THE UNITED KINGDOM. 



121 



He adds : 



Although I do not. believe for one moment that the butter alono pays, yet with the 

 fikim milk the addition of calves and pigs makes the balance at the end of the year on 

 .tho right side. Wo rear a good many calves of both sexes, and have no difficulty in 

 disposing of them ; keeping also 13 or 14 sows, and selling their progeny at thirteen 

 or fourteen weeks old, as stores, pays well. The piga are kept out in a three-acre 

 pasture field in open weather and require at nights, when they couio in, little but skim 

 milk and wash, which is not expensive. I do not think that keeping pigs on grass land 

 ?,s half enough adopted ; it keeps them healthy, clean, and growing. A post and rail 

 fence with strong sheep wire netting, keeps them from breaking out, and rings in 

 their noses prevent their injuring tho pasture. This last year I have no record worth 

 preserving of my dairy results, as I losfc some of my best cows in the summer, which 

 has thrown mo out terribly. My system is of the simplest kind. I have the quantity 

 of milk measured every day as brought in, and a record kept of the quantity of butter 

 made weekly. The reason why 1882 is better than 1881 in results, is from the fact 

 that I had one more cow in the dairy, and I gave all my cows 4 pounds of decorticated 

 cotton-cake with chaff and mangel in the winter months when they were kept in, and 

 1 pound each through tho summer months at each milking, or, in other words, 2 pounds 

 a day. They had 2 pounds in the winter months, and more in the summer months. 

 I shall hope this year (if I lose no more cows) to do better than last, as I have a very 

 nice lot coming in from my young stock. As I seldom or never buy, a loss of a few 

 cows affects me much. I have bought, but have never found any that please mo as 

 well as those I breed myself from either imported bulls (every one of which has taken 

 a prize when in my possession) or from perfect bulls of my own rearing. I have no 

 difficulty in selling either bulls or cows. By this means I know what I have got and 

 what I am doing to improve my stock. By buying I should not know this in nine 

 cases out of ten. 



Among tho detailed records sent into the British Dairy Farmers 7 As- 

 sociation for the challenge cup, the only one relating to Jerseys was 

 Lord Braybrooke's, which is interesting and sufficiently good to be an- 

 nexed, although the yield is certainly not so good as could be found 

 upon many farms where Jerseys are kept by dairy farmers. 



Dairy record of Lord firaybrooke's herd of Jerseys for 1882. 



* Killed October, 1882. 



t Killed September, 1882. 



tDied (milk lever) November, 18S2. 



$ A bad year with her. Her yield in 1880 = 2,631 quarts, 1881 



2,432. 



