Knoxville Weekly Chronicle

Raising Stock for the Dairy.

A Herkimer county dairyman of large experience recommends that heifers come in at two years old, rather than three. Speaking of his dairy this Spring, he says he has had two-year olds that made twelve pounds of butter a week during the Spring, from the time they came in early till grass time, which is there about the middle of May. This is the old Dutch native breed of the Mohawk Valley. Neither the Short-Horns, Alderneys nor Ayrshires do any better for the food consumed. First-rate keeping, proper milking, shelter and handling have developed cows that make five hundred, and in some cases six hundred, pounds of cheese a year each. East Tennessee and Georgia farmers ought to import hundreds of calves of this superior dairy stock. They may be had old enough to wean at twenty dollars a head.
L.