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the quantity which might have been made from the milk consumed by 

 the calves of the herd, the butter rate per cow would be much higher. 



"It is proper to add that my herd is kept mainly for 'weeding, and 

 only secondarily for the batter product. My cows get only grass in the 

 season of it, supplemented hy corn fodder; during the rest of the year 

 they are fed English hay, a very small quantity of sugar beets, and two 

 quarts of corn meal daily per cow. This regimen keeps the herd in good 

 breeding condition, and enables each cow to make one hundred and 

 sixty-eight dollars worth of butter per annum. The earnings per cow 

 would probably be considerably higher if my farm were near a good 

 market, instead of being situated in the Berksuire hills." 



In the Ogden Farm Paper, number thirty-three {American Agriculturist, 

 October, eighteen hundred and seventy-two), there appears the following 

 statement concerning the production of the Newport herd: 



"During the week ending August tenth, we were milking thirty ani- 

 mals. Of these six had aborted at from four to seven months, and were 

 giving very little milk. (Three of these had previously been the very 

 best milkers in the herd, and had now become almost the worst.) Eleven 

 were two-year old heifers with their first calves, six were three-year- 

 olds with their second calves, and one was very nearly dry. They are, 

 therefore, far from being an "able-bodied" herd, nor are they heavy 

 feeders. Yet they made during this week one hundred and fifty- three 

 pounds of butter, worth, at ninety cents per pound, one hundred and 

 thirty-seven dollars and seventy cents. It was about the hottest and 

 most unfavorable week I ever knew. 



" One fact developed by the record of this week may surprise those 

 who are not familiar with the Jersey breed. The average weekly yield 

 of butter was (per cow) five and ten one hundredths pounds. The 

 average daily yield of milk was thirteen and twenty-one one hundredths 

 pounds. The largest daily yield from a single cow was twenty-three and 

 seventy-eight one hundredths pounds. The total yield for the week was 

 two thousand seven hundred and seventy-four pounds, and the weight 

 of milk required to make a pound of butter (averaging the whole herd), 

 was eighteen and thirteen one hundredths pounds, or eight and forty- 

 three one hundredths quarts. This is not by guess nor by 'rule of 

 thumb,' but by actual weight taken at each milking, the cows being on 

 green Summer feed. The product has since fallen off somewhat, as an 

 effect of the hot, close August weather, but the reduction has been more 

 in the amount of milk than in the yield of butter. 



"The record would not be complete without an account of our man- 

 ner of feeding, etc. The cows pass the night in the barnyard. In the 

 morning they receive an average of three quarts of wheat bran and a 

 good feed of corn fodder. They then go to pasture, where they remain, 

 on good feed, until four p. m. Then they are brought in, and have all 

 they can eat of corn fodder. 



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