Sharp County record., 1878-09-26
FARM TOPICS.

2 2. ssssy ss!yociation, PSf says The great ad
= i AsfGi,aJ y the Jersey COW over the com
w. Ia = hot only in the fact tnat ,3nS Sne
~ ne' riCher quality of butter, whlGn lSa
res es'sore ,o more valuable, but that she n
lels,G 's,.s;stent mixer, often with din
/! P1.s ZINC dried off before calvlng'
y ooo OepT +, Morrison's COW, Butter,
y ~ ~ Minneapolis, can not be drled
|, j ii II but is MIXED from one years
= ~ ' fbe other. Fourteen pounus oi
~ " = W Week has she made in al sopo ,Ga
- = oi 1 quality that would till the
!, ~ = erery dairyman here with aston
ssat q ',t'j N its beautiful golden tint,
: ''sas ~ rich and delicate flavor would
\ ~ ~ the taste of the most fastldlouS.
srsat s Il Is this tendency to give mllR
rrs;n beifers often take their place
y nil with the others. I" Having
y , b,eS ys,5 so long with a view v, to , early
copicus production OF milk says
Sos'strv SSr,s fGentleman, "it is not at
,ts,rssuge that they should show great
'",';f5 =. It'll IN this way. In a herd known
I ts tbsre are two virgin heifers being
fed dI'ra regularly, while a third-a year,
was brought to milk merely by
a,;nc the udder and teatS." A gen
,an any m South Carolina also writes
n illustration of this tendency,
q half-blood, not due to
! IL seyeral months, and then twen-
Ne months old, was regularly giving
q quarts per day, which amount was
.tantly t,,,1. increasing. Now in this ten
Nv to continued milking lies largely
yalne y of this breed. Ordinarily l
,ose the COWS of Minnesota are not
led longer than eight months in the
The remaining four months they
simply a bill Of expense to their
er. oftener than otherwise running
in debt, if the cost Of all their food
Ia be recorded. The Jersey COW,
he other hand, can safely be MIXED
and eyen eleven months, and some
Is within two weeks of calving' The
mon stock are oftentimes great
:ers for a short season, yet, taking
milk production for year, 1t Will
equal that of the latter. Says a
or on This subject: "We have had
} that gave forty pounds per day in
! lush, and yet that in the whole sea-
tfell behind the others that only gave
llty-fye pounds at the best, because
latter gave a comparative uniform
ltity for ten months, while the 9TH
rave this large yield for only a short
u. and soon ran below the others,
/ finally tapered down to nothing at
end Of the short season" Ii we
lid examine the record OF COWS
/ ave alluded to in this essay,
/ of others that might be named,
hould find that they gave for ten
of the ~ months q nearly uniform
fifty of milk, thus amply repaying
4 owners for their keep at season
e year when his common stock was
u 4 bin of expense. But, says an
d irer, /" Is not the Jersey COW a ten
I animal can she safely be wintered
i innesota, taking her chances with
b common stock?" In answer let me
eJudge Luse, of Iowa City, Iowa,
d of our largest breeders. He says:
N 9 do not keep our Jerseys in band
or even blanket them in a barn,
i ler are we obliged to have bank
j. with Underground stables to keep
4 from freezing. In our six years
sarience we have found them tough
Il hardy and never sick, and general
ri oking aS well in the spring as fall.
NJ as matter of course, take good
x OF our cattle, the same as any
ng gstlan should. We have good warm
"A and Stables, give them good feed
Al gular time,, and water but once
n winter. There are no doubts in
! mind about Jerseys standing any
Ite that any other breed of cattle in
country can stand, yet we are salts
CO nat II they were turned into a stalk
. to shift for themselves with clump
a? zel bushes or a barbed wire fence
lelr only protection against storms,
D would look in the spring as hard as
t. farmerS' cattle do that we know
fhn @ ass eve them the benefit of this
eiof treatment. Another point in
favor, and only one, is that they
n sslly kept. From letter received
~ m MI. Stephen Gardner, of Hastings.
fn' axes special reference to this fact,
Cd aags been for SO many years kept in
nt1a ae!ment, tethered by day and kept
md elT stalls by night, they have ac-
~ I the habit ofquietly ni6bling here
nere Wherever they can find a bit
d VS. IN Summer, instead of roaming
cid nke many other cattle; while in
ed mey patiently eat what is set be-
st nem asking no questions, and eat
ud ~ mo Another and very import
pSpint s their early maturity. Near
ly J5ersey breeder now arranges to
d us helfer calve from the time she
shS ?nty-tWo to twenty.four months
on1 Posslple, while many have them
ler IN much earlier M. CorS,,o