DOMINION OF CANADA. 559 



Jerseys Lave been bred within GO miles of Hamilton for the past eight to ten years. 



I have now on uiy farm 5 miles from Hamilton the largest herd in Canada, number- 

 ing 85 head. There aro in Ontario about GOO thoroughbred Jerseys. 



In my herd is the cow Mary Anne of St. Lambert (four years old), who has made the 

 largest weekly yield of butter, 27 pounds 9J ounces in seven days, ar.d the largest yield 

 ever made for five consecutive months of one hundred and fifty-five days, 511 pounds 

 8 ounces, and an average of 3^ pounds of butter per day for one hundred and fifty 

 consecutive days. She, like the majority of my herd, was raised in Canada, near 

 Montreal, as were a majority of her ancestors, proving clearly the Jerseys are capa- 

 ble of standing our extremely cold dry climate, inasmuch as the thermometer goes as 

 low as 20 degrees below zero at Montreal, and the winter there is a very severe cold 

 one. It is, however, very dry. 



My experience of the Jerseys bred for any length of time in Ontario or the province 

 of Quebec is that they increase in size very materially ; that their constitution is 

 very greatly strengthened, and that consequently they aro larger milkers than with 

 less constitution and size. This size is attained without losing their characteristic 

 faculty of being able to convert their food into milk very rich with butter fat. I 

 attribute this increase in constituton and size very greatly 



(1) To our climate, believing the same experience holds good with cattle as with 

 human beings, the nearer wo approach the north pole the more robust and vigorous 

 do the race of men (and I think cattle also) become. The dryness of our winter pre- 

 vents the extreme cold being so much felt, and imparts vigor to the system. I con- 

 sider the cold bleak winds of the Atlantic coast far more trying to tho cattle than 

 our climate. Certain it is that (save in very extreme range of temperature) the Jer- 

 seys yield quite as large if not larger quantities of milk in a cold dry clear day than 

 in' a milder damp one in winter. We have no artificial means of heating our stables, 

 yet the cattle never suffer from the cold. They are let out daily ; in fact our custom 

 is to rear many of our finest yearlings in the barn-yard and wo consider the results 

 most beneficial. Certain it is, that when our Jerseys, imported from tho island of Jer- 

 sey, have spent two to three winters with us they not only improve very materially 

 in constitution, but are heavier milkers. Their progeny begot and dropped in this 

 country have better constitutions. 



(2) The limestone which underlies all our soil in this part of Onatrio also contributes 

 largely to the development of bone and constitution. 



(3) The rich clover which abounds on good farms has in no slight degree assisted in 

 making the Canadian Jerseys famous. 



You have passed for mo in one month stock sold to tho United States amounting 

 to no less a sum than 40,000 for twenty-four head, many of them under two years 

 old. These prices demonstrate tho value they realize, and I am convinced that in our 

 climate and with our grasses and pastures the Jerseys will thrive and improve. 



The average production of milk in my herd is about 4,000 pounds per annum for 

 heifers two to three years old, and from 5,000 to 7,000 pounds of milk for mature cows, 

 though I have cows who give from 7,000 to 8,000 pounds of milk per annum. 

 Yours, truly, 



VALANCEY E. FULLER. 



J. F. HAZELTON, Esq., 



American Consul. 



CATTLE AND CATTLE PRODUCTS IN SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO. 



REPORT BJ COMMERCIAL AGENT BUFF2NGTON, OF CHATHAM. 



I liave the honor herewith to submit the report requested by the 

 cattle circular of July 18. I regret that, owing to an insufficient num- 

 ber of accurately recorded experiments by the breeders of the district, 

 many blanks in the tabular form remain unfilled, while many of the 

 statements filled in cannot lay claim to more than approximate accuracy. 



CATTLE-BREEDINa IN THE CHATHAM DISTRICT. 



It is only within the last few years that, alarmed by occasional fail- 

 ures of the grain crops, the agriculturists in this district began to de- 



