The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-30
POETRY AND JERSEY cow.
DR.. johnson Uses Eioquence in Explaining
jersey Cow.

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POETRY AND JERSEY COW.
DR.. johnson Uses Eloquence in Explaining
aJersey Cow.
When a reporter for the Eagle went
| TO see DR.. Johnston yesterday to ascar-
tain some facts about the weather and
crops ne found the prophet not gaz-
| ing through instruments at the teav-
| ems as one would suppose, but on the
contrary ne was gazing into a bulls ear.
How man could look into bulls ear
and find out what kind of weat ther would
| prevail twenty-four hours afterwards
was something the reporter did not
know but he became curious and want
/ ed TO know.
what are you doing with that bulls
| carp? he was asked.
Il am seeing whether there is any wax
| in it,
What has bulls ears wax got to do
with the clfmate?''
Nothing at all but it has whole lot
TO do with his pedigree. Yes, you bet,
1t has the wax in it, said he delight
edly.
Wen, what has wax got to do with
bulls pedigree?"
In the first place this is Jersey bull
He is no relation to the Jersey mosquito
or the Jersey tightening. This bull has
pedigree longer than that Of any count
in Europe. The rea son men know ped
igrees is by records but records are false
unless the animal bears certain ma tural
evidences among which are wax IN the
ears and a black or pink tongue. You
see the wax? now take a peep at that
tongue. Did You ever Sc anything so
pretty?"
Or. Johnston is an enthusiast
ON cattle and as 1t is everybody's ambi-
ton to have a Jersey COW an interview
was commenced.
Homer" said DR.. Johston, knew all
about Jersey cattle. When he spoke
about the long tailed sweet breathed
kline he had the jersey COW in his
mind
Dr.. Johnston first commenced with
the bull and after speaking about the
animals neck and his tail with the
fluffy switch he took the reporter
around in front of the bull and invited
him TO gaze into his soulful brown
eyes
Some Jerseys that would give milk is
what the reporter wanted to get up en-
thusiasm on and DR.. Johnston took him
into the next lot where there were two
pretty animals.
You want to know something about
Jersey COWS; very we'll I like you the
better for it. A good Jersey cow should
have a small head, fine at the nIzZle
broad between the eyes and narrow be-
tween the horns. dish faced, and gen
tie feminine look with rich, mild, soul
full brown eyes. The ears should be
yellow and waxy inside; the horns
should be small, ambre colored and
curve inward. The skin should be a
1-fc
tude of fine scales, or dandruff, when
rubbed. The back should be straight
to the very setting on of the tail The
neck should be fine and thin; but the
body should he large, so that the COW
keeps growing deeper as you go back
wTard-wedge shaped; indica ting the
ability to eat and turn to milk a large
amount OF food. The milk veins should
be large and tortuous and the udder
should come we'll forward, and extend
we'll up behind with !teats good fair size
and placed well apart. The udder
should milk away TO a mere mass of
folded skim
4 cow possessing all the good points
which DR.. Johnston enumerated would
certainly he a dandy; but near by, in a
yard stood his pair Of handsome Jer-
seys which he thought would pretty
nearly fill the bill, and often looking
them over the reporter was forced to
admit as much.
One is Miss Winnie No. 97637. twenty
months old, that has been giving milk
for three and a half months. 1t ap-
pears That she gives pretty nearly pure
cream; in fact the reporter is asked to
believe that if the COW was run twice |
around the barn to shake it up a little |
the milk would be butter already |
chqrned.
The other one of the pair in the yard |
is Aeneas of st. Lambert No. 42027. He |
is nearly fourteen months old |
and a beauty, and, of course. |
is bred in the purple While |
not able to appreciate tabulated pedi- |
gcees the reporter could understand the |
value of the fact that Aeneas Of St. |
Lambert traces, through his sire, four |
times to CoTnbina ton, the greatest sire |
Of tested Jersey cows IN the world. and |
that the dam Of Aeneas has Won a lot |
Of prizes at various fairs including the
worlds fair at Chicago in 1898, g. G.
AS a calf she won second premium at
the Toronto. Canada, fair in 1857; as a |
yearling she won first prize at the Kan
sas state fair in 1888, and first again
az the ST. Joseph fair the same year:
and the first again at the Kansas state
souri cattle at the worlds fair. Chicago,
n 1898, b5ing defea ted for first place
,nly by Merry Maiden, who is a grand
laughter of Combination and the cham
oion COW OF the world.
Combination is the sire Of Dear Keep
sake, a cow that was tested for seven
lays with a yield of sixty pounds of
milk per day and three and six tenths
pounds of butter (per day. salted one
ounce to the pound; a yield of twenty
i've pounds, three and one-fifth ounces
II commercial butter in seven days.
Combination has twenty-four other
famous tested daughters. so il - no
wonder his blood is priced by Jersey
'anciers
Aeneas OF st. Lambert has full sister
hat, with her first calf, measured forty
our inches around the udder
These things the reporter could under
stand and appreciate. 50 that he could
veil understand the enthusiasm with
which Or. Johnston speaks Of his mild
yed. long tailed. sweet breauhed" Jer-
ey kline.
The doctor taks care OF these animals
With as much tenderness as If they
we're human. He curries them twice a :
lay and washes them frequently. With
hose and a few fine horses and the
Veather he manages. 70 keep very busy
rom the beginning 10 the end Of each
lay.
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