The Holt County sentinel., 1896-12-04

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1G0 to 800 pounds of milk; Holstein, sis
pounds OF milk. One pound of Jersey
milk is equivalent to 2la pounds of Hoi-
stein milk: it takes ) to lS pounds of
Jersey milk to make pound Of butter,
% to 3S of Short horn and 2S to 80 of
Holstein milk.
The Jersey produces milk differing
greatly from that Of almost all other
breeds-by the actual chemical tests OF
milk as food, cream and cheese, the
Jersey milk is unrivaled in quality and
richness, and to substantiate her asser-
tion refers to the tests made at the
worlds fair, and in proving these facts
the tests give the stamp of publicity and
authenticity to the Jersey COW as the
greatest dairy COW in all essentials that
the world has ever produced.
From personal knowledge the author
gave a few items and said that their
family COW. Golden Bessie" which died
last spring, averaged while flush, III
pounds of milk per day for 90 days, and
was not on pasture at the time: the low
est yield was 30 and the highest Al
pounds: the total was over 900 pounds
in four weeks. During the three and a
half years We owned her she was MIXED
every day. being a perpetual mixer, and
gave IL pounds of milk the day before
her calf was born. During her seven
years of life she dropped five calves, all
heifers. Her daughter. at years of age
had been fresh three months, having also
had heifer calf now seven months after
she makes over two pounds Of butter a
day. She believed a good Jersey would
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feed. The author closed her interesting
paper by saying:
No doubt many of you know that the
champion COW at the worlds fair came
from Holt country. She was "Merry
Maiden beionging to Mr.. Graves hard
at Maitland. Her strain, known rs the
combination family, has ever since been
eagerly sought by breeders all over. the
country.
If | have been able to convince any
of YOU that one jersey COW will yield you
more profit in milk and butter the year
round. than you are new deriving from
two to three common cows and with less
expense, as one Jersey will cost you less
to keep than any one of the common
cows. to say nothing of the increase of
profit from the sales of the calves. l
shall feel well repaid for my trouble in
preparing this article"
HORTICULTURE
WAS the subject of Hon. N. +. Murray's
address. which followed the paper read
by Mrs. Green. He said that notwith-
standing the fact that little or no atten-
tion was paid to horticulture till within
the last 40 years. it had worked its way
onward and upward till at last it has be-
come an honOred profession, and one Of
the most reliable, pleasant and profitable
in which man can engage. in all the
universe We can think of nothing more
pleasing to man than watching the
growth of things, and all things that
have life must grow or die. In the spring
time. as we watch the bursting of the
buds upon our trees from the dormant
state. and behold the bosom of mother
earth clothed with living green from the
generation of tiny seeds, and behold our
trees bloom and bear their rich fruit on
bending. bough and our broad fields OF
green ripen into golden harvests. We are
drawn into closer communion with our
Creator.
We now see here and there fruit
grower over our state making from so
up to 500 per acre. and the intelligent
fruit grower has no fear but that he can
make a comfortable living and educate
his children from the income of 40 acre
fruit farm. On the other hand we find
many who fail in the fruit business, and
complain that it don't pay. There were
ture and horticulture they were far less
than in merchandising. Where is the
trouble? Simply this: One knew what
to do and how to do it, pushed forward
and made grand success: the other did
not know what to do or how to dOit, but
having energy he pushed forward, worked
hard, and his efforts ended in failure.
Ignorance was the prime cause of fail
ure. We imported last year slS.OOO.00O
in fruits and nuts, and exported but 3d.,
100000. We find many of our citizens
cutting down their pecan groves that can
be made to pay from 500 to $500 per
acre. in order to plant more corn. This is
only one illustration of the ignorance
that abounds here and there among our
people.
He thought education was one of the
great remedies for such failures, and
was enthusiastic over the work being
done at the school of horticulture and
agriculture ut Columbia.
We have millions of acres Of the finest
fruit land in the world right here in our
state. Her mineral features of the soil
paint her fruit. as no other in the world
is cOlOrCd. Ii We ever expect to see this
great industry, for which Missouri is so
adapted become a success
then he insisted that the young men
must be educated in the science of hOrti
culture.
We have great advantage he said. in
the fertility of our virgin soils, over the
worn out, exhausted lands of the east.
Missouri is noted for being a clear
state days are clear: LIB
partially SO and only ~ days Of the year
is the sun obscured. This clear weather
and glorius sunshine, aided by the iron
and other rich minerals with which our
soil is imPregnated, is what gives our
fruit rich life. giving juices and paints it
with that high degree of red and golden
color unknown in any country or state
in the world.
With ali these superior advantages
before us. with a rapidly growing market
all around us for our fruit, and with
millions of acres of choice fruit lands to
be had at from 81 to so per acre.i must
be evident to every observing mind that
Missouri with all her present attainments
IS very far from having reached the
highest possible POINT in profitable fruit
Mr.. Murray closed his talk with brief
sketch of his personal struggles with
fruit growing in the knobs of Holt county:
how he went in debt for his land, paying
interest from II to 70 per cent. and how
today he had fruit farm that was a
source of comfortable income to him in
MS declinig DAYS: he gave dates as TO
some sales where he had realized S3.JOO
rom his orchard: he had sold 10 acres
If Ben Davis apples for sl.4OO. and the.
following year sold for Sl.5O0. He felt
confident that his SO acre orchard had
letted him 10 per cent over all expenses
or the past - years. Il
WEDNESDAY FORENOON
vas largely consumed by DIR. White, the
states veterinarian. who entered largely
nto the discussion of our quarantine
avs and as to what our state was doing
o protect our peoples stock from con-
agion. He also explained these laws.
10Th national and state. He explained
hat our farmers lost heavily by reason