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hight of milking on Mgh winter feed, and finds 
that when they are fife or six months gone, and 
woulft naturally begfi to fall off in their yield, 
the flush of the Mayfand June pastures gives a 
fillip to their production, and carries them up 
pretty nearly to theif full yield again,— by the 
time the summer drouth pinches the pasture, 
they are ready to l|e dried off for their next 
calving. This, in connection with the fact that 
the winter market isfbest for butter, makes his 
course seem judicious, and worthy the attention 
, of others. Cows coming in In the spring give 
more during May and June than autumn calv- 
ers do at any time, tut when they begin to feel 
the effect of their nlxt pregnancy, there is only 
Winter feed to be gijren them, and this does not 
sustain their productiveness as grass would do. 
A very large itenf on this farm is the feeding 
of pork. Shoats a|e bought in fair store-hog 
flesh, are very highly fed on skimmed milk and 
corn, and are drafted for the market when in 
good selling condifion. There is generally a 
profit of about one lent per pound on the origi- 
nal purchase, and! the average increase of 
weight is JO pounds. 
The following experiment shows the profit 
of the operation, afid indicates the care with 
which business delails are attended to on this 
farm : June 12th, 1|) average hogs were bought, 
weighing 1,850 lbs .1 They cost $87.87^ ($4.75 
per hiindred pouncfs). Com cost 56 cents per 
bushel ; skimmed bilk, 20 cents per hundred 
lbs.; meal and brad, 1 cent per lb. August 3d, 
after 52 days feed|ng (the cost of feed being 
$41.81), they had gained 975 lbs.— the increase 
costing $4.29 per) hundred lbs. They were 
then sold at 6 cenfs per lb., making a profit of 
$89.82, to say nothing of the manure. They 
feed every year about 1,500 hogs, to which they 
add about 90 tons freight of pork. 
I was enabled to? see the whole operation of 
skimming, churnink working, salting, re-work- 
ing, and packing the butter, the whole being 
done in a most systematic and business-like 
way, and the product being of first-rate quality 
for a dairy of coimjion cows. The butter is of 
capital flavor and if good color. It lacks the 
firm texture of Jersey butter, and they are now 
considering the question of buying a Jersey 
bull, and raising tpe heifer calves from the best 
twenty of their |wn cows. If this course is 
carried on for aj few years, there will be at 
Marengo a buttej dairy herd that will be hard 
to equal. 
The following account, received from Mr. 
R. Q. Tenneyjof Colorado, is gratifying as 
confirming a theory which I have proved in 
practice to be d, sound one, and have earnestly 
recommended | 
“ I wish to fthank you for your article pub- 
lished in the |vinter of 1871, on transplanting 
mangels and sugar beets. I have probably 
saved to mysflf from $150 to $200 in the past 
three seasonsj, by following your directions. 
The first twd seasons one of my neighbors, an 
old Iowa farrier, ridiculed the idea, but he was 
compelled to “ acknowledge the com ” when 
he saw the re suit. This year a late frost killed, 
say three-fou: *ths of the plants in my seed bed, 
and being so far from a base of supplies, had 
not time to s ;nd for more. 
“ Another time I will not be in so great a 
hurry to plai t, as I find that they do not re- 
quire a very long season. 
‘ ‘ I transplanted from the 15th to the 22nd of 
July, and have fine beets, although the grass- 
hoppers hurt them some. 
“We are getting a good number of Jersey 
cattle into the Territory.; I think I imported 
the first, and no w' have X fine bull, three years 
old Feb. 11th last.” f 
FINE HERDS ^.T THE WEST. 
While at the West fl visited some of the 
principal Jersey herdsf in my line of travel, 
and, indeed, extended |my journeying for the 
purpose. I was less gratified by the condition 
of my own animals in Illinois, than I hoped to 
be. The protracted |arly drouth drying up 
the pastures, and reducing all farming in 
southern Illinois to $ very difficult pass, had 
the effect of pulling d|wn their condition until 
I regretted having exhibited them at St. Louis. 
Their plight at least had the advantage of 
proving that with j|rsey cattle, as with all 
others, good keep is necessary to good condi- 
tion and good yield} Realizing the state of 
affairs, I turned on rjiore steam, and had the 
satisfaction of seeing} them at once improve, 
and I hear that they fare now in much better 
order than at any time since June. 
At the large and spl sndid blue-grass farm of 
Major Campbell Brov n, at Spring Hill, Tenn., 
where a wide range h id made up for the effect 
of the drouth, the Je 'seys, (of which he has a 
very fine herd), were ii \ excellent condition, and 
were yielding largely. [ Mr. Hardin, of Louis- 
ville, who has very little land, and depends 
mainly bn purchased food, has his animals in 
fine order. Several breeders in the immediate 
neighborhood, have Capital herds, and it is 
evident. that here, as |?ell as about Cincinnati, 
the Jersey is as great a favorite, and is as 
adundantly distributed about summer resi- 
dences, as even about] Boston or Philadelphia. 
The best cow I savf during my travels, is 
“Dinah,” owned by John L. Stettinius, of 
Cincinnati, whose whble herd is quite worthy 
to be in the same pasture with her. 
I advise all Eastern farmers who desire to 
remain content with what they have at home, 
and to bear With equanimity the six months of 
winter feeding that our climate makes neces- 
sary, to keep away from Mr. Alexander’s 3,000- 
acre farm, of Wcpdburn, in the blue-grass 
region near Lexingfcm, Ky. , where animals can 
graze during nearl|r the whole winter ; where 
the pastures are greener and more beautifully 
wooded, than any Which we know ; where the 
rarest animals, repfesenting hundreds of thou- 
sands of dollars, a|e kept under circumstances 
of ideal perfectiol ; and where our most en- 
thusiastic dreams lof pastoral life and profit- 
able farming, ark blended in a tantalizing 
reality. Whoever}visits W oodburn , buys a few 
hours of delight at the expense of months of 
unsatisfied longing— tempered, however, with 
the influence of an example that is full of sug- 
gestive details, which cannot fail to have an 
effect on his futurf plans and aspirations. 
I receive from! all parts of the country, 
reports of success? with Jersey cattle. Mr. F. 
M. Churchman, of | Indianapolis, writes, that he 
has a heifer, onljf two years old last spring, 
which made in the flush of her milking, 12 lbs. 
3 oz. of butter |per week, and now, seven 
months after calting, is making over 7 lbs. 
per week. She $ probably one of a small 
herd, and well kept, but this report is only a 
specimen of those|frequently sent me, and they 
indicate that success with Jerseys, is by no 
means confined to the older breeders of the 
Eastern States; they seem perfectly adapted 
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