The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-02-01
HOW MIR. BLANK WAS CONVINCED
Prize Essay, By Mrs. lisa Baylor,

fered several premiums last year for best
essays on the Jersey as q family COW.
The essays have been sent in and thirty
seven of them have been published. The
following is the first.
Mr.. T. was breeder. His name was
q synonym for the choicest and best in
his line. He WAS man devoted to his
family, indulging them in every want
possible or practicable. he usually kept
three, or sometimes four, of his favorite
breed for family COWS, to supply the cream
and butter needed.
His wife went to Ohio on g. visit, and
while there became very much infatua-
ted with Jersey COW, a pet of one of
her sisters. Coming home she impor'
tuned her husband to buy her Jersey,
but be told her he would be ashamed to
let the neigbbors see one on his place
that it seemed to him a man was run
ming down pretty low in stock when he
kept Jersey. "Why," said he, "I'd
rather keep goat, for that wouldn't
look as if were trying to keep COW
and were too poor to do So" But his
wife, as be told it, plagued the life out
of him." wanting Jersey, so one day
at sale some miles distant he bought,
for 8 mere song, poor little runty, i'll
kept Jersey heifer said to be with calf
he started home with her, feeling more
and more ashamed Of his purchase the
nearer he got home. Fearing to meet
some of his bantering neighbors, he let
down rail fence at the lower end of bis
farm and drove the animal up through
corn rows and by lanes till be got it into
the back yard. Calling his wife, he said,
"Mary, here is your Jersey but for Hesv'
ems sake, when any one speaks
of it, tell them it is yours and yours
alone"
Gall right, John; I'll keep it in the
ward with the children"
All the fall the children and the heif-
er played together, she sharing their
bread and butter, they using her for
horse, dog, COW or anything their fancy
suggested, and growing dearer to them
each day. When winter came on the
query was, where to keep her. One
thing was certain, she must be kept in
seme place where the children could
care for her, 80 an old woodshed was
fitted up and Bessie" and the children
given possession. Christmas morning
they went as usual to feed "Bessie," but
Immediately rushing back, breathless
with excitement, fairly tumbling over
each other to say, 20, mamma, papa |!
there's little elf with Bessie little
calf, little bit Of calf. Oh come and
see."
A few weeks later baby brother came
to fill the cradle that had been empty
for long months lever since the angels
had called it's last frail occupant) and as
the days went by all hearts grew sick
with the fear that the angels would soon
bear little Roy away, too. The white
haired family doctor, spying the Jer-
sey in the yard one day, said to Mr.. T.,
"Is that young COW giving milk ?" "Yes,
it has a calf; it belongs to Mary and the
children" "Well, feed the baby on its
milk. I have known some remarkable
cases of puny babies thriving on jersey
milk" So "little Bessie" had to share
with Baby Roy, in whom i'm
provement became marked from the first
trial.
June came. Little Bessie" would
eat grass, and Roy was great big fel'
low, tipping the scales at twenty pounds
Mrs. r. commenced saving some OF Bes-
sizes milk to try the quality, not saying
anything about it to Mr.. T. One morn.
ing at breakfast he remarked, ut seems
to me, Mary, our coffee is deal better
than formerly. Of what firm are you
buying our coffee now7" "The same
one," replied Mrs. T., but she smiled.
Strawberries came. Mr. T. said one day
at dinner, "It seems to me berries and
cream never did taste as good as they
do this year." Mary only smiled
Harvest came on; the harvesters re-
marked on the excellent quality OF
the butter. "Yes!" said Mr.. T., II
have q strain of animals that are extra
butter cows"
"But, John, havn't made any butter
for month past except from 'Bessie's'
milk"
"Why! how is that?"
"Well, the mau brought in such a
small quantity of milk, and it seemed
30 thin beside Bessie's I have been CIV.
ing that to the calf and saving hers to
use, and that is why your coffee and Der.
riea have been tasting 80 much better"
she triumphantly added.
"Well WE'LL" began Mr.. T., then was
silent
A few days later neighbor called to
him a be WAS reading on the front
porch: "say, John, I wonder If fyour
folk could help US out with some butter
Got harves!ers, too busy to 90 to town,
and wife says she must have some but
ter"
"I am sorry, friend B., that we cau-
not. My wife is only making little
butter from that little Jersey there"
Marv nassinp through the hall, heard