The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20
HOME, FARM AND RANCH

A Jersey Cows Remarkable Yield.
That a COW should produce 36
pounds and 12M ounces of butter
(salted and ready Tor the market) in
seven days is scarcely to be credited,
and yet such is the official test of the
Jersey COW Mary Anne of st. Lam
bert's, owned by Mr.. Delaney Fuller,
of Hamilton, Ont. The test was not
made by her owner, but under the
direction of a committee OF experts
appointed by the Jersey cattle breed
erS, and the cow was placed entirely
in their possession for the period of
one week. On the morning Of Sep
TENDER %, at 6 a. ~, the COW was
MIXED dry, and the first milking for
the test was done at 6 p. m. of the
same day, the COW being MIXED reg
ularly at $50 in the morning and at
the same hour in the evening of each
day during the week of the test. The
milk was locked in a creamer and the
lock sealed, except such times as it
was being personally attended to dur
ing the several processes to which it
was subjected. The milk was so rich
that one of the committe said it had
the appearance of being entirely
cream. The milk was churned twice
during the week, each churning con-
sisting of seven milkings. The first
churning required one hour and a
quarter from the lime the milk went
into the churn to the time at which
it was gathered, and the product in
butter was IL pounds and IL oonces,
unsalted, but worked. The second
churning was done in one hour and
five minutes, producing Is pounds, ~
ounces of unsalted butter, the total
DAYS being 80 pounds and 34 ounces.
Salt was added to the butter in the
proportion of one ounce of salt to each
pound of butter, and the butter re-
worked, the first churning producing
IL pounds and IL ounces of sailed
and reWorked butter, while the second
churning produced 10 pounds and 4 IL
ounces, or total of 36 pounds and
IL IA 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 COM
mittee allowed her owner to feed her
as he deemed best. at the beginning
of the test her daily allowance had
UcOA GHOAey 4uoA oo SAoonA oesO', W.
quarts pea meal, three quarts
ground oilcake, two quarts wheat
bran, or total of thirty-fve
quarts of ground feed, and this was
increased to fifty quarts per day du-
ring the test. the composition, howev-
er, 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
scanty clover patch. The total
amount of milk yielded was PAS
pounds. OF at the rate of 80 pounds per
day. The yield of unsalted butter was
fraction over five pounds per pay.
Seven pounds of milk (about three and
a half quarts) produced one pound OF
butter, and, as the committee stated,
the milk was, therefore, exceedingly
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 appetite, and was ca
pable of assimilating her food. Al
though 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, but
every ten poundsof food produced one
pound of butter, without estimating
the buttermiIk, which possesses a GER
tain value. She is economical, how
ever, from the fact that she enables
her owner to dispense with the extra
room, care and attention that
must be bestowed on number of
cows in order to get the same results
as were derived from her. 1t viii be
noticed that the first churning did not