Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-08-03
A PRIZE ESSAY.
TIE JERSEY Cow IA Il HefSrnier IN the
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The Jersey Cow is dairy reformef
Her influence in this direction is 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 IL. In almost every com.
tuhrity-indeed 1t is pretty generally
so everywhere-th product Of the
Jersey dairy sells to eager buyers at
9S to 80 per cent more than that
from other breeds of cattle, and it is
not uncommon, near large cities and
centers of wealth, that the entire yield
of butter from Jersey herds is engaged
the year through at 40, so and even IS
cents per pound.
She has introduced another impor-
tatit measure of reform into the system
of management of the dairy herd. II
has been the custom of milk and butter
dairymen to buy fresh cows and milk
them through the season, or until their
supply has decreased to an unprofit-
able point when they were turned
off, and others, freshly calved,
substituted, in order to keep
up the required quantity of milk.
Many cows procured in this
way dry of after a very brief
milking period, and, as there Is wide
difference in the selling value between
fresh cows and dry ones, the plan Is
expensive and Improbable to the dairy
meh. The fresh COW of few months
before, bought at the high price dairy
animals III full flow Of milk always
command, must 60 at any sum obtain
able, generallya very low one, for deals
in dry cows are always favorable to the
buyer.
The constitutional hab of the Jersey
COW to milk in profitable quantities thS
year round together with her i'm
creased value as dairy animal,
abolishes the necessity of this ex.
travagant course, and will justify
the dairyman in keeping her from year
to year, combining with his dairy in
terests that of a breeder. The off
spring OF his cows are readily sold at
paying prices, il he does not care to
raise them, the new supply of milk can
be utilized in his business, and by
judiciois direction of his breeding op.
eratioiis, he may secure an even and
continuous supply from his herd dur
ing the entire year.
Jerseys, as rule, are not large
mixers, though the breeding tend.
ency Of recent years is to increase
the ain6iifit, and there are now many
heavy milking cows of the breed, but
they are nearly always persistent in
their yields and rarely dry off for more
than 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
it, when the increased richness of milk
is considered, the balance of profit in
favor of the Jersey as yearly pro-
Queer of butter over the short-term,
thin mixers is very apparent and con.
vincing to the mind of the practical
dairyman.
Among the more popular and valued
reforms brought about by the Jersey
is 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 we'll.
regulated home as the well of water
at the door, and the kind Of COW en-
ployed, in ninety-nine cases in
hundred, all over the land,
in town, village and country, is Jer-
sey COW; and where she has not yet
made her appearance she is being
looked for, and it is safe to predict that
when once established she will stay.
Even men who give special attention
to raising beef cattle, and can see moth.
ing of value in the Jersey, except her
adaptation as family COW, seek her
eagerly for this purpose.-SoutherI
Cultivator.