The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-31
Jersey Cattle.

Jersey Cattle.
Last week we gave several instances OF
the remarkable yields of milk and butter
from some choice jersey COWS in2 New
England. It must be remembered that
this milking is done without the calf;
for as soon as the calf is born it is sepa-
rateds from the mother and taught to
drink milk. The finger is wet with
fresh milk, the hand is submerged under
the milk in vessel with the finger pro-
iecting, and the calf being induced to
follow the finger already. thrust into his
mouth, it is quietly and slowly drawn
under the milk, and as it recedes the
calf continues to suck, and presently
drinks in the milk from the vessel. In a
very short time the young calf is thus
taught to drink milk from q pan, which
should be given to it two or three times
a day fresh and warm as it is drawn from
the cow for perhaps week, may be less
time. Then a little warmed skinned
milk is added, and twice day this is
given for three or four weeks, and after
that time SKINNED milk alone is given,
and if it should be in cold weather the
milk is warmed and a little meal or bran
is stirred into it..
How different is this treatment from
what is seen on most Southern farms !?
It is an exception if ON the average
Southern farm the cook does not also
milk. If the COWS are too numerous for
her; then negro woman is employed for
that purpose, and mauy's the time have
we watched them, as they would, with
the inevitable pipe in mouth, 60 march
ing to the "cuppen" (cowpen) with the
fumes of their savory pipe regaling. The
milk piggin, carried so skilfully on their
heads. The gap will be let down just
low enough to make the calf jump into
the pen with his mother, and at her he
will go sucking and hunching- his NAM
mas udder for several minutes while the
ebony milkmaid enjoys 1.-THE aforesaid
pipe. When "Suke" has had few mo-
ments of Gumination. and time to "let
down her milk" splash goes half buck
ct of water on the cows udder, and sort
Of pulling at the teats and rubbing the
udder to make it at least look clean;
and then after few moments OF pulling
at an already emptied and chilled udder,
the cow boy is told, "turn in annuder
calf" which, as before jumps the bars,
trots off to his mother, and goes through
with the same launching process, till he.
almost empties the udder, before the.
milk woman gets ready to "knock him
off," by battering away at his kness with
q huge stick from the opposite side of
the COW. ;.
Any wonder, then, that Southera farm.
ers require a half dozen COWS to yield
them an aggregate of half pound OF
butter day? 1t is general rule, too,
that should calf die the cow is turned
out with the "dry CATTLE" for. it is the
next thing to an impossibility to geta
negro woman to,milk al cow without hav-
ing the calf to suck first.
Ofcourse, the policy of the dairyman
is to get all the milk he can, and for this
reason he separates the calf at birth from
the COW, butiallows neither to suffer from.
want of proper food and nourishment.
And any COW. that is accustomed to have
the calf suck her before milking will be
very uneasy and hard to milk for few
days after being separated from the calf,
but with kind treatment and plenty to;
eat, she will soon forget her. calf and milk
as easily as. if the calf we're constantly
with her.
It would be impossible to produce q
breed of cattle that were unexception-
ably perfect. Some men want to grow
cattle for beef. The Jerseys don't suit
them. Others wish to grow for beauty
as we'll as milk. We do not think the
Jerseys excel in beauty. The head of a
jersey is more like that of a deer than
like the Durham or Devon, and with
their mild, mellow, good-natured ex-
preston of countenance, as is shown by
their eyes, they are as far back as the
shoulder the most attractive of all cattle;
but, the immense udders alone redeem
their otherwise ragged hinder parts.
The COWS are almost always .geod-na-
tured, kind and tiuid. - -.
The same cannot be said of the bulls.
So far as we have been able to learn
from observation and inquiry Jersey bulls
are disposed to be naughty. The finest
Jersey bulls we ever saw were,.. what in.
nocent people would call, dangerous ami
mails. Whether it is their mature so to
be we are unable to say, but they are
easily taught to be vicious. They are
naturally gentle and intelligent, but if
improperly handled they are very quick
to learn bad habits. This much might
be said, however, of all animals, and ne
have seen negroes who could learn, and
indeed would make every. animal placed
in their keeping SO vicious that none but
themselves could manage them. There
is no reason, however, that such should
be the case with the jersey bull more
than with any other.
We have been asked latterly, Where
can the pure Jerseys be bought? They
are grown for sale at very high figures in
each Of the New England States, and the
prices we have always considered merely
fancy. All farmers know that it will not
do to risk transporting a grown COW from
a Northern to a Southern latitude, hence
to buy COW in any Northern State
would be folly. Calves, however, will
bear transportation, and are held at fool
ishly extravagant figures in New Eng.
land. IL Some of the most noted herders
pretend to ask 5000 on the. farm for a
yearling.
Mr.. Richard Peters, Of Atlanta, Ga,
Mr.. Campbell Brown, of Spring Hill,
Maury County, Tennessee, and another
in Mississippi lwhose name we have lost)
are the only Southerners that we know Of
who have and are paying much attention
to the growth of'Jersey cattle. The Mis-
,sissippi herd came principally from MIR.
Brown. Mr.. Peters brought his from the
North, and we are not aware of his ever
having imported any direct. Mr.: Brown
has some that were imported by Mr..
Waring, of Newport, R. I. His prices
are from $50 to $l00. for bull calves six
months to a year old, securely boxed and
placedin the hands of the Express Com
pany. Heifers from $50 to .S6Q