NEW YORK, FEBRUARY i, 1896. 
$1.00 PER YEAR. 
TEN COWS; TWO TONS OF BUTTER. 
STRONG ARGUMENT FOR THE JERSEY COW. 
July 1, 1893, Mr. C. E. Chapman gave the work of 
my dairy. The average per cow then was 331 5-7 
pounds. To show that we are progressing, I send 
you the work of our dairy from January 1 to Decem¬ 
ber 31, 1895. 
Age, 
Days in 
,-Mi 
ilk 
Name and Hird Register Number. Years. 
Milk. 
Pounds. 
Ounces. 
Daisy’s Last 46376. 
9 
365 
8,997 
8 
Vagabond ia 58726. 
8 
320 
7,153 
1 
Daisy Mugwump 61012. 
8 
294 
6,833 
6 
Eurio Queen 54733. 
300 
5.265 
1 
Easter Daisy 77340. 
5 
320 
5,051 
5 • 
Marampos Nettie 84499. 
4 
365 
6,898 
9 
Marampos Buttercup 92808. 
3 
320 
6,659 
9 
Marampos Queen 92812. 
3 
365 
5,952 
4 
Marampos Flora 92807. 
3 
320 
5.721 
7 
Marampos Butterfly 92809. 
3 
300 
3,927 
1 
Total. 
,.62.459 
3 
Average. 
14 
Butter. 
Average . 
We have used the churn test, it not being convenient 
to use the Babcock test continually ; but each cow 
has had a fat test. We find that it takes 15 pounds of 
position of your correspondent, keeping cows that 
gave us about 125 pounds of butter per year. We 
were about to give up and go out of the dairy busi¬ 
ness, when we were induced to visit a herd of Jerseys. 
What we saw and learned there, we shall never for¬ 
get; but the result was the purchase of a bull calf. 
When he was old enough for service, we bred our 
cows to him, and we obtained some very good heifer 
calves. When they came fresh at two years of age, 
they gave as much milk as their mature dames, and 
made one-third more butter. We were so well pleased 
with their work, that we decided to keep nothing but 
purebreds. One of those heifers after she became 
mature, made over 400 pounds of butter, three years 
in succession. Another made 504 pounds in a year. 
In all these years, the Jersey cow has never failed 
us. When sickness came, she paid the doctor’s bill. 
When the lightning burned our barns and all their 
contents, she helped build the new one. And now she 
has taken another obligation, that of putting the boys 
through school, and while she has done all these 
ditions, the herd averaged 3G7 pounds of butter per 
cow—the herd numbering about 50. Of course there 
are three things that contribute to this success. In 
the first place, the cows are well bred. They are 
chiefly of the St. Lambert and Stoke Pogis 3d strains, 
and not only were the foundation animals good, but 
by watchful selection and skillful mating, their good 
qualities have been developed and improved.. In the 
next place, the cattle were fed and cared for so that 
they were kept happy and satisfied ; and last, but not 
least, they were crossed with the kind of man who 
knows how to make a success of dairying. Cow, feed 
and man are the great dairy trinity, and it is hard to 
say, after all, which is most important. 
In speaking of his herd and his methods of caring 
for it, Mr, R. says : 
“I have my cows fresh in February and March, and 
make butter the entire year, milking until within two 
weeks of coming in. This is something that must be 
done in order to secure a great butter record. I feed 
my milch cows one bushel of fine cut ensilage morn- 
JERSEYS IN THE SHOW RING. A GROUP OF BUTTERMAKERS AT THE DUTCHESS COUNTY (N. Y.) FAIR. 
mixed milk of the dairy for one pound of finished 
butter. The cows have not been crowded to do this 
work, but have worked at a disadvantage. We made 
a mistake in the spring, and did not put in a soiling 
crop ; through the drought, we did not have any green 
feed. Then butter was so low that we thought that we 
could not afford to feed grain, so no grain was fed 
from the time the cows went to pasture in May until 
some came fresh in September. 
This herd is all of my own breeding, with one ex¬ 
ception. In a recent issue, a correspondent says that 
he is sick of scrubs, and wants to know what breed to 
take—Jersey or Guernsey. The R. N.-Y. says to the 
breeders, “ Fire away ! ” We did not fire at once, as 
our gun was a muzzle loader, and the charge was not 
all in, and we did not finish loading until December 
31. In the meantime, we have anxiously watched for 
some of the big breeders to fire off some of their 
modern breech loaders ; but as yet we have heard 
nothing from them, and as we are loaded we will 
shoot our old musket. 
Twenty-one years ago, we were in about the same 
things, at the same time she has been constantly lift¬ 
ing the mortgage from the farm. She has never 
bolted or gone on a strike, but has ever been faithful 
and true. If your correspondent should ever be 
called upon to go through any of these experiences, 
and wishes a cow to keep his head above water, the 
Jersey is the cow. Andrew baker. 
Mapleton Farm, Tompkins County, N. Y. 
THE BUSINESS JERSEY COM. 
WHAT SHE DOES WITH A GOOD PARTNER. 
Mr. Myron Reightmyer of Schoharie County, N. Y., 
has a herd of business Jerseys of which he is justly 
proud. This herd was originally started by J. D. 
Mitchell of Bovina, and when the celebrated “cow 
census” of Delaware County was taken, it was found 
that an average of 362 pounds of butter for each cow 
in the herd had been actually sold to a New York 
commission house. This was aside from the milk and 
butter used in the family and considerable whole 
milk that was fed to calves. In 1894, under like con¬ 
Fig. 25. 
ing and night, and two quarts of grain thrown on the 
ensilage each time. At present, the grain is one-lialf 
buckwheat middlings at .$13 per ton, and the other 
one-half is corn-and-cob meal. At noon, they are 
fed straw or stalks, and are watered twice each 
day. Young cattle are fed the same, except their 
grain, which is equal parts whole oats and wheat 
bran. I have running water in the barns, and my 
cattle are not let out in storms. The cattle are very 
thoroughly groomed. 
“We feed ensilage until grass comes. I sow five 
acres to oats and peas for 20 cows—three bushels to 
the acre, 1% bushel oats and 1)4 peas. I sow at three 
different times. The first sowing is just as early in 
the spring as possible, the next 10 days later, and 
again in 10 days. Each sowing is cut and fed until 
the grain becomes too hard, when it is cut for grain. 
These three successive sowings give the very best of 
a soiling crop for six weeks. This is succeeded by 
sweet corn planted May 20—10 days later than the 
general corn crop. Besides this, I feed from 200 to 
500 bushels of apples each fall, many loads of purp.p* 
