A PROFITABLE COW.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 627, 13 December 1913, Page 6

A PROFITABLE COW.

Mr 8. F. Edge, whose model dairy farm at Ditchling, in Sussex, is famous, wires to the Express, Londo:', as follows: — "In a recent issue there is a reference to a wonderful milk record for a Jersey cow in Houghton County. Michigan. A record of this sort, however, is, as is well known, made through abnormal circumstances without consideration for the future welfare of the cow. I think a little island bred Jersey heifer named Wax Vesta, which I own, is a wonderful milk producing machine. I have found that by proper feeding and particularly by correct exercise 1 can try practically any good Jersey heifer and get equally good, and in some ease 3 better, results. This little heifer with her first calf was 383 days in milk and gave nearly nine times her own weight in milk—and remember jersey milk is the richest and best, having almost twice the butter fat of the ordinary Shorthorn milk which is usually suppied by dairymen. With her second calf she has now been 215 days in milk, and has given nearly nine and a half times her own weight, and as I propose to keep her in milk for another 100 days, on a vary conservative estimate she will give at least twelve times her own weight in 315 days. "It every farmer would keep milk records and see that his cattle were really kept in thoroughly healthy condition, the milk would he better and purer, and every cow would give a greater quantity. Under my system I could prove that any ordinary cow of a suitable age, treated as I treat mine, will give a greater quantity of milk than she has ever given before; it is merely applying business and l health rules to animals."