A SUSSEX MILKER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1506, 14 March 1887, Page 4

A SUSSEX MILKER.

In Arthur Youn^'a " Anna's of Agriculture," he thus reports :— William King gardner to Lord HampJen, at r;jy u do; haß a red cow of the Susex breed which m )787, two or time weeks after weaning the c4f, gave 10 lb of butter per week for flomo weeks ; aud, m 1788, the same cow gave 9£ lb for cc.mc w*eks, 9 lb for several more, and. then for tho rest of the summer 8£ lb to 8 , tli U c present frut 7ib, ai»d Blnce the frost 4 lb. This summer fifteea were made of her m<lk about 6 lb <ah ; co that, m the height of tor milking she gave 10 lb cf butter and 12 lb of cheese per week fche never at any tin:e, excaeded five gallons per day. Towards winter she had a bißhel of bran pnr week for twenty wetks, which the profit of pjgs more than paid for. Four or fivj years ago, the name person had a tine black cow frcra Lo:d Ga ? e'e, which also aave, m the height of the season, five gallmaa d*y. let not more than slb par week of butter could be churnei froax it ; and they remarked, ea a fact ihey had often no iced that the milk of a black cow never gives bo much bu:ter as that of a p a*v. J c ? eßfc part of thia atOf y »« Artnur Youns a own reflsotion with which he reads the paragraph. " ObeervatioDß of this sort ehould always be noiei, because a great number of results will furnish something better than conjecture. Wo shall, however, be very mmh m the dark till experiments ara made as to tho quality of food eaten by all sorts of oittle.