A SUSSEX MILKER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2563, 2 April 1887, Page 2

A SUSSEX MILKER.

• In Arthur Young's Annate of Agri« : .- culture,'-he thus reports:—" William : {.• 'Kihg;.gardonorto Lord Hampdenat.. « Glynde; has a red cow of theßoßßex.;- : ti |:breed ; ' wbiph, in 1787) two : or thrw ti " woanirig thei .cas ; gave) '?!ss'- Wetter per week f6r=.Boinci : ■'« ;.; atid ..'in 1788, the same eow. ■-, igav'e'ftlikvfor some weeks,;.;9lbs. •-' , several:.more, and then for' the'rest ei\ \ the summer 8 j to 81bs, till the present' [ frost 71bsj 'and since the frost -ilbs. This summer fifteen cheeses were made of her milk about 61bs each, so that in ,„ the height'of her milking she gave i lOlbs of butter and 121bs of cheese, .■•; .per week,: She never at any time v. exceeded five gallons of milk.per day. .v. Towards winter she had a bushol of h bran per week for 'twenty.'; weeks, [,ti which tlie profit from than ;m paid for,'' Four or five years ago, the same person, had a fine black cow from & Lord Gage's, which alab'gave, in; the' ■:. height of the gallons.jtfVTi •day. Yet no more than 51b per week'" of butter could bo churned from jit; ; ;,. and they remarked, as a fact they'had; -; often noticed,'that the milk of a black '■); : 'cow"never gives so much butter ai-' '• that of a'red." The best part of tliis ,- story is Arthur Young's own reflection -..,- ! with which he roads the paragraph. -.- Observations of this sort should always .*•.. be noted, because a great number of -\ '■-, results-mil furnish-something''/"better 'thah;Mijeoto. We shall,' however, ~';■■:" be veryipiuoh in the dark'till. 'experi'\|« ments 8$ made as to the. "'' ,; - ';',,; ''^C^LITENESSHYS.'-■ ; '" : '''&

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