DAIRY JOTTINGS.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 72, 7 March 1918, Page 4

DAIRY JOTTINGS.

* Crimson Rambler, an American Ayrshire cow, is reported to have just completed her ninth cumulative yearly average of 10,372 lb of milk, yielding 374.9 lb butter fat. She is a strong, rugged cow of the old red Ayrshire type, a sure breeder, and an easy keeper. Her lowest yield was 7988 lb milk, 277 lb fat, as a two-year-old.

Jessy of Buffalo, an Ayrshire cow, owned by R. E. Lynch, Minnesota, has just qualified for the American Ayrshire Advanced Registry as a 16-year-old with a production of 9076 lb milk, containing 343.80 lb butter fat. She was born on March 4, 1901, and began her official test at the age of 15 years 47 days, thus making her official record as a 16-year-old cow.

It has been demonstrated that a badly-bred pig, fed under the same conditions as a modern well bred animal, will not gain within half a pound a day as much pork as his more aristocratic relation will put on. It is therefore easily seen that, whereas the one consumes just as much money as the other, the well-bred specimen returns nearly twice as much, because he will not have to be kept nearly so long to get the same weight and his flesh will, being more quickly produced, be far the most valuable.

An export says that pigs should not be depastured on small areas where there is other live stock. The droppings of pigs are objectionable on a pasture where cows or sheep are feeding. The herbage should also be of good length, as the formation of a pig’s mouth debars it from making a living on a bare, sunburnt pasture. Lucerne or clover make ideal pasture for pigs. Rape also is good, although somewhat heating. To bo profitable the pig must bo strong, healthy, a quick grower, and rapid fattener. In order to secure these qualities the selection of parents of the right sort is absolutely essential. Farmers should got rid of a sow that is not a good breeder and a good mother. If she throws litter after litter of but five or six pigs, or a greater number of which about half die after a few days, or if she eats the pigs, which is frequently the case when they are weakly, feed her up for the butcher, she is in her wrong place i : as a breeder.