JERSEY CATTLE. 



KENNEBEC COUNTY 



183 



Institute at AVinthrop. 



By invitation of the West Winthrop Farmers' Club, a Farmers' 

 Institute was held at the Town Hall, in Winthrop, December 27th. 

 Dairying was the leading subject of the day. In the forenoon 

 Francis Barnes of Houlton, spoke on "Fine points in the care of 

 Milk and the making of Cheese," which will be found in another 

 plajce. In the afternoon a lecture was given on 



JERSEY CATTLE AXD THEIR BUTTER. 

 By Richard Goodman, Jan., Lenox. Massachusetts. 



Fellow Farmers: I have been invited to read a paper before 

 3'ou upon the subject of Jersey cattle and their butter. As I 

 believe the discussion which usually follows a paper at these 

 Institutes is quite as valuable as the paper, it has been ni}- object to 

 condense my statements as much as possible, with the hope not onlj- 

 of obtaining a more willing hearing, but, also, of arousing discussion, 

 consequenth' I shall ti-y to make my remarks suggestive rather than 

 exhaustive in more senses than one. 



In regions like those about Winthrop and Turner where the 

 farmers are farmers, and not shop-keepers or factor}' superin- 

 tendents who play at farming (and often do much good to the 

 farming interest ), farmers who depend upon farming for their 

 livelihood ; where the cattle have had a strong infusion of the best 

 Jersey blood added to a fine quality of "native" stock, and where 

 the pastures are sweet and the springs plenty and the water i)ure — 

 in a region like this I trust that you will feel that the subject of the 

 best butter and the cattle from which it is made is appi-opriate. 



I understand that the butter from this region seldom brings over 

 35 cents a pound. I am surprised at these low figures and regret 

 them, but they give me my excuse for speaking to you. There is a 

 demand to-day in the markets of Boston for three thousand pounds 

 a week of butter at 80 cents a pound, and there is a demand in the 

 markets of New York for double that amount and at even higher 



