How to Select Cows: or, The Guenon system simplified, explained, and practically appliedHazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope)
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How to Select Cows: or, The Guenon system simplified, explained, and practically applied
Hazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope)
Cattle -- Judging; Cows; Dairy cattle
ACCOUNTS OF THE HERD BY EASTBURN |OPINIONS OF THE HERD BY THE GUENON
REEDER. | COMMISSION.
|
_No. 1._—BELL.—Age, 12 years. |_No. 1._—BELL.—Grade, Alderney.
Grade, Alderney. Calved | Flanders, 2d.
November 10, 1877. |
Greatest yield when fresh, 16 | Quantity, 18 to 20 quarts.
quarts per day. Yield May 20,|
1878, 10 quarts per day. |
Butter, 8 pounds in seven |
days. |
Tried February, 1875. | Quality, fair.
Milks to one month of calving. | Dry three to four months.
|
_No. 2._—TOPSY.—Age, 10 years. |_No. 2._—TOPSY.—Guernsey. Curveline,
Guernsey. Calved March 9, | 2d.
1878. |
Greatest yield when fresh, 18 | Quantity, 16 to 18 quarts.
quarts. Yield May 20, 1878, |
14 quarts. Made 12 pounds in |
seven days. |
Tried June, 1872. | Quality, first rate.
Goes dry three months before | Dry two months.
calving. |
|
_No. 3._—FIREFLY, (1133.)—Age, |_No. 3._—FIREFLY.—Jersey thorough-bred.
8 years. Jersey. Calved | Demijohn, 2d. Daughter of Niobe,
October 28, 1877. | 3d.
Greatest yield when fresh, 14 | Quantity, 12 to 14 quarts.
quarts. Yield May 20, 1878, |
12 quarts. Averaged 6 pounds |
butter for forty weeks, from |
Sept. 1, 1872, to June 8, |
1873. Greatest yield of |
butter in any one week since,|
10½ pounds. |
| Quality, medium.
Never goes dry; has been milked| Dry two months.
regularly since August 27, |
1872. |
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_No. 4._—ISABELLE, (1935.)—Age, |_No. 4._—ISABELLE.—Jersey thorough-bred
6 years. Jersey. Calved | Flanders, 3d.
September 19, 1877. |
Greatest yield when fresh, 12 | Quantity, 16 quarts.
quarts. Yield May 20, 1878, |
8 quarts. Made 9 pounds |
butter in seven days. |
Tried October, 1877. | Quality, first rate.
Milks to one month of calving. | Dry one month.
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_No. 5._—MARIAN.—Age, 6 years. |_No. 5._—MARIAN.—Guernsey. Curveline,
Guernsey. Calved February 15,| 3d.
1878. |
Greatest yield when fresh, | Quantity, 16 quarts.
14 quarts. Yield May 20, 14 |
quarts. |
Butter never been tested. | Quality, first rate.
Milks to within one month of | Dry two months to three months.
calving. |
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_No. 6._—URANIA, (2793.)—Age, |_No. 6._—URANIA.—Jersey thorough-bred.
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