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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4504, 12 June 1883, Page 3

It is reported -of that extraordinary milker, V The. Qoeen of Barnet," that she made 746flbs of butter in a jear, and her daily rations were fonr quarts of bran, four quarts of: ground oats, three) quarts of corn meal, and eight quarts of carrots, and all the good hay, she could eat. The yield of, butter is at.least four .times the averagef^of-. good .dairy herds, which ha?e) merely good hay in winter and good v 1 pasture in summer. What is' extra in the feed of this cow is the bran, oatmeal, corn meal, carrots, worth on (the "farm' where they -are - raised aboat'j;twenty cents daily. This extra feed for the year is not far from £16. , The extra amount of butter would be SeOlbs, worth at 15d per lb. £35 Deducting cost of extra feed, it would leave £19j»s the profit of high feeding. \.iVety few ctowi on. ,o\ir: :farms are fully i fed, especially in Winter, and the impression is bo .general that it would not pay ta dp it, thjMi-itisTery;difficult to get farmers to make experiments in this direction. Steel-yards are. cheap, and the rations abore noticed are within the reach of most dairy farmers. Try the experiment of extra feed on one of your best butter, cows and swb,the 1 results. , . ' ' t In Sydney tho Public Library, Museum', Art .Gallery, and School., of Arts , are openeo^fen Sunday. The Sydney Morning Herald records -tfi* result:—" The opening of what must be held to be places of instruction ion,the Sunday has not been followed by any demand lor the opening of. place»;of :amusemejit. Nor has there been' any cry of oppression from overworked attendants and caretakers. In no nppreci. able ienseVis 1 the-Sunday;less a day of rest and more a dayiof..work for what has been done. Nor would anybody say that it is less a day df: worship." . ; ( j:, How to become practioall? acquainted with "the f'.Kule ,of Three."—Lire with your wife, mjpther^and motheran 1aw.,. :