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

for as soon as the calf is born I. is sepa-
rete9s fr0m She mother and tslght TO
drihiz pdiIE The finger Is wet with
fresh Dilk, the hand il submerged under
the milk in a vessel with the finger pro-
jecting, and the cal! being induced 10
| follow the finger already thrust into bis
mouth, it is quietly and slowly drawn
! undey the milk, and as it rccedes the
calf continues TO suck, and presently
drinks ii. the milk from the vessel. In q
very short time the young calf is thus
| taught TO drink milk from a pan, which
should be given TO it two or three times
a day fresh and warm as it IL drawn from
the cow for perhaps week, may be less
time. Then little warmed skimmed
milk is added, and twice o 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 n little meal or bran
is stirred into it.
How different is this treatment from
what il seen on most Southern farms
II 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 10 employed for
that purpose, and many'a the time have
the inevitable pipe In mouth, go march
fumes of their sayory pipe regaling the
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 man.
mas udder for several minutes while the
ebony milkmaid enjoys the aforesaid
pipe. When "Suke" has had { few mo-
mens Of xumination and time to "let
down her milk" spla ,h goes half buck
ct of water on the cows udder, and snrt
Of pulling at the lcats and -ubbing the
udder to make it at least look clean !;
and then after fow moment, of pulling
at an already en- 3tied and chilled uddcr,
the cow boy " told, turn in annuder
calf" which. 90 before jumps the bars,
trots off to his mother, and goes through
wi h the same launching process, till he
almost empties the udder, before the.
milk woman gets ready TO "knock him
Off" by batt5Ting away st his kness with
o huge stick from the opposite side of
the COW. =.
Any wonder, then, that Southern farm-
en require 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 :he "dry CATTLE" for it ia the
next thing TO an impossibility to got
negro woman to milk q COW without hav-
ing tho calf to suck first.
Of course. 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, but allows neither to suffer from
want of proper food and nourishment.
And any cow that ia accustomed to have
the calf suck her before milking will be
very uneasy and hard to milk for e few
days after being separated from the calf,
but with kind treatment and a plenty to
eat, she will soon forget her calf and milk
as easily as if the calf were constantly
with her.
1t would be impossible to produce q
ably perfect. Some men want to grow
cattle for beef The jerseys don't suit
them. Othorj wish to grow for beauty
rs well IA milk. We do not think the
Jerseys excel in beauty. The head of a
Jersey is more like that of deer thar
like the Durham - Devon, and with
their mild, mellow, good-natured ex-
preston of countenance, as is shown by
I 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 good ma
tured, kind and timid.
The came cannot be said of the bulls.
| So far rs we have been able to learn
from observation and inquiry Jersey bulls
are disposed. to be naughty. The finest
i jersey bulls we ever saw were, what in
nocent people would call, dangerous ami
mails. Whether it is their nature 80 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 we
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.
I We have been asked latterly, Where
Can the pure Jerseys be bought7 They
are grown for sale at very high figures in
each of the New England statea, and the
prices We have always considered merely
l
do to risk transporting grown COW from
a Northern to Southern latitude, hence
to buy COW in any Northern State
would be folly. Calves, hoy .er, will
bear transportation, and are held at fool.
ishly extravagant figures in New Eng.
land. :, Some of the most noted herders
pretend to ask 5000 on the farm for Q
yearling. -
MFR. 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 O
who have and are paying much attention
to the growth ofJersey cattles The Mis-
sissippi herd came principally from Mr
Brown. Mr.. Peters brought his from thu
} North, and we are not aware of his eve
; having imported any direct. Mr.. Brown
!, has some that were imported by Mr.
Waring, of Newport, r. 1. His prizes
are from $50 to 500. for bull calves sil
months to year old, securely boxed ant
; placed in the hands Of the Express Com
pany. Heifers from $50 to 500
Last fall we purchased full blood bul
, calf six months old, and grade calf from
! Col. Brown, and the expressage from
} Spring Hill to ,C6kesbury was S36.75
! Little encouragement to buy. The sam
calves could have been aent from Boston
. to Chicago for half the meney, The BIZ!
calf is out of "Oonan," whose sire an,
! dam were imported from Jersey Iales
D BE isvby Top Sawyer whose dam va
+ imported, and whose sire was from al