The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-15

aud an enthusiastic and well posted amateur
| in Jersey cattle raising got him to talk foi
the Chronicle and Constitutionalist what he
knew of the matter. | asked of his experience
of the particulars of Jersey breeding in Georgia.
| and 10 give such practical Suggestions as his
| experience taught. He thus entertainingy dis
| eoursed;
| The Jerseys impress me very favorably.
| The yield Of butter is greater and finer and the
cost Of keeping them is less than any other
| kind OF cattle known TO me. The Jersey cow
Is exceedingly docie, very easily managed and
never breaks over enclosures In addition to
| this they are pleasant feature in any gentle
mans grounds The Jersey commences TO
breed at or before twO years of age and will
give its owner a calf every year thereafter and
unless dried off will yield their milk from calf
| to calf The NAE oalt wi sell from $50 to
| 500 and the female from 500 to $500. This
! makes the Jersey business az good an ipyest.
ment as any man can find. 1t il Q poor Jersey
| COW that will not yield, AFTER drOpping her SEQ
ond calf this year round, pound of butter a
day which at 40 to 30 cents a pound, for 80
days, makes very handsome profit, averaging
$50, to say nothing of the butermIk, which
be used in feeding the pigs and calves The
yield of the unchurned milk varias according
to the age and Soellence Ut the COW from two
to six gallons day"
my herd is small az vet | commenced to
form the herd only fifteen months ago, begin
nmg with young heifers and bull. / bought
most Of these animals here in Georgia. and
they are of approved butter strains their an
cestoTs having baen imported direct from the
Island of jersey, and all OF them being thor
oughbred and registered | prefer TO bay in
Georgia for the reason that there is always
more or less risk attending the shipment of any
l. nj ,fn la l,.t. L.. IL
the limestone region South, eVev 50 short dia-
taupe. Indeed . grown COW or bull rarely sur
wives the change of climate from the Northern
and Middle to the Southern states. l know
personally many OF the Jersey breeders in
Georgia, and was satisfied alter personal in
speeton of the herds here and in some other
States that we have many of the very purest
and very best Jersey strains % 10 TOT ud any
where in the world. Al ,he head of nv own
hard Ia Hdebrand (No. 4547) son Of Leoni.
das (No 30lOl and grandson of the great
Signal the tnest bull, ooDfessedly, that was
ever in the United States
The produce Of Signal were nearly all bull
calves, and his owner from disappointment had
HIM Slaughtered before he discovered his greet
value. He left only twelve heifer calves that
heve been tested for butter, aud they average
from twelve to Twenty-Five pounds of butter
one Of the calves, and Mr.. l.. j Hill owns
| 0ptimIa, another, and | suppose that neither
one OF them could be bought to-day for less
| than 50 600. Hildebrand of my herd was
three years old the 10Th of last month and
weighs $50 p0uuda and is The most magnificent
creature ever saw on four feet. One of my
heifers brought me calf at two years of age
aud yielded me three and half gallons Of
milk per day, and even now in mid winter on
dry feed gives me three gallons of rich milk
every Gay, her calf being five months old.
"Erom a rough estimate think there are
some % or 40 persons Ia the State who have
Jersey, varying in number from to 60 head.
Some OF these gentlemen keep Jerseys for their
own amusement and some for breeding and
| dairy purposes. l cannot now recall the names
| OF Rll the persons engaged in Jersey raising in
| Georgia but the following names occur to me
at this time: Richard Peters, the Georgia
Nestor of fine cattle, whose father or grand
father brought the first Jersey to this country;
John L. Hopkins J. b. Wade. J. +. Edwards,
Anthony Murphy. A. j 0rme, w. Il. Cox,
Rhodes Hill, l.. j. Hill, Henry Seller, j. II.
Porter, c. J Brown, J. K. Wiley, Atlanta;
Robert L. Parks, w. Fl. Mansfield, H. B. Da-
Wis, K. A Nesbit, A. o. Bacon, and others of
Macon; I. p. Branch aud others of Augusta ;
X. L. Young. Geo B. Young and Geo H. Fon-
tame, of Columbus Lamar Cobb, Sid Hughes
and NJ Ta'mage of Athens Dir. 2. l.. Hills
man. of Albany T. Il. Bennett, OF Camilla
w. }. Northern, of Hancock Butler Wood
ward, of Whitfield county; the Styles family
and others of Barlow and myself. There are
many others who are buying and beginning to
form herds in different parts of the State.
There will be a meeting of Jersey breeders in
Georgia in Macon on the 2lst inst. during the
session OF the Georgia Agricultural Society, at
which time it is intended to organize a State
Ass ocation OF booded stock breeders The OBJ
iect of this association will be the interchange
of ideas and observations and the general bet
terment of The interest of The breeders Of Jersey
cattle.
Among the Southern States Virginia, Ken
lucky and Tennessee take precedence in the
Jersey business. Next come Alabama, Missis
sippi, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas
The number of herds in Georgia is increasing
more rapidly than in any other of the more
Southern States and ia short time will prob
ably o0tnun.ber any of them.
| IF / had a suggestion TO make to the people
| of the State who feel an interest in iue cattle,
and who are not vet prepared to incur tue eX-
peuses of costly herd, il would be this: / or
| farmers 10 particular counties or neighborhoods
| to unite Ia purchasing thoroughbred Jersey
| bull to be crossed upon the best cows OF the
| native stock Of the country. This wOnid grade
| up the cattle to a higher and better producing
| capacity. aud would answer the purpose OF
most persons. Individuals who desired to 90
| fariher might buy one or more registered Jer-
sey heifers. and in this way at IA small cost lay
the foundation of thoroughbred herd. DER
sey cattle multiply very rapidly and IN a lew
years the owner of few heilers would find
himself in possession Of herd that would be
worth more 10 him than The farm on which he
Nm shn ha rio observe
| however and that is never to buy anything bat
a registered Jersey COW, and never let her be,
| under any circumstauces served by any but a
| thorougbbr Jersey bull. The fees in differ
| ent parts of the country for service of Jersey
| bulls varies from five up to two hundred dol
lars, and in some instances the charges are still
| larger. Many persons think these charges un
reasonable, and yet they will pay from hve to
| fifty dollars for the service of Il stallion, whose
colts will not sell for one-haf as mach as Jer-
sey calves will bring,R
1t thus appears that we have forty Jersey
! farms in Georgia. This is fine outlook Mr..
b Wade. L J. Hill, k. Peters, Judge
| Hopkins and X. T. Young have the largest.
We have fully eight hundred thoroughbred
Jerseys in the State worth two hundred thou
sand dollars and 1000 grade Jerseys worth
| 100000 more. From the full blooded jersey
cows ia these herds will get two hundred
( thousand pounds OF butter yearly, worth, al
40 cents a pound, $50 600, and from grade COWS
| two hundred thousand more pounds, worth, at
! 30 cents a pound. $50 COO Now add fodr
hundred thoroughbred calves year, worth one
hundred dollars piece, or forty thousand dol
lars, and one thousand grade calves, at forty
dollars each, or forty thousand dollars more,
and we have three hundred thousand dollars
worth of Jerseys in the State, bringing yearly
one hundred and forty thousand dollars OF bat
ter and eighty thousand dollars worth o.
calves, or two hundred and twenty thousand
dollars yearly gross income This is BIZ
showing.
Strength for Mind and Body.