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

valuable products-milk, butter, veal,
beef,-are more valuable than those
that require the costlier commercial
feeds. These cattle from calf-hood
upward "are by no means choice in
the quality of their food" In their
native country they generally begin
taking skim milk, usually more or
less sour, at the age of from three to
six days. Many of the breeders in
America begin thus early to give
them the same kind OF food.
Quantity of production and per-
sistency of milking during long
periods are wellknown character
istics of this breed. Dropping her
first calf at about two years old, an
average COW of this breed, if we'll
cared for, will produce from 5000 to
5000 pounds of milk in ten months,
and she will increase this production
each and every year, until, at five
years old, she will give from 1000
to 5000 pounds. The quality of this
milk will range from to 4 per cent
fat, and from to 10 per cent solids
not fat. If fed to their ability to
digest and assimilate food, the ma
jority Of these COWS will exceed this
production. Before the introduction
of this breed, from $500 TO 1900
pounds per annum were regarded as
extreme high averages for the cows
of this country. We think it is safe
to affirm that the introduction Of this
breed has raised, directly or in
directly, the average of American
cows from 1900 30 1000 pounds. One
of the COWS of the earliest permanent
Importation yielded 4,00875 pou ads of
milk in nine weeks, the highest days
yield being rs pounds. This and
other similar records Of the breed
were received with widespread in
credulity.
In 1880 the COW Aaggie made a
record of 1900 516 pounds of milk
within one year from date of calving.
This record was almost universally
regarded as an impossibility. Among
| those that joined in this view was
Professor Long of England, then pub
fishing a large work on dairy hus-
bandry, which was widely subscribed
for in this country, and issued in
| quarterly numbers. Thus the capacity
of this breed for milk production
became a matter of more than ordi-
nary public interest. In August, 1885,
the owners of Aaggie commenced a
record of the COW Clothilde. They
| invited public scrutiny of this record
during it's full progress. A number of
persons interested themselves in it in
order to learn the amount of her pro-
duction beyond doubt, among whom
were leading men connected with
dairy publications. At differsnt
periods, including one during the last
week of her record, she was under
the official watch care of the Superin-
tendent of Holstein Friesian Ad-
vanced Registry. Her record for the
year was 2e,O2111s pounds.
During the closing week, COM
mencing 1853 days from dropping her
calf, she gave from 53 to IS pounds
daily. So thoroughly was the public
convinced of the correctness of this
record that higher records have since
been received without an intimation
of former incredulity. Pietertje I'd,
in her eleventh year, produced 80,
31S15 pounds, and Princess of Wayne,
in her twelfth year, 2s,OoS II IL
pounds. The latter gave $685.
pounds in thirty days, the highest
days yield being 113 1-16 pounds.
Seventy seven cows have been re.
ceived to Advanced Registry that
have produced from IL, 900 to &c, 00(
pounds in periods of ten months to
one year.
There is rapidly growing recog-
milton of the superior value of the
milk of this breed for direct con-
sumption. We quote from an article
in the National Stockman:
EVERY physician of note maintains
that normal milk properly balanced
is far better for food, especially for
infants and young children, than il
milk richer in fat. Probably milk
containing not more than "a per cent
of fat is fully rich enough, since the
humans mothers milk seldom ex.
ceeds that figure, and often falls
below 8 per cent, and it is said thai
nursing infants of such mothers ara
more healthy than those who ge
richer milk. Good medical author
titles have stated time and time agar
that normal milk is much healthier
for the human than is rich milk, ane
there is not a careful, 1ntelilgen
t breeder to-day who does not know
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