The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-08-10
POINTS OF TIE JERSEY COW.
PRIZE ESSAY, BY ]. M. MEYER, M. d.,
Al. M.

laOe VI ca1lle' Ane IeaulnS uses Ol Inc |
cattle races may be stated thus milk,
cream, butter, cheese, meat, tallow,
hides, hair and horn. 1t is natural that
that animal or class OF animals yield
ing the best Of results would attract
the attention OF an observing world,
and sooner or later become notorious
in some department OF uses. Such has
been the demonstrated fact in the ms
lance Of the Jersey COW. The dairy is a
leading feature in this category OF uses
and she is pre.eminently the dairy
COW.
Her habitat is the Jersey Island, q
dependency OF Great Britain. Isolated |
as it is from the busy world, it is, and
has been, admirably adapted to the
development and purity OF the breed. |
BY succession of careful handlers
through centuries she has made ad.
vanced developments in symmetrical
beauty in constitutional stamina; in
the softness of her skin in the brill
liancy Of. her eye; in the docility OF
her department; in the richness OF her
milk in the gilt-edge color OF her but
ter, its peculiar aroma and its bland
ness to the most fastdious tast in the
quantity Of her milk, and the duration
of time she will continue to make
profitable yield and in the firmness,
succulence, digestibility and nutritious
ness of her beef. With this array OF
excellences we claim she stands to-day
without a rival, the dairy COW Of the
world.
This model COW is not large. The
average weight Of fully-matured COW
will not be far from $50 pounds. With
ordinary care in handling, she will
come to the pail at two years of age /;
she will reach her climax at about
five years; she will produce a calf
every year uutil she is fifteen years old ;
if properly handled she will never go
dry during these years of service, and
then she will close her career as the
best animal in the butchers stall.
She combines all colors. Possibly the
fawn color predominates but color
like form, is largely the result of q
series of fancy crossings, SO that she
may command any desired color.
Her form is symmetrical. She stands
on her four feet a perfect beauty. She
has a small head, surmounted will
slender, crumpled horns; her face {
little dished nose small and neat {
mouth aud tongue ever ready to ac-
cept morsel of food from her kim
and generous owner; pair of eyes o
great prominence and sparkling will
intelligence Her ear is wellset, almos
transparent, and almost always exhal.
ing an unctuous golden secretion. He
throat latch is small, clean-cut ant
neat. Her neck is long, slender, grace
full, gradually increasing in its pre-
portions until lost in a full-orbet
we'll developed body-wedge-sha
straight back, deep chested, thin with
ers, short legs of the neatest build, an
large belly, we'll supplied with larg
tortuous milk-veins, witch are so man
feeders to well-placed udder, whic
nestles closely under the rear Of tn
body (and when astrut with mil
causes no little hindrance in th
locomotion OF the hind legs), endin
in four well-placed teats about fou
inches in length. Occasionally thel
may be one sudimentary teat yer
rarely there are two, an unerring indie
to superior animal. Her spins
column ends in long, slender tail, wit
superbly bushy switch trailing Il
earth. Under the tail, and connscte
with the hind extremities, is IL
escutcheon. 1t is the reverse growth
hair, large or small, Of various form
of which SO much has been write
and to which SO much intrinsic mei
was once attached, but which has no
been relegated to the past but>oth
things being equal, Iperfera first-cla
,Flandrine escutcheon. These point
good enough in themselves, do n
constitute first.class dairy COW I'M
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