The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-10-14

A writer in the English agricultural Ga
sette, speaking of Jersey cattle, says: IF
their value is to rest on color, deterioration
will surely follow Of those useful qualities
that are so far noticeable in the good Uld-taSh.
Toned partI coored COW than that which will
be found among the generality of fine, high
bred, whole.colored fawns, grays, or foxy, so
called Jerseys l have owned hundreds of
acclimated Jersey stock and have never, as a
rule, found the whole-colored such large pro-
ducers as many of the parlicolored, but the
most ugly and ungainly beast of the lot, yet
her stock have never failed to show their large
butter making qualities. The true type of a
Jersey COW is IN fact an animal that will not
make meat. do not say that this is not I'M.
proved upon by acclimatiza,lon and a slight
introduction of q harder breed, of which
what are termed Chichester Jerseys are the
best description neither do say that Jersey
breeders in the Island itself have not in some
instances breed that shows q disposition to
make some flesh, and very probably may then
be following up the requirements of fashion :;
yet maintain that a pure jersey should
throw the bulk of her feeding properties into
butter, and with little to flesh. The parti
colored good cow may have but white spot
especially under the belly, but throughout
the body the rich yellow skin, under any col
ncsef and Dr. Uohkin. The ko5rmier tehs ther
story thus: a
The slate had been cleaned and was now
declared by Slade to be devoid of wrItIng, :,
out writing was to appear on 1t in the usual
way, accompanied by the scratching noise OF II
the pencil. There had been the usual DELAY n
on the part of Slade when put out my hard
and Immediately seized the slate away, saw
ing: "You have already written on the slate. +,
have watched you doing 1t each time" And
there, sure enough, was the message already
written, as had anticipated e
The manifestation Is thus shown to be p
sheer bit OF ledgerdcmain, in adroitly chang. :!
ne slate, as the ordinary prestidigitator D.
changes the bullet in the pistol trick. s.
The Katy King exposure, year ago, the y
lisrobing of the fraud of the Eddy Brothers, !,
md similar charlatans and now this dlscom. b
lure OF Slade and his slate, must admonish J
ther mediums, if they would continue this 4
splritual' imposture, that they must at least n
void the prominence which made It worth I
'hlle ior men of sense, as In the cases named Y
writer goes uI Ia say that he has been Tor
four years en- GGd IN researches upon this
discovery, and thr result in COWS of different
ages from SIX I, fifteen years, Is an increase
of milk, cOnst..It production, richer milk
both milk and batter "f a uniformly golden
color and with taste superior to that from
cows that had not undergone the operation
No one Is ignorant of the fact that all domes
tic animals, deprived OF their reproductive
organs fatten more quickly than those that
retain them, and that the flesh of the female
is more tender and delicate than that of the
male; and more than all, the uniform expert
ence is that heifers attain weights fully equal
TO steers of the same age, that they farten
more easily, the beef is of superior quality
and commands higher price"