DAIRY STATISTICS. 5 



crops, the stock, and the dairy management best adapted 

 to a profitable yield of butter or of cheese. And these are 

 the three divisions under which it is proposed to arrange 

 the details of dairy experience in the following pages, 

 this preliminary section being devoted to a statement of 

 its gross results in a considerable number and variety of 

 instances. 



The Yield of Milk. In the cases given the breed and 

 the manner of feeding are mentioned, and the number of 

 cows of which the experience recorded was true is stated 

 when known. On the late A. B. Telfer's farm, Canning 

 Park, near Ayr, whose dairy of forty-seven cows was of 

 Ayrshire breed, the average yield was 30,660 gallons 

 annually, or 650 gallons apiece. This is probably over 

 an average yield, but from what an extraordinary variety 

 of experience anything like an average must be calculated 

 every dairy farmer knows. Thanks very much to the 

 British Dairy Farmers' Association and the example of Mr. 

 E. C. Tisdall, of the Holland Park Dairy, Kensington, one 

 of its most energetic and public- spirited members, we have 

 now many dairy records kept, and some of them have been 

 published. Mr. J. N. Edwards, of St. Albans, who won 

 the prize of the society for the best dairy record in 1883, 

 reported that from 30 cows nearly always in milk he 

 obtained in 40 weeks 13,630 gallons of milk, or 447 

 gallons apiece in that time. The experience here was 

 made up of maxima such as that of the cow "Mustard," 

 which produced 1,100 gallons in twelve months, milking 

 thirteen months continuously and yielding 1,279 gallons in 

 all, and of others yielding 514, 322, 876, 490, 645, 917, and 

 537 gallons respectively. Mr. J. T. Harrison, of Frocester 



