Xo. 4.] BREEDS AND VARIETIES. 1G9 



mean a male from some herd where some noted animals 

 are found in the line of their pedigree. Coupling such a 

 sire with a good cow, we get a seven-eiijhths, a fifteen- 

 sixteenths and a thirty-one thirty-seconds. I think when 

 we get there we may call them a "variety" of cattle. I 

 should drop the word " grade " when they have reached that 

 point. 



Professor Cheesmax. I would like to have you give 

 some further information in regard to that thirty-five-dollar 

 cow that you mentioned. Won't you tell us what her con- 

 dition was when you got hold of her, how much she weighed, 

 what she cost you to keep her during the first year when she 

 gave that four hundred and forty pounds of butter, and how 

 much she is iiivino: to-day? 



Professor Roberts. The cow was one of two that were 

 picked out, supposing they would give us a fair amount of 

 milk. We had two purposes in view. One was to show 

 our students how the dairymen of New York kept their 

 cows, or how they did not keep them. The other was, we 

 wanted more milk than our cows would give. We sell con- 

 siderable milk, and use a good deal for laboratory work with 

 our students. This cow looked as thouo'h she mio-ht have 

 quite a sprinkling of Shorthorn blood. That was her ap- 

 pearance ; I know nothing of her history. She failed to 

 produce young the next year, and so we milked her about 

 eighteen or twenty months, and she has gone to the butcher. 

 She would weigh when we sot her al)oUt eio-ht hundred 

 pounds ; when we sold her she would weigh aliout eleven 

 hundred pounds. 



Mr. Richards. I cannot quite understand the professor 

 when he speaks of "variety." I do not know what he 

 means by that, — •whether he means that he would not 

 have farmers introduce thoroughbreds and continue that line, 

 for instance, Jersey, Holstein, etc. Most of you probably 

 know the record of " Jersey Belle," owned by Mr. Charles 

 O. Ellms of Scituate. Four or five years ago she was the most 

 famous cow then in America. Her owner was offered twenty- 

 five or fifty thousand dollars for her. I have a descendant 

 of that cow, and there have been many, of course, round 

 about in our neighborhood. You know, perhaps, that her 



