The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-12
DAIRY COWS.
The Practical Experience of Great
Breeder with shorthorns' Hol-
stems, Ayrshires, Guern-
seys, and Jerseys.

We give the substance OF the experi
ence of Mr.. VIM. Crozier, than WHOM
few men in America has had NOR
thoroughly practical experience witt
dairy stock. Mr.. Crozier's experience
was on a basis of profit and loss
Twenty years ago he kept small herds
of Shorthorns, Ayrshires, and Jerseys
and he found that the Jerseys paid SC
much better that he found it was to his
pecuniary interest to sell the Shorthorn:
and Ayrshires and husband the Jersey S
Mr.. Crozier's experience with the Hol
stem was, "that they were hard keep
ers," and that they consume double the
food of the Ayrshires.
lone of the great advantages of the
Jersey COW, forty or fifty miles from a
large city is the cream, as cream can be
sent that distance, and returns thirty
five cents per quart at least" This is q
little too high. The persistency of
milking of the Jersey COW tells favorably
for her at the end of the season.
Mr. Crozier says: Il kept Guernseys
for six or seven years, and they, like the
Shorthorns and Ayrshires, were sold to
make room for Jerseys. l found they
consumed more food than the Jerseys,
which, of course, tends to reduce their
value" In another place Mr.. Crozier
saws: There, too, we would say, in
choosing the cows for the dairy, it is
better to have the best that can be pro-
cured, rather than waste good work and
good food upon inferior stock"
OF the Shorthorns again he says: 81
saw once new importation of Short
horns, where the dams of the calves
could not feed them, and Ayrshires
were imported at the same time to sup
ply this want"
For the benefit of Mr. Robert Mitchell,
President of the Indiana State Board
of Agriculture, and all Shorthorn and
Holstein Jersey bull shooters, we quote
a few words of a whilom ShOrthorn and
Holstein breeder. Mr.. VIM. Crozier, who
says of the Shorthorn cattle:
This excellent breed of cattle, which
used to stand first III the estimation of
breeders in America, seems to have lost
rank, and to be meeting with very close
competition from the Hereford and the |
Scotch Polled cattle, which are rapidly |
taking their place in the West. A few |
years ago there was an enormous specu- |
lation in this breed of cattle, and $50 900 |
NYzf ,UOO-GDi hdS dCludl4l paul 4OT one
single COW; but 1--WE italicise-ED) to-day
the acreage price for good uure-6red
Shorthand c0a0 IS about 5000. It is claim
ed for them that there are families of
good mixers in the breed. but as far as
my experience goes, it takes two cows or
mothers to raise one calf. I saw Ouch
ess 18th when in this country, and again
at Lord Dunmore's, in Scotland. when
she was being prepared for the Christ
mas show of fat cattle. She had all the
turnips, oil cake. peas and beans she
could eat, and grew to such an enor-
nous weight that, while standing up,
she had to be put in slings, lest her
limbs would give out. But after ali this
feeding and care, Polled Angus COW |
led at nearly all the Christmas shows of
beef cattle in London, the Herefords |
coming in second.
THAT they have so fallen off in the |
dairy by being bred solely for beef, and |
have fallen off as beef cattle by being |
bred too much for fat, shows how a |
splendid race of cattle may be destroyed |
by mismanagement. One family only |
of this breed, known as the Princess /
family, has now reputation for milk |
and butter, although occasionally few |
individual cows are found to be good |
mixers and butter makers. Some of |
the grade Shorthorns are excellent dairy |
cows. Shorthorns are not much used |
for oxen. They mature, when fed on
rich feed, at an early age, but their beef |
is much better in quality at five or six |
years old, when they will dress from |
1, 400 to 1900 pounds"
Prominent English physicians are OPP |
posed to too early fattened Shorthorn |
beef. as lacking the matchmaking |
strength for the army and navy.
In France, at present, there is only |
one breed, and that is really the only |
exclusively beef breed in that country, |
where the Shorthorn is crossed upon /
French stock. And for labor, the French |
have several breeds that are far superior.
We have made these quotations for
the purpose of showing the cause of the
animus of the Shorthorn and Holstein
breeders against not only the Jersey,
but against all competitors.
If, however, the Shorthorn and Hol-
stein breeders would like to recuperate
and improve their stock for the dairy,
we advise them to use the largest Jer-
sey bulls on their cows for three genera
lions, and they will succeed in securing
valuable dairy herds. In this way we
fulfill the Scriptures. BE not over
come of evil. but overcome evil with
good. THE Jersey Bulletin.
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