Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-08
clss Chat are requisite to form butter are very

clss that are requisite to form butter are very
ine or small, aud not easily separated by
churning. For cheese- making purposes then
tie e COWS are well adapted, and this quality
is just what suits the Dutch people, who are
great cheese eaters, and who in fact use cheese
instead of butter to great extent. The
milk OF the Ayrshire cow is quite similar in
cher critics to that of the Holstein, but
perhaps lacks in the proportion of casein or
cheese elements. 1t is generally recognized
that the Ayrshire is one of the most prolific
milk givers, but that the milk from these
COWS lack both the cheese-making properties
of the Holstein and the richness in cream or
butter of the Jersey. For rich yellow milk.
and thick waxy cream, and large quantities
of gilt-edged butter. the little Jersey
COW stands at the head of the long list of
breeds of cows. So well defined and gener.
ally recognized are these qualities of the Jer-
sey COW, that the butter made from their
milk commands higher price in all the mar
kets than butter made from any other stock
of cows. Channel Island butter has q dis
tinct place in the London market, and always
brings a larger price. So the milk from these
islands commands number of pennies q
quart more in London than that from any
other locality, and is monopolized by the
richer and better living people. In the larger
Eastern cities, as New York, Philadelphia
and Boston, the same difference is made in
respect to the products Of the Jersey COW.
Some Of the butter diaries where Jersey COWS
are MIXED command as high as dollar
pound for their butter the year through
from regular special customers, while CON-
mon butter, or butter made promiscuousiy
from common COWS, does not COM
mand one.fourth that price. The same dis
tinc,ion is also maintained as TO milk. The
demand for good rich milk that will yield
rich yellow cream for coffee and oatmeal
mush for breakfast has induced the establish
ment of milk diaries where Jersey COWS are
kept, and the milk sold at high rates to
special customers. The old idea that the
more water you can introduce into the milk
to be sold to families in the city, whether
that water is incorporated by the hab-
its or breed of the COW that gives it, or
comes direct from the pump, is becoming IN
popular, and should become improbable to
those who seek to make money by it. The
Jersey is becoming the popular cow for pri'
vase families for the same reason-that she
gives the richest milk. Who thinks of buy
ing COW of common stock now for family
COW, or who inquiries for a Holdstein or
Ayrshire? The Jersey is the best COW for
the butter or milk dairy, or for the family.
The Farm Horse for the Farmer.
The great excitement over the fast running
and fast trotting horses should not deceive
the farmer as to the kind of horse that is
most profitable on the farm. The farmer
who knows and acts up to his own interests
wants none of your flyers to draw his pillow,
to run his reaper and mower, or to freight
his wheat or hay or other produce TO market.
While the millionaire can support 2:123 trot-
ting horse to amuse his leisure hours with or
to put into the hands of jockey to win more
with on the race track, the farmer wants
a horse adapted to the work of the farm, and
in raising colts or buying them should never
lose sight Of this fact. Neither is the heavy
draft horse the horse best adapted to the use
of the farmer. a close built, medium-sized,
easily-keps horse-one that has quick st5p, a
gentle disposition and good degree OF intelli-
gepce and can be adapted to all purposes is the
farmers horse. The Morgan breed of horses,
clos ed with almost any other blood, has al
ways proved q cross in the right direction for
the farmer Perhaps at the present time the
PeIcheron horses are among the best horses |
known for crossing with other breeds to make |
COOL farm horses. The Percherons are larger |
horses than the old Morgans, but seem in
many particulars to possess the good qualities |
of the original Morgan, except that they |
have not quite so great speed. The farmers
horse is not the popular horse at the agricult- |
ural fairs The horse that fills the eyes of the |
million at these fairs ia the very horse that is |
in no one sense adapted for the farm or agri-
cultural purposes. This is simply one fact |
among the many that show that agricultural |
fairs so called, are not turned so much 70 the |
advantage of farmers as to thatof other classes.
Farmers should not be misled by the ecat
that fast horses create. The popularity of |
the fast horse, to great extent, comes from
the mysteries and destinations of the pool
box. The fast horse has his place and his
purpose as well as the farm horse. and he
should be admired and improved TO the bet
ter fill that place and purpose-the road and
speed-iust as the farm horse should be im-
proved to fill his place before the pillow,
reaper and mower and farmers road and |
freight wagon. But let not the pool pox lead
the farmer astray in the selection of the
hOraa for bis farm