Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-01-22

and soma few families of the Jersey
and Guernsey breeds, are animals
that are bound to De required for this
purpose. The physicians recognize
the Importance of strong. vital
temperament in the human mother.
and do not see why it does not apply
with equal force to the cows"
TIE purchasers of milk for direct
consumption should always bear in
mind that vitality in milk, which only
healthy and vitality strong cows can
produce, and the substantial BODY of
nutritive solids it contains. are
valuable above all other things. High
color is not necessarily indicative of
these characteristics. Indeed, it is a
question whether high color is a
desirable quality in milk for direct
consumption, any more than it is a
desirable quality in veal or beef.
Doubtless high color arises from the
same causes of constitution. food and
health in the one case as in the other.
Dairymen handling COWS of this
breed do not hesitate to admit that
their milk contains lower percent
age of fat than the milk of Jersey and
Guernsey COWS. But il view of their
enormous production OF milk, they
assert that they average more butter
per COW, and that thsy produce d
larger margin of profit. In Europe it
is largely used, not only in Holland
but in Belgium, Fran GO and Denmark,
| for butter making. It is probable
| that it adds annually to the worlds
product more than any other breed,
and perhaps more than all other
breeds together.
The chief business of the Friesian
dairymen, the originators of this
breed, is butter making tt is not
| possible to ascertain wh8n this was
not their chief occupation, so long
and so continually have they pursued
it. 1t iS of so much Importance to
their country that other kinds of
business prosper or fail with the rise
| and fall Of price, or the increase or
decrease of this single product, butter.
| This business was formerly carried on
IN the families of the farmers with
very imperfect appliances and meth
DDS. Now it is largely carried on in
factories supplied with separa5ors
and other modern appliances.
In America, Holstein Friesian
breeders have not been behind the
breeders of other pure-bred dairy
cattle in making private records with
the churn. But recognizing the un-
reliability of many churn records,
they generally abandoned making
them during the fiscal year, 1894 5,
and have since been making official
records by the use of the Babcock
test.
The Holstein Friesian. Association,
assisted by the different experiment.
stations, has continued this method
OF conducting weekly official tests up
|
Hattering results have followed.
Rosa Bonheur Fifth, in six weeks
test, produced 1876 95 pounds of butter
or daily average of 8 % pounds.
Belle Sarcastic, in six-weeks' test,
produced 1876 ss POUNDS or a daily
average of 1926 pounds.
HouWtje D. in a six weeks test
made 12O65 pounds of butter, or
daily average of 2.S7 pounds.
1t will thus be seen that these three
COWS made an average of three and
twelve one-hundredths pounds of
butter per day for a period of six
consecutive weeks, or fifty-fve one
hnndredths OF pound of butter per
COW per day in excess of the best cow
at the Worlds Fair.
sensational among the fair ground
tests of 1899 was that of a Hoistein-
Frlesian ccw at the London Dairy
snow, Canada. in a forty eight hour
TEST conducted by Professor Dean of
Ontario Agricultural College. This
COW produced 7 pounds of butter fat
Touring this period, a record which has
never been equaled by COW Of any
breed publicly or officially tested.
That the Holstein- Friesian is I'M
approached by any breed of cattle in
the production OF large quantities of
milk, no one will deny. My observa-
lions lead me to believe that tho
highest yields of butter have been
obtained from cows yielding the
largest quantities of milk. This seems
also to apply to the COWS of other
breeds and the results of the official
tests Of the Jerseys at the Worlds
Fair confirm this view.
The quality of the butter produced
! by this breed. so far as tests have
| been made. shows that it is eouaI r.