Large Cows Vs. Small Cows

It is very important and by no uieans a settled question, whether (other things being equal) large or small cows are the most profitable. It is not a question between different breeds, but between large and small animale of the same breed. The following experiment, made in Germany, has a direct bearing on the question, so far as the produotion of milk is concerned. It does not necessarily apply with reference to the produotion of butter. Four Dutch cows were Belected, two heavy (weighing together 2,112 lbs.) and two light (weighing together 1,537). The two pairs were kept separately, but they were fed exactly alike, each receiving as much green lúceme as she would eat. The actual consumption of food, by weight, was recorded every day. At the end of sixteen days the following results appeared : 1. The weight of the animáis was unchanged. 2. The heavy pair had consnmed 2,931 lbs. of lucorne, being 14 6-10 lbs. per day for each 100 lbs. of their live weight ; while the light pair consumed 3,858 lbs.,' or 16 lbs. per day for each 100 lbs. of thoir live weight. 3. The heavy pair produced 272 quarts of milk, or 8 1-2 quarts per day for each cow, while the light pair produced only 192 quarts, or 6 quarts per day for eaoh. 4. The heavy pair produced 6 quarts of inilk for each 100 lbs. of lucerne consunied, and the light pair only 5 quarts. It is to bo remarked that hese animáis seoui to have been enormous feedera and very poor milkers. We would to see a report of a similar experiment with Ayrshires in the same condition, as to pregnancy, etc - American Agriculturist. .The Union compositora of the Cincinuati Times, hearing that they were to be dismissed Saturday, and their places filled with non-union men, left their cases in a body Wednesday morning.