Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-29
Echo Farm Jerseys.

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 Mir. F. Ratchford Starr's Centennial prize bull Litchfield has become 30 famous. because of the great value of his progeny, that appli- cations from different parts of the country are belug received for many more than can be supplied, large as is this noted herd. Hilbert, sold by MT. Starr in September last, for ff- teen hundred dollars, has recently been re-sold at large advance upon that sum, as will be seen by the following, taken from the New York Herald, of last Saturday:
 SALES OF NOTED JERSEYS s-Several lmpor
 tant transfers of butter-bred Jersey cattle have recently taken place through the agency of Messers Peter c. Kellogg & Co.,, the we'll known auctioneers and dealers in fine bred horses and live shock. in this city, who are under large purchasing orders for animals, of extreme capacity in the useful qualities of the breed. Fashion seems of late tending more to usefulness than showy points, and there prom ises to be as eager strife for large and rich yielders on the lawns of wealthy people as there recently was for peculiar markings and fancy traits. Several of the most important purchases have beee made for account of Col onel H. s. Russell, of Home Farm, Milton, Mass, whose place is we'll known as the home of his great trotting stallion Smuggler. Among these purchases are the two-year-old heifer Lass of Scituate, bought of MT. Charles o. Ellms of Scituate, Mass, a:d daughter of his famous COW Jersey Belle (7,S28), that made 705 lbs. of butter in one year, and as high as 9 lbs. 13 OF. in one week. The two-year- old bull Pedro (3.187), bought of MT. A. B. Darling, New York, and out of his famous COW Eurotas @. 454), that made g lbs. 7oz
 0$ h,,tk aud ,s,lIl over two pounds day, on grass alone, as late as eighty eight days before calving. and now, being under test for year, promises to score the next best record to the Scituate COW, if not to exceed it. Her milk tested, six weeks after calving, a pound of butter to less than five quarts. For account of the same herd Messrs
 Kellogg purchased of Mir. John 1. Holly, Plainfield, N. J., American girl (5,686),
 whose sire, Champion of America, was out of the celebrated Sutliffe's Pansy 1,01y. whose 274 lbs in year stood best until beaten by Jersey Belle, of Scituate, and whose butter quality seems to be repeated in American Girl. With her Mir. Holly was also induced to part with his grand COW Hilbert (3,63O), whose 6ve-year- butter tests warrant the expectation that at riper maturity she may prove the first class yielder that her working conformation and inherited quality indicate her to be capable of. She is the selection made to fill tine order, "I want a pattern as ample and useful as that of Eurotas, and breeding that will bring out it's full capacity" Josephine 2d, another of Mir. Holly's prize winners, also goes to Home Farm. That gen. tleman was astonished when he found what he considered prohibisory price accepted about Hilbert, and made haste to withdraw the equal figure he had put upon Favolite of the Films, and to announce that having parted with Hilbert, he would sell her at any price From MT. F. Ratehford. Starr of Echo Farm, Litchfield, Conn, were purchased three choice COWS, two of which are in calf by Litchfeld (sire of Filbert) and beifer by him. This bull has been a prize to Echo Farm. His daughters are very rich milkers, and one of them recently made 18lbs. 9oz. of butter in nine days, being but two-year old, with her first calf From Mir. T. J. Hand, Woodlawn, Sing Sing. N. Y., the COW Witch Hazel q, ,360). that recently made, two months after calvihg two pounds of butter per day from but a small fraction over ten quarts of milk, l indicating a richness of quality almost on a par with that of Eurotas, and whose eldest | daughter, Witch Hazel 2d, was testing remark l ably when she tied. Several purchases of minor importance, selected mainly on pedigree, 1 complete the Home Farm lot. A few have been secured also for Mr. A. B. Darling,
 mainly decenfantsof of Alphea Q71), grandam of | Eurotas, "whose shadow on the grass was l worth more than herd of ordinary COWS, ,"
 whose average milk tested three pounds of
 butter to eighteen quarts Capacity of the churn) when she was giving twenty -one quarts | day on grass alone-equivalent to 244
 pounds of butter per week.