Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWs SUNDAY MARCH 49, 1884,

Easthope, of Niles. who has about 40
animals. Major Campbell Brown, of
/ Nashville, Tenn, has herd which has
/ shown some very line butter tests. Mr..
Delaney Fuller, of Hamilton, Canada,
/ has eighty cattle-amOng them Mary Ann
that l have named, which has made 112
pounds of butter in thiTty-One days.
+ Several of Mr.. Sibley's cattle make four
+ teen pounds of butter week. Mr..
! Samuel Shoemaker, Of Baltimore, has a
4 very choice herd, one OF his cows selling
+ at auction for 5000, another for 81, 500.
/ Churchman & jackson, of indianapolis,
/ have a fine herd, as have ). GarretsOn
Bros. of Pendleton, Ind. Richardson &
Bros, VINO own a newspaper at Dayen-
port, Iowa, have one of the best herds in
the West.
1t is said in the Channel Islands that
the original Jerseys came from SwitZer-
land or Russia, while others insist that
they were derived from the mixture Of a
COW and a deer. For many generations,
indeed more than hundred years, it has
been forbidden by law to bring any kind
of cattle into these islands, for fear that
the breed might be corrupted. The de-
mand for the cattle from America as well
as from England has greatly run up their
prices within few years.
BY the machinery used at Prospect Hill
it takes thirty-iYe minutes only to separ-
COWS. The separator is a Swedish patent.
In one hour from the commencing of the
milking the cream is in the creamery and
the SKINNED milk is being fed to the
calves. The Jersey COWS procreate every
thirteen months; when they are year
old they desire to breed. Cases have been
known where these cows have become
mothers at thirteen or fourteen months,
although it takes fully nine months for
their offspring to be born. The bulls fire.
quently have eight services day.
Mr.. Sibley says that the keep Of his cat
tie in the winter is somewhere between
20 and 80 cents a day, hut that for pOr-
ton Of the year they do not cost above
cents a day. There are about thirteen
men employed on the herd farm, and the
cost of running it is about SIT, 900 a year.
The closer these cattle are inbred, the
more butter they produce; and it does not
pay TO fatten them for beef while they con-
tinue to make butter. They assimilate
their food better than any
cattle. The design is to keep
them for month or two months before
calving. Individual calves from this herd
have been sold for trom%S 900 to s., 500. In
the Channel Islands they kill the bulls
when they are year Old, and hence the
very best bulls have been slain before
their excellence is discovered; VIII .roe,s
in this country the fine bulls Ere kent to
old age
Among the raisers of herds are clergy
men ana women. l observed in the herd
book the name Of Mrs. Mary n. Rodgers.
of Wilmington, Del, and Rev. William
Clyft, Of Hadlym, Conn. Among men in
the Jersey herd business are w. X. Van
derbilt, John NJ. Stettinius, William But
Ter Duncan, Senator Don Cameron, Gen.
RathbOne, who recently committed sui
eide; Abram 5. Hewitt. Flood, the Cali
fOrnia millionaire: Ferdinand Ward, Col
lector Ed. Webster, of Baltimore; Moses
y. Tlden, brother of Samuel; Mrs. Colt,
Of Hartford; John w. Garrett ErastuS
Corning, the late Gen. Burnside. Mat
thew Laird, George l. Seney, Thomas
Mantel, Of Boston; john V. Farwell, Of
Chicago; Robert GOelet, William Rookie
Teller and others.
The bull Stoke Pogis was bought for
$130, the excellence Of his strain not hay
ing been known at the time, and he has
commanded $4,000 since. The mother of
the COW, Mary Ann, of St. Lamberts, is
now in Mr.. Sibley's stable, and calving
Making no allowance for the animals
which have since died, there have been
imported into the United States nearly
nine thousand bulls and about twenty
thousand cows of the Jersey stock. Other
families of consequence that l have not
named are Albert Pansies, the COOmas-
sizes and the Signals.
Holstein cattle are somewhat imported
here for beef, and two Scotch breeds are
coming in in considerable numbers, the
POlled or hornless Angus and the Gal
lOways. Some Herefords are also being
brought in for beef. Mr.. James Hill, of
Minnesota, has the finest collection Of
POlled Angus. At Prospect Hill are forty
five mich COWS, producing not less than
one pound per diem Of butter, while a
good deal of the milk without being
skinned is given to the calves. There
are twenty COWS in this stable that $4,000
aapiece would not buy. The animal
Pedro, that was bought in this stable
for $1,000, was sold four months after
ward to Mr.. Cooper, of Pennsylvania, for
10000.