Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-08

They were all in Jars and bottles.
Upon the shelf arrayed,
And in their midst poor Mrs. Ounce
Was turned to marmalade.
-lSt. Nicholas.
| THE BUTTER RECORDS OF THE JERSEYS
No breed of cattle has become more
popular than the Jerseys, and no breed
gives more general satisfaction. Within
| the past ten years they have made greater
progress than for many years previous, ow-
ing to the great interest taken in them by
American breeders. The Jerseys were
handicapped by the color marks cream
fawn and black nozzle-until inferior
cattle were in greater demand than those
which were meritorious. In other words,
every valuable quality was being sacrificed
to solid color. The prices at which they
were sold, however, were low, as those who
desired first-class butter COWS were not dis
posed to venture too largely in order to
possess a prize animal whose superiority
rested upon exterior characteristics only.
When new departure was yentured upon,
and the breeding animals were selected
from those that excelled in the production
of butter, the Jerseys rapidly rose in favor
and became in great demand. In building
up the leading strains of Jerseys the cows
Alphea, Eurotas and Coomassie were the
foundations, while the male line is traced
to Jupiter, Rioter and Signal Other ex-
cellent animals were used to improve the
strains but those named were the principal
families, although they were somewhat
related. The COW Coomassie has been of
greater service through the influence of
her sons and grandsons than through her
daughters, while the others have produced
excellent descendants through both the
male and female line Eurotas, daughter
of Rioter, has impaired her good qualities
to all fiber descendants, and the bull Rioter
is well represented through the Stoke
Pogis family, the St. Lambert cows being
chiefly of this blood. Our object here,
however, is not to give pedigrees but to
impress upon our readers the Importance of
careful selection of the breeding stock from
among animals that have proved them
selves meritorious. This rule has become
imperative among breeders. We find the
record alone the test for the trotter, and,
although pedigree is very valuable, unless
an animal demonstrates its usefulness as a
sire or dam its own excellence will not
give it high place as a breeder Blue
Bull, horse Of almost unknown lineage
has gone to the front Us Il sire of trotters
although but an inferior trotter himself,
and the COW CoomasSie, while not equaling
others of later date, still ranks the high
est as source Of the best quality. The
test Of merit has increased the fleeces and
carcasses of our sheep and the early ma
turity and capacity of digestion Of the
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certain families of Berkshires as superior
to others. BY this process of selection for
merit only, and according to the capacity
Of the animal, breeders have produced
jersey COWS that give thirty pounds of
5alted butter in one week, the milk re-
CURED for such production being only
five quarts for one pound of butter, as in
the case of Ida, of ST. Lambert The milk
yields of the liolsteins, from some families,
have reached over fifty pounds (about
twenty-five quarts daily, and still the i'm
provement goes on.
California, of all the States in the
Union, is gardenless, so far as the farming
community is in general concerned. The
old method of growing only one crop, and
that usually wheat, is still adhered to-
much to the detriment of the farming
class. The Chicago Herald, speaking of
the value of gardens, says: Gardeners,
and above all, farmers, have no business to
live meanly Or to think of themselves as
obliged to drudge ceaselessly without the
indulgence Of other classes. One has no
business to see town folk having early
vegetables and berries q month before his
tardy supply comes on, to be out of them
in dog days before the merchants and cheap
clearinghouse keepers in the city have
begun to see the end of fresh things he
has no need to live on doughnuts and boiled
dinners the year round, when others try
the changes of spring lamb, fresh fish,
boiled chicken, salads ducks and green
peas, capons and veal until turkey time
comes again. He ought not to see town
homes fragrant with flowers, while his wife
has only bunch of syringas or cinnamon
roses, with tuft of asparagus, to sweeten
the parlor when she thinks to pick them.
What better right have rich men
to sit over desserts and choice pears.
must content himself with a Baldwin
apple in midwinter? Why should he not
have a becoming home with its lawn in
front and large borders of the richest flow
ers; his house one-story and small, per-
haps, yet hung with wood-bine, wild grapes
and roses against the background OF or
chard and shade trees, spreading their
flanking boughs with good effect, as if it
were a cottage ornee, with its acres of
Why should he not have in
his garden choice fruits of the season
currants and gooseberries
iostling each other in earliest perfection, I
red and blae,, cherries, golden and purple
piums, plenty of black caps to make up for
the lost Strawberries and grapes as soon as
raspberries are over, big blaneked salads,
peas in succession, as well as his town
neighbor, who sells him groceries and cot
ton? Why should he not have as fine
pears, peaches, winter apples and grapes at
Christmas as well as the President of the
Horticultural Society, and why should not
his girls have big French roses and tuber-
oseS as well as the solitary dahlia and
China aster which decorate the yard, and
the common geranium indoor? Why
doesn't he have an herb bed to make his
plain dinner sav0ry, and lavender to
sweeten his sheets at night? A poor Eng
fish cottager will have all these by thrift
and contriyance. Why not an American
farmer?'
But although the cows themselves are
selected as the fttest for the purpose, such
tests are made under the most favorable
conditions only. The food is rich, varied,
of the best quality and given plentiful-bu
this is the duty of every farmer. The but
ter cows are selected for their butter quali-
ties alone, and not with view TO securing
a large quantity of milk Their beef quail
titles are entirely discarded, and their fu-
ture value to the bucher is not considered
The Jerseys are active, small in size ard
mature early, the heifers often producing
calves before they are year and half
old. They are distinct from the Guern-
seys, not being as large, and possessing a
more delicate shape and finer bone. There
are no Alderney cows in this country, the
butter so styled being from the
Jerseys and Guernseys. The use of a Jer-
sey bull among a common herd makes a
marked change in the character of the
offspring, and but short time is required !
TO Largely increase the value of the stock, |
while the yield of butter is more than
doubled Philadelphia Record.
In reply to the query, What quantity !
of milk should cow give to be considered !
well-known dairyman an
swers: 4,50G pounds; $500 pounds for the
first 100 days, 1000 pounds for the 100
DAVIS folIowioor and 700 poundS hntwaa,