Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-02-28

where the same cannot be said of their
grades where they have been judiciously
crossed. In regard to the quantity of milk,
[ would not make a sweeping assertion that
they give more than common stock or Short
horns, but will only speak of the experience
of myself and those near me, which is that
while they may not give more at their flow
than scrubs or Short-horns, they do give
more in the course of a year.
But admitting that they do give as much
as common stock, its superior richness more
than counterbalances any lack of quantity.
S. w. says THAT for a butter dairy near a
city. where gilt-edged butter sells for gilt
edged prices. Jerseys would be more profit
able than any other breed, but for the aver
age farmer who sells his butter at the village
store the ease is different. He could not get
one cent a pound more for it than for scrub
butter" Now, [ never heard OF a place where
q good article would not sell for more than
a poor one, no matter whether it is butter
or cord wood. 1t is true that the price of
butter depends a great deal on who makes
it, and that there are women who make a
good article from inferior cows; but it is
just as true hat there are thousands of COWS
that will make good butter for no woman.
The good COWS would certainly not be in
jured by the introduction of a good Jersey
bull, while the poor ones would be greatly
benefited thereby. On farms remote from
large cities, in the East, farmers who keep
any considerable dairy put their butter up
in tirkips and carry or send 1t to market as
opportunity offers. and certainly the top OF
prices on ffrkin butter is little less than on
Jersey butter. In nine cases out of ten
where the result of coupling common COWS
with a-Jersey bull has not been satisfactory
the reason may be found in the fact that
the dams have been entirely worthless for
dairy purposes the owner expecting from
the produce of this first cross to strike a
bonanza in the shape of a mich COW, while
ordinarily 1t would take at least two crosses
to bring them up to a satisfactory degree of
excellence. Breeding this way is exactly
parallel to breeding low bred, ill-shaped,
used-up mares, to a finely bred trotting stall
lion, expecting to get finely formed and fast
colts. Most of them will be an improve
ment on their dams, but will be far from
the type OF their sires."
Another correspondent confidently writes
SIN this vicinity the value of Jersey cross
ess is no longer a mooted question. The
farmers who keep a butter dairy all want 8
pure bred or a grade Jersey in their herd.
to give a rich color to the butter. This is
one consideration. and a sufficient one to
cause them to desire the blood. That Jer-
sey cows, and even grades, will make more
butter, as a rule. is a fact we'll established
here. A COW, the offspring of a native.
crossed upon one of our Jersey bulls, was
recently offered for sale, and a half dozen
eager buyers were after her at once. She
was sold at a higher rate than the best OF
native cows. One %neighbor. Alexander
Davidson, sells his butter at his door at five
cents a pound above the market price. OH
account of half of his dairy being grade Jer-
seys. He will soon have a herd of high
graded cows, as he returns his ows to Ely
bulls, and so do others for miles around.
Mr.. j. B. Heaton has two valuable halt-bred
Jerseys. One OF them. sired by Tombstone
ID, when three years old made s. pounds OF
butter per week on grass alone. Esquire
Davidson says his grade Jerseys make more
butter than his best natives. Mr.. David T.
Wicks drove all his lows the past summer
to my bulls. The testimony OF his neighbors
convinees him of their value. Mr.. Vim.
Packer considers his grade Jerseys to be
the most productive cows of his dairy.