The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-05
COWS WHOSE OWNERS LOVE THEM.


The Fancy Prices Commanded by Jerseys
Used to Decorate Lawn.
New York sun
There is nothing like Jersey COW and pea
fowl for the ornamentation of lawn said
gentleman, at his country seat in Connecticut,
last week. As he was describing the points of
beauty of a sleek, 1.-the little cow, with head and
eyes like deer, a tan, white-bearded mandroye
up and asked permission olook at the cow The
accent of the stranger Indicated that his home
was IN the South, and his dignifed courtesy and
solemn good nature recalled the manners of the
planter before the war He slowly circled
around the timid little COW, put few questions
as to her registry and history, and then sur
prised the owner by plump offer of $500 for
the animal and bonus of $50 for making the
sale.
'tAh, but she is not for sale, said the owner.
Il will however, give you the refusal Of her at
that price if you will leave me your address
The stranger produced a card which showed
that he lived in Western State. although he
appeared to be thankful that he had t'got his
raisin" down in the blue grass of Kentucky.
He was making his annual trip through New
England. picking up Jersey cows and heifers for
his herd, and he said that he would "be very
happy, sab. If you would do me the honah to
sell me that three-year4old, for I confess, sab,
that she is beautiful animal Being unable to
make purchase, he did not object to burning
cigar under the shade Of averanda and to reveal
ing his love for Jersey beauties.
there's no other such sort Of cow he said
"and upon my honah, sab, as gentleman,
know men who are as much IN love with these
shy little animals as they are sab, with their
wives There are no such mixers, and no COW
sells like them. There's Mary Ann, up at St.
Lambert Canada, that has yielded four pounds
of butter in one day. She's worth 500. 000 Mr.
Darling of the Fifth-avenue Hotel in New York
has beautiful animal that produces twenty
good Jersey is about so per cent pure cream;
and, sab, have MIXED Jersey and churned
the vessel at the same time, and when finished,
sab, had q small quantity of butter in the yes
sci merely BY agitating the milk as it came from
the COW. This shows how rich the milk is.
1.-THE Jersey cows sell from $500 to 81 600. ac-
cording to their record as buttermakers. Their
butter sells for from eighty cents to 81 pound,
and If it is well made it will stand firm without
ice IN warm weather At my herd sell the
cans and sold according to the number Of inches
of cream registered
81 suppose the COWS are great petsW
On the contrary, they keep wild nearly al
ways It seems to run in their blood. 1t is said
that the stock is the offspring of buck deer that
in early times swan over from the coast of
France to the Jersey islands. They are like the
deer in some points, and the young calves are
very like fawns. The COWS when they run in
blue grass are hard to find They drop down in
the grass and make themselves as small as posi-
BILE. I give you my h0nah, sab, / have
been within ten feet Of COW in
blue grass field, and have failed to see
her. They have a way of hiding themselves
Ike game. We are making the experiment out
West of regulating the sex Of the progeny from
the foundation cows, so as to get as many heif-
erS as possible, and we believe that we will sue
coed. The bull Jerseys are not so profitable to
handle. think we will be able to increase the
capacity of the cows in this country. You know
we are exporting short horns from Kentucky,
and are selling them to the very breeders in
England who supplied US some years ago The
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