74 FABM ECHOES. 



many years in anticipation of the joyous event then 

 celebrated. Calves, nowadays, cease to be such when 

 they become yearlings. 



A school commissioner asked the scholars during an 

 official visit, "What is Kentucky famous for," and was 

 answered " For its mammoth calves." 



My herd consists of over one hundred and ninety Jer- 

 seys, and two superior prize cows of the Ayrshire breed 

 with which I am experimenting in order to test their 

 value as compared with Jerseys. " Lltchfield " still 

 proudly heads the herd, and is the admiration of all who 

 see him. He appears to as great advantage as when he 

 stood the severe test at the Centennial Exhibition at Phil- 

 adelphia, where he won the Centennial award, also the 

 special first prize offered by the American Jersey Cattle 

 Club for the best Jersey bull. For quite a number of 

 years excellent judges of cattle have been making ex- 

 tensive selections of the best to be found on the Island 

 of Jersey, and it stands to reason that this must long ago 

 have drawn from that charming little Island their choicest 

 animals, and that this country has now the best stock of 

 that breed, as of others. Such long continued taking out 

 of the one scale, and putting into the other, must surely 

 have "tipped the beam " ere this. 



I read, and hear, much that is absurd in regard to 

 " points" in Jerseys, and long ago made up my mind 

 that my schoolmaster was very remiss in not teaching me 

 how to spell that simple word. I spell it "pints," and 

 am fully convinced that the chief " point" of a cow is the 

 number of pints she yields, unless she is wanted for other 

 than milking purposes. There are, of course, certain 



