The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-07

without regard to their butter quail
ties, and this preference has worked
to the injury of the breed. They
have a yellow skin, a small, tapering,
often crumpled horn, tipped with
black; "a black nose circled with
white, a fine, tapering tail with black
switch. The fashionable color now
is gray or dark fawn or brown, with
"black points" The latter term
means the black nose, black tongue,
tip of horn and switch, and in the
eyes of some the lack of this color
in one of these points will reduce the
price many dollars, though the ami
NAL may be just as good in every
other respect.
The valuable point in the Jersey is
extreme richness of milk, making
not only a large amount of butter
from the milk, but the butter is more
solid and higher colored than from
other cows, and will keep up better
in hot weather, retaining also the
yellow color in winter. They do
not give a very large yield of milk,
though some cows yield 20 quarts per
day. They keep up a good average
for the year, and it often yields 80
per cent. of cream. Crosses on other
cattle partake of the butter quality
of the Jersey %parentage. In their
native island they are exceedingly
well cared for as they are the princi-
pal means of support, and since the
great demand for expectation and
the high prices are proving a great
source of revenue. The climate
there is always mild and the pasture
good, yet they acclimate readily in
our cold northern climate and even
surpass the islands in large yields of
butter. They are healthy and good
feeders, the cows generally of gentle
disposition, while many of the bulls
are quite vicious when full grown.
They are prolific and early breeders
the heifers often coming in milk
under wv years. 1t must not be in
ferred that because they are small in
size that they do not require much
food, on the contrary they are hearty
feeders, but seem to have the power
Of digestipg and using what they eat
to good advantage in the production
Of butter; and when dry will fatten
readily.
Phenomenal yields of butter have
been produced in a year in some
cases as well as large weekly amounts,
and of course these exceptional yields
are extensively published-Eurotas
No. 1854 produced 77S pounds I
ounce butter in II months and 8
days, and calved within the year;
Jersey Belle of Scituate los pounds
in less than a year, and small herds
have averaged more than 400 pounds
per year for each COW. But there
are many Jersey cows that yield a
small quantity of milk and also of
butter, though the milk is rich in
cream from nearly all individual
cows. Their comparative value as
against other breeds of cattle in this
state will depend on the conveniences
for making and the opportunity for
selling choice butter or They
are not profitable for the cheese
factory, yet the milk would make
good cheese. Neither would there
be any profit on these cattle with
poor feed, and want of convenience
and care in butter making. A good
market for choice butter is essential,
and then if gilt-edged butter is made
it will find a buyer, and in such cases
a herd of Jerseys will be the best
breed to keep. We speak, of course,
as a dairy herd for butter making,
without reference to sales for breed
ing purposes. There is another
place which the Jersey COW fills to
perfection; it is as the family COW
for the city or village, and there is
probably no other COW that possesses
more qualities to recommend her
for this purpose. She is gentle, bears
confinement we'll, gives milk the