Year: 1876

MILK AND BUTTER


Description Of a Delaware County tNew


Ysrk) Dairy Farm.


Mr.. Willard, in the Rurdl Nev
Yorker, gives the following description
of a dairy farm in Delaware county,
New York


Daniel McMullen, whom we met at
the Delhi fair, has a fine farm of 240
acres about one mile east of Delhi, 100
of which are flats and are devoted to
meadows and grain raising, about forty
acres are in timber, and the balance OF
the farm is in pasture. The soil on the
fats is clay loan, but the uplands are
gravel and red slate. The course Of
cultivation on the flats is to turn over
the sod and put to corn, and the second
wear q crop of oats is raised and the land
seeded to grass. The average yield of
corn is about fifty bushels to the acre
and that of oats from fifty to sixty
bushels. All the grain raised on the
farm is fed to stock. The COWS are
grades, being q cross of Jersey and
AYRSHIRE. First the native or common
stock of the country is crossed with g
thoroughbred Ayrshire bull, and then
these grades are crossed with a thor
oughbred Jersey bull, and the result Is
an animal that will yield on an average
from ITS to 200 pounds of butter per
wear. Mr.. McMullen says that the
average of his whole herd for some
years past has not been less than Its
pounds of butter. The COWS do not get
any grain during thesesson of pasturage;
but as grass begins to depreciate they
are fed sowed corn, and for this pur-
pose from three to four acres are raised
eyery year. The sowed corn usually
lasts from five to six weeks, when the
COWS 20 upon the afterfeed. MIR.
McMullen says he has experimental by
feeding sour milk and middlings-say
about six quarts of milk and two quarts
of middlings to each COW per day but
he finds as much milk and OF as good
quality can be made from sowed corn as
from the above. The sour milk is now
fed to hogs and calves, ten of the former
and fifteen of the latter being kept.
About one ton of corn meal is used in
connection with the sour milk, the meal
being cooked for the hog,, but not for
the calves. The fifteen calves get from
four to five quarts Of meal mixed with
the milk daily, and in this way very fine
calves are raised. Some of the calves
this wear, when fattened, have been sold
for the New York market at three and
one-hslf cents per pound, live weight,
and have averaged $S per head and up
ward. T.,


The milk in this dairy is set in Jewett
pans, and the aim is to reduce the TEN.
perature to from sixty-two to sl1ty-hve
degrees Fab. The milk remains In the
pans from thirty six to forty y-eight hours,
according to the state of the weather.
the less time in hot weather-when 1t Is
skinned. The churning is done IN the
morning, in o dash churn, and the but
ter washed, worked and salted IN the
usual manner and packed in pals and
firkins. This year he commenced ship
ping butter in pals at forty.fou 70
forty-five cents per pound, and the price
run down in July to thirty cents. SINCE
that the butter made has been held.


There were some remarkably good
butter COWS shown at the Delhi fair,
among the most notable of which were
the thoroughbred Jerseys belonging to
Edward Edgerton. One COW out OF this
herd, five years of age, dropped q call
on the ninth of February last, and from
the twelfth of that month to the frst Of
July she gave 3,7483 pounds OF miik'
thirteen and one half pounds OF whlcn,
on an average, made one pound OF but
ter. She produced during the Ia days
281 pounds and ten ounces OF outter'
and her calf sold for $50. Since the
first of July her average of milk has
been twenty pounds per day. The feeo
of this COW during the season has beer
as follows: Up to the twelfth OF May
she got hay, and in addition three qua!1s
of corn and oat meal per day, the NIX
ture being in equal parts. After Inc
twelfth of May she was fed nothing 6u1
grass. A sister of this cow was also
shown at the fair, which has produced
| on an average pound OF butter IRON
fifteen pounds of milk. When we con
slider that fair average herd Will ylelo
only at the rate of ITS to 200 pounds o.
butter per head during the season, ths
difference between a good and an aver
age COW, it will be seen, is sufficient u
make an important difference on tnf
profit side of the ledger.