The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-18
The Jersey Cow a Reformer.


The Jersey COW is a dairy reformer.
Her influences in this direction are APP
parent in the fact that since her intro
duction, and the recognition of her claims
for butter-making, the quality of that
article has improved beyond comparison,
its value has advanced, and the demand
has increased in far greater ratio than
the facility to furnish it. In almost
every community it is pretty
generally so everywhere-the product of
the Jersey dairy sells to eager buyers at
25 to 30 per cent. more than that from
other breeds of cattle, and it is not uu-
| common, near large cities and centers of
wealth, that the entire yield of butter
from Jersey herds is engaged the year
through at 40, 80 and even IS cents per
| pound.
She has introduced another important
! measure Of reform into the system of
management of the dairy herd. 1t has
been the custom of milk and butter dairy
men to buy fresh cows and milk them
through the season, or until their supply
has decreased to an improbable point,
when they were turned OF, and others,
freshly calved, substituted, in order to
keep up the required quantity of milk
Many COWS procured in this way dry off
after a very brief milking period, and, as
there is a wide difference In the selling
value between fresh COWS and dry ones,
the plan is expensive and Improbable to
the dairymen. The fresh COW Of few
months before, bought at the high price
dairy animals in full flow of milk always
command, must go at any sum obtainable
generally very low one, for deals in dry
COWS are always favorable to the buyer
The constitutional habit of the Jersey
COW to milk in profitable quantities. the
wear round, together with her increased
value as a dairy animal, abolishes the ne
cessity Of this eXtravagant course, and
will Justify the dairyman in keeping her
from year to year, combining with his
dairy interests that of a breeder. The
offspring of his cows are readily sold nc
paying prices if he does not care to raise
them, the new supply of milk can be
utilized in his business. and, by judicious
direction of his breeding operations, he
NAV secure an even and continuous sup
ply from his herd during the entire year.
Jerseys as rule are not large mixers,
though the breeding tendency of recent
years is to increase the amount, and there
are now many heavy milking cows of the
breed, but they are nearly always persist
ent in their Yields and rarely dry or for
more than a few weeks before calving,
and by far the greater number never dry
at all This is most valuable feature TO
the dairyman; and in connection with il,
when the increased richness OF milk is
considered, the balance Of profit in favor
of the Jersey as yearly producer of but
ter over the short-term thin mixers is
very apparent, and convincing TO the mind
Of the practical dairyman.
Among the more popular and valued
reforms brought about by the Jersey is
the mission she fills as the family cow,
the one animal kept to furnish milk,
cream and butter for the household. This
article of household economy is about as
indispensable to every well-regulated
home as the we'll of water at the door,
and the kind of COW employed, in ninety
nine cases in a hundred, all over the land,
in town, village and country, is Jersey
COW; and where she has not yet made her
appearance she is being looked for, and il
is safe to predict that when once estab-
tablished she will stay. Even men VINO
give special attention TO raising beef cat
tie, and can see nothing Of value in the