Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-10
For the vERMoNT FARMER
The Jersey Cattle Again.

EDITOR VERMONT FARMER I'm communi.
eating to you few remarks on Jersey cat
tie, published in your issue of November 5th,
it would seem that had got myself into
business, asmany Of ftheJ ersey breeders are at
ter me with sharp sticks. This Jersey breeders
in our own town proposed wo should debate
the matter at our grange meeting which was
done by nearly all present. l cannot inform
you Of the final conclusion, as we thought
the question OF Importance enough to lay over
! for further discussion at another meeting.
But your humble servant has felt no par
ticular danger of losing his scalp yet.
have no Ak to grind My stock is COM
posed oil grades Of several kinds. write
by my own experience. Indeed, l have not
intimated that was 10 favor of any partic-
ular breed although could do SO, and very
likely shall at some future time. People
are apt to draw conclusions too quickly. l
doubt very much if there is breeder of Jer-
seys in the state who has had SO much ex-
perence that he will not know, by-anl-by,
more of their successes and failures than he
does at present, aud be more capable of
judging of their merits.
do not admire newspaper discussions, as
o general thing. | have noticed that nine
out Of ten Of those that take part do 80
through selfish motive. If the combatants
could meet face to face their rabid and one
sided views would be comparatively harm
less, but after being published in the FARMER
and read by thousands Of inexperi-
enced farmers such discussion is sure
to work mischief, and that to-day
is the baue of almost all agricultural
papers in America that am acquainted
with. We wish for facts, not theory.
am we'll aware that facts are not always 10
be had. The next best thing in the case il
experience, and whatever may write for the
FARMER is my own experience, and not other
folks say-so.
am acquainted with many breeds Of
f cattle, and somewhat acquainted with mos
all European breeds having seen them ii
their native homes by thousands livcC
in Eugland until manhood, and returned Of
visit four years ago. | see no reason Il
, alter my earlier impressions as to the jersey
) being adapted to this country. There ar
so many circumstances aud conditions to b
, taken into the general account and the cat
f tie are so recently introduced here that
would be utterly impossible for a persc
with limited experience to know all Of thei
/, good and poor qualities.
! My object in writing the article was
/ warn the farmers Of Vermont to consde
/. well what they were doing; and after du
deliberatiOn, if they think that the Jersey
r are the cattle for Vermont farmers, all thing
r considered, then l will say, 80 be it.
f But after being called to account by a
# j. HOllister would ask your indulgence
d occupying little more space in replying
him. cannot but think how ingeniousl
S he has arranged the caption for bis articl
# did not con6ne myself to the dairy bus
70 ness Of Vermont, but asked the question, Al
o they, as breed, best adapted for the farm
Il here in Vermont, all things considered
10 Brother HOllister takes particular pains
IT the beginning Of his article, to warn Il
!. reader not to be discouraged, but to keC
10 right along with his Jerseys. That is gO'
10 advice to the inexperienced, provid
il Brother HOLSTERS practice is sufficiently m
ture to give that advice. believe it is on
ID about thirty years since the introduction
le Jersey cattle into this state it is very like
H. that ten or twelve years transPired bsiO