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Western Star, Issue 346, 24 April 1880, Page 7 (Supplement)

Prom experiments at the Canadian Agricultural College in the feeding yji shorthorn steers, the following conclusions have been drawn That well-bred nearly prime fat, gain percent, more on the same food; thah others that are not so well bred 4 and they were also 6 per cent; less in weight when put in competition j that, in proportion to weight, the half-fed steers gave 58 per cent . more profit than the others ; that, accordng to weight, the half-fed steers gave 2£ per cent, more in-i crease than others almost prime ; that, in proportion to weight, the half-fed steers are 18per cent, more food than the others ; that as an investment, without j reference to manure, the matured adimals returned fully .9 per .cent. , , and _the ,half-fed ones 40 per cent., on the original cost—being a difference of 31 per Cent, in favpr of the leaner animals.; o One animal,, in Weightyseven days, ate (flesh, fat, and heat producers) —turnips, 574 pounds ; straw, 441 pounds; corn, 831 pounds; total, 1846 pounds. The amount of butter you can get from a given quantity of milk, depends, upon a variety of circumstances. Important r among; these may be reckoned the kind oft feed you give your cows, and, most import? taut,: the .kind of comes into the account the length of. time; your ; cows, have been in milk, whether they, are fresh or pearly dry, and the facilitiesyou. have tor .handling. - Haying, recently, made some experiments, and with con-, siderable care;. on the ; milk of different cows, X submit the,; results. I have used the milk of four cows ; two thoroughbredt Jerseys* one-jersey grade, and one; Ayrt> shire, grade, .as. ,follows :—Dewdrop ; . (H.B. 314) makesja lb. best butter from 5f quarts of milk. . Countess (H. B. 2820). makes 1 lb best butter, from quartsv of milk. , Miss' Eddy (half Jersey, half native) makes l ib fair butter from. [,Bff i quarts of milk. Flqra (Ayrshire- three-; fourths; and native one r fourtb) makes 1 lb) ■ common hq^ter { , from ;: 13 quarts of milk.j There is hqguessing: about these figures.,; f The milk, wjas syeighed .with accuracy, and, ■reduced .to quarts. qn the basis ot ; 2i lb; Ij.ozi to the quart, which I find to be gust; , Sv hat a fairly measured quart will weighs • This goes to show the relative profitable-;, ness of cows, , My.covsrs are fed well-—-igood hay,, with 8 quarts per day of ground; 1 corn and bats to each co wr—and they arp I fed alike. ■ It, costSj as’miichi to feed,the' i Ayrshire asthe jersey. The same quantity.. :of milk that it. takes tq make 1 lb of just' common wHite butter from, the Ayrshire i would, if drawn from the first Jersey, make jo.veV.2i lb, and if from the second Jersey*, : over 2 lb of strictly gilt-edged butter.., la: any discriminating: market, 1 lb of ife/is' ; worth 3lb of the other.—A. P. F. ; , in Prairie Farmer. . _ ■ , , > | The Earl of Rosse, it is stated, is.jssuing r: Ito the tenants on his. extensive estates/in 1 | King’s Co. and Tipperary a which he says, that with a view to giving his tenants generally,* “ but especially the 5 occupiers of the smaller holdings, remunerative employment on their farms during, the “coming, winter,” he is willing “to ; make allowances in half year’s rent due on jNov. J > 1879, for draining, building, fehc ; irig, or aby such improvement as shall be ;: approved of by himself or Mr Garvey 0 ; before being undertaken, and which shall be completed before the rent-call next; spring, on" the following scale; viz.r Ta* yearly tenants* residing on agricultural; -holdings, whose rents are under L2O a year, an allowance in - r proportion to the work done l not exceeding 30 per cent, of the half-year’s rent; and to those whose rents are over L2O a year an allowance not exceeding 15 per cent, of the half-year’s;' tent;” His lordship concludes: “lam af ; present employing extra hands, and should distress arise through want of employment^ I wiUendeavor to do my share in finding'; remunerative work,;and I hope that such -, of my tenants as can afford it will do thesame until March 1 next, when it is to be? hoped agricultural operations will be resumed with brighter prospects.” ; We; learn that the cattle plague has been making great havoc among the herds in the islands of Madagascar and Mauritius. ■ In the latter island alone more than 11,000 have died: and been destroyed in consequence: of the. malady, which is said to have been imported from India, where, according to the information published in the Veterinary Journal from time to time, and particularly .Mr Queripel’s excellent paper in the November issue, it has prevailed te_ a most serious extent.- South Africa thus runs great risk of being- invaded by this most desolating scourge, from the ravages of which it has hitherto been exempt. We are glad to know, however, that the - authorities at Durban have adopted certain precautions which, we trust, will be found 1 sufficient to avert the introduction of such a redoubtable disorder; It would appear ‘ that for more than a y ear cattle plague - has 1 raged in a portion of the island of Java, where it appears to have been intro--duced from China, .