90 CATTLE AND -DAIRY FARMING. 



ton-seed cake, 4 pounds bran, 1 bushel carrots, and 1J bushels barley 

 straw and hay chaff. This cow, Nancy 2nd, when in full profit, August 

 31, was giving 36 pints of milk per day. 



Davy 24th (H 1), shown three years in succession, dropped her second 

 calf on January 27, 1882, and gave a daily average yield of milk from 

 that date to August 31 of 42 pints ; percentage of cream, 18. Cherry 

 Leaf (V 3) dropped her third calf on May 16, and gave, to August 31, an 

 average daily yield of 42 pints of milk. Flirt 3d (V 1), a cow of similar 

 breeding to Cherry Leaf, gave, six weeks after producing her first calf, 

 a yield of 249 pints of milk in the week ; percentage of cream, 15. Wax- 

 work 6th (U 9) (the tribe in which the bull Slasher is included) produced 

 her first calf on January 8, and on August 31 was giving milk which 

 yielded 21 per cent, of cream. 



The following returns are from the Necton Hall herd (Mr. B. H. Ma- 

 son's) : 



In the third week of February the cows were on pasture (very light land) most of 

 the day, with a few roots ; at night they each received 7 pounds cottoii cako and spiced 

 cake, 7 pounds bran, 14 pounds hay and cut straw. Nancy 3d (N 3), aged sis years, 

 dropped her calf in December, 1881 ; on February 18 yielded 28 pints of milk at two 

 successive milkings ; percentage of cream, 16. Pet (N 1), age 6 years, dropped her 

 calf January 22 ; on 18th February yielded 23 pints of milk ; percentage of cream, 

 35. Tulip (N 4), with similar conditions, yielded 25 pints of milk ; percentage of 

 cream, 34. And Tulip (N 7), aged 9 years, which dropped her calf in October, 1881, 

 was yielding 26 pints of milk per day in February. 



Tests were also taken at the end of August, when the cows were all at grass, with 

 the following results : 



Empress (N 4), which dropped her third calf on April 10, yielded 22 pints of milk 

 per day; percentage of cream, 29. Sultana (N 5), which dropped her fourth calf on 

 March 22, gave 30 pints ; percentage of cream, 26. 



The butter being produced by eleven cows in August was 80 pounds, and 120 pints 

 of new milk were sold per week. In the year 1881, from the herd of 13 Red Polled 

 cows, 8 heifers, and 1 Alderney, the produce of marketable butter was 3,120 pounds ; 

 new milk sold, 725 gallons ; cream sold, 101 pints ; money value, independent of skim 

 milk, 260. Jn the year 1882, from 14 cows, 6 heifers, and 1 Alderrioy, the produce of 

 marketable butter was 3,434 pounds ; new milk, 686 gallons ; cream, 13J gallons. The 

 money realized was 281 4s. 2d. 



Primrose (K 6), an eleven-year old cow in. Lord Kirnberley's herd, gave on winter 

 feed (hay, chaff, bran, and cake), six weeks 'after calving, 32 pints of milk per day, 

 and the marketable butter produced was 9 pounds per week. 



Mr. Loff t, Troston Hall, reported the testing of two of his cows of the 

 Handsome (U 3) tribe, each of which consumed per day 4 pounds cotton 

 cake, 2 pounds Simpson's meal, 6 stone of beet root, and 1J bushels of 

 chaff. Handsome 5th, four months after calving, yielded 28 pints of 

 milk- per day and 7 pounds of marketable butter per week. Handsome 

 6th yielded 32 pints of milk per day and 10 pounds of butter per week. 



Mr. Gr. Gooderham^ Monewden, uniformly causes his cows to breed 

 very early, and the secretion of milk is thus fostered. One of his cows, 

 Wild Eose of Kilburn, which was first prize-winner as a yearling at the 

 Royal meeting of 1879, produced her first calf when wanting two days 

 of being two years old. Before she was three years old she produced a 

 second calf, and again within twelve months a third. Eight weeks after 

 this last calf was dropped she gave 30 pints of milk per day on winter 

 feed, and her average of butter was 9 pounds per week, taking all the 

 year, since she never goes dry. In June 1882, six months after calving, 

 she won first prize at the Essex show as a milker ; her dam won a like 

 honor at the Suffolk show in June, 1881. 



The herd of Mr. J. J. Colrnan, M. P., which has seven times in eight 

 years won the cup offered at the Korfolk show for the best collec- 

 tion, includes the seven-year old cow, Silent Lass, the yearling heifer 



