The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-12-07
THE JERSEY IN NORTH AMERICA.
PR1zE ESSAY, BY joins nusoAN.

PRIZE ESSAY, BY JOHN DUNCAN.
When Jersey cattle first began to APP
pear 10 any marked extent ON The
farms on the United States, they we're
on sufferance, and it was customary
Tor q farmer who bought one to say by
way of apology that he took the weak
step out OF regard 70 the feelings Of his
vile, Better peace'otfering to the God
dess of Liberty never WAS made. So
strong at the outset WAS the prejudice
among country people against theJer-
sey that, some time. after she was an
acknowledged feature of rare beauty
on the suburban lawns of the rich of
our large cities, many farmers would
not acknowledge that she had even
this practically unimportsnt merit |;
and rs for utility. that was regarded
as wholly out of the question. Now
almost every we'll organized farm on
which the head ofaffairs and his family
raise above common drudges has on it
some Jersey blood-the pure article
with increasing frequency. and with
good grades in plenty. The truth is
that the Jersey is now in nearly all
parts of North America the sign, and
accompaniment of improved living,
this Is true, in general way, giving
raise to better thinking and more pro-
gress and prosperity.
1t is not word too much to say of
the Jersey that the ear of good butter
making on this side of the sea began
with the establishment of the Ameri-
can Jersey Cattle Club. Previously to
that. which was done in the year, 1868
much good service was rendered, but
there was no organization, and no
reliable security against. or authori-
tative means of penalizing, fraud. To-
day, through the intelligent work of
that Club and its system of registration
the absolute purity OF the Jersey is
better guarded than that of any other
breed OF live stock whatever and the
great little COW has been lifted from a
position in which she was the butt of
the coarse stockyard and showing
wits and DULLES into the place of first
honors among her kind, she being OF
the only breed of cattle that in recent
years has uniformly earned enough to
pay for it's keep. 1t is to be noted
here, AS an important economic truth
to be remembered, that at no time in
these years of general loss and depres.
sion in the cattle industry has the Jer-
sey, under anything like fair care,
failed TO pay good interest on a
generous, not unfrequently even on a
fancy. investment.
It is etill fresh in the recollection
how many urged that the introduction
and spread OF the Jersey would, beyond
what was possible to other breeds.
spoil all the good beef and do great
injury to the country at large. That
was mistake, for at the present time
| the beef is az good as ever it was, and
the butter, all over North America, is
Iincomparably butter. And the end for
good on account of the Jersey is not
yet, and will not be until bad butter is
everywhere a disgrace to the maker,
and the good pure article, sweet as q
nut and colored by nature, as only
Jersey butter gets colored, is on every
table. aass.i
i In the train OF the Jersey on this
continent have come many industries,
i giving honorable and profitable en-
pigment to large numbers Of men and
women and among the other good re-
suits accomplished through the agency
OF this great little cow is the raising Of
the standard of labor on every farm
on which she has established herself.
| She is the product ofintelligence and
| kindly care, and when these are given
her she will pay handsomely for them,
rapidly retrograding, and answering
to all the ugly things said of her in
|, ignorance or narrOWness, whenever
, and wherever these are denied. That
! + in the main the jersey is perfectly
suited to her adopted home in the New
i World is completely evidenced in
many ways-in her extensive distribu-
| ton in this country. where all costs
are counted and the battle between her
friends and her enemies commenced
early and has gone on without pause
, to the present time, in the wonderful
, results to her caedit under actual tests
the most severe and exacting-so that
i there are many competent authorities
} who take the position that the Jersey
with us Is better and will yield more
I than the Jersey on her native island
and that, therefore, IL is folly, and
: without rational objective point, tc
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