The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-09-07
TIE JERSEY A BUSINESS COW.
PRIzE EssAY, BIZ A. 1. ORosnY.


make the most butter from a gwen
amount Of feed We want these COWS
TO be hearty feeders, to be easy mixers
giving very rch milk, to be gentle,
not too large in size, early and regular
breeders, and able to do good word in
the dairy for many years. In short, we
need business COW, and in the Jersey
we have just uch cow
A Hearty Feeder-The Jersey COW
rs noted as being hearty feeder,
and a hearty feeder is one that cannot
only eat large quantity OF feed, but
large quantity of rich feed, 1t is the
feed that nake4 the milk, and ia order
to make plenty of rich milk the cow
must estplenty OF rich feed.
Gentleness-The disposition OF the
Jersey cow is about as near perfection
SIS we can expect COW nature to be.
Gentleness in q COW is worth money !;
it counts up in dollars every year; it
saves milk it keeps the richness OF the
milk from being wasted, for irritable
COWS are apt to beget irritation in
those who milk them, and this, ia turn
breeds iltreatment of the COWS, which
causes loss of butter-fat in the milk
it insures better care, f)r the gentle
COW is the petted COW and IN other
ways the gentle disposition OF the Jer-
sey is one of her valuable charact-
~eristics.
An Easy, Rich Miker--The bust
ness COW must be one that can be
quickly MIXED, aad the milk must be
rich; these two qualifications will COM
mend themselves to every business
dairyman
Size ir the Dairy Cow-There has
aDeen a good deal Of controversy about
the proper size for dairy cow Some
contend that she should be big, so
that when she has done her work IN
the dairy she can he fattened up Tor
beef. Those men object to the Jersey
because she is too small, she won't
make beef enough. Fever since | be-
gan to study the matter, have been
"a strong advocate of the special-pur-
pose COW. We want certain kind OF
COW for certain kind OF work, and
she must do that work better than
any other kind OF COW; she should be
a COW for one kind OF dairy business
in order to be good business dairy
COW. 1t appears to me that the extra
weight in dairy cow, over and above
what is necessary for her to do the
abest work, must be fed at a great loss,
because it is fed for many years before.
lit is Sold This proposition, it would
seem, connot be successfully con-
qtroverted. The business COW must pay
every year of her dairy life, and we
can't afford to wait till we kill her to
get any part OF our profit each year
should show good balance to her
credit And how much profit could we
expect from COW beef fed for from 10
to Is years? It is absured to expect
any.
An Early and Regular Breeder-We
don't want to wait till our business
COW is three years old before we get
any profit from her-we can't afford
to waste years time; and our JerSey
will not disappoint us in this respect,
for she begins to return profit when
two years of age, sometimes earlier
Ehis early breeding is so much time
gained when we make business
venture we endeavor to make it pay
as soon as possible, and, in the dairy
business. we want COW that will COM
mence her work early in life and be-
gin to pay IS soon as she begins her
work. A dairy must also be a irregular
breeder. We want to arrange our calv-
ing periods to suit our business and
a cow that is regular and sure breed
-er is worth much more than one that
is unreliable in this respect
A Cow that Works for Many Years
When we get machine that does
excellent work, our first thought is
Will it be durable? If it wears out after
a few years Of use it may be too expen-