Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18

present COW is. Inere Will be little
Shorthorn for size and beef: some
Dutch and Ayrshire for milk; some
Jersey or Guernsey for cream; and a
good deal of common native stool, Cor
convenience. But as it has been in the
past, we don't think the twentieth
century viii improve very much on
the nineteenth in respect to dairy
COWS.
The value of pure water for the
stock, cannot be overestimated. A
number of careful experiments made
by NJ. Danoel, and given to the French
Academy of Science, go to show that
the amount of milk obtained is approx
imately proportional to the quantity
of water drank, and that the yield OF
milk can be increased to a consider
able extent without deteriorating in
value by inducing mich cows to take
an abundant quantity of water. In
deed, M. Dancel maintains that a COW
that does not commonly drink as much
as twenty-seven quarts of water a day
is necessarily a poor mixer while q
COW that drinks as much as fifty quarts
daily is sure to be an excellent mIlker.
Stagnant water and that from stand
ing pools and small ponds, is always
more or less foul in summer time, and
even though abundant in quantity
and easy of access, has an injurious
influence on the flavor of dairy pro-
ducts. Often COWS seem to prefer
such liquid even to clear, running
water, bat experience abundantly
shows that when mich COWS have ac-
cess to such pools tirst-class article
of butter or cheese cannot be made
from the milk, which is sometimes
ound to be absolutely unwholesome.
The Orange County On. - Farmer
gives the following account: AS
Mr.. Fred. Ross had occasion to 90 to
J. NJ. Jones, of Tunbridge he took
out his no-horned Jersey bull, which
was hitched in the barn with a rope
and chain. The bull took him into
close friendship, jamming him against
the barn, hurting him badly, and al
most breaking his left arm. As the
bull had no horns he was q slippery
fellow to get hold of. Mrs Jones,
seeing the fight, got pitchfork and
gave it to him, and he succeeded in
defending himself until Mr. Jones
came home, half an hour later THIS
is the same bull that Fred Marks, of
Bethel had the dance with about a
year ago also the one Jones drives in
harness.
Another paper mentions the killing
of hired man by a Holstein bull in
New Jersey. 1t won't do to trust to a
bull al any moment; and the common
but wrong idea that polled cattle are
harmless and good natured won't DC
''to tie to. An English paper re
Gently mentioned the fact that the
polled cattle at an agricultural fair
were more unruly and savage, and did
more mischief than all the horned an.
imals put together No stranger
should ever attempt to handle bull,
although the beast may have the rep
utation for lamblike gentleness and
docility.
There is considerable confusion
arising as to what is Jersey and what
is Attorney. H. III. Evans of Mich
gan, says in the Orange County
Farmer: There is little difference be
tween the Jersey and the Attorney
cattle. Zone, he write, comes from
the Jersey and the other from the
Attorney Islands The butter record
of the one is about the same as the
other. The name Jersey is most com
monty that of all cattle coming from
the Channel Islands. "
If Mr.. Evans will excuse us, we
Will set him right where he is wrong.
There are no Attorney Iflands. There
are the Channel Islands, consisting OF
Jersey, Guernsey, Attorney, and
Sark. Jersey is about large enough tc
furnish fair days ramble from shore
to shore; Guernsey forenoon's walk
Attorney a decent dairy farm for an
American farmer; while Sark might
be too near the water all around tC
make a safe place to sleep on. The
cattle coming from these islands are
all essentially different the Alderneys
being most like the Jerseys, but like
their dwelling place, considerably
smaller in every way The Guernseys
have no likeness to the Jerseys, differ
in color, form, style, and size of car
cass. But all have the special charac
teristic of giving very rich milk
which seems to point to common
origin. There are very few Alderney
cattle in America and each of these
islands is very jealous of the reputa
ton Of its own cattle.