INDIANA JERSEY CATTLE BREEDERS. 



The third annual meeting of the Indiana Jersey Cattle Breeders' Association 

 occurred Tuesday, January 20, 1885, at the rooms of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, President Haughey in the chair. Upon the opening of the meeting the 

 President read his annual address, as follows : ^ 



The return of the second anniversary of the Indiana .Jersey Cattle 'Breeders As- 

 sociation is to them an event of deep interest, affording an opportunity for the ad- 

 vancement of their favorities to a still higher degree of appreciation, not only in 

 the eyes of breeders and fanciers, but as well in the esteem of the farmer and dairy- 

 man. 



A review of transactions in stock for the past year gives a remarkable showing 

 in favor of the Jersey, and they represent about one-third of the entire number of 

 pedigreed cattle sold under the auctioneer's hammer. While the average for 188 

 was $426 per head, for the season for 1884 the general average was $346, and for 

 females alone over |375, showing only a slight decrease from last year, though the 

 number disposed of was largely in excess of the preceding year. As compared 

 with other breeds the average is about double the sum realized for like numbers. 



These prices can not be styled fancy,' but are rather the outgrowth of a convic- 

 tion that has gradually grown upon the people, until the Jersey cow stands pre- 

 eminently the "Dairy Queen." Not perhaps, in quantity of milk, but unques- 

 tionably in quality ; the product from the churn where Jersey blood predominates, 

 commanding tli^ best prices and the readiest market. 



The price in itself does not yet fairly represent the increased profit to be real- 

 ized from her, for it is obtained at a far less cost in drawing the milk, caring for 

 it, and in less amount of food required. She is the " viultum in parvo." 



Gentlemen, in associating ourselves together, we have done so that we may the 

 better promulgate these facts, and introduce to our brethren of Indiana, a better 

 and more profitable breed of cattle; demonstrate to them other methods for deriv- 

 ing profit from the farm — methods that shall give an increased revenue, and at the 

 same time lighten their burdens, open up new fields of thought, brighten farm life, 

 and introduce to them one of the most facinating occupations. 



Our soils, naturally fertile, are, from continual cropping with grain, being grad- 

 ually depleted, and the returns in consequence precarious. The intelligent hus- 



