1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
839 
RECORD YIELDS OF DAIRY COWS. 
Several of The R. N.-Y.’s subscribers 
would like a list of the cows that have made 
butter and milk records; names, place, dates 
and how long held by them. a. h. p. 
We give below statements made by the 
secretary of the American Jersey Cattle Club 
and the Superintendent of Advanced Registry 
of the IIolstein-Friesian Association of 
America. 
What the Jerseys Have Done. 
The records of tests of Jersey cows 
which have been made from time to time 
are contained in two volumes published 
by the Club, a consolidated book, price 
$2, and subsequent volujne, $1. We would 
refer you to these books for full informa¬ 
tion on the subject. The butter record 
has been held by the Jerseys at all times, 
undoubtedly. The highest year’s record is 
by Bisson’s Belle 31144; 1,028 pounds 
15-54 ounces butter; 8,412 pounds 7 ounces 
milk. The test was made from July 15, 
1890, to July 15, 1891; age seven years 
four months at beginning of test; esti¬ 
mated weight, 950 pounds; fed daily 24 
quarts grain; property of Maury Jersey 
Farm, Columbia, Tenn.; Wm. J. Webster, 
president. The highest 30-days’ record is 
held by Exile’s Belle 40524; butter 122 
pounds 6)4 ounces; milk 902 pounds eight 
ounces; test made from July 12 to August 
11, 1891; age four years 11 months at end 
of test; actual weight, 1,030 pounds; fed 
960 quarts grain (mixed cornmeal, cotton¬ 
seed meal, bran and ground oats) and 600 
pounds of hay; property of A. D. Mc¬ 
Bride, Rochester, N. Y. Most Of the Jer¬ 
sey tests have been for seven days. The 
highest official record for this period is 
held by Princess 2d 8046; 46 pounds 12)4 
ounces. j. j. Hemingway. 
What the Hobtein Breeders Claim. 
Private milk record: Aaggie 901 PI. Pi. 
B., owned by Smiths & Powell, Syracuse, 
N. Y., 18,004 5-16 pounds milk in one full 
year, 1880-1. Pietertje 2d 3273 PP. PI. B., 
owned by Dallas B. Whipple, Cuba, N. Y., 
30,31814 pounds milk in one full year, 
1887-8. Semi-official record: Clothilde 
1308 Pi. PI. B., owned by Smiths & Powell, 
Syracuse, N. Y., 26,081)4 pounds milk in 
one full year, 1885-6. Official record: 
Belle Sarcastic 23039 PI. F. PI. B., owned 
by Michigan Agricultural College, Agri¬ 
cultural College P. O., Mich., 21,075.8 
pounds milk in one full year, 1895-6. Made 
by Mich. Agrl. Exp. Station. Private 
butter records: Pauline Paul 2199 PI. PP. 
B., owned by J. B. Dutcher & Son, Pawl¬ 
ing, N. Y., 1,153 pounds 1554 ounces but¬ 
ter by churn in one full year, 1890-1. 
Largest thirty-day record 128 pounds 13)4 
ounces butter by churn. Official year’s 
record of butter fat: Belle Sarcastic 23039 
PP. F. PP. B., owned by Michigan Agricul¬ 
tural College, 721.68 pounds of butter fat, 
equivalent to 841 pounds 15.4 ounces but¬ 
ter by the 85.7 per cent rule, 1895-6. Made 
by Mich. Agrl. Exp. Station. 
Official thirty-day records of butter fat, 
classified according to the rules of the 
Holstein-Friesian Association, made under 
the auspices of State experiment stations: 
Largest of a cow five years old or over, 
Sadie Vale Concordia 32259 PP. F. H. B., 
owned by Me Adam & Van Heyne, Deans- 
boro, N. Y.; 98.937 pounds of butter fat, 
equivalent to 115 pounds 6.8 ounces but¬ 
ter by the 85.7 per cent rule, 1902-3. Larg¬ 
est of a cow between four and a half and 
five years old, Aaggie Cornucopia Pauline 
48426 PP. F. PP. B., owned by PP. D. Roe, 
Augusta, N. J.; 110.093 pounds of butter 
fat, equivalent to 128 pounds 7.1 ounces 
butter by the 85.7 per cent rule, 1903-4. 
Largest of a cow between four and four 
and one-half years old. Alcartra Polkadot 
50798 IP. F. PP. B., owned by E. E. Ran¬ 
dall, Watertown, Wis.; 78.483 pounds of 
butter fat, equivalent to 91 pounds nine 
ounces butter by the 85.7 per cent rule, 
1903-4. Largest of a cow between three 
and a half and four years old, DeKol 
Douglas 50667 PI. F. H. B., owned by E. 
E. Randall, Watertown. Wis.; 74.003 
pounds of butter fat, equivalent to 86 
pounds 5.4 ounces butter by the 85.7 per 
cent rule, 1903-4. Largest of a cow be¬ 
tween three years and three and a half 
years old, A. & G. Tnka McKinley 55163 
IP. F. PP. B., owned by H. A. Moyer, Syr¬ 
acuse, N. Y.; 76.386 pounds of butter fat, 
equivalent to 89 pounds 1.9 ounces butter 
by the 85.7 per cent rule, 1903-4. Largest 
of a cow between two and a half and three 
years old, Juliana DeKol 55792 IP. P\ PI. 
B., owned by Chas. D. Pierce, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal.; 73.975 pounds of butter fat, 
equivalent to 86 pounds 4.9 ounces butter 
by the 85.7 per cent rule, 1903-4. largest 
of a cow under two and one-half years 
old, De Natsey Baker 55471 PP. F. PP. B., 
owned by Chas. D. Pierce, San Francisco, 
Cal.; 56.523 pounds of butter fat, equiv¬ 
alent to 65 pounds 15.1 ounces butter by 
the 85.7 per cent rule, 1902-3. 
CONCRETE OR BOARDS FOR STA BLE 
On page 651 in an article on concrete for 
stable biiilding, the writer advises using no 
lumber for floor or anything. Would he have 
horses and cows lie on the bare concrete floor? 
Would he not use boards over the concrete 
for horse or cow to lie on? lie neglects to 
say what thickness floors, gutters and man¬ 
gers should be. I want to build a house that 
will do for two dorses, three cows, and if 
possible a manure pit where the liquid ma¬ 
nure can run in on top of tlie solid. At 
present I have one horse, one cow ; they are 
at opposite ends of the barn and cause a lot 
of work to keep them clean. I wish to put 
them in one house and have it so manure can 
be thrown out to manure pit from behind 
each animal without having to go outside; 
also liquid manure to run into pit. j. c. 
Nyack, Is'. Y. 
Concrete is a conductor of heat, and is 
therefore not suited for animals to lie 
upon without bedding. If one will not 
use bedding, then cover with plank, but 
this really makes a botch of the job, and 
I therefore protest against it. I speak 
from experience, because our cows, young 
animals, hogs, hens and horses are on 
concrete, without plank, but with straw 
bedding. Make the grouting from cement 
one part; sand five parts; gravel or 
crushed stone five parts, and about four 
inches thick; then cover with sand two 
parts, cement one part, thoroughly mixed, 
from 1)4 to two inches thick, putting this 
last coat on before the first is hard. Fin¬ 
ish with a board trowel, leaving a rough 
surface. 
If you will use bedding and put the 
horse manure in the gutter behind the 
cows there will be no liquid to drain away. 
Both solids and liquids can be readily 
handled on a wagon. Make the cow plat¬ 
form level 22 inches back from manger 
base; then raise floor 1)4 inch, slanting 
the remainder 36 inches to the gutter, 
which should be eight inches deep and 16 
inches wide. Do not be afraid of con¬ 
crete floors under conditions here men¬ 
tioned. I might add that manure,in the 
condition I have mentioned will never be 
worth more, and should therefore go di¬ 
rect to the land, and save the expense of 
building a pit._ h. e. c. 
STOCK RAISING IN FLORIDA. 
As to forage crops I know of no State that 
can produce more forage than Florida. Our 
native grasses are good. Bermuda does well, 
then we have beggar weed, any and all of the 
cow peas. Velvet beans and peanuts. All are 
good, easily and cheaply grown, and give good 
yields. I am breaking ground now to sow 
Alfalfa and vetch. I have tried Alfalfa twice, 
the first time without inoculating the soil, 
and made a complete failure. Last year I 
used soil from an old Alfalfa field, and am 
so well satisfied with the result that I am 
preparing to sow five acres. I shall use some 
soil and some of the United States Depart¬ 
ment bacteria for inoculation. I feel quite 
confident of success, and think the Alfalfa 
seed should be sown now. although it was in 
December that I sowed last year. I am now 
sowing Burr clover and Melilofus. I saw 
both of those growing in good shape at St. 
Augustine last Spring, and as far'down the 
east coast as New Smyrna. I have some soil 
from St. Augustine that I am using with the 
Burr clover. I am using the seed in the 
burr, as I believe more or less of the bacteria 
will adhere to the burr. Rape does well here, 
and I am planting five acres of that. I have 
about 250 head of cattle. I have used the 
native cow, and am crossing with the Short¬ 
horn bull. I have some half-bred heifers, 
two years old last Spring. A few of them 
have calves; this gives me the three-fourths 
bred calf. I am growing beef cattle entirely, 
and am quite well pleased with my success 
so far. 
If some of your eastern dairymen could be 
in this country and get the price for milk 
and butter prevailing here, they would feel 
that their money was coming too easy. I 
know of but one half-way up-to-date dairy in 
the State. The owner tells me he sells no 
butter for less than 35 cents per pound, and 
has a good many regular customers at 50 
cents per pound. I believe a man well locat¬ 
ed could sell all the ice cream he could make 
at a handsome profit, and feed the skim-milk 
to pigs. By being well located I do not mean 
near a town or city, hut near a railroad <#n 
good. land. lie would want to ship to Jack¬ 
sonville and Tampa, and his business would 
be all the year. I have 12 pure-bred Berk¬ 
shire brood sows, and keep them under fence. 
I find them profitable. I am now starting in 
sheep, having bought five purebred Dorset 
ewes and a ram. I expect to get native ewes 
here, and raise lambs. I cannot see why I 
cannot produce the hothouse lamb here at 
half the cost that he is made in the North. I 
need no shelter, and can always have green 
feed for him, either oats, rye, vetch. Burr 
clover or rape, and I can grow all corn, etc., 
that I need. I have made a nice crop of 
Soy beans this year. I grew about 100 acres 
of corn; this I cut off with a corn harvester, 
and shocked in the field until it was dry 
enough to haul to the barn. I have a Smalley 
cutter with snapper rolls. 1 run the corn 
through this, snapping off the ears and put¬ 
ting the cut fodder in the loft with a carrier. 
I use a nine-horse-power gasoline engine. I 
have good hammock land, and have grown 
40 bushels of corn per acre without manure 
or fertilizer of any kind; good pine land 
properly cultivated produces good crops. 
Marlon Co., Fla. s. h. gaitskill. * 
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