro.
ducing Is pounds and III ounces of I'm.
salte butter, the total amount of unsslted
butter in seven days being IS pounds and
- l.
The proportion OF one ounce Of salt to each
pound Of butter, and the butter revoked.
the first churning producing II pounds and
II ounces OF sailed and reworked butter,
while the second churning produced 10
pounds AZ ounces, or q total Of SO pounds
and 1214 ounces Of sailed butter ready for
market.
This famous COW will be six years old next
March, and dropped her last calf in July.
During the test the committee allowed her
owner to feed her as he deemed best. At the
beginning OF the test her daily allowance
had been twenty quarts ground oats, ten
quarts pea meal, three quarts ground oil
cake, two quarts wheat bran, or total of
thirty-fve quarts of ground feed, aud this
was increased to fifty quarts per day during
the test the composition, however, being
varied. a few roots, cabbage and apples
were also allowed. Her appetite was always
good and she was fed from five to seven
times day. She was allowed, also, the
privilege Of q scanty clover pasture. The
total amount of milk yielded was 245 pounds,
Or at the rate OF thirty-iive pounds per day.
The yield of unsalted butter was fraction
over five pounds per day. Seven pounds of
milk about three and one-half quarts) pro.
duced one pound Of butter, and, as the COM
mittee stated, the milk was, therefore, ex-
ceediDgly rich in cream.
There are several matters connected with
this test to which We wish to call attention.
First, that the COW had an excellent appe-
tite, and was capable of assimilating her
food. Although the amount consumed was
enormous, yet she fulfilled the same service
that would have been required OF several
ordinary cows. She is a costly animal in
one respect, for at the rate of fifty pounds of
food daily she used $50 pounds during the
week, bat every ten pounds of food produced
one pound OF butter, without estimating the
butttrmilk, which possesses a certain value.
She is economical, however, from the fact
that she enables her owner to dispense with
the extra room, care and attention that
must be bestowed en- q number OF COWS In
order to Get the same results as we're derived
from her. II will be noticed that the first
chGIning did not give as much butter as the
second, nor was the time of churning the
same, although she was treated in the same
manner as at the beginning. Here We con-
cIude that no aver age can be made as to the
ability Of an animal to produce a certain
amount Of butter for stated periods, yet the
quantity OF milk used at each churning was
nearly the same. Estimating the thirty-six
pounds and twelve and one-fOurth ounces of
butter at thirty cents per pound, we have
about Sl1, while the cost of feed may be
placed at about one cent a pound, thereby
yielding large profit.