Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
JERSEYS.
NOT THOSE AFFECTED BY CITY
LADIES,

But the Pets of Rural Maidens with
Milking Pails-Rapid Increase of the
Marvellous Butter Producers in the
United States-DescriptiOn of a Model
Pennsylvania Farm Devoted to Breed
ing This Stock-A Cow Valued at $40
900, and "A Earn Illuminated by EIec-
tricity-Where the Jerseys Come From
Their PecuIiarities, and Their Re-
markabIy Valuable Qualities.
cath in Cincinnati EnQuirer.
NEW YORK, March 2.-Living in the
city, do not often get hold of a country
topic which your farmer readers might
Ike. Last Sunday, at Cincinnati. I maid Il
visit to Mr.. William r. Smiths fancy
farm, beyond Eden Park, and Saw his All
derney cattle. On my way home a friend
induced me to stop oyer at Franklin.
Penn, with him, to see what he said was
the largest herd, probably, of jersey cat
tie IN this country, or, if not the largest,
the most valuable, at least in bulls.
Franklin IS surrounded with the der
rlcks OF oil wells. looking like skeleton
church spires, to the number of scores
and hundreds, ard most of these are
still pumping small quantity of oil per
diem. Overlooking the tower on the OPP
p0slte side of French Greek is the
Prospect Hill stock farm, perhaps the
most complete in its appointments now in
this country. Connected with it in differ
ent tracts are about six hundred acres of
land, and II has race-COurse used bY the
Country Agricultural Society. Near the
gate gong IN IS the creamery. which man.
ufacturcs two barrels of cream into butter
in about forty-tive minutes, and this but
ter IS sent all over the country at 80 cents
pound. On the top Of the hill is the
barn, which IS Of an OctagOnal or almost
circular pattern and contains the entire
herd on two floors. From the cupOla Of
the barn, which gives the ventilation,
descends a pole, around which is a wind
ing stair connecting the two floors. In
the centre Of each floor is a large OEen
space, and the circle of cattle faces this
IN stalls, their heads all appearing above
the stalls, and the trOughs at their knees.
Behind THIS row of cattle is an open cor
rider, also circular. around which the
second greater circle of cattle stand at
their stalls.
On the upper floor portion Of this
second circle is devoted to the COWS with
calves or about to calye. The cows in
calf are generally kept dry where this is
possible, 50 that the calf can get the full
n0urlshment; but it is exceedingly diff
cult IN some cases to dry the JERSEY COW.
rs ,4e tenacity with which she manes
milk IS the great secret Of her value. She
IS the most wonderful buttermakipo ami
mai known to man. Other kinds of cat
tie run to beef, but the JERSEY so assimi-
lates her food that the globules which
might make beef flow in her milk. and
hence the extraordinary production of
some Of these cows, and their high prices
in country where the chemist has been
at work with butter, and has given MS
various forms Of wagOn-grease and coal
tar instead of the Alderney produce,
The importation Of Jersey cattle into
the United States began about seven
years before the war. 1t has gone on
win such enthusiasm that we now have
about twenty-one thousand Jerseys,
either imported or born here. every one
OF which IS registered in the Jersey herd
book, that IS assuming the proportions of
library. The Jersey cattle-by which
general name is meant cattle Of Jersey.
Sark and Alderney-imprOve in this
country over their condition in their
native island, and they make more cream
and butter, and thrive wonderfully. They
are distributed over the entire country.
They are generally of a fawn color, with
rather dark-gray or blackish faces: the
COWS are very gentle, and the bulls Yici-
Gus.
Prospect Hill Farm is noted for its cost
ly bulls, at the head Of which is Michael
Angelo, the son of EurOtas by her fun
brother Black Prince of Hanover, Service
from this bull is $500. He cost S12.500
when he was only six weeks old. and was
bought from A. b. Darling, the proprietor
OF the tltth Avenue Hotel in New York.
who has line herd. The next bun is
Stoke Pogis the Fifth, who is the fnII and
only brother to Stoke POgis the Third.
which sired the most wonderful COW on
the globe, Mary Ann, of St. Lambert's.
which made 120 pounds of butter in 24S
consecutive days. Eurotas, the mother of
Michael Angelo, is valued at $40. 900. and
IS now about 10 years old. Eurotas be-
longs to the celebrated Rinter family,
which includes the Dolphin, the Stoke PO-
gls and the RiOter Second bulls.
The next family to this in consideration
is the st. Heliar, and its representative IN
this stable is King st. Heliar, who traces
to old St.Heliar, the parent of the stock.
fOrty-hVe different times. Another bull in
this stable, well known throughout the
country, is Yellow Boy, by the Duke of
Darlington, son of Eurotas. and the
sire Of BOmba, out of the well known
COW Daisy, belonging to Paran Stevens.
Another bull here, Vicar of Wakefield.
has 0l12 per cent. of the blood of st.
Heliar the Forty-fifth. The stable is full
of cows which have been sent to these
bulls, and they pay from 500 to $500
apiece, besides 81 a week for their keen.
There IS continual expectation of young
calves from this stable at prices that sur
prise novice, and the express cOmpa-
MES are doing large business in cattle
alone. 1t is no uncommon thing for a
cow to be sent one thousand or two thou
sand miles in order to complete her con-
nectlOn with some family strain. These
Jerseys are noted for their incestuOus
strength. Where there is any thing good
in family it improves by multiplying
within the family, and so does a bad
strain grow worse by being bred upon it
self.
was interested in two things in this
stable. In the first place, the cream sep
arator, which is run by a steam engine,
and reVolyes with enormous rapiditv. and
the cream flows out of one spigOt and the |
skinned milk out of another. Then |
observed the apparatus for cleaning
cows, which are carefully washed and !
once or twice day by means of
brushes operated by the engine. The
cow, calf or bull is brought forward and
tied to post, and from above these
brushes are brought to her body, and
raise every hair. The cattle !
like it, but their tails have to be tied up
in bag. for not long ago one of the !
brushes tore out tail. The temperature |
IN the barn is kept at fifty degrees the !
year round, regulated by the thermome-
-CAF anu ZIG DtAAll - Al8uLti Win Iue !
Brush light on every floor, and at mid
night is as bright as day. A storage bat
terry IS kept near the engine for this pur-
pose. The light used is the ordinary gas
bracket and small lamp.
Particular pains are taken with the
drainage, and, being off the lines of
travel, the pleuro-pneUmOnia and other
troubles Of American cattle are avoided. I
Texas seems to be the prolific centre of
these diseases. The stalls for cows about /
TO calve are seven or eight feet square. and /
inclOsed. The young jersey !
calf at one day old viii kick up his heels !
and behave as if it had full understand |
ing of this world. So valuable are these |
COWS that when they are very old they are /
made mothers to the last, and you can see
a few old COWS whose shoulders seemed to /
stand right out from their bodies like
bones, yet awaiting pOsterity. 1t is said
that there is only one photographer in the
United States who can picture these cat
tie to perfection. Helives in Philadelphia,
and charges $50 for his negative and 10
cents a piece for small photographs of the
besides the expenses of two men,
who often 90 hundreds of miles to take
picture.
At Prospect Hill farm the barn is IS
feet in diameter. There are thirty-twO
cattle on the inner rows and fOrty-siX on
the rear rows. The engine has 15-hOrse
power. The food given the animals is
boiled and mixed, partly oats and partly
or leaves of corn plucked when
the ear is full Of milk. The cattle like