The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-30
JERSEY CATTLE BREEDERS.
The Second Annual Meeting of the State As
ISOLATION Well Attended.

The Jersey Cattle breeders Association, which
was organized one year ago, held its second
meeting yesterday, Between forty and fifty of
the leading stock-raisers in the State were in at
tendance. 1t was shown by the report of the
secretary, T. A. Lloyd that during the year
membership fees to the amount of 800 had been
collected. At the meeting held a year ago Mr..
Lloyd was authorized to employ committee for
the expert testing of Jersey cows c. c. Crock
EFT, of Richmond, had requested that his cow
''Hazen's Bess," should be tested under the au-
spices of the association, and therefore the
secretary had chosen Joseph Ratlif
and Sylvester johnson as the com
mittee. The report of their test showed that in
seven days 'Hazen's Bess" had yielded over 344
pounds of milk, from which twenty-four pounds
and eleven ounces of butter had been produced,
which is the third largest yield of any COW in the
world She recently sold to the proprietors
of Beech Grove farm, this city, for So, 500,
and it is said that they have since been offered
81, 500 for her.
The annual address of George jackson, of this
city, the president of the association, was deliv-
cred Three new members, G. Miller and F. w.
Miller, of Indianapolis, and William E. Higgins
of Shelbyville, were admitted
paper written by James P. Ross, of Wabash,
on the subject of ''The Jersey Cow; Her Value,
and the Necessity of Systematic Testing" was
read by the secretary. 1t was claimed that the
cows real value in her offspring, and in this
connection some of the marvellous prices which
had been paid for the purest breeds were quoted.
1t IS estimated that in the United States there
are over Is, 900, 900 milk cows, and from these
annually is produced 1900, 00G 900 pounds of but
ter Reduce the number of COWS to 600, 600 Jer
seys,' Mr. Ross stated, and there will be more
butter than can be produced from the Il, 600 900,
while there will be fewer COWS to milk He
suggested that some system of testing should be
agreed upon by the association and that it
should be applied to the cows owned by the
members, which would be of more benefit to
them as breeders than anything else that could
be done.
Sylvester johnson, of Irvington, presented a
very interesting paper on the subject of 1.-THE
Care of Milk and Cream for the Largest Returns
in Butter, Quantity and Quality Considered. The
milk of cows MIR. johnson said, always contains
caseine, or cheesey matter lactose, or milk SUI
gar, and several salts, all dissolved in water,
in which float the globules of butter.
The proportions of these elements vary
with the breed of cows The mean results of a
large number of analyses, under varying circum-
stances, show that chemists have concurred in
these figures: Water, S7.4 per cent; butter 4;
sugar and soluble salts 5; caseine and insolube
salts, So In the best of milk it is seldom that
there can be OBTAINED more than 81 per cent of
the butter contained in the cream. He spoke of
the Importance of the feed of the cows and of
cleanliness in handling the milk. The tempera-
ture is important consideration, and he ad
vised that it should not be lower than $50 nor
higher than go in the dairy-room.
A general discussion followed the reading of
Mr.. Johnson's paper. In speaking of the neces-
sity of cleanliness in the dairy-room, Dr. R. T.
Brown stated that in some of the best diaries in
the East the butter worked under a contin-
tinuous stream of water, and referred also to the
new centrifugal process, by which, in the rapid
revolution of the butter, all particles of milk
thrown off. making a quality which can be pre-
preserved an indefinite length of time The
general opinion elected in the discussion was
that if milk is kept in deep cans at uniform
temperature of 44o the greatest quantity of
cream will be produced in the least possible
time.
Robert Mitchell, president of the State Board
of Agriculture, addressed the association briefly,
requesting it to appoint expert judges to make
the awards of premiums to the Jersey cattle ex-
hibted at the State fair. Theo. p. Haughey,
Amos Garrison, and Sylvester johnson were
chosen as a committee representing the associa
ton to select the judges and furnish their names
to the Secretary of the State Board of Agricui
ture.
The association will resume its sessions this
morning, and will probably adjourn this after
noon. Tomorrow the eighth annual messing of
the State Swine-breeders Association viii begin.