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DR.. Herbert Watney's English bred


Jersey COW Sharab, that recently won
first prize and gold medal in the butter
tests at Tring, made a record that is
worthy of special mention. She gave
ounces of milk, which yielded 3 pounds
9A ounces of butter, and was 12S days
In milk at time Of test. She won first
prize of f20 in class for COWS weigh
ing over 900 pounds, in which there
were thirty entries. Second prize went
to a Shorthorn, % days in milk, that
yielded 80 pounds 2 ounces milk and
made , pounds 1914 ounces butter.
Shar2D was also awarded the gold
medal offered by the English Jersey
Cattle society for the best Jersey in
the butter test.
In the milking trials for cows over
9C0 pounds weight she won first
prize for milk yield alone, her yield
of % pounds II ounces being exceeded
by a Lincoln Red COW (75 pounds) and
by a Shorthorn GA pounds l ounce.
The first prize COW in this class was
only 60 days in milk and the second
prize cow % days in milk, which gave
them Il decided advantage over Shara5,
the Jersey. which was 1913 days lover
four months in milk.
Sharab's butter yield of 3 pounds 9a
| ounces is one of the greatest ever
made in Il public test. Her dam, Sher-
bet H.. made | pound lJla ounce from
2S pounds 8 ounces milk, 1913 days
after calving; her grandam. Sherbet, 2
pounds 5H ounces from % pounds II
ounces milk, 10 days after calving.
and her great-grandam, Sherry, .
pounds S34 ounces from Al pounds 1
ounce milk. All these cows were
owned by DR.. Watney. Sharab was
born Dec. 16, 1896. sired by Squib's
Lad, 5132, and descended on both
sides from Speck, a member of Mr..
Philip Dauncey's herd in 1S6S.-Jersey
Bulletin.
Should Calve at Two Years.
The heifer should drop her first calf
when she is about two years old, as
this will make a more productive cow
than when delayed until another year.
When the first calf is not dropped I'M
til the third year, n calf and one
year of milking are lost, and the heifer
acquires Il tendency to use her surplus
feed in the laying OH Of fat instead of
in the secretion of milk-a tendency
which will be retained through life and
which would have been avoided by
earlier breeding.
Some Cow Notes.
In the dairy cow we are sometimes
disappointed when we had every rea-
son to believe we would have an ami
mai of extra qualities. l have in mind
now one COW that was a thorough dis
appointment. | have asked people to
pick out the best COW in my herd, and
they invariably picked this one. She
was a COW | bought and probably had
been spoiled while young, says a New
York Dairyman. My cows, with the
exception of two, were sired by pure
bred bulls. | have nothing on my farm
which is not well bred. Professor Rob-
erts has said. Commence to make your
cows before they are born l believe
that and work IN that theory. l feed
my cows and then feed my calves, not
hay tea, blu good milk right from the
cows. TO make a COW | believe you
must do it before she is two years old.
| have heard some farmers say that a
calf ought to be taken away as soon as
dropped. | don't believe that. A calf
that won't learn to drink at four DAYS
ought to go tc the SHAMELESS, as it
will always have its head turned in
the wrong direction. After the cow
has her first calf she should be MIXED
at least twelve months and then go dry
six weeks. The feed | seem to get the
best results from is a mixture of equal
parts by measure of ground oats and
buckwheat middlings, with clover hay
and silage, and have tried almost ev-
erythjng. This gives me after taking
out the feed a profit OF nearly $50.
Tie to One Breed.
In my judgment n makes a mistake
to cross breed, says II. e. Cook in
Rural New Yorker. Our experience is
confined to the use of a single Jersey
bull on grade Holstein cows. The
heifers are now coming into milk.
Their milk on the whole is better than
the Holstein milk, and they are per-
sistent mixers, but the flow is lessened.
The most disappointing feature of the
cross. however, is the lack of uniform
ity in type and size. We have Hol-
stein heifers, Guernsey heifers and Jer-
sey heifers and some not belonging to
either class. Classified and put by
themselves. they look well enough and
will make very good cows. They do
not possess the vitality Of the Hol-
stems, nor are they as large sun
l do not regret the attempt, because |
have been very much interested in
studying results, but l would not do so
again, nor would l advise any one else
to try it. l firmly believe that cross
breeding is q mistake. No one has yet
succeeded in fixing the good qualities
Of each breed in the offspring. and
probably he never will. On the con-
trary, the effect seems to be to intensi-
fy their weaknesses. Where one has a
mixed herd without special reference