The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-12-28


seys, and who keeps few choice cows
of that breed now (but who has gone
into Ayrshires principally, because the
grade Ayrshircs give SO much more
milk, and his sales are mainly for vii
lage cows, the buyers of which want to
sell what milk they do not want to use),
to give us what he considers the best
fair answers to these Shorthornist OBJ
iections to the Jersey breed.
To the first objection, he says that the
beef breed. The true question Is,
whether, taking two average herds, one
of Jerseys and Jersey grades, the other
of Shorthorns aud Shorthorn grades,
keeping strict account of cost and
keep on one side, and of sales of pro-
duce, butter, beef and calves on the
other, the profit will incline in favor 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 allow
ance for quality, or any saving i'll 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
Shorthorns will pay the best. This all
swer to the first objection covers the
second also.
In regard TO the savageness of the
bulls, he says they are often so, espo-
cially if kept high and not worked. But
he believes that Jersey bull can be
easily so reared and handled as TO be
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 -hide-boot discipline in the cow
stable. His idea is, that kicking men
make kicking cows, and that while the
Jerseys are not yet so thoroughly con-
verified as to love their enemies, they
know their friends. They are n lady
like breed of cows, and will submit to
be handled only by gentlemen.
Fifth, i'll regard to hardness, the Jer-
seys will not endure as much roughness
as the poorer class of native COWS, but
they are healthy and long-lived under
the only treatment which is profitable
with any kind of dairy stock. Our au-
thority says they arc 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
Agricultural, says of the Jerseys "The
grand result of our Jersey business has
been entirely satisfactory, and, aside
from the business aspects of the case, ii
sc nj 20 hot ha l,,oaI &
very generally recognized as sine qua
non, not only for the best butter max
ing, but for the most butter making"
Colonel Warning notices the fact that
while ten years ago, at the great fairs,
the Jerseys occupied few retired pens,
where they were snubbed as starvelings
by the beef-cattle judges, at the centen-
NAL exhibition and at the great st. Lou
is fair this year, they outnumbcred 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 at the Yer
mont state fair, at Rutland, a few years
ago, one of the Winslows, of Putney
(Shorthorn bree ders), who was on the
committee, obs crved, contemptuously
"Well, the scrawnicr you get them the
better you like them, don't you?" AT
the last state fair, at st. Adams, the
Jerseys outnumbercd every other breed
and were treated with the respect they
deserved.
Our own view of the subject is, with
out disparagement to other breeds of
cattle, that the introduc ion of the Jer-
sey blood upon Vermont farms will be
worth millions of dollars to our state.
They will be, and indeed already are.
appreciated by all our really good dairy
men who know how to handle dairy
cows for butter making. The time is
now passed, under Western COMPETE
ton and the oleom ,rgarinc manutac-
ture, when anything but the best quail
ty and the 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 usu-
ally about as good for the dairy as tho
roughbreds, and little tougher, and as
Jersey bull calves arc rarely sold at
very high prices, it will not take more
than half-a-doZen years to have the but
ter diaries of the whole state we'll tine
turcd with this desirable blood. If
WIN Wis SOco MANU- Ill llitiNl u IlOIt llD-
cral manner of feeding, warmer-but
clean and entilatcd-stables, and
a systematic and universal method Of
manufacture, Vermont may soon hail.
die rs much gold money for her butter
crop rs she received of greenback cur
rcncy during the flush decade of 1862
70.
Mr.. Cheever, of the New England
Farmer, refers, in recent editorial. to
"the best dairy farmers in Pomiret, W.,
where Jerseys of the most aristocratic
strains are bred, and where fancy or
gilt-edged butter is shipped to our Re-
we're, or other Boston hotels, by the
ton. every year; where three hundred
pounds of butter per cow, annually, is
the standard aimed at and reached"
etc. Mr.. Cheevcr, who is one of the
best and most successful dairvmen of
Massachusetts, knows what he is saw
ing in this connection. We are pleased
to hear that our Pomfret Jersey-breed-
ers have made very large sales of their
excellent stock the past season, most of
It within the state DR.. IIoskins, in
Waterman and journal.