The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
MEN, WON1EN
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 | It's to be a Jersey sale conducted by Bob Bell, Jefferson county's own boy breeder and manager. in which the tops" from the Jehsey herds of the state will be sold at public auction The sale will be under the auspices of the Alabama Jersey Cattle Club. The fact that it is to be representa- tive one taking in the pick of the we'll known breeders of the milk and butter machines otherwise ,known as Jerseys, ought to draw big crowd to it, for anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear must know that Alabama is destined to be great dairying state.
 
 But if you are not at all interested | in Jersey cattle. I'll tip you off to the fact that you will have a chance to hear the famous Col D. L. Perry, the most unique auctioneer in all the land, a man who in his waking moments | thinks about Jerseys and in his sleep dreams about them. and when in the stand raves over, their beauty or goes | into ecstasies over their ability to let down milk that is milk.
 | The Alabama Jersey Cattle Club is takingy on new life and plans to do big | things at it's convention to be held on the morning of the fourteenth at the fair grounds before the sale. which begins promptly at noon, after lunch has been I served. The best way to get all there
  the sessions of the convention and hear what the big breeders have to say about | Jerseys.
 After the sale there is to be a banquet at the Tutwiler for the Jersey breeders and those who love the breed, whether | they have yet got into the game or not Judge B. M. Allen Is to be the toast master and the 'jedge is some presid- | ing officer on such occasions. Among the noted speakers will be Dr. George R. Stuart, and if he tells the milking ex- perience of a boy he took into his home I to get an education for doing the chores, 1 it will be well worth attending. heard it one Sunday and it's one of the funniest ones in his repertoire and that's saying a lot.
 l After the banquet special car leaves for Lewisburg, Tenn. where the Ten nessee breeders are to hold their golden jubilee which includes two sales | in which more than 100 head of the choicest of the herds in the state will | be sold under the hammer. Many of | our best breeders will be in the party-, but expect to see the day when an Ala bama sale will attract as much attention as any Jersey sales in the whole coun- 1 try.
 | Cream for cream the day is near at hand when cream of Alabamas herd | will be as rich as the cream of Ten nessee's herds. This is the purpose and am bition of the Alabama Jersey Cattle Club, but they cannot bring it to pass unless the people of the state get behind them and give them encouragement by buying what they raise either at private or public sale. A market must be ere ated at home for the very best. This will stimulate the breeders to do their best.
 Now, there is already lot of outside buyers who have caught on to the fact 1 that Jersey auctions in Alabama afford a good chance to pick up some bar gains in real high-class cattle, and they will be here on the fourteenth but the thing I am anxiout to bring about is to keep as many classy animals as pos
 sibe in the state. believe there will be an opportunity for anyone using common sense who has love for dairy cattle to buy judiciously and get start for the building up or creditaole herd.
 Raising Jerseys in Alabama Is no llcnger an experiment. It has been tried out successfully for many years. but not until recently have the big breederes themselves realized the possibilities which lie hidden in the game. If time. money and good judgment be put into lit. The little golden cow" as Jerseys are lovingly called, has made good in Alabama wherever she has been treated fairly and intelligently. She has been a money-maker and pays good dividends on the amount invested in her.
 | Another thing the climate of Alabama is very much like that of Jersey Island. in the English channel, the native home of the breed. This little island is only eleven miles long by five and one-half miles wide I will not say this Is why Jerseys are small, but l do maintain that the area was insufficient to utilize such milk and butter producing ma chine, and so wise breeders began to im- port them. The strain, however. has been kept pure at the home base, for no COW can ever find her way back after she leaves the island. They were the first imported dairy animals to be- come popular in the United States. I am for all pure-bred cattle, but at points Of the Jersey. for she is famous the world over for her rich milk. They lchange a large part of their food into | milk instead of into flesh or fat. The Jersey heifer natures early and becomes a mother at between two and three | years This makes her valuable. as the dairyman does not have to feed her long before she begins to more than pay her way.
 ! I jestingly spoke of Jerseys being small because the island on which they are reared is so diminutive I believe they run in weight from GOO to 1200 pounds, averaging around $50 to 900 pounds. In color a fawn-lil1e appearance predomi- hates but this varies in shade from a ! deeper yellow to brown. reddish or silvery fawn. White markings are com mon but no really white individuals are ever seen. White and black are Identification marks of the tongue and the switch. They are horned race the