The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-08-29
THE JERSEY COW AS j
DECORATION.

DECORATION.
Editor Farmer and Fruit Grower.)
To describe the Jersey cow in
plain language, she must be called
ian. improved churn with leg at
each corner" and-thereby hangs a
tail!
When she poses, however, as a
decoration, she claims her dainty
belongings, which have attained
perfection since nature first issued
the edition de luxe, bound in calf!
In her "right little, tight little
island" she has been protected by
certain laws prohibiting the importa-
top of other breeds, thus persist
emily keeping her patrician blood
inSiolate from mixture with the
''cpmmon herd" Her, surroundings
have been like unto that ''divinity
that doth hedge a queen" until her
pedigree is unquestioned and her
blood is as tlue as that of the Plant
agenets or Tudors, constituting her
the creme de la creme of COW aris-
tocracy.
She is unrivaled as an ornament to
a shaven sward or picturesque park,
and in form and color leaves nothing
to be desired. In outline she is more
beautiful than any ''counterfeit pre-
sentiment" the chisel of Phidias could
have essayed,. and more decorative,
in the eyes of her lover, than the
celebrated Warwick vase from Ha-
drian's villa.
She appeals to the esthetic sense
and fills the measure of our eye with
scheme of color embracing all the
tones in fawn, cream and gray, with
composite tints of orange, mulberry
and ashes of rose. Like harmonies
in music, these acord with the pal
cite nature has prepared for the set
ting of the picture, and the finishing
touch is given to the landscape.
At any season Of the year she
lends her quota of charms to the en-
vironment, but seems particularly
suited to summer scenes and the en-
Iioyments peculiar to the odorous
hush of drowsy noon, when
Returning from the open glade.
l. Tho meek eyed kline seek welcome shade,
Beneath the trees to bask at will.
Or linger by the sparkling rill."
The Jerseys are so deer-like in ap-
pearance that a group at little dis
tance might easily be taken for a
herd of their counterparts; and it
only needs little obliquity of vision
to convert the waxen horns into
branching antlers and the resem-
blance is complete.
''When crested leaders proud and high
Toss their beamed frontlets to the sky
| If our queen is so regal at dis
tance, nearer view but enhances
4 her attractions; and it would be i'm
possible to imagine anything more
interesting in the way of dilemma
than that lovely dished face between
the amber, ebony-tipped horns. The
soulful eyes are so large and velvety
that their prototype gave TO Juno
the pseudoDym of the COX eyed god
dess;" the muzzle of snowy outline
serves to accentuate the mouth,
where we catch glimpses of tongue
which, though black, is guiltless OF
venom, while her breath IS as sweet
as the clover-blooms she so delicately
treads with her dainty feet. Her
coat is wondrous texture, neither
fur nor silk, whose lining is sure to
peep out somewhere and show its
tinge of gold; and as for her switch.
she can make the proud boast denied
many a belle, that her hair is grown
on the premises.
The, Jersey can adapt herself to
any situation, and re6nes, and digni-
fies her abiding-place by seeming
consciousness of work well done.
Her disposition being gentle, she
readily responds to affection; and
whether she constitutes herself the
playmate of the children or the pet
extravaganza of the "lord of the
manor" she fills the niche to perfec-
ton. She is not out of place teth.
cred on a princeIy domain sur
rounded with caressing admin ers;
neither is she dwarfed in the small
est paddock with no companion save
an inhospitable board fence. If hel
gentleman friend would create havoc
A Sure Thing for You.