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THE HURAIi NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock and Dairy 
A BROWN SWISS DAIRY FARM. 
Like all breeds of good dairy cattle 
the Brown Swiss lias very justly its 
ardent advocates. Among the enthusias¬ 
tic friends of the breed is the former 
president of the State Dairymen’s As¬ 
sociation, I. L. Hunt of Jefferson Coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. I recently visited Mr. Hunt’s 
herd, and got his estimate of the value 
of the Brown Swiss. In establishing 
his herd some 25 or more years ago 
he purchased two cows, one of them 
being Flida 553, and this cow has been 
the foundation of his herd. Flida was 
a Florine, and Mr. Hunt has stayed 
by the Florines right along. He now 
has 32 cows and considerable young 
stock. He has practiced line breeding, 
and has the largest number of Florines 
to be found in any herd. It has not 
been the practice to crowd the cows for 
production, but simply to treat them as 
a good farmer would for the purpose 
of securing a profitable production of 
milk. 
Speaking of old Flida, Mr. Hunt re¬ 
marked that for 10 years in succession 
she gave over 11,000 pounds of milk a 
year, and often produced 65 pounds on 
grass alone with two milkings a day. 
This cow died three years ago, but gave 
It has been said that the Brown Swiss 
lack dairy conformation and are inclined 
to be beef 3 ^. Mr. Hunt takes issue with 
this notion and insists that they have a 
distinctively dairy conformation. That 
they are heavy goes without discussion, 
and the carcasses make good beef, but 
the prime requisite of a Brown Swiss 
cow is that she be of a milking strain 
and that she have a form in harmony 
with her purpose. Doubtless form has 
had less to do with her breeding than 
in the case of some of the other breeds. 
The bulls of the breed have strong pre¬ 
potency and the grades retain the char¬ 
acteristics of the breed to such an ex¬ 
tent that they are difficult of distinction 
from purebreds by reason of confirma¬ 
tion or color. They also possess strong 
milking qualities derived from the Swiss 
parentage. 
Testing was begun last year by the 
Brown Swiss Breeders’ Association. 
Thirty-two animals went into the year 
through test and made an average of 
10,860 pounds of milk, and 429 pounds 
of butter fat. This represents slightly 
over 536 pounds of butter on the usual 
figuring of 25 per cent overrun. The 
official records will be continued, and 
there is no reason why they should not 
compare most favorably with those that 
have been longer under test regulations. 
For feeding the cows on Mr. Hunt’s 
farm there is a good supply of silage, 
there being two silos, each 16x30 feet. 
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birth to a strong healthy calf when she 
was nearly 23 years old. Mr. Hunt’s 
herd on the system of feeding used, and 
with no expert attention and no forcing, 
produces an average a little better than 
8,000 pounds a year. Last year two 
cows of the herd gave a little over 14,- 
000 pounds each. I am sure we may as 
well give up the idea that Brown Swiss 
are small producers. Reference has 
been made to the advanced age of a 
good cow, that did not break down early 
under high production. The breed is 
conceded to be exceptionally long-lived 
and healthy. Their average milking 
period is claimed to be three to five 
years longer than other breeds. Of this 
I can only say that Mr. Hunt’s herd 
possesses characteristics of strong vi¬ 
tality. 
It is true that we have not a large 
number of Brown Swiss cattle in this 
country, and there have been no impor¬ 
tations in recent years. That importa¬ 
tions are not made is in no sense due to 
a lack of demand or of desire on the 
part of the friends of the breed. Our 
government has a quarantine against 
cattle on the continent, because of the 
foot and mouth disease which has a 
foothold, particularly in Austria and 
other sections, and this works to keep 
out the Brown Swiss. That they are 
popular is evidenced by the demand that 
is made for all cattle offered for sale. 
This demand is because of the produc¬ 
tion of milk and the strong constitution 
and vigor of the animals. I have omit¬ 
ted to mention the rather high percent¬ 
age of fat in the milk of these cows. It 
seems to be a little over four per cent. 
The milk is in demand for market pur¬ 
poses and has been offered a premium 
in some cases where a fine grade is de¬ 
sired. 
These are filled completely every year 
from the 20 acres of corn grown, and 
there is some of it left after the silos 
have settled and been filled again. 
There is a good supply of clover hay 
and some other hay is fed. As the farm 
consists of 100 acres, 20 of which is in 
corn and 20 seeded with a crop of oats, 
peas and barley, there is left 60 acres 
for clover and other hay, unless some 
soiling crop is grown. The clover and 
grass crops are usually continued three 
years, thus making with the corn and 
clover a five-year rotation. By this sys¬ 
tem 50 head of cows and young stock- 
are kept. I should add, however, that 
when the cows are dry in Summer they 
and the young stock are pastured on an¬ 
other piece of land. Silage is fed to the 
cows for about 60 days in Summer, be¬ 
fore the green feeds are ready for use. 
The grain grown usually thrashes out 50 
bushels to the acre, but in favorable 
years it may go 60. Last season, being 
particularly unfavorable, gave a return 
of only about 40 bushels to the acre. 
This grain is ground and fed to the 
cows, and about $800 worth of cattle 
feeds are purchased. The purchased 
feeds are mostly cotton-seed meal, lin- 
seedmeal, brewers’ grains and mixed 
feed. 
The income from the farm is about 
$4,000 a year. Two men are hired the 
year through, and no other help is em¬ 
ployed except at silo filling. Not much 
fertilizer is purchased and the usual 
running expenses are not high. It is 
istinctively a dairy farm, and there is 
sufficient to do to keep the help em¬ 
ployed all the time. One may readily 
see that on this figuring there is a very 
good margin left after expenses are 
paid. The farm is near the village where 
the owner lives, and he is a frequent 
caller, at the farm, giving considerable 
attention to the details of the farm af¬ 
fairs. The soil of the farm is a loam 
and bv the method of working it is 
increasing in fertility year by year. If 
we consider the farm worth a hundred 
dollars an acre and the interest on 
the investment $500 there figures out a 
nice profit yet after the expenses have 
been met. h. h. l. 
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