THE DAIRY OF THE FARM. 



Court, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, reports a year's produce 

 of 55 cows at 31,728 gallons, or 577 per cow, besides the 

 milk used in weaning 43 calves ; these were cross-bred 

 shorthorn cows. Mr. Boyd Kinnear reports the produce 

 of a small dairy of Guernsey cows during ten years as 616 

 gallons apiece. In the year 1883 eight cows yielded from 

 481 to 660 gallons apiece, averaging 550 gallons. Five 

 selected cows have their life history given. One was milked 

 twelve years, averaging 553 gallons annually ; another nine 

 years, averaging 743 gallons. Mr. Hosley, of Lord Bray- 

 brooke's home farm at Audley End, near Saffron Walden, 

 reports in the Agricultural Gazette of February 25th, 1885, 

 the records of a Jersey dairy, of which the following are 

 the principal items : twenty cows of all ages produced 

 9,577 gallons, or 478 gallons apiece, of extraordinarily 

 rich milk. The individual cows varied from 900 gallons 

 annually to 230 gallons. The average per cow in three 

 years was 445, 465, and 689 gallons for the cows under 

 four years, between four and six, and over six years old 

 respectively for 1882 ; and the corresponding figures for 

 1883 and 1884 were 461, 443, and 483 for 1883, and 390, 

 413, and 606 for 1884. 



From these instances it may be safely gathered that the 

 average yield of well managed cows varies from 480 to 600 

 gallons of milk a year, according to breed and size ; the 

 smaller breeds, such as the Kerry, yielding considerably 

 less than the former of these amounts ; and the larger 

 Yorkshire, short-horned, and cross-breeds yielding as much 

 or even more than the latter. 



It will also be understood that, by rich feeding and first- 

 rate management, the average yield of a small dairy breed 

 like the Ayrshire may be raised as high as 600 or 650 



