The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-02-20
An Excellent Breed orCows.


per cent of cream under the same treatment.
This breed is supposed to have originally
come from Normandy, and was at first poor
looking stock, but has been much improved
by care About the year 1910 company
of wealthy gentlemen formed an association,
adopted regular scale of good points, and
offered prizes for animals possessing the
greatest number, for the purpose of bet
tering the form and qualities of their
stock. They selected two beautiful cows
as models, and made the following scale of
points for cows and heifers:
1. Pedigree on the male side.
2. Pedigree on the female side.
g. Head small, fine and tapering.
A. Cheek small.
5. Throat clean.
6. MuzzIe, fine and encircled with a light
color.
T. Nostrils, high and open.
s. Horns, smooth, crumpled, not 100 thick
at the base, and tapering, tipped with black.
o. Ears small and thin.
10. Ears, of deep orange color within.
IL. Eye, full and placid
IL. Neck, straight, fine, and lightly placed
on the shoulders.
Is. Chest broad and deep.
a. Barrel hoped, broad and deep.
Is. Well-ribbed home, having but little
I6. Back, straight from the withers to
the top of the hip.
IT. Back, strait from the top of the hips
to the setting on of the tail and the tail
at right angles with the back.
Is. Tail, fine.
I9. Tail, banging down to hooks.
20. Hide, thin and movable, but not too
loose.
81. Hide, covered with fine soft hair.
%. Hide of a good color.
%. Fore-legs, short, straight, and fine.
"a. Forearm, swelling and full above the
knee, and fine below it.
25. headquarters, from the hook to the
point of the rump, long and well filled up.
&c. Hind legs, squarely placed, not too
close together when viewed from behind.
81. Hind legs, not to cross when walking.
%. Hoofs small
20. Udder, full in form, 4. E., well in line
with the belly.
80. Udder, well up behind.
81. Teats, large and squarely placed, be-
ing wide apart.
80. Milk veins, very prominent.
80. Growth.
81. General appearance.
35. Condition-each of which points
counted one, the possessor of the whole be-
ing perfection, and no animal deemed worthy
OF q prize WHICH mas less Lntlu twenty ulHC
Of these points to recommend it.
1t is stated that the Jersey owners some
times regard a black nose and black tongue
as sign of superior excellence.
Twenty years have wrought a great
change. From a mis-shapen ANIMAL the
Jerseys have become very symmetrical, and
the power of transmitting good qualities to
offspring, are greatly improved. While
there is the same beautiful dun, yellow, or
fawn- colored hide, and the same fawn-like
head, with its soft, innocent, antelope eyes,
the hide has been made mellow and loose,
and the head symmetrical in shape. While,
before improvement, the best cows may have
given as much milk as the best of the i'm
proved race, the number of best cows now
is as a hundred, to one of former times
They also make fat easier than the unim-
proved race The beef is of excellent quail
ity, but the fat is too highly colored to be
agreeable to the sight. The deep yellow
that pervades the milk, butter, skin, and
fat is characteristic of the breed.
The Jersey milk is said to contain three
times as much butter as good common milk,
and twice and half as much as the average
of AYRSHIRE. This result was deduced from
experiments made in Albany, N. Y, on the
Jersey milk, compared with analyses made
by order of the British Government on the
other two classes of cows.
The Tribune gives lengthy account Of
the herd and farm of Thomas Motley, jr.
West Roxbury, Mass.-an extensive blood
ed-stock raiser and dairyman. This has nc
further bearing on the excellence of the
stock, than that everything is furnished and
fixed up in the snuggest manner, and the
stock, of course, are well taken care of.
Mr. Mottley's stock has excellent pedigree
One of the cows of the line produced over
eleven pounds weekly of rich yellow butter
during the May when she was four years
old, from her daily yield of nineteen quarts
of milk. A COW (Flora) which Mr.. NJ. now
has, was calved in 1S49 in the island OF
Jersey She is a fair sized COW of dun and
white color, the dun predominating. Her
milk proved so exceedingly rich, that sever
al years ago. it was kept apart from that OF
other cows, and separately churned and
weighed for a year. She calved April %
1853. At the first churning of a weeks
milk, on the 18th of May, the yield was II
lbs, IA ounces of butter; next week 1t was
l33 lbs; the next IA, and from that time
till the 18th April, 1854, the weekly yield
ranged from 143 downto lbs. She calved
on the 18th of June. The whole years pro-
duct was 51I lbs.
Mr.. Mottley's cows give an average OF
only ten quarts daily, and yet, so rich is the
milk, that only seven quti - 'te lequlIeu u
make pound of butter. To the milkman,
the Jerseys are no great object because they
require quantity rather than quality; but
for butter making at farms or diaries, or IN
families who want rich milk for domestic
use, these cows a treasure.
1t is stated that to dilute the milk of ten
or a dozen ordinary cows with that of one
Jersey, is more favorable for the cheese and
butter dairyman, than TO use their milk
solely, as it is so very rich that butter and
cheese made from it alone will not KEEP
long.
In Leicestershire, England, a COW has
been seen-a cross between Durham and
Alderney-which gave sixteen pounds OF
butter per week, for ten successive weeks,
upon grass only. In Hampshire, there
was another Jersey which produced four
teen mounds per week for thirteen success
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