The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-05-16
OUR FARM BUDGET.
Butter Records of Jersey Cows
Setting Out Vegetable
Plants.
Things a Farmer should Not De-A
Strawberry Farm-Gapes in
Chickens.
synopsis OF the Dog Law-Give Chickens
Range-HOasehold Hints-Farm
Notes, Etc.
Butter Records OF Jersey Cows.
IPhiladelphia Record.l


The Jersey and Guernsey cows naturally
give milk of the richest quality, and the
product in butter is not only large, but in
texture and flavor far superior to that from
any other breed. The prices paid for bulls
and heifers within the past two or three
years have been very large, not because the
COWS are better than before, but because the
eagerness evinced by buyers to procure GER
tain strains has given an upward tendency
to all.
Jerseys are divided by reputation into
sevraI families of excellent animals; but,
although such distinction is made, it is due
to individual administration of the descend
ants of such noted animals as Countess, Al
phea, Pansy, Coomassie and others. So
close has been the breeding of Jerseys that
nearly all of them are related to each other,
and so egar are breeders to infuse blood of
certain strains into their herds that they
breed indiscriminately so far as relationship
is concerned, it being nothing uncommon
for a bull to be the sire of q cali, the sire OF
its dam and som stimes its granddam also.
The breeding together of brother and sister
seems to invoke no opposition whatever.
and while the system of breeding practlced
has no doubt tended to fix the qualities of
several families. and thereby enable them to
more firmly transmit such TO their offspring,
vet it can not be denied that the time will
arrive when the injurious effects of such
close breeding will be manifested in the
weakened constitutions and lack of hardi-
ness.
So far as the butter tests are concerned
much depends upon the system or feeding.
he hast nf all u nQraiV Valnp0 for
that which she would produce in the shape
. of butter she would fall far below the prices
paid but her value extends nanother direc-
lion She is the result of q selection, and is
made the foundation upon which to build
still a higher grade of animals, her value
then being beyond estimation. The ordi-
nary farmer is liable 10 failure in attempting
to reach the high records attained by emil
ment Jersey COWS, for the tests are only
made under the most favorable conditions
but the farmer can make very decided i'm
provement in his herd of cows with the use
of bulls of this breed, even with those that
sell for low figures.
The best butter records are those of Jersey
Belle of Scituate Counties family which
produces % pounds and ounces in one
week; Alphea, "a pounds ounces; Value
(Pansy family "a pounds 4 ounces; Mollie
Garfield, % pounds II ounces; Bomba, p
pounds liz ounces, aud Eurotas % pounds
Z ounces. EurOtas gave So pounds in thirty
one days, and in one year her yield was rs
pounds. There are many other cows that
have made records all the way from 10
pounds up to 20, and such yields are no
longer regarded as extraordinary. The re-
suits are evidences of what careful breeding
will do, and say what we may against the
injudlcious system of inbreedlng which has
been praeticed. it can not be denied that
improvement has overbalanced the mis-
takes.
The Jerseys are small, delicate, deer-like
cows. with soft, velvety skin and well de-
fined escutcheons. They mature yearly and
come in profit before they are two years old.
They are not adapted for beef production,
nor do they present full round appearance,
but for the special purposes to which they
are intended have no equal.