VOL,. XXXVII. No. 41 
WHOLE No. 1498. 
[Entered according- to Act of CongTeBS. in tbe year 1878, by the Rural Publishing Company, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
OUR RASPBERRY FESTIVAL 
animals. Some cows are bo phlegmatic and 
good-natnred that a moderate amount of ill- 
treatment does not Beem to disturb their equa¬ 
nimity. Others are naturally vicious, and will 
kick and hook without provocation. There is 
another class that, while not vicious, are so 
nervous that they may easily be made to appear 
ugly, and in time really become so, in conse¬ 
quence of rough handling or carelessness. It 
requires a considerate and good dispoeitioned 
man to manage such cows and get along with 
MONTCLAIR RASPBERRY 
LADY CAREW 3d 
Otjb engraving of the Montclair Raspberry iB 
an accurate portrait of a branch brought to this 
office by Mr. Williams, not with any view to hav¬ 
ing it engraved. Many of the berries bad been 
shaken off whioh our artist might have replaced. 
But he did not. We prefer, in our illustrations 
The London Agricultural Gazette iB doing 
good servioe to the cause of animal portraiture, 
to say nothing of the pleasure it gives its read¬ 
ers, and sometimes ours, in that it is accustom¬ 
ing them to see and value good portraits made 
by first photographing the animal and then hav¬ 
ing the picture sketched with an accurate hand, 
yet with artistic freedom. 
The Ladies Oarew 1st, 2d and 3d are sisters 
and all prize-winners at the English shows. 
They are described as having been as heifers 
“somewhat small, with very fine bone and on 
very short legs ” with the silkiest of hair, long 
and even in carcass, “ somewhat unduly weight¬ 
ed with flesh, and fat at both ends." The one 
piotured has a bOBom “ wonderful to see,” and 
iuheritB the blood of several leading fashionable 
strains, not the least notable of which is that 
received from her sire, whioh is “the purest 
Warlaby ” Now these wonderfully perfect Short- 
ho *ns are discussed editorially as if they exbib- 
itei the results of deep-laid plans made when 
their great-great-grand-dam was bred ; for the 
editor says: “ Say not that an experiment in 
breeding haB failed until you see the Becond and 
third generations.” Now we take it the breeding 
of these heifers was somewhat In this wise: 
Farewell was a rather famous cow of the War¬ 
laby herd, and after she had. to all appearance, 
uearly passed her usefulness (being, however, 
in calf to Rubens, a justly famous bull) she was 
brought to the hammer. Her daughter, Fanny, 
was also sold in her old age “for a song,” and a 
daughter of hers. Heather Bell, by a Bates bull, 
when a very old cow and supposed to be past 
breeding, dropped a calf, by a Booth bull, so 
little expected that it was called “ Miracle.'' 
One of her numerous daughters, a blood-red 
cow oalled Lady Jam, by a Bracelet bull, “ was 
one of the cheapest lots at the famous Beeston 
sale in 1872.” She, in the hands of Mr- St. John 
Aokers, has produced these three heifers by 
County Member, a bull of the Christen tribe, 
of the Warlaby Herd. 
Here we have breeding entirely without sys¬ 
tem, so far as we can see, except the system of 
all breeders of fair observation, namely, that of 
matching animals by external form, Btyle and 
character. The ancestors of these heifers, in 
the dam’s line for generations, were all cheap 
cows, hardly worth the consideration of breed¬ 
ers except for the good they had done perhaps— 
“ knocked down for a song,” one after the other, 
simply because they were of no particular strain, 
though the blood was good. They presented 
with rather growiug intensity, one after the 
other, the results of such breeding. Now, 
in these beautiful creatures, rolling in fat, 
smooth, fine, delicate in form aud bone, 
touchingly good handlers and walking off 
with medals and ribbons, we have the legi¬ 
timate result of putting a bull of strong 
blood upon a cow from whose breeding we 
should expect no strength (prepotenoy) but 
only excellence. Of course, his good qual¬ 
ities tell as surely upon such a pedigree as 
if he were bred to a good grade cow, aud this 
indicates clearly the way to breed prize-win- ^ 
ners, and a possible fault in the way we 
award prizes without reference to breeding, 
except so far as to assure purity of blood. 
MR. 8T. JOHN ACKER’8 LA 1>Y 
them. They muBt be humored, Bpoken kindly 
to, and gently handled in milking. Swearing at 
them, or beating them, demoralizes them fear¬ 
fully, and makes them almost useless in a short 
time. It is often among the very best milkers 
and butter-makers that these nervous animals 
occur, and we cannot afford to have their value 
thus impaired. No violence should be allowed 
among the cows at any time; but if you have 
impatient help, or are quick-tempered yourself, 
let some person who doesn't get mad so easily, 
milk the nervous cows. A cruel man ought never 
to have charge of any stock whatever. 
CAREW 3d. 
whenever we feel at liberty to do so, to present 
our readers with illustrations which the plants, 
if purchased and cultivated, will more than verify. 
THE MONTCLAIR AND OTHER RASPBER¬ 
RIES. 
The Montclair Raspberry is doubtless an ac¬ 
cidental seedling. We found it growing and 
fruiting we'l in a neglected corner of our vine¬ 
yard. A oasual taste of the fruit awakened us 
NERVOUS COWS, 
No observing person oau have the care of 
a herd of cows long, without noting a 
great variance in the character and disposi¬ 
tion of the different animals. The famous 
Mrs. Partington once remarked, that “ there 
is as much difference in folks as there is in 
anybody," — and it is just so with cows. 
The feminine peculiarities that we are apt 
to note in our own kind may, many of 
hem, be detected,, among the domestio 
