Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

n year. Another fine bull was sired by
"PromOter," considered the best animal
ever bred in the vicinity, in Holland,
where he was dropped. Promoters grand
dam, Lady GrOot second, gave over one
hundred pounds of milk in one day, and
he also was awarded sweepstakes pre-
MUM in North Holland in competition
with about thirty bulls. AnOt her fine
which stands at the head of GOV. smiths
herd, a winner of prizes in North Holland,
France and America. Other blood repre-
sented in Mr.. Houghton's animals is that
of 'TeNelaar," Il remarkably fne cow
which gave in nine weeks four thousand |
and eighteen pounds of milks, and six !
days milk gave seventeen pounds, four
teen ounces of butter. Probably Mr.. |
Houghton's is the finest exhibit of young |
bulls ever made by any single individual
in New England. Colvin x Green, Rut- |
land, show two good bulls.
The HOlSteinS are large, heavy cattle, |
deep mixers as II rule, and some families
have been bred for butter, but it is not
usual to find the extreme flow of milk
coupled with the greatest yield OF butter:
and as producers of milk, and good
carcass for beef, we think the reputation
of the l1olsteins will chiefly rest.
Ayrshires.
There are three fine herds of Ayrshires,
and first in line and as good as any in eN-
cellence is that of l.. :. Drew of Burlng-
ton, numbering eighteen head. Mr..
Drew's cattle show great care and skill i'll
breeding, resulting in remarkable unfor-
nifty, and of eight calves shown, one
could scarcely be distinguished from an
other, if "mlxed up like the babies in
Pinafore. Mr. Drew's cows have been
bred for butter, some showing high per
centage of cream.
Alex Fisher & Son, Buer Hill farm, Rut-
land, show good herd, no fancy breeding
and not suggesting the care and pains
taken with some of the other herds, but
good, serViceable, everyday dairy cows
c. NJ. Winslow, Brandon, secretary of
the Ayrshire club, shows herd of nine
: teen animals of various ages and Kinds,
handsome cattle. He handed us Il record
of his herd, by which it seems he has fol-
lowed the excellent practice of weighing
the milk of each cow every milking. 1hlS
record gives the wei"ht of the COW as well
Y as of their milk, and the average weight
of cows is llOl pounds, and the yearly
average weight of milk Of cows and he'll
! ers for five years is 6329 pounds. Elght
" animals of the "ROSe" family gave, last
i year, an average of over 1000 pounds OF
T. milk. One thing in Mr.. Winslow's clrcu-
4 lar we highly commend, in this period
\ when such extraordinarily high breeding
- with its disastrous results, Is 50 common
IL
, others in breeding. Mr.. WinsloW says
"No attempt has been made to discover
what any of them would give from an in
creased system OF feeding above what Is
: deemed necessary for the highest condl
n ton of health for Il breeding herd, ant
= these records are valuable, or interesting
II only in showing what the Ayrshire COW
a will do in term of years with moder
. ate amount of wholesome food, such rs !:
V necessary and profitable for any common
. dairy of cows" This is common sense IL
e solid chunks for every breeder in Yer
L mont
e f. W. Paris, Fairfax, shows goo'
e herd of which one might say much thu
$, same as of Messrs. Fishers's good, every
IS day, business cows, which would no doub
n give better results with better Keeping
d Such cattle are as safe to buy as thos
,r which have been pampered and over-ted
: Jerseys.
J. f. ID. GriswOld, Orwell, shows herd O
:. nine head, at the head of which stand
X his well-knOwn bull, Champlain, the wiz
Y, ner of this societies highest award thre
T. years ago, and Il fine bull he is. Soil
ne fawn in color, good barrel, handsom
Is head. and tracing in direct line, throug
ne Welcome, Noble and Sultan to Prince {
u Wales bulls well-knOWn to every Jerse
breeder and on his dams side to Gran
e, Duke Alexis and Rob Roy, equally celt
1T brated animals. All his female ancestr
II, for three generations, except one NJ
tr tested, are in the li-pound class Lad
lis Aspinwall. six years old, is Il fine COW,
persistent mixer milking the year rounC
"Rocliwood Maid in an unfavOrab
trial gave - pounds and A. ounces {
u butter III seven days, two days milk shov
Is ing at the rate of ISL handsome heir,
~ is Doestlcks Bell, whose dam Brighteye
,tr 81 pounds in week. Mr.. Griswold's hel
~ shows careful breeding, and Champlain
III calves are very uniform and strongly +
!" semble their sire. This herd took Il
nd first prize at the Washington county,
VI y, fair, two years ago, besides which II
,ct society presented the owner with han
dS some gold badge.
ha +. Burge, Shoreham, shows four hea
Nc NJ, one two-year-old and one yearling bu
49, the latter sired by Champiain, and OF
IN calf sired by Stake Pages Perfectlon
~ the same strain OF blood as the famol
Va Mary Anne of St Lambert, which mac
rd &c pounds, 1919 ounces of butter in sew,
m. days.
IN IN Dr. w. 5. Webb, Burlington, shows II
.rd fine bull, Midas of Oxford, sire Stal
ne Pages, and has two crosses of Rioter al
rt four of Pedlar, and on his dam 5 side ira
'oN ing to Maggie and Brenda
fi9S j. w. Leonard, Barre, shows nine hea
,Is i one bull whose dam, Blanche 5, we kno
ro ,o as making over fourteen poundsper wee
SsG ana one COW, Flora p, has given for
-be pounds of milk per day and made TWEEN
~, pounds of butter per week.
~, j. G. Sherbur Pomtret, has two han
~ some yearly heifers, and also two buI
ar of the
ci' Guernsey
re-
in blood, both of which have been shov
zen here and taken prizes before >.
in Weston, Wnooski, shows twelve head
. this breed, and they look like rich mike
md whose butter yield would be of eXcelle
ar color.
DevOns
tll are shown 10y George f. Davis, Winds
nj and Cuburn X Green, Rutland, the lati
VI" showing pain of as handsome four-ye
= - old oxen as we ever saw, nicely match
- and weighing about $500 pounds y
is;; Davis's herd is fine one, and their brig
'ea red color makes them of uniform beat
,,'a in appearance,
one A novelty we never have seen on
III Vermont society's grounds before is the
ven Galloways
l5iS shown nv f. n BiSSell Shoreham Tn