The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1921-03-05
VALUABLE JERSEYS BRED
IN STEVENS COUNTY


the purebred Shorthorn sale, was
in the Examiner office this week,
and gives us a new idea of the value
of Stevens county Jerseys.
1t will be remembered that Mr..
Sharp recently brought to Stevens
county one of the greatest, if not
the greatest Jersey bull alive, and
the only reason that he could be
induced to come to this county at all
was the high quality of the Jersey
cows already in this county. In re-
gard to Stevens county Jerseys Mr..
Sharp states as follows:
"Stevens county now has several
daughters of Jacoba Irene's Prince,
the inbred son of Jacoba of Jersey
Lawn. she the inbred daughter of
Jacoba Irene. the first COW of any
breed to make a ton of butter in
twenty-four months, and the only
COW of any breed to make 2780 lbs.
in thirty-seven consecutive months.
Breeders of some breeds of cattle
talk of pounds and ounces, but Jer
sey breeders weigh their butter by
the ton.
"The daughters of Jacoba Irene's
Prince now freshening are uniform
ly homely faced, high producing lot
of sturdy iust-farm cows, the kind
that pay every week in the year, and
no wonder, for Jacoba Irene, his
grand dam, and great grand dam,
carried lot of the old inbred Stoke
Pogis blood behind her on both sides,
and this blood has never been known
to fail.
"For several years Stevens county
farmers used Pogis rs Of Hood farm,
sire of gold medal COW that made
1919 lbs. His dam made 965 lbs.
and his sire had two gold medal
daughters, that made 925 lbs. and
875 lbs. In order to be a gold medal
winner COW must make 1923 lbs. of
butter, and drop living calf at the
close of her test.
"Pogis IS sired Imperial Nina
Pogis, one of the best cows in the
Waikiki herd at Spokane, and she
led all cows in the United States for
the month of November, 1920, in her
class. Her dam is a Stevens county
COW and was recently bred to Spok
Ahne Rioter, the inbred Stoke Pogis
bull that Mr.. Sharp brought in.
"Pogis rs still has large number
of daughters in Stevens county, and
most of them will be or have been
bred to Spok Ahne Rioter. They are
mostly out of cows sired by Derry's
Golden Fern, a register of merit bull.
"That the bull is half the herd
has been dinned into the ears of
every farmer in America, till they
all claim they know it but the fact
is they have merely heard it. If they
really knew it they would be using
better bulls than most of them are
now using. Just as surely as the
bull is half the herd the sire is half
of the new bull, and this gives us a
real key to use in selecting a herd
sire.
"a great COW sometimes trans
mits her qualities, without regard to
the influence of the sire, but usually
she does not. Under ordinary condi-
tions, a great COW bred to worth
less sire produces another worthless
bull, but really great sire will pro-
duce good cows from any old COW,
but better ones from the cows re-
lated to him, and his bull calves will
be of value as herd improvers, de-
pending on the degrees of relation
ship between the sire and dam.
"To boil it down, let me state the
law this way--get the son of great
bull, regardless of the dam, but get
a great dam also if you can, Re-
member that many of the worlds
greatest cows have not yet been put
on test, and that is why Stevens
county has some very great cows
with no records behind them.
"A very prominent breeder recent
ly offered to give away some bull
calves; years ago he chose as his
herd sire a bull whose dam made
554 lbs. of butter; he was used on
cows that made $50 lbs, 878 lbs. as
three year olds, and one heifer that
made 720 lbs. as a two year old,
vet his best daughter yet tested has
only made, under identical care, 522
lbs. as a three year old.
"Two sons of this bull, out of high
record cows, were used to replace
their sire; one of them is now de-
clared failure, and the other is not
yet old enough, but no doubt his
time will come to prove himself as
worthless as his sire.
"Bul calves from any cows on
earth, from such sires as these, would
be very dear gifts, if they came
freight paid, and bonus of $50 for
every service on grade COW. They