Phillipsburg Herald

"The Common Cow."

Bulletin No. 52 of Cornell station should be in the hands of every dairy man who is after solid truth, and wants it in "pailful lots." The cost of milk production is here carried out in full, and with the kinds of food found upon a dairy farm or easily procurable, and with a mixed herd of cows such as any farmer can have if he will develop "the ordinary stock of the neighborhood, by the use of the dairy type of cows, and selecting the best of heifer calves." To make this test more conclusive, two cows were purchased from the country, that were, so far as known, destitute of "blood" and to the everlasting credit of these two "scrubs" (?) one gave in the year 8,655 pounds of milk and 382 pounds butter fat, and the other 10,754 pounds milk with 439.97 pounds fat. The best Jersey gave 8,020 pounds milk and 391 pounds fat.
The best Holstein gave 11,165 pounds of milk and 174 pounds fat. The common cow ate the most food, gave the most milk and fat, and at the least cost. The milk of the two common cows cost 53 cents per 100 pounds, and the fat 12 1/2 cents a pound. The milk of the Jerseys cost 78 cents per 100 and the fat 15 cents a pound. The cost of a 100 pounds of Holstein milk was 58 cents, and that of a pound of fat 17 cents. The average of milk of the two common cows was 9,705, the Jerseys 5,237, and the Holsteins 8,067 pounds. The point we wish to make is this, that the common cow of this country has not had average justice done her, and makes the remark of Charles R. Beach all the more emphatic who once said, "feed and treat a well selected herd of common cows as if they were Jerseys and you will soon think that you have a herd of thoroughbreds." Send for a bulletin and read it.—John Gould in Hoard's Dairyman.