Butter Yield.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 45, 22 September 1888, Page 1

Butter Yield.

As there is every prospect of a large dairy industry springing up.in Canter- , bury the experience of a dairyman in one of the eastern states of America, maybe of value. Before a convention of buttermakers he said that he had been dairying/, with forty cows for twenty years and his cows have averaged 1/iOlbs of butter per year, and with that he was satisfied. His returns were about £7 lOs'per cow. One day he read in the New York Tribune the experience. of a man who tested- his cows separately, and' Was greatly surprised at the difference he discovered in the amount of butter produce derived. Etc was so much impressed with the ngures that .he resolved to take the trouble to testnis own herd. ■ AeeordHtfgly L he arranged to keep the mijk uf ■each cow separate, and churn the produce S?eacfc by; itself, until' he ' could 1 dMerMrie the l 'extact results and see whether -it wSiilßFb£ ; besirto^ggfe'gatß tShe-'cocWß iud'BdSmxe 1 himself hF if ftture^m offeprlhFol the best. The reßult I{ af' : tiiiB o;!ißx.pyniitnenjb- was; astoflishl tfg^froui HEq '•■ ifirst. Ha:found 1 '61 (l hiß herdvuiried aU^he'w^yifrohi'iSlbs^to :40lbs iper>cowi IJBat thSsiwas n(k ill. f?ome of the lightest milfeeFs'pTiidueed the. moat, butter,- 1 flat heticoctf mended ; raising , only Jfcßejheifersio^tb© 'btist , butter producers-for-iis own use, seli ling<if l atlrth#[o@ferM'gnaaa a^short i time .hoifounAjihocdMfcfl increased' the i averaged -of r w hßrdpfrom 150lbs fo 266lW'a year^ c^wflu increase of 1161b|*~p^i cow per Tear, 6f J a ; mbhey ! prpdtic'e; r (^%i2 B Bi s!ttstead oif >leV *W8> a mF- to improved herd ate no .more~ahd took no more care thi*n : tiM»M B^^'ln^^Jert can 1 o^^ %3» beaftcowb fo^^t^'iby^fieir^m^B and [appearance, m^M^'ur^'wSy'^s to test their proaiice^tfdlbsisl^^tlie ©arwMan (: %w? 'survival ot'tiie fittest.— Christehurch Pressf" - i; '' i : ' l °