. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. FAVOIRITE AMERICAN CROSS-BRED CATTLE. 399 well as the careass, of the ijnule, are enlarged. So that you really have a better cow, in all ])oints, in a high-grade Jersey than in a thoroughbred. By ' all points ' I mean production, economy in keeping, form, size, and beauty. I feel confident that if these facts were known and appreciated, and pure Jersey bulls were generally used in the dairy districts of America, a raes of cows could be pro- duced, bj' raising the heifer calves of the
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. FAVOIRITE AMERICAN CROSS-BRED CATTLE. 399 well as the careass, of the ijnule, are enlarged. So that you really have a better cow, in all ])oints, in a high-grade Jersey than in a thoroughbred. By ' all points ' I mean production, economy in keeping, form, size, and beauty. I feel confident that if these facts were known and appreciated, and pure Jersey bulls were generally used in the dairy districts of America, a raes of cows could be pro- duced, bj' raising the heifer calves of the best milkers, that would double the annual products of the average herds as they now are, and this with ence. The largest yield of milk per day of any cow I have ever bred was 57 lbs., and the largest yield of butter in one week, 17i weighed pounds, both jn-oduced when fresh on grass, and (i ipiarts of ground feed jwr ; Mr. Fitch furnishes the accompanying portrait of one of his cross-bred Jersey-Ayrshire heifers. This one is about two years old, has been in milk four or five mouths, and yields on grass and two quarts of bran, 17 lbs. or ISlbs. of milk a day, which makes rather more than one jjound of Fig. 215.— bred Jersey-Ateshike Heifek. but a small outlay for thoroughbred Jersey sires. The animals bred and handled by me number many hundreds. The best age to allow heifers to calve the first time is when they are about two years old and at grass. I make it a rule to turn the bull with my j-oung heifers on the 23th of August each year, making it certain that they will have their first calf in pasture where they can choose their place to bring forth their young as nature shall dictate. They almost invariably do well, and make better cows than to come in a year later. I never had a ease of milk fever in my herd, and think they would be quite rare if cows were not forced w'ith high feed and fussed with. I have only had four or five cases of abortion in m
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