A SWISS AND A JERSEY. 115 



as I am able. Mr. Ellsworth, in the course of his remarks, 

 said that the Swiss cattle were remarkably hearty feeders. 

 I don't know as I ought to talk about Swiss cattle, as I have 

 only one that I have experimented with. I have had her 

 two years the first day of November. I have been trying to 

 see what she would do. She came to Maplehurst, a farm in 

 Pittsfield, on the 30th of October, 1877. We had a Jersey 

 at that time, and they had both come in about the same time ; 

 so that they were new milch nearly together. The two were 

 tied side by side in the barn, with a partition between them. 

 They were fed precisely alike until they went to pasture in 

 the spring of 1878. If the Swiss cow had one bite more 

 than the Jersey, she stole it. She could not get at the roots 

 or the meal; and, if she had anymore hay, she must have 

 stolen it. I never saw any disposition in her to rob her 

 mate. The record showed that the Swiss cow did not con- 

 sume any more than the Jerse} r , and made a great deal more 

 milk and butter. The Swiss weighed, when the experiment 

 commenced, about eleven hundred pounds ; the Jersey, about 

 nine hundred and fifty. In the fall of 1878 I took another 

 Jersey, about the same age as the Swiss cow. The Swiss 

 cow dropped her calf about the first of August : the Jersey 

 cow dropped her calf at nearly the same time. They were 

 put into the stable side by side during the winter of 1878-79, 

 and they were fed precisely alike the winter through. If 

 the Swiss cow got one bite the most, she stole it. They had 

 nothing to eat except what was fed them twice a day. Two 

 meals a day is my practice, and no more. The Swiss cow 

 gave a great deal more milk and butter than the Jersey, and 

 did not consume any more, so far as I know. So much for 

 the Swiss being large eaters. 



Question. How much more did the Swiss produce than 

 the Jersey? 



Mr. Roberts. I will give the record for three months. 

 February, 1878, the Swiss cow made fifty-five pounds of but- 

 ter ; the Jerse}'', forty-five. February, 1879, the Swiss made 

 fifty-seven pounds ; the Jersey, forty-five. March, 1879, the 

 Swiss made sixty-seven ; the Jersey, fifty-two. 



Question. What was the feed ? 



Mr. Roberts. The feed was as good hay as can be pro- 

 duced, some corn-fodder, roots, and corn-meal. 



