The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-20
The Jersey in North America.

When Jersey cattle first began to ap-
pear to any marked extent on the farms
of the United States they were on suffer
ance and it was customary for a farmer
who bought one to say by way of apology
that he took the weak step out of regard to
the feelings of his wife, says John Duncan
of Kentucky. Better peace Offering to
the Goddess of Liberty never was made.
So strong at the outset was the prejudice
among country people against the Jersey
that sometime after she was an acknowl-
edged feature of rare beauty on the sub
urban lawns of the rich of our large
cities, many farmers would not acknowl-
edge that she had even this practica bly
unimportant merit; and as for utility,
that was regarded as wholly out of the
question. Now almost every well-organ-
lied farm on which the head of affairs
and his family rise above common
drudges has on ii some Jersey blood-the
pure article with increasing frequency,
and with good grades in plenty. The
truth is that the Jersey is now in nearly
all party OF North America the sign and
accompaniment of improved living; this
in turn in general way giving rise to
better thinking and more progress and
prosperity.
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 1865, much good
service was rendered but there was no
organization and no reliable security
against, or authoritative means of penal
izing fraud. To-Day, through the intel
ligent 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 stock yard and showering wits
and DULLES into the place of first honors
among her kind she being of the only
breed of cattlethat in recent years has uni
formly earned enough TO pay for its keep.
1t is to be noted here, as an important
economic truth TO be remem bered, that at
no time in these years of general loss and
depression in the cattle industry has the
Jersey, under anything like fair care,
failed to pay good interest on d gener-
Gus, not infrequently even on fancy, in
yestment.
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 coun-
try at lar3e. That was a 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 account IF 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 a nut,
and colored by nature, as only Jersey but
ter gets colored, is on every table.
In the train of the Jersey on this CONT
nent have come many industries, giving
honorable and profitable employment TO
large numbers of men and women and
among the other good results accom-
plished through the agency of this great
little cow is the raising OF the standard
of labor on every farm Of which she has
established herself She is the product
these are given her she will pay hand
somely for them, rapidly retrograding
and answering TO all the ugly things said
of her in ignorance or narrowness when
ever and wherever these are denied
That in the main the Jersey is perfectly
suited 10 her adopted home in the new
world is completely evidenced in many
ways-in her extensive distribution in
this country where all costs are counted
(and the battle between her friends and
her enemies commenced early and has
gone on without pause TO the present time).
in the wonderful results to her credit
under actual tests the most severe and
exacting, so that there are many compe-
tent 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, il is folly aud
without rational objective point TO con-
tinue TO import BE that 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 well as to the
man Of small meanse-fa perfect machine