A SUSSEX MILKER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1560, 24 March 1887, Page 3

A SUSSEX MILKER.

In Arthur Young's “ Annuls of Agriculture," he thus reports William King, gardener to Lord Hampden, at Qlynde, has a red oow of the Sussex breed, which in 1787, two or three weeks after weaning the calf, gave 101 b of butter per week for some weeks; and, in 1788, the same cow gave 9jlb for some weeks, 91b for several more, and then for the rest of the Hummer B*lh to 81b, till the present frost 71b, and since the frost 41b. This summer fifteen cheeses were made of her milk about 61b each ; so that, in the height of her milking she gave 101 b of butter and 121 bof cheese per week. She never at any time exceeded five gallons per day. Towards winter she bad a bushel of bran per week for twenty-five weeks, which the profit of pigs more than pa ; d for. four or five years ago, the same person had a fine black con from Lord Gage's, which also gave, in the height of the season, five gallons a day. Yet not more than 51b per week of butter could be churned from it; and they remarked, as a fact they had often noticed, that the milk of a black cow never gives so much butter as that of a red." The best part of this story is Arthur Young's own reflection with which he ends the paragraph. “ Observations of this sort should always be noted, because a great number of results will furuish something better than conjecture. We shall, however, be very much in the dark till experiments are made as to the quality of food eaten by all sorts of cuttle.’'