Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-19

for village cows, the buyers of which want to
sell what milk they do not use), to give us
what he considers the best fair answers to
these Shorthornist objections to the Jersey
breed.
To the first objection, he says that the
Jerseys make no pretension TO being beef
breed. The true question is, whether, taking
two average herds, one of Jerseys and Jersey
grades, the other of Shorthorns and Short
horn grades, keeping strict account OF cost
and keep on one side and of sales of produce,
butter, beef and calves on the other, the
profit will incline in favor of either, and If
of either, which If the milk is made into
butter, and sold in the same market, it is
his judgment that the extra quantity OF the
Jersey butter, without any allowance for
quality, or any saving in feed on an equal
number of cows, would more than balance
any profit from sales of beef But if the
milk is made into cheese, or sold for market
milk, the Shorthons will pay the best This
answer to the first objection covers the
second also
In regard to the savageness of the bulls,
he says they are often so, especially if kept
high and not worked. But he believes that
a Jersey bull can be easily so reared and
handled as to he quite safe with ordinary
precaution.
The fourth objection, the nervousness Of
the cows, he says, is an objection only with
those who believe in milking-stool and cow
hide-boot discipline in the constable His
idea is, that kicking men make kicking
cows, and that while the Jerseys are not yet
so thoroughly converted as to love their
enemies, they know their friends. They are
lady-lke breed of cows, and will submit
to be handled only by gentle men.
Fifth, in regard to hardness, the Jerseys
will not endure as much roughness as the
poorer class of native cows, but they are
thealthy and long-lived under the only treat
ment which is profitable with any kind of
dairy stock. Our authority says they are
not more liable to garget than any good cows.
Finally, he admits the charge of their
being large eaters, and considers that one of
their merits. They are as hearty feeders as
the natives, and will average to make twice
as much butter out of the same feed.
Colonel Waring, in the December A gri
cui'wist says of the Jerseys: "The grand
tirely satisfactory, and, aside from the bust
ness aspects of the case, it is pleasant to see
that the breed is now very generally recog
nized as sine qua non not only for the Jes
butter making, but for the most butter
making" Colonel Warning notices the fact
that while ten years ago at the great fairs
he Jerseys occupied few retired pens
where they were snubbed as starveings by
he beef.catte Judges, at the Centennial Ex
nibition and at the great st. Louis fair til
wear, they outnumbered all other breeds
combined, had judges who were experts in
the breed and came fairly to the front in
public interest. We well remember, when
the Jerseys were brought into the ring al
The Vermont state fair, at Rutland, few
NtstlS dBO, Out vi VIC W lloiOhS, VI ulItl
| (Shorthorn breeders) who was on the com
mittee observed contemptuously, "Well
the scrawnier you get them the better you
| like them, don't you ?" At the last state
fair, at st. Adams, the Jerseys outnumbered
every other breed, and were treated with the
respect they deserved.
Our own view of the subject is, without
| disparagement TO other breeds of cattle, that
| the introduction of the Jersey blood upon
| Vermont farms will be worth millions OF
| dollars to our state. They will be, and in
deed already are, appreciated by all oul
really good dairymen who know how tc
handle dairy cows Tor butter making. The
time is now passed, under Western compe
tition and the oleomargarine manufacture
when anything but the best quality and tn,
largest yield of butter can be made to pay
The jersey COW comes just in time to give
US both As the grades on good common
cows are usually about as good for the dairy
as thoroughbreds, and little tougher, anC
as jersey bull calves are rarely sold at very
! high prices, it will not take more than half
| i-dozen years to have the butter diaries o.
| the whole state well tinctured with thii
desirable blood. If with this goes hanC
in hand a more liberal manner of feed
ing, warmer--but clean and we-ventilater
stables, and a more systematic ana uni
form method of manufacture Vermont ma,
soon handle as much gold money for he
butter crop as she received of greenbacI
currency during the flush decade Of 1922
Mr.. Cheever, of the New England Farmer
refers, in recent editorial, to "the bes
larry farmers in Pomfret, VT, where ,Jer
Seys of the most aristocratc strains ar
bred, and where fancy or git-edged butter i
shipped to our Revere, or other Boston no
tells, by the ton, every year; where thre
hundred pounds of butter per COW, annually
is the standard aimed at and reached" etc
Mr.. Cheever, who is one of the best an,
most successful dairymen of Massachusetts,
knows what he is saying in this connection
We are pleased to hear that our Pomire
Iersey-breeders have made very large sale
If their excellent stock the past season. mos
| If IL within, tba ctata