The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-04-08

)Old front anu Tic VI @AOA A0Sos oUSA s'0
he Cypryan Sisters and other strong
minded women wear, and coming to the
ront, bid the way be cleared, until she
asst her ballot.
Now ssOld Sand-paper" of Fountain
Brook, will this suffice at present. if not,
will give you another dose in due time.
Till then. am ANDREW KEEGAN,
Rosemount, MINI.
March Goth, 1875.
Jersey Cattle.-Their Merits Described.
N1N1NGER, MIMI,
'sRosE HILL,
April I'd, 1875. }
Editor Anti-Monopolist.
Will you allow me to make few re- !
marks on the address delivered by Hon.
/. NJ. Westfall, before the North Star
Grange, few weeks since, on stock rails
ing! That gentleman says if he were
stocking a farm for the production OF
milk or cheese, he would first select the
Ayrshires as producing the largest how
of milk. For dairy he would select the
Alderney, or rather the Jersey.
/ think if that gentleman had had the
experience that have had Of the Jersey
COW, he would make it rank the first,
either for quantity or quality. The Jer-
sey is the best producing cow in the
world, and one very easily kept, as it eats
very little for what it yields. 1t is kind
and gentle, and am persuaded that it
would do well in Minnesota. l am well
aware that all the COWS which have been
introduced into America as jersey cows
are not all Jerseys. I have known Of cat
tie merchants going to France to buy
COWS. and then ship them to America for
Jersey cows. Again. you must know
that all the Jersey cows are not alike for
quality, and it takes an experienced per.
son to select the good cows, even in Jer-
sew. 1t is true that merchants mostly
! produce certificates purporting to have
been from the Jersey Herd Book. and yet
some of them were false. do not mean
to infer that all the merchants have done
50, or that others will do SO again, but
know that such things have been; there.
fore it is impossible for any American
farmer really to Judge of the Jersey
cows unless he has been himself to gel
them in Jersey. And then, as l have
said above, he should be a man of expe
rience. l know that some few gentlemen
have gone to Jersey for COWS; they lgo
the Herd Book and engaged one Of thu
cattle merchants. who went to show then
the COWS that had taken the premium p
the Agricultural Society Fair. They pait
from $500 to $500 head, and yet thi
.. was no guarantee that they had the hes
COWS.
There are thirty-two points to consti
tutc a perfect COW or bull, and it is seldor
that there are any who reach that nun
Der of points. The quality points ar
> not many in number, and COW may &c
: thefrst premium and yet lack the qua
= ity points; therefore an inexperience
man may buy fine COW which will M
. DC good. Still maintain that, on tn
whole, the Jersey COW is the best COW
> the world, without exception. and | a
, persuaded that, once here, they would
appreciated as such. We farmers do NJ
:, feel it so much if our cows do not vie
.. much, as the keeping of one or two mo
u does not amount to much but take. #
= instance, the people in Hastings, who ha
y enc COW to each family; how much be
~ ter for them to have COW that wou
p" give them butter all the year round, Al
0' milk at least ten months out o. t
twelve; and that COW would not cost the
= any more to keep than the COWS tn
have now.
as ALLOW me, Mr.. Editor, to say f
20 words to the farmers generally. Wor
- it not be much better for each farmer
W keep a few COWS and raise clover to fe
IN them, than to raise so much wheat, .
Us then it would be . means Of improvi
IT. the land milk and butter would p
Vi much better than wheat, even if it '
never less than one dollar per bush
u.s. then the stock raised from these VOL
iP be still more valuable.
ais trust that some Of our Western &
tlemen will make up their minds to e
Fks few heads Of well-selected Jersey cat
etn 50 that in few years we may al b
oW some.
ms Later intend speaking on ithe for,
md ton of cattle clubs for the improvem
bic Of what we have here.
mn. l remain, sir, respectfully yours.
CHAs. LIZ VEscoSrI
,ter Lone LAKE, HESxKFN Co., MINI.
March 23d, 1875.
cen Editor Anti Monopolist:
,ar- Here in the heart Of the Big Woods