Arizona republican., 1891-07-26
DAIRY AND CREAMERY.
KNOWING HOW TO FEED A COW
 FOR A BUTTER MAKING TEST.

"An Irishman, Otherwise Stupid, Who
 Could Not Read or write," but Who
 Loved Animals and Studied Their Ways,
 the Boss Stock Feeder-Butter Tests. Just as horsemen have learned how to get the best speed possible out of horse,
 so have men skilled in feeding discovered
 iss-', tn -ilevelop a cow to her greateet capacity. The two great phenomene1
 records in the Jersey breed of 39 pounds
 12 ounces and 46 pounds 12i ounces of
 butter in week were largely the result of skillful feeding; yet these COWS were
 necessarily great butter animals or they could not possibly have accomplished such feats. Their performance showed the wonderful constitution of the "deli- cate little Jersey" in being able to sur. vive the excessive feeding they endured and in being able to digest and assimilate large quantities of food and convert it into butter. These were strictly "rec- ords," since they were conducted by dis interested committees and not by the owners, and as reliable as though they had been under the supervision of a state experiment station.
 There are very few foremen, whether of an ordinary farm or a public experi- ment station, capable of making a COW show her best The late John Johnston, of Geneva, N. r., the most distinguished farmer of his day, was in the habit of fattening 1000 sheep each winter in or der to make manure with which to grow large crops of wheat, as well, of course, as to make a profit in feeding. He said he never had but one man who could feed sheep to advantage, and he was a thief. With excellent farm managers have been obliged to superintend the feeding closely in my tests of cattle for butter. do not recall in my long ex- perience with Jerseys but one man in my employ really competent to take proper care of stock. He was an Irish man, otherwise stupid, who could neither read nor write, but he loved the cattle, and watched them and studied their condition, ways and habits as close. ly as mother would child.
 l favor competition of the dairy breeds at the Worlds fair, and yet there would be opportunity for bribery and corruption that might deprive records of their proper force and value, so that an unprejudiced mind might not have the same faith in the results of the tests at the fair as in the official tests of Jerseys. The reputation of the Jersey for butter does not depend wholly on the tests made by breeders. She has had the watch held over her" by disinterested l judges in thirty-eight records, and these judges were men of unquestioned repu- tation for integrity. It may be well to remind farmers how these official tests were conducted. In each case a commit tee was appointed by the American Jer- sey Cattle club without the owner of tho COW knowing who he was to be. The owner had charge of feeding and hand ling the COW, but the COW was milked in the presence of the committee, and the milk, cream and butter was under the absolute control of the committee until | the butter was weighed ready for the market.
 In the case of two very large official tests, one of which is among the very largest, the committeeman was in one case great doubter and in the other the larger record-the committee was supposed to be personally unfriendly with the owner of the COW, but they could not resist the weight of the facts and had to certify what the cows did. Now with these thirty-eight official tests is it not fair to assume that the great majority of private tests made by Jersey breeders are reliable9 Is it possible to get any better evidence of the capacity of the Jersey for butter?-Cor. Breeders Gazette.