246 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



rate of two thousand and twenty-five hundred pounds per 

 day. When the average yield of the cow of the New Eng- 

 land States can be improved by that process of selection 

 which is referred to by our friend, we may hope to see the 

 products of each creamery largely augmented, and a corre- 

 sponding reduction in the expense ; and everyone who aids 

 earnestly and faithfully in improving the status of the New 

 England creamery around him, will aid in bringing about 

 this improved condition of things, and will aid in increasing 

 the returns from his own farming operations. 



I was present at a dairy conference in Maine the week 

 before last. I wish to say, in justice to some of the private 

 dairymen in some parts of this State, that at the present 

 time the creamery interest in the State of Maine is compara- 

 tively weak ; that is to say, the creameries are small. If 

 there is any difference up there, probably the private butter- 

 makers will be making butter for a number of years at a 

 slight advantage as to quality and price obtained for their 

 butter, though I doubt very much whether the net results 

 are any different between private and co-operative dairying. 

 One of the speakers at the conference was a lady who had 

 been practicing private dairying for a number of years, and 

 she gave us a paper under the title, "How to make High- 

 priced Butter." Last fall, and for a number of years past, 

 she has been very successful in making butter, which has 

 competed at all the leading fairs in the State, and, I believe, 

 also at the New England Society's annual fair. She made 

 an astounding statement. You have heard from Mr. 

 Bachelder that he considers a cow yielding two hundred and 

 twenty-five pounds of butter a very excellent animal, and 

 she is ; but I tell you, on the authority of a well-known 

 public man in New England, that the average private pro- 

 duction is one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and 

 thirty-five pounds per cow ; and the same is true of Canada 

 and northern Michigan, and some other dairy districts of the 

 Western States. But this lady said she had got from six 

 cows in her herd two thousand pounds of butter in the year 

 1887. It will not be more than eighteen hundred pounds 

 this year. Now, these cattle are not fancy. They are pure- 

 bred Jerseys, registered in the old INIaine Register. They 



