Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18

New York sun. 49,.
and a pea fowl for the Ornamentatlon Of
a lawn" said a gentleman at his country
seat in Connecticut last week. As he was
describing the points Of beauty of slick,
1.-the little cow, with head and eyes ike
a deer, a tall, White-beared man drove
up and asked permission TO look at the
COW. The accent Of the stranger 1ndl-
Gated 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 cir
/ cled around the timid little coWs put
/ few questions as to her registry and
/ history, and then surprised the owner by
a plump effer Of $500 for the animal, and
/ a bonus of S25 for making the sale:
/ ''Ah, but she is not for SALE said the
owner. 81 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 a Western State,
although he appeared to be thankful
| that he had "gOt his Iaisin' dOWnin the
| blue grsss of Kentucky. He was making
/ his annual trip through New England
picking up Jersey COWS and heiters for
! his herd, and he said that he would "be
very happy, sab, if you would do me the
hOnah to sell me that S-year-Old, for
! confess, sab, that she is a beautiful ani-
NAL" Being unable to make a purchase,
! he did not object to burning a cigar un-
der the shade Of a veranda and to reveal
| ing his love for Jersey beauties.
There's no other such sort Of cow"
/ he said, ''and upon my honor, sab, as
! gentleman. L know men who are as much
! in love with these shy little animals as
! they are, sah with their wives. There
| are no such mixers and no COWS sell
! like them. There's Mary Ann, up at st.
! Lambert, Canada, that had yielded four
pounds of butter in one day. She's
worth 100000 Mr.. Darling, of the Fifth
/ Avenue Hotel in New York, has a beau
tiful animal that produces twenty odd
| pounds of butter week. The milk of a
good Jersey is about so per cent pure
cream; and, san, 1 have MIXED a Jersey
/ and churned the vessel at the same time,
and when 1 finished, sah, L had small
quantity of butter in the vessel merely
by agitating the milk as it came from
the COW. This shows how rich the milk
is.
"The Jersey COWS sell from 5000 to
! s., 600, according to their record as but
ter-makers. Their butter sells for from
80 cents to 81 pound. and if it is well
made it will stand firm without ice in
warm weather. AT my herd I sell the
cream by the inch. It is collected in
registering cans, and sold according to
the number Ofinches Of cream registered"
81 suppose the COWS are great pets"
"On the contrary, they keep wild near
ly always. 1t seems to run in their
blood. 1t is said that the stock is the
offspring of a buck deer that in early
time 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
where they run in blue grass are hard
to find. They drop down in the grass,
and make themselves assmall as posi- ole.
l give you my hOnah, sab, 1 have been
within 10 feet of a COW in a blue grass
field, and have failed to see her. They
have a way Of hiding themselves like
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 heifers as possible, and
we believe that we viii succeed. The
bull Jerseys are not so profitable to
handle. L think we viii be able to in
crease the capacity of the COWS In this
country. YOG know we are exporting
shOrthOrns from Kentucky and are sell
ing them to the very breeders in Eng
land who supplied us some years ago.
The breed is improved here, because of
the lime in the water and in the food.
It gives more bone and adds weight and
strength to the beasts. believe we can
so treat the Jerseys as to be able to in
crease their capacity. They are not fit
for beef because they are Of q lean kind,
which you can not fatten. But sab,
lime water and blue grass are wonderful
bone and muscle makers"