SELECTION OF COAVS FOIl THE BUTTER DAIRY. 



BY GARDNER S. FASSETT, OF ENOSBURGH. 



For eighteen years I have been dairying, makhig butter 

 exchisively dnring the whole time. 



I have always given some attention to the selection and 

 care of cows ; usually, or until within a few years, depend- 

 ing upon my skill in buying cows adapted to the purpose I 

 wanted them for, rather than raising cows from calves. 



I thought it more economical than raisins^ them. 



If I succeeded in getting a cow with apparently a good, 

 vigorous constitution, giving an abundant flow of milk with 

 good care, that milked easy without shedding her milk, was 

 contented to stay in the pasture and didn't kick, she was put 

 on the permanent list. 



If she proved defective in any essential point, after being 

 tried a year or two, she w^as sent to the butcher. In this 

 way, I succeeded as well as my neighbors, perhaps, or at 

 least made as much butter per cow as others, and was quite 

 well satisfied with my success. 



But I never knew, during this time, by any well con- 

 ducted expei'iments, whether each member of my herd was 

 paying a profit, or whether I was keeping some cows at an 

 actual loss. 



