Danish Dairi/ Fanning. 
a farm for a longor period, upon a larji^er scale, and witli a greater 
minuteness of detail than has ever before been publislicd. 
The clear profit of the dairy is shown in the table on page .'>14. 
The cows after calving time, have yielded milk on the average 
as follows (see Table, p. olf)). 
After tabulating the dairy returns, the milking qualities of the 
cows are divided thus : — 
Cows ciAVK Milk. 
Year. 
■ 
Under 
1000 
Pots 
per Cow. 
From 
1000 
to 
1500. 
From 
1500 
to 
2000. 
From 
2000 
to 
2.500. 
From 
2500 
to 
30U0. 
From 
3000 
to 
.3300. 
From 
3500 
to 
4000. 
Over 
4IIU0 
Pots 
per Gov.-. 
1861 
6 
17 
24 
50 
67 
36 
13 
3 
1862 
9 
15 
36 
44 
69 
32 
9 
4 
18C3 
3 
.5 
21 
39 
57 
59 
25 
5 
18G4 
6 
•J 
22 
29 
50 
C2 
28 
13 
1SG5 
0 
9 
21 
29 
53 
55 
35 
\:, 
In regard to the quality of their dairy stock generally, I think 
that in all probability it would be improved by a judicious intro- 
duction of some of our blood — Shorthorn, Ayrshire, or Jersey. 
In the management of all their leading dairies the old arbitrary 
" rule of thumb," which still holds sway over too many of ours, 
has entirely disappeared, and a philosophic treatment, based on 
sound scientific principles, is the rule and not the exception. 
The experiments quoted testify to its advantages. The dairv 
now, instead of, as of yore, being the abode of ignorance, and 
often too of superstition, is the centre of an enlightened and regu- 
lar manufacture, where certainty replaces chance, and where the 
waywardness of the dairymaid is checked and controlled by 
the daily account she has to give of the produce committed to 
her, while her skill and attention are encouraged by the regis- 
tered returns. When Mr. Friis showed me his " Dairy Register 
Sheet," I expressed my fears that any attempt to introduce such 
an elaborate system of analysis into the dairy farms of this 
country would have a very serious mental effect upon our dairy- 
maids, Avhich would at once stop our proceedings. He replied 
that on first showing it to his own head dairymaid she burst 
into tears, and continued in a very distressed state of mind for 
a full week afterwards. As she regained her composure, a few 
figures were seen chalked on the board ; these rapidly increased, 
until they reached the last column, when she acknowledged freely 
the value of the daily details, which testified to her own skill 
while recording her dairy returns, and declared that she would 
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