1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
129 
A GOOD OLD BUTTER COW. 
A. D. Baker, ex-president of the New 
York Dairymen’s Association, sends us 
a photograph of the cow pictured on 
first page, Fig. 38. He says that this 
cow was exhibited at the New York 
State Fair, where she took third place, 
the judge cutting her for lack of “con¬ 
stitution.” Mr. Baker would like to 
have our readers study her record, and 
see whether there was anything uncon¬ 
stitutional about it. The cow’s name is 
Emas Pearl 57485. In her three-year- 
old form she was purchased from 
Meadow Brook Farm by E. W. Mosher, 
of Aurora, N. Y. Mr. Mosher gives her 
yearly lecord in pounds as follows: 
1894 . 10,08416 
1895 . 10,045 
1896 . 10,68716 
1898 . 10,492 
From September 9, 1898, to Septem¬ 
ber 9, 1899, she gave 13,167% pounds. 
In order to see what this cow could do, 
Mr. Mosher took her when nine years, 
nine months old, and gave her a care¬ 
ful test of one week. During that time 
she produced 365 pounds, 12 ounces of 
milk, which made 21 pounds, 12 ounces 
of butter. The 30 days’ yield was 1,522% 
pounds of milk, which made 87 pounds, 
5 ounces of printed butter. Her best 
daily yield of milk was 53% pounds. 
Her average for the past six years is 
10,781 pounds per year, and she has only 
been dry 11 weeks in all that time. It 
must be remembered, too, that during 
the same time she spent three weeks in 
taking care or her calves, no account 
being taken of the milk they consumed. 
This old cow, besides giving many times 
her weight of milk, has contributed 
nobly to posterity, her family consist¬ 
ing of four sons and three daughters. 
Two of her daughters have to their 
credit, in their two-year-old form, 
7,450% and 7,586 pounds of milk. The 
average milk of the two gives a Bab¬ 
cock test of 5.4 per cent fat. Her grand¬ 
daughters, through her sons, have 
milked over 30 pounds per day with first 
calf, without a bit of forcing. A human 
being with such an industrial record as 
that, would stop and spend the rest of 
iife in telling about it. The old cow 
does not do that, for she is still at work, 
and during 1899 she produced 12,344% 
pounds of milk. 
To show that it “runs in tne family,” 
we may say that one of her daughters, 
with third calf, produced in the same 
year 10,094*4 pounds. Of course, this 
old cow is being well cared for. That 
goes without saying. She has never 
been forced, except for her weekly and 
monthly test. Her feed for the week’s 
test was ^8 pounds of bran, 28 
pounds of ground oats, and 28 
pounds of corn meal, making her daily 
feed 12 pounds of the even mixture. Mr. 
Baker says he thinks that when the 
judge placed her in third place on ac¬ 
count of a lack of constitution, he made 
a great mistake. As we said above, 
there is very little that seems unconsti¬ 
tutional in the work that this cow has 
performed. Mr. Baker says that he does 
not know where in New York a cow 
can be found that can show a better 
record than Mrs. E. Pearl. She cer¬ 
tainly seems to be a “pearl of great 
price,” and she ought to be worth a small 
fortune. Her picture is taken from life. 
It has not been touched up at all, but 
there she stands right in her working 
clothes, just exactly as she did her work. 
It is a good time now to stop and com¬ 
pare the work of this old cow with the 
v/ork of the average New York State 
cow. Of course, Mrs. E. Pearl has re¬ 
ceived better care than the average, but 
does it not show what can be done with 
good cows and good care? The per¬ 
formance of an average cow and aver¬ 
age care is stamped upon many a New 
York State farm in the form of a galling 
mortgage, so that it is hardly necessary 
to have a picture of the average cow. 
Of course, we do not pretend to say that 
it is possible in the lifetime of the aver¬ 
age man to make every cow in New 
York State as useful as this one is. At 
the same time such illustrations are 
needed to show farmers the possibilities 
that lie in dairying. We cannot all 
hope to reach our ideals, but we get 
closer to them by struggling and work¬ 
ing along the road that others have fol¬ 
lowed. 
Calves Without Milk. 
I note with interest the letters about 
growing calves. 1 have six cows. One 
was reared with skim-rnnk and four 
with Blatchforu's calf meal. One I 
bought a year ago. The youngest is in 
the seconu generation with the calf 
meal. I never have any trouble with 
scours, and the calves are thrifty and 
of good me—never fat. i have two 
now that can hoid their tails straight 
up to run a race. Our milk is worth / 
four cents a quart at the farm, ana 
1 cut it oft entirely at two weeks of 
age. e. l. s. 
A recent H. N.-Y. was especially in¬ 
teresting to us in the discussion on rais¬ 
ing calves without milk. We sell ail 
our milk ana raise all the heifers from 
our best cows without milk. Have in 
the barn now 20 we have raised. We 
give them all the mother’s milk for 
first three days; then one quart of new 
mnk and two quarts of porridge, made 
oy taking four ounces mixed feed, three 
ounces corn meal, three ounces oil 
meal. Mix it witn one teaspoonful salt; 
pour on it boiling water; stir constantly, 
ooil two or three minutes. Mix with the 
milk and feed when cool enough. We 
never lost out one calf, and that by too 
much oil meal; never naa but one case 
of scours. We always feed from clean 
tin pails that are washed and scalded 
each time; feed only twice a day. I 
think if the men would oe more careful 
aoout the cleanliness of the pails the 
calves would have less bowel troubles. 
All women know the necessity of hav¬ 
ing clean bottles for tne babies. I per¬ 
sonally cook and measure out the feed 
to the calves. Feed the porridge until 
four months old. We purchased, eight 
years ago, an old, run-down farm. We 
are only book farmers, but thinic we 
have it started now. Have 23 cows, 20 
young stock, four horses, nine ewes, and 
over 100 Single Comb White Eeghorns. 
• MRS. J. L. f. 
Granby, Mass. 
No butter coi.or needed for a good herd 
of Jerseys or Guernseys, Winter or Summer. 
Nearest to pasture for roughage in Winter 
is good silage, i would not approve of the 
use of color in any dairy unless branded 
so, and sold for what it is, the same as oleo 
and bogus stuff should be. Give the cow 
an honest competitor, brooks & pidgeon. 
Salem, Ohio. 
The Babcock Test.— We are still asked 
what the Babcock test is. This test is 
based on the fact that the solids of milK 
which are not fat will dissolve in sulphuric 
acid. When a certain amount of sulphuric 
acid is put into a certain amount of milk, 
everything but the fat is dissolved, and 
when the whole thing is shaken up and left 
to stand, the fat rises to the top. By put¬ 
ting it into a glass bottle which has a very 
narrow top to it, the fat rises up into this- 
narrow neck, where it can be measured. 
The plan of the Babcock test is to take a 
fair sample of milk, add a certain amount 
of acid to it, and also a certain amount of 
water, then the bottle containing this milk 
is put into a machine which whirls and 
shakes it up. Then it is left alone, until 
the fat rises to the top, where it is meas¬ 
ured, and then the operator knows that the 
milk contains a certain per cent of fat. 
The Texas Stockman says that a bunch 
of Indiana calves and yearlings recently 
marketed at Chicago averaged 960 pounds, 
and brought $6.50 per 100. 
Butter Color.— Our business being con¬ 
fined principally to milk and cream, we 
have not had very extensive experience in 
buttermaking. I have, however, seen a 
number of herds of both Guernseys and 
Jerseys, whose milk produces butter of 
perfect color in Winter without the help of 
artificial coloring. The feeds which are 
held in favor for giving a bright color to 
the butter fats are rowen and clover hay. 
These are also favorite feeds with us, 
since it is almost as important for milk 
to produce a high color as for butter. 
Silage and brewers’ grains are the two 
worst feeds that can be fed to give color 
to milk or butter. In my opinion the ob¬ 
jection to the use of artificial coloring 
matter is largely sentimental. It would 
certainly be unjust to other breeds to pro¬ 
hibit the use of coloring matter, unless 
such use could be shown to be dangerous 
to the public health. 
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