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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 4 



3. Lanesboro\ — Sales from 12 cows: cheese 

 at 12 cts. ; butter at 25 cts. ; gi-o?s amount, igGOO. 



No account in this case is made ol' supplies in 

 the fiiimily. 



4. Sandisfield. — The averafje yield of a cow in 

 ordinary seasons is rated at 250 lbs. with common 

 keeping. By extra keepinjr, the quantity is in- 

 creased to 350 or 400 lbs. The quantity of butter 

 in addition, to each cow is supposed to be from 40 

 to 50 lbs., where new milk cheese is made. 



The amount of cheese made in Sandisfield, in 

 1837, was estimated by a most competent authori- 

 ty, at 300,000 lbs. 



Another farmer, with a dairy of 15 cows, stales 

 the averajje product of a cow, if she raises her 

 calf, at 250 lbs. ; if otherwise, 300 lbs. ; and 25 

 lbs. butter also, from each cow. Four hogs may 

 be kept to 20 cows. In this way, weighing 100 

 lbs. in the spring, they will weigh 300 lbs. in the 

 fall. 140 lbs. of pork is to be credited to 5 cows. 



The cost of vvintering a cow here, is rated at 

 ^10 ; pasturage, .^4. A good dairy woman will 

 take charge ol'thirty cows, with assistance in milk- 

 ing and in handling cheese, iler wages will be 

 ^1 50 per week, with board. 



5. In Tyringham, the average yield of a cow 

 is reckoned at new milk cheese, 283 lbs., and but- 

 ter at the same time, 57 lbs. A dairy of 28 cows 

 gave 7912 lbs. new milk cheese, and 1600 lbs. 

 butter. A large amount of pork was fatted on 

 this farm ; but it is difficult to say what portion of 

 it is to be credited to the dairy. 



6. In Sheffield, the average product of 28 cows 

 was 394 lbs. new milk cheese, and 50 lbs. of but- 

 ter each. 



The product of a cow is thus stated by this ex- 

 cellent manager : 



Cow, Cr. 

 400 lbs. new milk cheese, at 8 cts., - ^32 00 

 Calf, (killed at three days old,) - - 1 00 

 50 lbs. butter, at 16|., - - - - 8 33 

 Whey and butler-milk, make one hun- 

 dred lbs. pork, ----- 8 00 



$49 33 

 Supra, Dr. 



Winter keeping, - - - - - 12 00 



One acre of land costing .^50 will pasture 



the cow, - - - - - - 3 50 



Salt 25 cts., 3 bs. bran 83, - - - 3 25 



Int. on the value of cow at $25, 10 per ct. 2 50 

 Labor of milking, making butter, chee.«e, 



&c., - 4 00 



$25 25 



Balance in favor of the cow, - - $24 08 



The quantity of land estimated lur | '.isturage in 

 this case seems small. It must he small for a ge- 

 neral rule; another fiirmer in the same town as- 

 sured me that he ki'jit one yoke of oxen all the 

 season, and one horse half the season, on two and 

 a half acres of land, which he showed me. The 

 land had been greatly benefited by plaster. 



7. In New Marlboro', the yield of a cow is es- 

 timated at 300 lbs. new milk cheese; 4 hogs are 

 kept to 20 cows ; 2 tons of hay are deemed requi- 

 site for a cow; value of hay sold $10 ; but if the 

 fiirmer can realize $6 per ton for it used on the 

 place, he deems it better than to sell it. Eicrht to 



ten acres of land here, with the use of plaster, ia 

 deemed sulficient for the pasturage of lour cows. 

 8. In Great Barringlon. 9 cows produced 1900 

 lbs. new milk cheese and 800 lbs. butter. In 

 another case from 8 cows were sold of butter 200 

 lbs., of new milk cheese 1225 lbs. In anothercase 

 5 cows through the sear^on, and an additional cow 

 half the season, from 1st. June to 10th Nov., pro- 

 duced 651 lbs. butter; and 200 lbs. new milk 

 cheese. In this case the weekly returns were 

 given. The same farmer says, that his cows will 

 average one pound of butter per day through the 

 season. He states his cow account thus : 



Cow, Cr. 

 200 lbs. butter at 20 cts., - $40 00 

 Calf raised, . - . 2 00 



Butter-milk, and skim milk for 



pork, equal to all the care, 



$42 00 

 Supra, Dr. 

 Wintering, 2 tons of hay, - $16 00 

 Pasturing, 25 cts. per week, 26 



weeks, - - . - 6 50 



Inf. on cost of cow $20 at 10 per 

 cent. - - - - 2 00 



$24 50 



Profits of a cow, - - - $17 00 



9. In j^lford, the actual yield of a cow was as 

 follows : 



Butter, 240 lbs. sold. 



Cheese 100 lbs. do., besides using what milk and 

 butter were required by two persons. She had 

 her own skimmed milk, but no meal or grain. 

 She consumed, as ascertained, two tons of hay; 

 and her pasturage was 25 cts. per week. 



10. In TVest Stockbridge the report given is 300 

 lbs. new milk cheese to a cow; $40 are often ob- 

 tained from a cow ; $30 are deemed an average 

 yield. 



11. In Stockbridge, the proceeds of a dairy of 

 twenty cows are thus given : 



20 cows. 4000 lbs. new milk cheese sold 



at 9.^ cts., - - - $380 00 

 1000 lbs. skim milk cheese sold 



at 6 cts., - - - - 60 00 

 600 lbs. butter, sold at 9^ cts., 150 00 



$590 00 



This gives $29 50 ct3. to a cow. 



No account is made in this case of the supplies 



of the family, nor of the amount of pork latted, 



both which items would greatly have increased 



the result. 



12. In Lenox, the return of a dairy of 15 cows, 

 was of new milk cheese 1200 lbs. ; of butler 

 1800 lbs. 



The return of another dairy is as Ibllows: 

 10 cows produced of butter 1120 lbs. 

 8 oz., sold at IS cts., - - - $201 69 



" " cheese, 800 lbs. 



sold at 9 els., - - - - 72 00 



$273 69 



13. Tolland. —From a highly inlelliixent liir- 

 mer in a town adjoininir the county, Tolland in 

 Hampshire co., I received so par'icular an ac- 

 count of a dairy, that I shall here insert it though 

 it might be thought to come more properly under 

 the report of another county. 



