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value to those who have contracts to supply families with butter the 

 year round. I then get a steady supply from the Jerseys, while 

 other breeds do not hold their milk so long, with the exception per- 

 haps of the Ayrshire." 



Writing of the importance of presistence in milking, Maj. H. 

 Alvord, says : "I place this habit, this attribute of the cow first of all. 

 A large flow of milk when a cow is fresh is very deceptive and often 

 leads to carrying an animal which really, in the course of the year 

 is a source of loss." 



The following experiment was reported by Gen. W. 'S. Tilton 

 when in command at the National Soldiers' Home near Augusta : 



"The herd consisted of Dutch cattle, Grades and Jerseys. The 

 average of milk per day for the whole year, as compared with the 

 average weight of the cows of each class was : Dutch one and fifty- 

 six one hundred per cent of live weight ; Grades one and fourteen 

 one hundred per cent of live weighi ; Jerseys one and twenty-eight 

 one hundred per cent of live weight. The proportion of cream was as 

 follows : Of Dutch it took three and two one hundred pounds of live 

 weight to produce one quart ; of Grades it took three and eighty- 

 eight one hundred pounds of live weight to produce one quart ; of 

 Jersey's it took two and twenty-nine one hundred pounds of live 

 weight to produce one quart. 



Near many of our cities, the milk men are employing Jerseys to 

 the exclusion of other breeds. To a certain extent they are obliged 

 to do so in order to retain theu: customers who demand rich milk. 

 Notably is this the case near Bath, where nearly all are high grade 

 Jerseys. These men say, the Jerseys milk so much longer than 

 cows of other breeds, that they yield quite as much milk when the 

 whole year is taken into account. 



When the practical man adopts the plan of daily weighing and 

 recording the milk produced, he accumulates convincing testimony. 

 In my own experience with the Jerseys, I have found the annual 

 milk yield of cows after three years of age, to be from about 5,000 

 lbs. to 7,500 lbs. each. 



While Jersey milk may be regarded as quite uniform in its butter 

 capacdt}^, yet I have had extremes where in one animal 20J lbs. of 

 milk were required for a pound of butter; in another 11^ lbs. were 

 sufficient for a like amount. 



I have found 16 lbs. to be about the quantity of Jersey milk re- 

 quired for a pound of butter on the average. With this basis the 



