Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1919-12-19
scRUR JERSEY BULL HAS RUN
QUALITY OF HERDS DOWN.
GET HID or HIM.
MILKING SHORTHORNS GOOD
The Family Needs Cow That VIII
Produce Much Rich MIX, and =
Calf That Will Sell Fer Beef.
Says Murphy.

OIle Has 10 lake Dul SHUT tELp lu
most any direction within the state
outside Of the dairy districts to learn
that the average farmer, the man with
a farm Of 100 acres OF less, and from
one to four cows, is longing for a real
family COW. He needs more milk for
home use. He doesn't want to go into
dairyjng. Perhaps he would II he had
market for surplus butterfat but I'M
less thru cooperative efforts a cream
route be established by his front door,
he Is rarely justified In striving to pro
duce more than an abundant supply
of milk for the home, the children, the
calves and a bit for the pigs and
chickens.
Well one might wonder why hasn't
he satisfactory COW. He has been
farming a long time, certainly long
enough 70 have developed a COW suit |
ed TO his conditions. But LET us see
what has happened Twenty or more
years ago he had or big red cows
which furnished his family plenty OF
milk and each raised a good calf. |
Competition Of beef cattle from the
western ranges was at that time 50
strong that these good calves were OF
little value. In fact, there came .
time when the calf was considered 0
nuisance rather than an asset.
About the same time the Jersey COW
was at the height Of her glory in Ten.
nessee, and no state ever produced
more good Jerseys or more ardent ad,
mirefs of them. She was hailed far
and wide as the ideal family cow. She
required very little feed and produced
very rich milk; and the calf WAS OF
small Importance, anyway. All OF
which was very true at that time, and
today the Jersey has no superior ~ an
economical producer of good milk and
butter. But 1t wasn't the COW that did
The damage. Che produced q calf, and
no 1t wasn't worth anything, 1t was +
IHch q COEIely, fGrm-like erea tMre that =,
70 one had the heart TO dispose Of It,
md thus did the country far and wide
'ecOme populated with Jersey bulls.
Had conditions remained ~ they t
Vsre at that time We might today have Y
Othing to regret, but twenty YEAR, e
ave marked a wonderful change In
he beef cattle producing area Of our IT
ountry. In 1900 there were SO head :,
t cattle Of all kinds per 100 Of human "
opulHtiOn. In 1910 the number had Z
ecreased to 81 per 100, and on Jan.
AIRY l, 1919, 10 "a per 100. The mum. a
Hr OF cattle other than dairy cows D
RS 81 per 100 people In 1900. In 1910 q
liS number had decreased to 40 per VI
N, and on January l, 1919 TO AZ per
NJ. During the same period dairy Ae
title have pretty well held their own al
ith the Increase In population, for in
'OO there were % per 100 people: In A
No. y, and on January l, 1919, there
ere ~.
Let uE observe what this decline
"A meant. In 1903 the beef exports IN
the United States reached a summit ia
1871 W0, 0tO pounds, and ut that time sis
ere Was only n trace Of imports. A m,
Wn-hill course followed, and by the 20
ar 1914, the imports exceeded the -
ports by 9S000O00 pounds. In that %
dr our imports were 250, OO0, OOG an
ands and our exports less than T.. %
1900 pounds.
since that time under the stress OF
r, ana the needs Of our Allies Tor
ID supplies eur EXPORTS If bs~f bsy. -ba
m greatly increased; thls has been Ba
le, not by Increased production, but
the expense Of our own normal
ne consumption and Of our fOunda -.
cattle stocks as lHtimated by the Pii
We ratio Of cattle to population. -
his great decrease In our prOduc.
Of beef cattle iG, Of course, at. -
utable 10 the fact that aBE- great 15i
'tern range area has gradually been IHI
ene't during this period by having llGE
lers fence of farm after farm and IIG
. 1t under cultivation. But, in tie iIH|
ntime, these Jersey hulIs and their lGs
ieScript male offspring have pretty IIG
succeeded in destroying all of the IIA
Iral beef-pr0dHcing ability Of the lIG
age farmers COW and unfortunate lGI
er milking capacity as well. Now GI
the calf has become Of 50 much 1I
'rtance and will continue to he lI
OF much greater Importance, the lGI
OF Jersey COW Is brought into IlI
'pute, and her progeny is cursed lIGF
iShout the land. Unfortunate in llG
" 1t IL for her that her blood has jGI
eat prepotency for even unto the l
generation removed, she il still GI
/ credit for the yellow backed. IlG
'-rumped steer that shows I'D in A
eed lot with such remarkably req. tll
". G
the farmer iS again today look. l
'r COW that will first of all pro. A
MIN a better home milk supply l8
VIII produce q profitable calf. 6
enc suggests, why not start all Hi
again and take the Jersey? Jer- D
eifers are very much in demand IB
dairy cattle are very scare. All ID
ich is true, II all the calves would lG
be LETTERS, bur what about the ll
Good yearling Jersey heifers G
Forth say 500; good yearling III
laI1es, both steers and heifers rsz=