The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-10-26

scented and approved as worthy. 1t Is
then registered as commended or high
~ commended. go
As surely ss like tegets like, this
system will bear fruits In the constant
Improvement of the stock. In fact, II
is already bearing golden fruit las those
find who buy the animals.
l have one fault to find with the
Herd Book, and The same criticism APP
plies equally TO the register of the
American Jersey Cattle Club. 1t IL
hat in studying it one cannot see ut a
glance the full pedigree of each animal,
Tut must refer from page to page and
volume to volume TO trace the blood.
This is u great disadvantage albeit s,
faithfully copied, and it leads to feel.
ing with ignorant breeders and novices
lat the mere fact that an animal Is en-
tered in the Herd Book indicates =, me
superiority, whereas II is not the fact Of
entry Except as here in Jersey 1t is on
~ made after approval), but the fact of
descent through an "bonored ancestry"
that makes pedigree valuable. II a
good Short Horn breeder had had o
hand in either of the Jersey Held
i}Ooks they would have been different.
Jersey cows continue fashionable IN
England, and there the herd book qun
fcation is entirely d;sregarded. The
English buyers, and those who cater to
heir taste, buy heifers simply on their
individual merits, and almost uniform
y at the prettiest age-si'ortIy before
calying. Beauty OF foim and color,
and the promise OF fairly weIl-shaped
adder are all that are looked to. The
Colurs peter ed are those that are FASH
iOnaLle with us solid fawns of all
shades, French gray squirrel and sill
>er-grays, blues, mulberry fawns, sha-
ding both towar Is buffalo color and
.Owards true fawn. with the least pos
sible show of White, or better, none at
all. or course the inclination of breed.
ers is to avoid white in bulls, and to
hreed more or less with reference to
color. Fineness of bone, smallness of
head, delicacy of horn, straightness of
the back, and width of loin and pelvis,
with depth and capacity of carcase, al e
the points chiefly sought for.
The Guenon milk mirror is studied
by a few, and by some believed in. and
IA good deal depended upon. Cleanliness
of the throat and thinness of the neck
and withers, seems in a measure over
looked by some excellent breeders.
The general size of jersey cows seems
to me TO be increasing, and several
good breeders, In aiming to gain size,
find it too often accompanied 10y decid.
ed coarseness of head, horn and limb.
The old Jersey COW was inclined to
have sloling rump and badly set tail.
he effect of attention TO improved
shape has been to change this, and to
give the better class u straight back
nom the horns to the setting on of the
tail, but it has been accomplished too
often in connection with certain en-
Iurgement and cuarseness of the base o
Tia. tail, which is rather hard 10 breed
out.
The quantity of milk given by IL e
COWS is GENERALLY pretty accurately
known by the farmers, and / tn nh
their statements may generally ue ue-
pended upon in this regard but they
| sal mn Al. l,1,
yield of butter. III these respects they
are like our American farmers. 1t is
however, more difficult for them than
for Us to know the amount of butter ac-
curalely. Many send the mornings
milk 20 town and keep the evenings
for butter. Others milk three times a
day and set or sell one milking. /
have seen no case in which the milk
was not all turned together, and have
met With but few cases, and these OF
extraordinary cows, which had been
carefully tested for week for butter.
One of these produced l0i Jersey
pounds (about II pounds English /;
two others are reported Us having Civ.
en Is pounds Jersey each, and another
ii pounds. 1hele are, l believe, ON
record statements Of still larger ields.
and no doubt, if the richest cows were
well tested, extraordinary COWS would
- dteN~->.>L.
1t hue often Leen stated that Their. art
as good Jerseys in America as there are
in The Island, and | had come to feel
very much so. Certain it Is we have
excellent COWS, many of which ii l.
hard to equal here. But we must re-
member shat the blood is certainly
here that the number of farmers who
will not sell their best cows is constant
~ increasing, and that are here num-
her of discriminating careful breeders
of enlarged views and abundant means
These men have opportunities for COM
pairing results and watching the effect
Of experiments in breeding superior to
those that single breeder would have
if the whole Island, with Its 10000 10
breeding farm. They know one anoth-
er. and each knows the others cows.
Frequently they know one another's
views and notions about breeding. AT
any rate they each know what the 9TH
ers do, ard the results they get, or they
may know it. This state of things
gives Jersey breeders advantages over
all others, which they understand very
well, and l have no doubt they will
long maintain the breed In Its greatest
perfection and beauty. NJ. c. WELD.
Planting Small Potatoes.