Farmers Department

Farmers in general are not aware of the great difference there is in the richness of milk. In butter dairies, especially, this is a point which deserres attention. The mere fací that a cow gives a hrge quantiiy of milk is scarcely any evidence of her value for the production of butter. It is but a short time since we heard a farmer state that he had had a cow which would give from 20 to 22 quarts of milk per day, and he had till last season ahvays considered her a first-rate cow: but it then happened that her milk was set separately for butter, when it was proved that only about four ounces per day could be obtained. This may be called an extreme case; but let the milk of various cows be fairly tried and surprising difference will often be seen. Mr. Newell, in his address before the Essex county (Mass.) Agricultural Society, observes, that according to nis observation, there is much less uoiformity in the milk of what we cali " native" cows, than in that of the Ayrshires and Alderneys. He says - " A iew years ago I made a little experiment totest the quality of the milk ofsixteen cows. A gallon of each cow's milk was set by tself, and after standing twenty-four hours, the creaTi from each was churned by itself, and the quantity of butter ranged from three to eight ounces." Thus is it seen tliat while the milk of some cows afforded a pound of butter to every eight quarta, it required more than twenty-one quarts of the milk of some others to make that quantity. Will not this fact be remembered ?