1875.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
135 
A Pair of Notable Young Jerseys. 
The pair of young Jersey cattle, whose portraits 
appear in the engraving, are a fresh addition to the 
herd at Beacon Stock Farm. No first class herd 
can be kept in vigorous 
and constantly improv- 
ing condition, without 
occasional well selected 
infusions of new blood 
— at all events, we 
know of none that has 
been so kept. One of 
the special qualifica- 
tions of a skillful breed- 
er, is to know how he 
can add to the excel- 
lence of his herd, and 
how to select the ma- 
terials with which to 
effect his purpose. The 
heifer is Sudbrook 
Beauty, No. 3,491, A. J. 
C. C. Herd Book, now 
eleven months old, but 
only seven months 
when this portrait was 
taken. She is dark 
fawn, with black points 
in color, and of an ele- 
gant form. Her sire is 
Southampton, (H. B. 
No. 117), who is orange 
brown and black in col- 
scen and tasted some cheese made in Maine from 
the milk of Jersey cows, which in richness of qual- 
ity is nearly equal to the famous English Stilton. 
This cheese has a local market at a higli jjrice, and 
if this fact should lead to the introduction of the 
Jerseys into the cheese dailies of the country, and 
PRIZE SHORTHOBN OX.- 
PROPERTT OP THE EAKI, OF LONSDALE 
to the needed improvement of cheese, It will be a 
great benefit to breeders and dairymen, and greater 
stUl to consumers, who await the advent of a finer 
American cheese than any our makers now produce. 
■ « I » 
A Prize Short-horn. 
The Smithfield Club, of London, Eng., which is 
an association of breeders, graziers, and butchers, 
holds an annual exhibition of fat cattle. The TTtli 
At this 
or, with black switch, and was bred by Mr. Goudin, 
of St. Martins, Island of Jersey. Her dam is Jewel, 
(H. B. No. 336), and her grand-dam Gazelle, who 
was imported by John A. Taintor, of Hartford, Ct. 
The bull is Young Cossack, (H. B. No. 1,159), eight 
months older thsm the heifer, color fawn with black 
points, and from the same grand-dam (Gazelle) as 
Sudbrook Beauty. His sire, Clement, H. B. No. 
115, and No. 61 in H. B. of R. Ag. Socy. of Jersey, 
was imported in 1868. The quality of these two. 
animals is excellent. The heifer already shows a 
great development of milking properties, and the i annual show took place last December. 
fact that she was bred 
to Young Cossack o:: 
the day that these por- 
traits were taken, shows 
the remarkable pre- 
cocity of this breed. 
The value of this 
breed of cattle for dairy 
purposes is far fron] 
being fully developed. 
Hitherto they have been 
supposed to be valu- 
able only for the butter 
dairy. Their exeellencf 
in that department of 
the dairy has become so 
firmly established that 
no butter-maker of re- 
putation would discard 
them from his herd. 
The half-bred grades 
when descended from a 
■well selected Jersey 
bull, inherit the valu- 
able qualities of the 
breed in a marked de- 
gree, and for the pur- 
poses of the ordinary 
dairyman, who cannot 
purchase the high- 
priced pure-bred cows, 
the grades make an ex- 
cellent substitute. But, 
although breeders of 
Jerseys consider their 
butter making qualities their chief excellence, yet 
it has been found that they are equally valuable, at 
least in some cases, to the cheeee-maker. Mr. L. 
B. Arnold, the Secretary of the American Dairy- 
men's Association, who is our best authority on 
several reasons. It shows faithfully how a prize fat 
Short-horn actually appears ; it exemplifies the jus- 
tice of the position taken by that excellent journal 
in favor of photographs of prize animals, or at least 
of accurate life-like portraits, instead of those extra- 
ordinary products of the artist's imagination, which 
strike the beholder with 
wonder, and appear to 
ordinary farmers as pre- 
posterous impossibili- 
ties ; it goes to encour- 
age the hope that one 
day our breeders may 
be induced to assist in 
educating the public 
mind up to a just ap- 
preciation of the real 
merits of their stock, 
and refrain from im- 
posing upon them dis- 
torted and unreal re- 
presentations, and it 
also gives a hint to our 
breeders and butchers 
_ that an annual exliibi- 
tion of fine fat stock 
might be made popular, 
Instructive, and profit- 
able to themselves and 
to the public. The 
Short - hom interest 
needs to bo popularized 
more than it is. The 
farmers and breeders 
for marlcct who are 
upon which this interest 
JERSEY HEIFER "SUDBROOK BEAUTY," AND BULL "YOUNG COSSACK. 
daily matters, recently iaformed us that he has 
show the first prize for aged fat Short-horn oxen 
was awarded to a white ox, the property of the Earl 
of Lonsdale, 4 years and 4 months old, weighing 
2,586 pounds. A copy of a photograph of this ox 
is given in the engraving, which is from the Agri- 
cultural Gazette, London, and is noteworthy for 
really the foundation 
should and must finally rest, need to be disabused 
of the idea possessed by many of them, that this is 
a fancy stock only to be owned, bred, and bought, 
and sold by men of wealth ; and to see them ex- 
hibited as beef animals in condition for the market, 
as well as breeders fit for use, is really the in- 
structive means of popular education that is needed. 
The ox in questiou was sired by Manton, (H. B., 
number 34,.525), out of Annie, (whose number is not 
given), sired by Breechloader, (23,451). The ox had 
been fed on linseed cake, corn, a mixed artificial 
food, hay, and roots. 
This ox successfully 
competed with a 5-year 
old, and heavier animal, 
which is said to have 
been the grandest ox 
since the famous one 
bred by C. Colling. The 
competition was close, 
but no objection has 
been urged against the 
decision. Its levelness 
and fine thighs and twist 
which are well shown in 
the engraving, gave the 
premium to this animal. 
Value of the G.ing 
Plow. — Not the least 
of the several advan- 
tages of the gang and 
sulky plows and culti- 
vators, is the ease with 
which they may be 
worked by enterprising 
young women and crip- 
pled veterans. An Il- 
linois fanner is a 
soldier who lost an 
arm and a leg, yet he 
does all his plowing , 
■with a sulky plow, 
drives his planter while 
his boy drops, and 
uses a sulky cultivator. With the help of these 
implements, he is able to do a large share of his 
farm work himself, while with ordinary ones he 
could do nothing. Another Illinois farmer is a 
lady, and a widow, who plows, mows, reaps, and 
cultivates her crops with these riding implementg, 
