1875 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
135 
A Pair of Notable Young Jerseys. 
The pair of young Jersey cattle, whose portraits 
appear iu 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 puipose. 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¬ 
seen 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 high price, and 
if this fact should lead to the introduction of the 
Jerseys into the cheese dairies of the country, and 
PRIZE SHORTHORN OS.—PROPERTY OP THE EARL OF LONSDALE. 
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 than 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 
faet 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 from 
being fully developed. 
Hitherto they have been 
supposed to be valu¬ 
able only for the butter 
dairy. Their excellence 
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 canuot 
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 cheese-maker. Mr. L. 
B. Arnold, the Secretary of the American Dairy¬ 
men’s Association, who is our hest authority on 
Hairy matters, recently informed us that he has 
to the needed improvement of cheese, it will be a 
great benefit to breeders and dairymen, and greater 
still to consumers, who await the advent of a finer 
American cheese than any our makers now produce. 
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 77th 
annual show took place last December. At this 
JERSEY HEIFER “SUDBROOK BEAUTY,” AND BULL “YOUNG COSSACK. 
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 
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 fanners 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 exhibi¬ 
tion of fine fat stock 
might be made popular, 
instructive, and profit¬ 
able to themselves and 
to the public. The 
Short - horn interest 
needs to be popularized 
more than it is. The 
farmers and breeders 
for market who are 
really the foundation upon which this interest 
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 question was sired by Manton, (II. B., 
number 24,525), 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 Gang 
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 farmer 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 
With the help of these 
uses a sulky cultivator, 
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 implements. 
