1853. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



545 



ALDSRNEY COW. 



The above engraving is a tolerably good like- 

 ness of a Jersey cov? belonging to Elijah M. Read, 

 Esq., ofTewksbury, Mass. Mr. Read's statement 

 will be received by all -who know him without any 

 grains of all(jwance. He presented the cow at 

 the late Show in Middlesex county, and took the 

 first premium, and his statement to the examining 

 committee wc give below. 



" My Alderney cow, Europa, is eight years old, 

 was imported from the Island of Jersey, in 1851 ; 

 — she calved ia October, about two months after 

 she came into my possession ; the average quanti- 

 ty of milk given by her the next nine months, was 

 nine quarts per day ; the greatest flow in the same 

 time, was 12 quarts per day ; her milk has not 

 been kept separate from that of other cows, ex- 

 cepting for the purpose of testing its properties 

 for butter. The first trial was in August, 1851, 

 about two weeks after she arrived in this Yankee 

 land, and about two months before she calved. I 

 found by this trial that 4 quarts of her milk would 

 produce a pound of butter. The second trial was 

 in February, 1852 ; we were then using for the 

 family three pints per day of her milk, and the 

 balance in seven days produced eight pounds of 

 butter. One more trial was had in the last of 

 October of the sarte year, and the result was 134 

 pounds of butter in nine days. She had at this 

 time given milk over one year, her last calf being 

 more than one year old. She dropped her next 

 calf on the 17th day of May, 1853 ; the whole 

 quantity given by her since, I am unable to state. 



The nest trial of her milk for butter was made 

 in May, about two weeks after she calved ; in 

 seven days she gave 110 quarts of milk, which 

 yielded 17| pounds of butter. The last trial was 

 had within the last two weeks. She gave in nine 

 days 85 quarts of milk, and the yield was 16^ 

 pounds of butter, equal to 12^ pounds per week. 



Her keeping through the winter was 2 quarts of 

 corn and cob meal, 1 quart of shorts per day, and 

 good hay ; in summer good pasturing, with the 

 addition of grain, occasionally, through the drought 

 in July and August last, and 2 quarts of meal per 

 day while we were testing the properties of her 

 milk for butter. She has had no meal at any 

 other time during the summer ; her greatest flow 

 of milk the past summer was 17i quarts per day. 



Elijah M. Reed. 



Tewksbury, Oct. 4th, 1853. 



Cranberries. — We are under obligations to Mr. 

 Orcttt, o( South Weymouth, Mass., for a box of 

 this fine fruit, and also for a box of thrifty, bear- 

 ing plants. The gathered fruit shall be tested in 

 tarts, or if an Editor may be allowed the luxury of 

 a turkey, shall form one of the accompaniments. 

 The plants shall have a fiiir chance in an upland 

 soil, and be encouraged to do well in their new 

 location. 



Persian Walnuts. — We are under obligations 

 the Hon. 0. Mason, Commissioner of Patents, for 

 a few Persian Walnuts, which we have carefully 

 planted in a favorable location, and shall watch 

 with interest. 



