Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-08-31

lrymen and stock-raisers. These crops fed
to the best butter-cows in the world, whose
progeny are eagerly sought for at high
prices, make the Jersey farmers a most i'll
dependent class of men, though doing busi-
ness on what seems to most Americans a
small scale. It is with them literally ga
little land well titled and a single wife well
willed," for the wife ola Jersey farmer is
the dairy-woman, having the care of the
0 ws as we'll as the making OF the butter.
We have been often asked what claim the
Jersey cattle had to being thoroughbred.
This point Col. Warning settles definitely in
the book to which we,haye alluded, and we
cannot do better than to quote his own
words: "Before the beginning of this CEN
fury, say more than a hundred years ago,
the cattle of Jersey had a well-recognized
character, as a distinct race, peculiarly
adapted for butter-making. AS long age as
the year 1889 they were considered so supe-
rior for the uses required in Jersey, to any
other known herd, that an act of the local
legislature was passed, by which the impor-
tation OF any foreign-bred cattle, COW, heifer,
bull, or calf was prohibited, mder heavy
money penalty. Every animal so arriving
was decreed to- be Immediately slaughtered,
and it's flesh to be given to the poor. Sub
sequent enactments have been equally rig
orous, and no foreign cattle are allowed to
be landed in Jersey except as butchers
meat" There can be no question. there
fore, as to the purity Of the stock imported
g.. 4 = s1.--1 n - III ", how
ever, implies something more than mere pu-
rity of blood, and it must.be confessed chat
the Jersey farmers have not always been SO
%scrupuloust about points as about blood.
The milking quality has ever been the chief
point with them, and oflate years more at
tention has been paid to form and other con-
siderations. In 1884 a committee of the Jer-
sey Agricultural Society selected two of the
finest COWS ON the island as models, one Of
them considered perfect in her head and
forequarters, and the other in her adder and
headquarters, and from these two models a
scale of 81 points was made which should
constitute a perfect animal. Since the es
adjustment OF this scale there has been q
: great improvement in the general appear.
/ etIlS0 Sk okk0 bUCCA III CAIC t64 IIAOuSA LslSI-
ion there, as everywhere, is a tyrant and
has sometimes run away with good sense.
} For instance, the color Of the Jerseys was
} formerly a minor consideration, a variety OF
colors prevailing, and mixed lawn and white
! predominating, bat within a few years fash,
ion demanded a solid dark color. but the
Jersey society discouraged this folly, and
the mania has III a measure ceased"
, We have given so much space to the III
teresting statements of Col. Warning and Mr.
LIE Cornu that we have no room to add
I comments and our own observations nor is
this necessary. The Jersey COWS speak fol
themselves, not so much in their looks as in
the milk-pail and the churn. As a family
, cow, and as a pure butter cow, the Jersey
) must be ranked as No. /, and Col. Warine
has done the country a service in his cleal
statements OF the history of the breed and
their treatment in their native home.-Ahg
Hyde IA Nssv FORK Times.
:. SWEENEY.
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