THE JERSEY COW A MONEY MAKER. 125 



breed. The Jersey cow is a machine that it has required a hundred 

 and fifty years to produce and perfect. She was made for the 

 special purpose of extracting from the various farm products that 

 a.re used as cattle foods, thoi^e necessities and delicacies that enter 

 so largely into the every day support of the people of the civilized 

 world. Her cream and butter are not approached in quality by like 

 products of any other breed of kine. Not only is she able to trans- 

 fer the elements extracted from vegetable forms into products of 

 such superior excellence as to cause them to be sought for by 

 artists, epicures, and an intelligent consuming public, but she does 

 this work with a greater degree of economy than any other breed of 

 animals is capable of doing. 



So far as practical tests have gone it has been proved beyond 

 question that the Jersey cow gives more for the food consumed than 

 any other breed of milch cows. Thirty years ago, he would have 

 Ijeen considered an idle prophet indeed, who had proclaimed forth- 

 coming events as they have transpired. That the choicest of fresh 

 beef, direct from the great abattoirs of the Mississippi valley would 

 be dealt out to consumers by the shopmen in every city, and at 

 almost every country vfflage and cross road in Maine, and at prices 

 so far below the cost of raising as to ruin the business of beef 

 growing in New England. That the patient oxen, working in the 

 logging swamps of Maine would be superseded by horses, the 

 majority of which would be brought from the British Provinces or 

 the Middle States. These changes came gradually as they have in 

 all interests of agriculture, and every year saw the numbers of oxen 

 and steers lessening, either to make place for other stock, or the 

 sale of hay. 



While the industry of stock raising was becoming unprofitable 

 and being abandoned, dairying was gradually developing and taking 

 its place as the leading industry in New England agriculture. New 

 methods of manufacture have been discovered and applied. The 

 shallow pans have given place to the Swedish system of deep setting 

 with the American improvements, and granular butter is the product 

 of the modern churn. Better treatment and handling of stock pre- 

 vails, and the problems of intelligent feeding are in process of solu- 

 tion. 



And the dairy stock has been changing through all these years. 

 The Jersey cow, introduced with so much opposition, has been 



