Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock: Short Horns, Ayrshires and DevonsVarious
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Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock: Short Horns, Ayrshires and Devons
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Cattle; Cattle -- Pedigrees -- Periodicals
In the month of January, 1862, Pocahontas, a thorough bred Heifer, was
sold and slaughtered, then five years and one month old. Her dressed
weight was as follows: hide, ninety pounds; tallow, one hundred and
twenty-seven pounds; quarters, eleven hundred and eighteen pounds; total
dressed weight, thirteen hundred and thirty-five pounds; was sold for
eight cents per pound, making $106.80. Her feed, other than hay and
grass, being twenty and one-half bushels of meal in all.
_Dairy Qualities._
Lucilla, a thorough bred Heifer, at four years old, gave in June
fifty-five pounds of milk on an average for one month; her greatest
yield in one day was fifty-nine pounds and eight ounces, and during this
month yielded fourteen pounds and eight ounces of butter in one week;
her feed, grass, with three quarts of meal daily. At five years old the
first week in June, her milk yielded fifteen pounds three ounces of
butter, on grass only.
Dorothy, a thorough bred Cow, gave thirty-nine pounds eight ounces of
milk per day, three months after calving, on grass only; and in seven
days made fifteen pounds one ounce of butter, in October.
Nymph 5th, in the month of June, 1860, gave twenty-four quarts of milk
daily for two weeks in succession, and made butter at the rate of two
pounds four ounces per day, or fifteen pounds three ounces per week, on
grass only.
Rose 2d, a thorough bred Cow, produced seventeen pounds four ounces of
butter from one week's milk in June, on grass only.
_Longevity._
Princess, a thorough bred Cow, bred regularly up to eighteen years old;
was then dried off and turned to grass for beef, and slaughtered in the
fall without stall-feeding, and made merchantable beef.
Arabella, a thorough-bred Cow, bred regularly up to seventeen years old,
and died in 1861, at eighteen years old.
Lilac 4th, a thorough-bred Cow, bred regularly up to nineteen years old,
and died in 1861.
_Scale of Points for Short Horn Bulls._
Points.
ART. 1.--Purity of breed on male and female side; sire and dam
reputed for docility of disposition, early maturity, and aptitude
to fatten. Sire a good stock getter. Dam a good breeder, and
giving a large quantity of milk, or such as is superior for
making butter or cheese. 4
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