The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-01-18
TIE JERSEY AS A "rOwS cow"


mind thoughts of other days, when the
hungry COW, chased about by the boys
and dogs, strayed unforbidden over our
village streets, stealing hay from the
farmers wagon or picking the grass on
the common, then venturning through |
every open gate to carry destruction to
ungarded lawns and shrubbery. But
those days are long since; our little viii
lage has grown into a city, where even
the town COW must keep her place, or
her owner pay for all of her trespasses,
There are many persons in every
small city who keep cow to supply |
the family.with milk and butterand how
often do we see some poor scrub that
gives hut a sconty flow Of milk for about
one half, or at the best not more than
three fourths, of the time! The people |
who have tried such cows will always |
tell you that it does not pay at all to
keep COW in town. have been in
the city several years, and have always
kept COW. l am satisfied that it pays
no one with small children, or family
that likes milk and butter, to do without
a good COW; and one that will supply
you with plenty Of the best quality of
milk, cream and butter almost the year
round at he-lowest possible cost Of pro
duetion should be considered the best
and cheapest COW, no matter what her
first cost may be l have been familiar
with the Jerseys on my fathers farm
for nearly ten years, and we have kept
our Jersey cow in the city about two
years. From this knowledge Of their
good qualities and characteristics, /
claim without the least reserve that the
Jersey is the best and most profitable
cow that can be kept in town. This is
aging great deal for the Jersey, but |
think the number of them that are to be
seen in the barnyards and on the com.
mon goes far to prove that | am not
alone in this belief There are so many
reasons why this breed is to bepreferred
to all others in town that hardly know
where to begin to mention their points
of excellence. They usually milk very
easily and give good quantity, and if
we'll managed and cared for they will
never 60 dry. Our COW began giving
milk when eighteen months old, and has
claved once since then, but has never
gone dry, though we did not use the
milk for few weeks. The quality of
the milk is the superior point of the
Jersey cow, the new milk being almost
like cream. The milk and cream separ:
ate quicker, and there is much more
than on the milk eff any other COW; this
cream churns very easily; and a much
greater amount Of butter is produced,
and the butter is always Of rich golden
yellow that requires no butter color to
make it marketable. The butter is also
unusually firm making it very much
easier to handle in warm weather. These
all combine to make the butter more de-
sirable than any other, and it is very
easily sold at two or three cents above
the market price. Thus, by keeping .
Jersey COW, if you wish to sell milk
YOU have a more salable article than the
milknan, one that finds its own custom
ers among your neighbors. If you wisf
to sell cream or butter, you have mor'
of it and of much better quality: or, !
you only wish to provide or your owl
use. YOU have the satisfaction Of know
ing that your family are using the hes
milk. cream and butter that can be OBJ
tanned anywhere.
Of course, il will cost more-in the be
ginning to buy good Jersey COW tha
it would to get scrub, but get frs
class COW and she will soon pay for her
self in milk and butter; you have n
idea how soon until you try it.
Then they mature so young that eve
in the city you can afford to raise tn
heifer calves, and soon have hig
priced cow to sell. 1t is easier to kee
a Jersey than any larger COW, as the
do not require so much feed,a poir
which will not be overlooked in plac
where all feed must be bought. Bein
small, they do not require so niue
room, and they are much more cleanI
in their habits than the common COZ
two points which will commend the
they must be kept confined to sma
space. Their natural traits, genelene
and docility, which make all Of the
appear 10 be pets, recommend the
more than anything if one intends
keep COW in the close quarters of t
/ city lot or stable, or staked out on t
common.
Besides oil these practical points
this question, in conclusion ! would
there is satisfaction in owning rea
good animal, one of the bost of its xii
that the average person fully app