The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1893-08-02
The Jersey in North America.
PRIzE Essay, ny JonS DUNcAN.

pear TO any marked extent on the farm
OF the United States they were on suffer
ance, and it was customary for farme
who bought one to say by way of apollo
gy that he took the weak step out OF re
gard to the feelings of his wife. Bette
peace-ohering to the Goddess OF Libert,
never was made. So strong at the out
set was the prejudice among cDuntr,
people against the Jersey, that some
time after she was an acknowledged feat
ure 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 unim
portant merit; and as for utility, that was
regarded as wholly out OF the question
Now almost every well-organized farm
on which the head of affairs and his
family rise above common drudges has
on it some Jersey blood-the pure arti-
Gle 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 accompani-
ment of improved living, this in turn, in
a general way, giving rise to better
thinking and more progress and pros
perity.
1t is not a word too much to say of
the Jersey that the era of good butter
making on this side of the sea began
with the establishment OF the American
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 authoritative means OF penal
izing, fraud. To-day, though the intelli-
gent 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
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
uniformity earned enough to pay for its
keep. 1t is to be noted here as an i'm
portant economic truth to be remember
ed, that at no time in these years of gem
eral loss and depression in the cattle in
dustry has the Jersey, under anything
like fair care, failed to. pay good inter-
est on generous, not unfrequently even
on fancy investment.
1t is still 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 as
good as ever it was, and the butter, all
over North America, is incomparably
better And the end for good on ac-
count 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 nut and colored by
nature, as only Jersey butter gets color
ed, is on every table.
In the train OF the Jersey on this con-
tinent have come many industries, Civ
ing honorable and profitable employ
ment 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 OF intelligence 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 igorance or
narrowness, whenever and wherever
these are denied. That in the main the
Jersey is perfectly suited to her adopted
home in the New World is completely
evidenced in many ways-in her ex-
tensive distributions m this country,
where all costs are counted and the bat
tie between her friends and her enemies
commenced early and has gone on with
out pause to the present time, in the
wonderful results to her credit under
actual tests the most severe and exact
ing-so that there are many competent
authorities who take the position that
the Jersey with us is better and will
yield more than the Jersey on her native
island, and that, therefore, it is folly,
and without rational objective point,
TO continue TO import. Be this as it
may, the jersey is now one of the fixed
institutions'of North America, beautiful
to look upon, lending her powers in the
most beneficial way to the man OF large
as we'll as TO the man of small means, a
perfect machine of the highest utility in
well-defned sphere. The wonderful
capability which the Jersey shows OF
adapting herself TO the widest sort OF eli
matte and other conditions are really to
inferred from her surprising productive
powers; for in both cases what is wanted
to produce these results is not mere
strength, but high order Of vitality;
and this she has, and this II is that is en-
abling her to go and establish herself
wherever thereis civilization.
DR.. Hale's Household Ointment
Is the finest remedy in the world. 1t