The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-09-21
C0SMOPOLITANISM OF JERSEY
CATTLE.
PRIZE ESSAY, BY JOHN DuNcAy,


ly attached themselves to man, being
able to stay with him in all claims
Those thus distinguished are, for this
country at least, familiar to all, and
so need not be named and in this
select class animal of the COW kind
are entitled to leading place. In a
general way, it may be given as a fsct
that wherever civilized man is, there
ilourishes the COW; and it is further
true that the better the civilization
the better the COW.
Animals of the COW kind have Sot
only the invaluable trait of cosmopo-
litanism-of ADAPTING themselves to
many wide and different circum-
staaces-by which they are enable to
60 with man into almost all parts of
the earth, but they have the addit.
ional important characteristic of
susceptibility FOR being modified, 50 as
to | fitted for and then confirmed in
special uses. Thus we have number
of we'll marked and we'll known sorts
OF beef cattle then there are the milk
breeds, some famous for the quantity
of milk they give, some for the rich
ness of the milk and the superb quality
OF the cream and butter produced
therefrom,
The Jersey possesses in the highest
perfection the qualities last mentioned
her chef msssion being to produce in
the most economic way the richest and
best cream from which everywhere
can be maGe the choicest butter.
These articles, when in the form in
which the Jersey affords them, are of
the belongings Of the highest civiliza-
ton; and wherever this has been
reached, there, but not otherwise, Jer
seq cattle find a congenial home. II
men have 10 choose between the evils
of bad beef or bad butter, they will
certainly want in good form that
which is on every table and a part Of
every meal, that without which bread
to every man and child alike is hard
tack. When in these days of quick
railroad and telegraphic communi-
cation, one thus fairly views the re-
lation which the Jersey sustains to
daily living, wonder at the wide and
rapid spread of the breed ceases, what
is going on being evidently but the
natural effect Of the recognition OF the
truth that here is the best of all around
family cows, suited as she is to uni
versal service, and hourishing through
the cold of the Canadian winter
equally we'll with what she does on the
sunny shores of the Gulf of Mexico it
being the fact that Canada and the
Slater of the South have each in turn
held first honors for amount of butter
produced by Jersey in a year, the
we'll known evidence to this effect be
ing Mary Anne of st Lambert, the
famous Canadian COW, and Signals
Lily Flagg, the present Southern phe-
nominal Jersey.
While the jersey is machine that
| in the course of many generations has
been slowly constructed for specific
purpose, she il also, being q living
organism very much more than any
mere machine. To overlook the ma
ture and character OF the principle OF
lie entering into her outfit ia to fail
TO appreciate the main cause going to
make her what she IL. this in turn
entAilinG inability from ignorance to
make the most Of her in her co mo-
politaD capabilities. The Jersey to-
day represents very large effort. ex.
tending back through more than a
century OF time and in the cpnstruc.
tive work that thus has gone on an
eye to vital force must have kept up
with watchfulness tor her good points
az regard yield and quality of yield
together with all other essentials. It
is really the high vitality Of the Jer-
sey that enables her not only to take
the raw meterial of food and, far above
any necessities Of her own, cause it t.
assume the form best calculated to
administer to human wants, but also