Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
A FORTUNE EINAFARM.
Description of Senator McPhersOn's
Agricultural Estate,
THE FINEST IN THE COUNTRY.
A Village Of Farm Buildings, With 1890
Acres of the Richest Land.
cows WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN MONEY
rconREspoNDENcE OF THE DIsrArcH.I

4 CORRESPONDENTS OF THE DIsPATCHsJ
TRENTON, N. j., May 25.-John R. Me-
Pherson, the rich United States Senator
from this State, has one of the finest farm;
in the world The best Holstein and Jersey
cows in America are the property of the
| Senator. The farm is known as Belle Mead,
after famous Kentucky homestead. Il is
situated on the direct line of the Philadel-
phia and Reading road, between New York
and Philadelphia 1t is in Somerset county,
and only few miles from this city. The
steeples and turrets of Princeton College can
be seen from the central farmhouse. There
are 300 acres of magnificent land, the till
ing of which cost the Senator small fortune.
There are dozen farmhouses and more
than dozen enormous barns.
There are 10000 peach trees, hundreds OF
other fruit trees. and game preserve. Rab-
bits, ducks, partridges, guinea fowls. car
rier pigeons and domestic animals of every
description abound in the woods. Chickens
are fed scientifically in winter with heated
food, and the incubator is in constant use.
While Belle Mead is admitted by experts to
surpass any farm in the land, it is not con-
Quoted merely for pleasure or pride-on the
contrary. it yields substantial profit every
year and is paying q moderate percentage
on the enormous sum that it originally cost.
A PROUD AND coNTENTED FARMER.
Assemblyman Jacob Klotz is the mana
ger OF the farm for the Senator. Last win
ter he left the cattle and granaries long
enough to come to the Legislature and put
in one of the votes that returned his propri-
tor to the United States Senate for the third
successive term. Klotz is a thorough far
mer. He will point with pride to the kline
standing knee deep in the luxurious green
grass, to the trim fences and hedges and the
thousand and one details of rustic beauty
and thrift. He will tell of the 100 acres of
growing wheat, of the 100 of oats, OF the 100
acres Of peach trees and of pasturage for 300
head of cattle until you wish you were a
farmer.
But the chief pride, botn of the Senator
and his manager, are the cows. As already
mentioned the farm contains the finest Jer-
seys and Holsteins in America. 1t is a
good COW that gives 18 or 20 quarts of milk
a day. De Bless, the queen of the Belle
Mead Holsteins is running race with the
worlds record. She gives over 40 quarts
day, and it is expected that during this year
she will give IL, 500 quarts or 25, 600 pounds
of lacteal fluid. The record is 10000 pounds
OF milk year. Tne animal is worth 81, 800,
but S. 900 wouldn't buy her.
WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN DOLLARS.
De Bless wanders around in clover with q
small herd of Holsteins that are almost
worth their weight in silver. A man is with
them almost constantly. They are never
driven faster than walk; no one is allowed
to speak unkindly to them or to strike them,
and they are MIXED three times day. The
mixers finger nails must be carefully
trimmed for fear of injuring them and in
winter they are fed scientifically on food
heated with steam. A steam pipe takes the !
chill off the water that they drink in cold !
weather, and, altogether, they receive more
care than many human beings.
Each of the Holsteins has pedigree as
long as that of prince. Their yield of
milk is carefully marked down on black
board in pounds and added up each week,
and it takes whole set of books to keep the
record of their yield and of the calves re-
lations in the bovine elite directory.
BOVINE BLUE GRASS BEAUTIES.
The Jerseys are cared for almost as tender
". Mr.. Klotz has long stretch Of Ken
lucky blue grass for them to Craze on. No
,ow is driven in from the pasture and