The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-04-11

The Butter Test Of Princess 2d.-A few
weeks ago in publishing the result ofthe butter test
| of the wonderful COW, Princess I'd, we promised to
| give full particulars of the test when the same
| could be obtained We are now able to do so and
publish below the report of ]. Henry Gest, under
| whose supervision the test was made, to Mr. John
1. Holly, president of the american Jersey Cattle
Club. He says: "Having been appointed by you
to act as committee of the American Jersey Cat
| tie Club in Witnessing the test of the Jersey COW
Princess I'd, S046, owned by Mrs. S. NJ Shoemaker,
of Burnside Park, near Baltimore, Md, respect
fully submit the following report:
"The test began at sos p. m, Sunday evening,
| Feb. I'D, when the COW was MIXED dry in my
presence. The first milking included in the test
was that at a. m, Monday, Feb. 23d, after which
| the COW was MIXED at intervals of light hours,
viz: at a.. M, IL a. m, and p. m. of each day
until the last, Sunday evening, March lst when
she was MIXED at 05 p. m, to correspond with
| the time of the preliminary milking. The dura-
ton of the test thus seven days. to the minute.
The COW MIXED three times day at periods
| of eight hours, because her udder would not hold
| the milk she made in twelve hours.
az was present each of the twenty one milk
ngs, and did not lose sight of the milk until after
| it had been placed in a nine-can Mosely cabinet
| dreamer. The lid of this creamer, the doors, and
the ventilators were carefully secured each time
by tape and seals firmly affixed to the wood, and
| each stamped with my private seal.
"The cream, on being removed from the dreamer,
was placed in large buckets in a wooden box made
at my suggestion, and this box was likewise sealed
| and stamped. These various seals remained in
| tact, except when broken by me to admit the milk
of each milking or to draw off cream. l was also
present when the cream placed in the churn,
remained while it was being churned, and weigh
ed the unsalted butter, the salt to be added OF.
per lb.,) and finally the sailed butter. The but
ter was worked to my entire satisfaction, exceed
ingy dry, will be in the fact that the salt
when added made almost clear gain. So that,
from the time of milking, until the sailed butter
had been finally weighed, the milk, cream, and
butter were either within my sight, or securely
sealed in the dreamer or box described above.
"The scales on which the butter was weighed
were bought of Fairbanks & Co., for this special
purpose, after having been teste and guaranteed
by them to be accurate by United States ST ndard
The COW was fed at the discretion of Mr.. o. Rick
lefsen. manager of the Burnside Park Herd, the
daily ration being twenty-five quarts ground oats,
fifteen quarts peameal, two quarts linseed oil CAKE
one quart wheat bran total, forty quarts besides
carrots, beets and good clover hay. Her appe-
tite was constantly good; in fact, she seemed
always ready to eat more. The weather during
the test was disagreeable, cold, and snowy, and
intertered somewhat with her daily exercise"
Then follows a table giving the exact hour of
each milking, number of pounds of milk per day,
and the date of churning. Mr.. Gest continues:
"In the table are given the details of the test,
which resulted in total yield in seven days OF
1894 lbs of milk, from which were churned A lbs.
IL or. of unsated butter, which, when sailed at
the rate of one ounce to the pound, gave As lbs.
121 OF. of sailed butter ready for market. The
great gain by sailing is due to the fact that the
unsalted butter worked so very dry that when
the salt was afterward worked in no water or but
termilk appeared in the bowl. 1t should have
been said above that the butter was twice washed
in the churn when in granular form, removing
every trace of buttermilk.
"Princess I'd S049 was calved Feb 22d, 1877,
and was, therefore exactly eight years old when
this test began. She is in color light fawn,
with white on belly white switch, very yellow
skin, has a largo selvedge escutcheon, large,
perfectly formed and very symmetrical udder,
with large teats large and very prominent tor
tuous milk veins Her weight, Mr.. Rcklefsen in
forms me, is 1925 pounds, and she carries no su-
perfuous flesh, being fine in bone and muscle.
"Her last calf was dropped Dec. 3lst, 1884,
seven and half weeks before the beginning of
this test, for which she prepared by six weeks
of high feeding, which so enriched her milk that
during the test only Al lbs of milk were
qured to make pound of butter"
Mr.. Gest in a note to the Breeders Gazette,
says: "In reference to feed no one who has not
fed pea meal can know how it enriches the milk
in butter fat. Princess had fifteen quarts
daily. Were Mr.. Rickefsen willing to run the
risk of another week test firmly believe he could
raise the record of his cow over fifty pounds, for
she never seemed to be receiving all the feed she
would have taken. Though each days cream
was not churned separately, I have good reason
to believe that the last days yield was over seven
pounds"