Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-05-07
JERSEYS AVID THEIR FANoIsBs.
An Account of Some Famous Cows
and Who owned Them.

in other fields. Colonel Richard M. Hoe,
whose inventions and improvements in
printing presses have revolutionized the
business of printing, and rendered his
name familiar throughout the world, is
almost as widely known as the breeder Of
the famous cows Alphea, III, and Eurotas,
2,454. Even the excessive demands of
his great business could not altogether
overcome his love of animals, and
"Brightside," his little farm above Harlem
river, will remain historical long after it
has disappeared beneath the brick and
mortar and pavements of an advancing
city. II was there that he bred Alphea,
an Incompatible COW, whose blood is still
potent in many valuable herd. Her
enforced tests at the rate of over 30
pounds of butter q week, with only six
quarts of ground feed day in addition
to pasture, and her repeated trials ON
grass alone at the rate of 20 to 241
pounds of butter n week, mark her as n
| marvellous animal. From her he bred |
Europa, and from Europa came Eurotas,
that in the herd of M. A. b. Darling |
made 778 pounds one ounce of butter in |
| IL months and five days, and dropped a |
calf within year from the beginning Of
the test. Here was superlative merit for
three generations in the blood, and it did
not end with Eurotas, for although she
had no daughters that lived to come into
milk, Mr.. Darling bred grand daughter,
possessing also the blood of his great COW
Violet of Darlington, 5,573, that gave 81
pounds 11t ounces of butter in seven
days on her second calf. This was the
cow Bomba, previously mentioned.
Mr.. Darling, whose success as breeder
is in part due to blood derived from
Colonel Hoes herd, is also man of
prominence in other business having been
from its first opening senior proprietor
and manager Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York, which, covering a period of
% years, is generally considered to have
been the most successful hotel enterprise
in the United States if not in the world.
Darlington" in the Rainapo Valley,
Bergen county, New Jersey, will long be
remembered MS the source from which a
great quantity of valuable Jersey blood
has been distributed throughout the
United States. The success of Darling
ton" has reflected great honor upon
"Brightside," and the fortunes of the two
establishments have been closely linked
together, each owing the other much for
the common fame which the public has
accorded to their strains of blood.
Among the other devoted fanciers of
the Jersey COW who have achieved promi-
hence in various walks i'll life may be
named Mr.. william b. Dinsmore, promi-
nently identified with the organization
and development of Adams Express
Company His firm is at Stantsburg, on
the Hudson. II was there that Albert, "A
was bred-u bull whose name has become
a synonym of merit in all pedigrees. His
blood, united with that of Pansy, s, wa,
IL the bed rock upon which MIR. S. w
Robbins, of Wethersfeld Connecticut
;, achieved remarkable success as
breeder. Mr.. Davis Collamore, whose
name is familiar throughout the country
Ms one of the leading importers of chini
and glassware, keeps his herd on I'll,
sloping pastures of his little farm OF
Orange Mountain, New Jersey overlooking
-, three great cities und their surrounding
- II busy picture of energy, enterprise
and industry, in the turmoil of which hi
own business career has played, ami sill
plays, M honorable part. Yet for man,
years he has found time 10 devote Il
the improvement of the Jersey, importing
and breeding with much cnre and iudg
he ment Mr.. Samuel G. Colt of Hartford
yn Connecticut, Mt the head of the grea
ee mandatory of firearms. The Int
lst Charles l.. Sharpless of Philadelphia, 70
en- n generation its greatest dry goods ner
n chant. MIR. j. b. Williams of Glaston
of bury, Connecticut, pioneer and mos
en- successful worker in the field O
,rs EMOTIONS" is now almost as widely know
en- as the importer of the famous co,
he Dandelion, 1881, leading butter quee
he in the herd of Mr.. John j. Holly.
o. II is probable that great improvement
Ike will ere long be effected in the averag
nd quality of the best herds through til
lal multiplication of the blood of tn
in greatest animals. But many contend tina
err while average quality may be greatly in
We crensed, there have been individual COW
in already bred whose capacity will neve
ID, be exceeded. BE this as it may, ther
nd will be no effort spared to surpass N
mr. known presidents.
ias To secure this end the more enter
nd prising breeders have brought to Alneric
nat the very gems of the parent island MI
ice s. NJ. Burnham of Saugatuck, Connet
nj ticut, brought no less cow tina
in Coomassie, the most famous animal eve
VS. raised on the island of Jersey, and on
nat long held above price Her descendant
MS have sold for great sums, and produce
ed some of the most remarkable butter test
A Though she died n few months since, Nj
vas | i1ulullliu . ucru IN TlGn Ill ntr DlOOu, an
W. her worth is perhaps equalled in ht
90 grand daughter Ona, one of its leadiI
ow attractions.
lie English-bred strains of Jersey catt
ne. have also been drawn upon to impro,
American herds, and one was introduce
into Canada some years ago by M
ces Sheldon S. Stephens of Montreal, chief
by selected from the Queens farm
Ost Windsor; to this was later added anotht
lie, English line, springing originally froi
oh the herd of Philip Dauncey, ESQ.,,
TO Berks, and imported to the United Stat,
ed by Mr. Peter LIE Clair of Winoosk
oil Vermont, from whom Mr.. Stephens pr,
nj cured the bull Stoke Pogis 3d. A woI
Use derful family of butter cows WINS I'll
nd result of this combination, the MOI
tai noted of which is Mary Anne of S
yes Lambert, the property of Valancey
no Fuller, ESQ.,, of Hamilton, Ontaria. 81
nd surprised the years test of Eurotns,
ng Mr.. Darling's herd, by giving SG7 pound
tlg l4i ounces of butter in IL months nm
lie five days, and under official inspection b
CIV II committee of the American Jerse
in Cattle Club gave 80 pounds ~ ounces
IN: seven days, both of which tests renal
as closely descended through double line
lot from Mr.. Daunceys bull Rioter, i
so Enginnd, one %. whose sons, Rioter 2,
Ter imported from there by Colonel Hoe, W,
IAN the sire % Eurotas.
is In 1851 MT. Thomas Motley, of Boston
s." Massachusetts, imported the COW Flor
es' lib, thai despite the drawbacks ,
The ncclimnting, soon after tested for him 81
vn, pounds two ounces of butter in so week
d n Many of her descendants were extrno
led binary butter yielders, and when, yeal
of nfterwnrd, four diverging lines of h,
mes liood became reunited in the COW Jerso
in Belle Of ';cituate, 1928, there resnlte
icy one of the greatest butter cows in Il
of history of the breed. She gave u
lis, pounds of butter in one year for h,
owner, Mr.. Charles o. Films of Scituat
Massachusetts, which ut the time was Il
largest that had been made. One of Ii,
daughters, Belle of Scituate, give
IT," pounds of butter in seven days.
.ly. But the gossip and lore which si
of round the Jersey are et.dless, and we CT
of not enter So wide II field. The life of
SO Jersey Belle, I'm Alphea, a Coomassie,
,st. Regina, or II Pansy would fill boo
md Great cows were they, bountiful in lii
yer. and still handing down their bount
n though each has passed 0n To the lind
md shadows.
it'll
ola An Accommodating Judge.
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