1*20 CATTLE AND DAIRY FAEMING. 



turn itself round in." Unsightly as they are in such a condition, such heifers make the 

 best cows. 



Oat-meal, corn-meal, or anything else necessary, should be fed as an alternative to 

 keep a young animal in a thrifty growing condition which is, from any cause, getting 

 out of condition, or to restore one that is oif. But an animal that maintains its vigor 

 and thrift with none, other things being equal, gives far more promise of future use- 

 fulness than one that must be pampered. The rule is to feed j ust enough of such things 

 as are found necessary to keep the animal in a thrifty growing condition and no more 

 the less the better and never allow a milk or butter animal to lay on fat. Ex- 

 perienced dairymen never go into herds that are fat and sleek for their cows. They 

 know that the feeding necessary to produce such conditions in milk and butter ani- 

 mals impairs their power to accomplish the thing for which they are to be kept, namely, 

 the making of milk or butter. Meat, not milk or butter, is what they will ever after 

 make. They will " take better care of themselves than of their owners." 



Yield of Jerseys. -The following instances have been recorded among 

 others sent in to the newspapers by Jersey breeders : 



Quayle, in his "General View of the Agriculture of the Islands on the Coast of 

 Normandy," says that instances are named of 14 pounds of butter in a week, and that 

 instances of 12 pounds are well attested. 



Mr. H. D. Ingles, in a work on the Channel Islands cattle, published after a two- 

 years' residence on the island, says the general average produce may be stated as 10 

 quarts of milk per day and 7 pounds of butter per week. 



Gerard, in his description of the different varieties of cattle, says of the Jerseys in 

 their island home : In one year the produce of a good cow in butter may be from 220 to 

 300 pounds (236 to 322 pounds English weight) ; some cows, in the season, may give 

 14 pounds per week. 



Mr. Dauncey gave the average produce of his entire herd during the year 1867 as 

 within a fraction of 7 pounds per head per week, dry or milking. 



From Mr. Thornton's essay on Jersey cattle and 'their management, contributed 

 to the journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, wo learn that Mr. Fisk 

 (Isle of Wight) gives his greatest return from fifteen cows as 10 pounds each weekly 

 for several weeks. In the same essay we find Mr. DumbrelFs herd produced in 1875, 

 from January to September, 7 pounds per week but ; as Mr. Dumbrell explains, we may 

 assume the calculation is based on the period the cows were in milk, not on the en- 

 tire nine months, dry or milking. Writing of the cows on the island, Mr. Thornton 

 says 7 to 10 pounds of butter weekly ia a fair standard, but 5 to 6 pounds per week 

 throughout the year is a good average cow. 



Mr. George Curzon, Eastcott, Watford, writes in the supplement to the English 

 Herd-Book f Jersey cattle, that the produce of his cows in butter from the 1st October, 

 1881, to 30th September, 1882, averaged per cow 321 pounds 2 ounces. This is an 

 average of a little over 6 pounds p.er week throughout the year. 



Lieutenant-Colonel Partal gives his average yield of butter per cow per week in 

 1881 as 4 pounds 14 ounces, and in 1&82 as 5 pounds 13 ounces, but we append further 

 particulars from him : 



Home farm statement as to dairy produce, 1881. 



Total yield of milk from 21 cows gallons.. 12,385 



Butter made pounds.. 4,972 



Cream used pints.. 324 



Milk used do... 3,494 



Average yield of milk per cow per annum gallons.. 589 



3,494 pints of milk = 2l8 pounds of butter ) 



13 pints of cream = 162 pounds of butter pounds.. >5,352 



^ 218 + 162 + 4,972 = total butter yield f. ) 



5,352 -f- 21 cows gives per cow per annum pounds.. 254^ 



Average yield of butter per cow per week do 4JJ 



Home farm statement as to dairy produce 1882. 



Total yield of milk from 22 cows . . . . gallons. . 13, 825 



Butter made ..pounds.. 6,307 



Cream US ed ..pints.. 381 



Milk used .do.... 3,174 



Average yield of milk per cow per annum gallons . . (528 



3, 174 pints of milk =198 pounds of butter .. ...-.* ) 



Ynl P ints rt of cream = 190 pounds of butter pounds.. >6,G95 



198 + 190 -f 6,307 = total butter yield. . . - I 



6, 69o -7- 22 gives per cow per annum pounds.. 30 



Average yield of butter per cow per week .-."..,."." '.". ._." do 



