MANAGEMENT OF STOCK. 269 



This sj'stem of management involves a large amount of 

 labor, f)ut it saves buying commercial fertilizers, tells on the 

 crops and is a paying investment. 



STOCK. 



The stock of the form consists of four horses, two colts, 

 eight oxen, thirty-four cows, six two-year-olds, five yearlings, 

 nine calves, one bull, or sixty-three head of horned cattle, eight 

 sheep, twenty-six hogs, and fifty-one pigs. The majority of 

 the cows are Ayrshire or Ayrshire grades, yet there are some 

 grade Durhams and Jerseys. The young stock is all pure 

 Ayrshire or grade Ayrshire, one-half, three-fourths or seven- 

 eighths. 



The herd of cows was not as large as that of last year, nor 

 did they do as well. Whole amount of milk produced, 92 

 tons. The average yield of milk per cow for the whole herd 

 of 36, was 2,325 quarts. Average yield of the tvv'elve best 

 cows, was 2,817 quarts. The cows are always milked in the 

 barn at five o'clock, morning and evening, and the milk of 

 each cow is weighed at each milking and the amount given is 

 reported at the office each day. 



The cows from the time they are taken from the pasture in 

 the autumn are fed twice a day with cut hay mixed with 

 about four quarts of w^heat-bran for each cow ; the balance of 

 feed is dry hay, with from twelve quarts to a half bushel of 

 roots for each cow per day. The cows are watered twice a 

 day, and in pleasant weather are permitted to bask in the 

 sun in the middle of the day. 



While at pasture in the summer the cows each day have a 

 foddering of cut hay mixed with two quarts of wheat-bran on 

 coming to the barn in the afternoon, and when feed in the 

 pastures grows short they are fed with green corn-fodder, cut 

 daily, and when this fails, cabbage-leaves, root-tops, rowen 

 and b^-an tides them over the hardest season of the year, for 

 those which must make about the same quantity of milk that 

 is required when in full flush of feed. As the weather grows 

 colder and the autumnal storms come on, one thing must be 

 guarded again§t — your flow of milk must not be greatly 

 diminished or it cannot be regained again during the cold 

 season. 



