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VOL,. XXXII. !No. 16 
WHOLE No. 1342. 
PRICK SIX CENTS, 
*3.65 PKlt PEAR. 
[Entered according to Act ol Congress, in the year 1875, by the Rural Publishing Company, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
of Shaftesbury, Vt., had a cow whose milk 
yielded 504 pounds of butter in 1800, or at the 
rate of one pound of butter from 20 pounds 
of milk. 
An Ayrshire cow recently yielded 399^£ 
pounds of butter in ten mouths after calving, 
or between March 10, 1868, and January 10, 
1867, besides supplying a family with milk 
out of the ground, The effect of such treat¬ 
ment on lambs is much worse than on older 
sheep. Every breeder of experience knows 
that the auimals reaching the highest types 
of perfection are those which got no “ back 
sets” during their first season. To secure 
their thrift during the spring months, when 
the lambs are youug—thus uot requiring a 
large amount of nourishment, 
and when the fresh pasturage 
insures a constant aud liberal 
flow of milk from the ewes, is 
comparatively easy ; but to 
keep up the nutrition in the in¬ 
creased quantities demanded 
by the rapidly-growing animal, 
when meadows and hillsides 
k begin to brown beneath the 
P summer solstice, is often found 
to be a difficult problem. Un¬ 
less the pasture is ample, even 
in the driest season, it should 
be divided so that the flock Is 
not allowed to range over the 
Sr?* whole of it at will. 
As winter approaches, get the 
TV sheep up early, separate the 
lambs—not to “wean” them, 
for That, should have been done 
?&- while pastures were good and 
feed abundant, but for the pur¬ 
pose of giving the lambs a little 
extra feeding of grain, which 
should be continued or alternate 
with roots during the winter. 
JERSEY CATTLE 
KEEP THE LAMBS GROWING. 
As an appropriate comment in connection 
with the accompanying portrait of a Model 
Jersey Bull (an animal that won 
the first prize at a Fair of the fe —— 
New England Ag. Society, and 
subsequently at our New York 
State Fair,) we give the opinion 
of Jerseys as expressed by Mr. • 
T. W. HOUGHTON of Franklin ; 
County, Mass,, for twenty-live E . , 
years a breeder of Jersey cattle. /y 
Mr. T.’s ideas as to the value 
of the Jersey breed may be ' 
summarized as follows : 
Jerseys are not especially de- 
sirable for beef, although the spl 
cows fatten readily when not 
in milk and make a superior |g 
quality of beef. They are not 
remarkable for quantity of : , -1 
milk, but sometimes give twen- > ; V\ 
ty quarts per day. A good Jer- I - A 
sey cow '-ill give as many \ 
pounds of butter per week as fV-g7/ ■ 
she gives quarts of milk per 
day. They are not as hardy as =|kr 
native stock, but with good 3 
care there is no trouble in keep- 1 
ing them. The butter Is hard ; 
and will bear transportation ; VV Ilf/ 
is high colored and has a high ill, " 
flavor. A Jersey bull crossed - 
upon native or Short • Horn 
stock is of the very best. The . 
quantity of butter would be 
The National Live Stock Journal gives 
some advice which is especially timely in 
SHEEP KILLED BY DOGS. 
Acjcohikno to the returns of 
the Department of Agriculture, 
the direct losses of sheep-own- 
greatly increased and the qual- 
ty improved fully 40 per cent. 
the direct losses of sheep- 
ers by the ravages of dogs reach 
■ - - a million of dollars annually in 
wool and mutton, and the indi¬ 
rect loss in the repression of 
sheep husbandry, and the consequent waste 
of a large percentage of the gra^s crop is still 
larger. Reports from 500 counties, represent¬ 
ing about one-fourth of the sheep of the Unit¬ 
ed States, show a total of 79,285 sheep killed 
during 1874 ; and even these returns ure not 
complete. In some of the States the loss is 
from four to eleven per cent, of the whole 
value of the sheep kept. In some States the 
loss is com- 
--- V ^ dog man” 
‘ ' 1 ' “ ' d o e s, or at 
least should, 
/ a -a-,\ among homos 
The suggestion relative to - 
crossing the Jerseys with Short- 
Horn or native stock, is worthy 
the consideration of farmers, and especially 
those engaged in dairying. 
and cream. It must be apparent that the 
proportion of butter will vary not only with 
the breed, but with the season of the j'ear. 
The milk of the Ayrshire cow is generally 
richer in butter than that of the Short-Horn, 
but not so rich as that of the Jersey or Brit¬ 
tany. The best returns of butter are gener¬ 
ally got late in summer or early in the fall— 
September and October. 
view of the approach of winter, short feed 
and cold weather. Too many farmers, even 
in these northern latitudes, allow sheep to 
run at large, roaming over the fields wher¬ 
ever the ground is not too deeply covered by 
snow. This Is bad for the sheep and still 
worse for the pastures, which hungry sheep 
will gnaw close to the roots and in some 
cases eating roots].which frost]_has thrown 
GOOD COWS 
Under the above heading the Canada 
■> Advocate makes the following 
Farmers 1 
statements: 
The largest recorded yield of a single cow 
that is per¬ 
fectly wel 1 _ 
authentic- f ■■-— 
ated, is that j -—--- _ ~ 
butter from 
22 pounds of-—“— - 
milk. 
A Mr. Scott , __, J 
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