Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-30
The farm and fireside.
THE JERSEY cow.

The Jersey is an old fashion breed of COWS,
having been bred for over a century on one
of the channel islands-the Island of Jersey.
The name, Alderney, has been given them in
the United States, but we can see no reason
for it, or find any authority for the name.
When first brought to notice, the Jersey is
said to have been "scraggy, ewe-necked, hol-
low, backed, high-hipped, flat sided" creature,
and for long time very little progress was
made in rounding up her form but man be-
ing progressive creature, has way of COM
bining the beautiful with the useful, and by
iudicious selections, with a close adherence to
the butyraceous and milking qualities, has
fashioned beautiful animal out of the an
cient Jersey COW, and now she has "the head
of fawn, soft eye, an elegant crump horn,
small ears, clean neck and throat, fine
bones, a fine tall" etc. The points are too
numerous to give here. The Jersey is but
ter COW. This is her strongest and most i'm
portant good quality, and there is no doubt
that she will give more butter from a given
quantity of milk, than any known breed Of
cows. Some advocates of other breeds claim
that the Jersey butter will not keep as long
as the butter from other breeds of COWS, but
this is only notion, and lacks confirmation.
However, allowing it to be On established
fact, it counts nothing in my opinion, for old
butter is not at all favorite Of mine The
Jersey is by no means an inferior milk cow.
The yield of milk is from three to six gallons
per day, and from one and half to two gal
Ions of milk will yield one pound of the rich
est orange colored butter. 1t is claimed, up
on good authority, that the milk of an aver
age Jersey COW will yield 300 pounds of but.
ter in year. While recognizing the charac-
teristic points Of excellence of other breeds,
the superior merits of the Jersey COW as butter
producer, in point Of quality and quantity,
stands at the head of the list and there is
an aroma, color, and texture to their but.
ter that cannot be found in that of any other.
The most famous Jersey COW of which |
have any knowledge, is owned by Mr.: Chas.
O. Elems, of Scituate, Mass. Mr.. Elems
has refused $4,000 for Jersey Bell" In ten
days after calving, she made three pounds
and two ounces of butter per day-averaged
twenty pounds per week for three months.
Five quarts of her milk made a pound Of
butter, all through the summer, and in De-
cember only four quarts were required. The
Jersey COW is kind and gentle; rather small
er than the Ayershire; of all colors, but fawn
color is the fancy color. Both Ayershires
and Jerseys breed various colors and are just
as pure and thoroughbred as those of the
fancy colors. They can also be pure without
being registered, but it would be advisable to
buy unregistered stock of reliable breeder.
You will have to pay more for pedigreed and
fancy colored stock, and probably not get
better animal. The Jersey is becoming
great favorite and is being rapidly introduced
by our Southern farmers. 1t will pay any
farmer to pay the price for good thorough.
bred bull to cross on his native COWS. There
are no Jerseys in this county that | know of,
but have seen some fine specimens in Fair
field county.
Now, Mr.. Editor, will you be kind enough
to allow me to digress and say that staked
and ridered fence, twelve rails high, while
very important, does not make good COW
pasture. From my observation this high
fence is all the recommendation more than
half Of the cow pastures have, and if there is
no other provision made, some cows are
obliged to starve. Now is good time to
commence preparation for lucerne patch.
Make pen just large enough for the num-
ber of COWS on hand, and when the pen is
very rich, move to new pen adjoining the
old. Keep this moving up to September or
October, then prepare thoroughly and plant
lucerne; no crop will pay as we'll. Clover
will do, but lucerne will furnish more feed
than any grass that grows. Remember to
have the lot rich enough, prepared we'll, and
success is almost certain.-RULANDER in
Chester Reporter