Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-05-02
The Jersey Family at the Exposition.

are accomplishing great deal for our ma
terial progress. OnD which furnishes
much information in connection with the
dairying interests of the country, as they
are viewed by the breeders of Jersey cattle,
is the Jersey Bulletin, of indianapolis, In
diana. Its pages furnish weekly all that is
going on relating to the growth and increas-
ing values of the Jersey family of CATTLE
The compilations of intelligence, with its
large number of contributors scattered
over the States, make the Bulletin the
organ of this growing interest, which is an
nually charging in Virginia.
In the good old county of Goochland, on
James river, at Eastwood" near this
CITY, at Fredericksburg, and in Caroline
and other points in the State, the raising of
pure Jersey cattle is becoming a chief in
dustry. In the vicinity of Beaver Dam.
Goochland county, resided many of the old
families on their ancestral plantations, and
among them the patriot Governor James
Peasants. If history had not placed his
name along with contemporaries in the
public service among the treasures of the
Commonwealth the memory of the chival-
rous son, whose talents and genius and
virtues and unsurpassed leadership in main.
tanning Republican institutions, would re-
feet upon it immortal fame.
In the olden time the good red soil
around Beaver Dam sent annually down to
Richmond full quotas of tobacco, wheat,
and corn, but in these latter days young
scion of another noble Virginia family is
there devoting his energies to new agri-
culture, to the improvement of the soil,
and to create new life in the new line of in
dustry, rearing Jersey cattle. He tells
what he is doing to keep his section of the
State abreast with the times now, and to
enter those to follow when that locality
will be as fruitful in new wealth as it was
famed in the past for talents and ability in
State affairs and in the culture of the crops
as was then the custom of the people.
Joseph R. Anderson, Jr., is the son of
General Joseph R. Anderson, of Richmond.
| We could wish the son no more distinguish
ed success in the valuable industry in
which he is engaged at Beaver Dam, than
that which has been achieved by the
father at the Tredegar Works, and in the
good be is doing even at his advanced age
for the prosperity of Virginia. Mr.. Ander-
son writes in the Bulletin of last week,
giving an outline of the formation Of the
s'Virginia Jersey Cattle Breeders Associa-
tion'' last fail, which the SPECTATOR pub
| lished at the time. He is the Secretary,
and Mr.. M. Erskine Miller, of Staunton, is
the President of the Association, and as
one of the distinctive features of the Expo
sition next October will be the combination
sale of selections from the various herds
embraced in the Association affording a
good opportunity to see and. procure regis
tered stock, for the establishment of ad-
ditional herds, We make the following ex-
tract from Mr.. Anderson's communication
to the Bulletin -
"During this exposition our Virginia
Jersey Cattle Breeders Association will
have its first com bination sale. We have
in Virginia large number of very fine
Jerseys l will mention, for example, the
herd of Mr.. NJ Erskine Miller, president of
our association, which includes now nearly
thirty animals with tests from IA lbs TO
% TBS the Wertham Herd of Gen. R.
Snowden Andrews the home of the late
Queen Of Jerseys, the great Oxford Kate,
the Messrs. Rowe's great prize herd, the
Grautland Herd, of Mr.. W. E. Grant, not
to speak Of the writer's Thornclff Herd,
and a number of others. Drafts from these
several herds will be contributed to this
sale, and, as it will be the first sale of the
association, think I can safely promise
that they will be composed Of the best
i specimens Of our respective herds"
The Bulletin, continuously for some
weeks past, has furnished sketches, Illus
trated, of grown animals in Mr.. Miller's
Eastwood" herd, and the issue of last
week contains similar descriptions of King
ID, 1870, and Royal Queen. s,42S-sire
and dam of King Nero, 1862, two-year-
old bull recently sold by Mr.. Miller to Mr..
J. r. Dimmick, of Newport. Ky.
The Association will have upon the Ex-
position grounds a stylish home for the
Jerseys, like the pavilion which Mr.. Miller
owns fol the exhibition of his herd within
the area of the Baldwin District Fair.
The Jersey breeders regard themselves as
patrons of tbs dairying interests. In Eng
land and in parts of our own country cream
cries have been immensely successful, and,
as more certain and profitable source OF
supply, it is claimed that the Jersey is the
cow of assured success.