The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-29

of imnorfed ssFleur de Lis 614,'' is the
sire Of italian. II lbs. ID OF. butter.
General Tilton practiced letting out
bnilS throuohout the state, thus intro
ducing the Jersey blood among the dairy
i'' R nsS, re- purchased any JERSEYS hired
for one wear the bull Vandal, 1905, of
General Tilton, and Notwithstanding the
prejudice against Jerseys the high ser
vice fee and the competition of many
scrub bulls, had ia cows to his service
at 50 each.
+ro mve, this and other states. and
wben HE herd was broken up Maine re-
ceived the benefit as much, if not more.
Than any other state in retaining most of
these fine Jerseys within her borders.
To
now of Hartland, then of Detroit, this
state is largely indebted for it's Jersey
blood.
Possessed of means to buy the best,
and having great interest for introduce
ing the best blood into the state, he went
to what was then considered headquar-
tiers for the best Jerseys, Ogden Farm of
Newport, r. I. There he purchased
some of the very choicest blood of that
noted herd and 1 think Maine can claim
as GOOD share of the far reaching inf1u-
ence of the Ogden Farm Jersey blood as
Tennessee or any other state, especially
when it is remembered that not only
Shaw. but General Tilton and Dane drew
from the same source. Jersey breeders
know how largely the Tennessee farm
ers' Jerseys are made up from the blood
of the Raiah COW CONAN, 1855, the COW
that once stood second to Eurotas.
CONAN was bred at Ogden Farm, Land
seer's Fancy was also once owned at
Ogden Farm. We did not get an CONAN
OF a Landseer's Fancy, but we did get
some COWS of the same blood and ap-
parently then as good as the above
named famous COWS. May it not have
been the fault of our Maine breeders in
not testing and thus bringing out to the
world the latent power in this magnifi-
cent selection we received from Ogden
Farm. Certainly 1--WE builded better
than we knew
Genivere 1854 daughter of the great
Rajah was perhaps the best and most
noted COW bought by Shaw from the
Ogden Farm. She long shared the
honors Fat the fairs with Danes great
COW OOIOId. CllC was
COW and have no reason to doubt that
with the
Tennessee Blue Grass
and climate and the improved system of
testing there practiced she would have
reached high butter test. Her daugh-
ter Pride of the Hill 1877 tested AZ
pounds butter on ordinary feed, and her
granddaughter Pridalia 7249 tested last
year in Ohio 265 pounds butter
Madagascar Queen 1906, grand
daughter of Rajah out of Duchess of
Ogden 1867 was another of the great
COWS purchased at Ogden Farm.
Fannie Micawber 1904 was COW high
1y priced by MI. Shaw, a noble COW with
an immense udder and the richest
colored skin Of any COW I ever saw-as it
was written Of her. The golden hue of
her skin is so intense, one is tempted to
believe art instead of nature caused the
richness which exudes seemingly from
every pore. One Of her daughters,
Fannie of Cream Brook, tested in
New Hampshire 16a. pounds butter.
Nutshell 729, a grandson of Rajah was
purchased at Ogden harm by Shaw in
1872. He was by Nelasko 479 considered
them to be the best son of Rajah, and
was out of Fanny Ogden 1864. Nutshell
was bred on the females of the Ogden
Farm purchase and got some very fine
stock.
1t is not in the province of this paper
to chronicle anything more than facts
pertaining to the. early Jerseys, so that I
cannot mention the subsequent purchases
of these noted breeders or speak of the
many fine Jerseys brought into the state
by other parties in after years.
Suffice it to say, take them all in all
and doubt if any state can show much
better foundation stock than ours.
We at least ought not in any way be
ashamed of our blood, and if this paper
can give such encouragement, of our
breeders that they will press on with
new faith in Maine bred Jerseys and with
the laudable ambition to sustain and en-
nance their present high standard it will
not have been written in vain.