The Jersey City news., 1905-01-25
State Dairymen Proud Of
Their Cattle as the Best
Milk Givers.
LOUIS FAIRS VERDICT
9mparaison OF Results Frem
Holsteins and Jerseys
Favors the Latter.

The fact that there is milk and milk
has come home to many Jersey dairymen
who sell the product OF the dairy cows
to creameuies and get paid in accordance
with the percentage of fat it contains,
and also to some who supply city GUS
toners, and whose cans of milk, perhaps,
have been dumped in the gutter by the
milk inspectors for not coming mp to the
required standard of solids, although no
water has been. added.
The private consumer. too, is becoming
more and more alive to a knowledge Of
what good milk should be, and the day
is perhaps not far distant when milk, like
most other commodities, will be every
where retailed according to quality, and
win fetch a price per quart regulated by
its percentage of butter fat and other
solids. And this is in accordance with
reason and common sense; for the part OF
milk that does not come under the head
of s.solids" is simply water, which ADDS
bulk, but is of no nutritive value what
ever.
In view of these considerations, the
man who is in the dairy business for
profit, and not for recreation will try
to find breed of cows that win produce
milk rich in fat and other solids, and
which will not eat their heads off, in
doing it. AS over half the milk produced
is used for butter production, it will be
seen that the percentage of fat in it be
comes Of prime importance.
AS a guide for dairymen in the selec-
ton of the best breed suited for the
dairy, a breed test was conducted Off
cially at the st. Louis Exposition, in
which chosen representative cows of four
breeds were entered. The best dairy
breeds of the four proved to be the Jer-
seys and the Holsteins. The Holstein
herd produced 50 pounds / ounce milk
per COW per day, and the Jersey herd
produced Al pounds ounces milk per
COW per day. But exery one hundred
pounds of Jersey milk contained 13
pounds ounces of solids; whereas one
hundred pounds of Holstein milk con-
tanned but IL pounds ounces of solids.
The laws of many cities require II per
cent. total solids in the milk sold in them,
SO that the milk of the Holstein herd
would not have come up to the legal
standard in such cities. It would require
118 pounds of Holstefn milk to equal
in nutritive value one hundred pounds Of
the Jersey milk This means is per cent.
more bulk, weight and handling in the
case of the milk of the Holsteins, with
out any compensating increase in its solid
contents. Such is the compartive value
Of the milk of these two herds on the
basis Of quantity of total solids, without
taking cost of production into considera
non.
Let US now examine the milk of the
two herds from the standpoint Of the
buttermaker The milk of the Jerseys
contained 1866 per cent. of fat; that is,
every ono hundred pounds of Jersey milk
contained 4 pounds 1917 ounces of BUT
ter fat, which is equivalent to 5 pounds
ounces butter containing eighty-tive
per cent. fat The milk of the Holstein
herd contained 3.4J per cent. fats
pounds Z 10 ounces fat in every one
hundred pounds of milk-which Is
equivalent to pounds j ounce Of
eighty-fve per cent. butler.
So that every one hundred pounds Of
the Jersey milk would yield pound 8
ounces more butter than one hundred
pounds of the Holstein milk. In other
words it would take 135 pounds of the
Holstein milk to equal one hundred
pounds of Jersey milk for butter-making
nses. But this is assuming that the same
proportion Of the fat in the Holstein
milk would be converted into butter as
ii the ease of the Jersey milk; whereas
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