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Vol XLI. No. 1689. 
NEW YORK, JUNE 10, 1882. 
PHIOE FIVE GENTS, 
S3,00 PER YEAR, 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1882, t>y the Rural New Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 1 
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OUR ANIMAL PORTRAITS. 
Jersey Cow, Belle of Middlefield. 
The following shows the pedigree of the 
Jersey Cow, Belle of Middlefield, an excellent 
likeness of which we present this week to our 
readers, in Fig. 178. 
| On I. of J. 
King Harold. [Imp Mabllle. 
344. IMJi 
i On L of J. 
f Monarch. 
J 82 ump.. Buttercup. 
Earl 81) 
(Imp. Europa. 
121 
[Imp. Talntor's Bull of 1856. 
j 307 
I Mala. I 
Mable. 1098 (Imp. Mala’s Dam. 
1092. I 1094 
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She was dropped May 5, 1871. Her butter 
record shows a yield of two pounds five ounces 
in 24 hours, and sixteen pounds five ounces in 
one week, five weeks after calving; and two 
prize at the Maryland State Fair in 1881, and 
was also one of the prize herd. Her last calf, 
Clytie of Middlefield, took the first prize at 
the Maryland State Fair of 1881. 
Cash Boy, 2448, is another of Belle of Middle- 
field’s offsprings. He won the first prize at the 
Ohio State Fair of 1879, and also at the North¬ 
ern Ohio and Stark County Fairs, and was at 
the head of the find,-prize herd nt these fairs. 
In 1881 he won the second prize at the Ohio 
State Fair, and was at the head of the prize 
herd. At Minneapolis, too, he headed the 
first-prize herd, and the second prize herd for 
the grand dairy prize of SI,000, nine herds 
competing. At the great Chicago Fair he was 
at the head of the first-prize herd, and bore 
away the first prize for bull and five of his 
get. He also won the first grand dairy prize 
of |500 and a gold medal worth $100 in the 
bull class; and at the Illinois State Fair at 
Peoria, he was the winner of first-prize and of 
the second prize at the great St. Louis Fair, 
where he afterwar’s carried off the sweep- 
stakes prize and was at the head of the first- 
prize herd. 
State Fair of 1878; Belle of Middlefield 2nd, 
13134, and Belle of Middlefield 3d, a heifer calf 
not yet registered, sired by King of Scituate, 
3022, a son of the famous Jersey Belle of 
Scituate. Belle of Middlefield is again in calf 
by King of Scituate. She is the property of 
Orestes Pierce, East Baldwin, Me. 
NOTES BY A STOCKMAN. 
Ti?k grand combination sale of Jersey cat¬ 
tle, in the city of New York, came off on the 
appointed days with great and increased eclat, 
as noticed in the late Rurals. The splendid 
price of $4,800 was realized for one cow, and 
several untried heifers, oae or two years old, 
brought the large sums of $1,500 to $1,900, 
Counting a liberal sum for the animal itself, 
we can here get very near the value of the 
pedigree, for these heifers must have been 
bought for that and not on their actual 
merits, these being unproved. Allowing $200 
or $300, even, for the animal, we find a 
“high pedigree” is worth $100 to $1,500 in 
hard cash. So long as this phantom is so 
I Coomassie blood in her veins, sold for $120 ; 
| another, by Farmer’s Glory, even more noted 
1 than the Coomassie cows, brought 
only $115. Two registered Coomassie cows 
brought at the same sale $1,075 and $625, re¬ 
spectively, Surely, it seems reasonable to 
take the differences in these prices as being 
the value of the registry, or what that im¬ 
plies—viz., an authenticated pedigree; the 
authentication resting upon the mere word 
and statement of the parties most interested. 
The Ayrshire? are fal'ing into luck. It is 
time that something should be done for them, 
too. And, now, the eanuy 8cots, who have 
so well started the Polled Angus on a flying 
boom, have begun with the Ayrshires. The 
most favorable reports are current in 
regard to the recent Ayrshire cattle show, in 
Scotland, where the entries were more nu¬ 
merous and better than ever. Exports of 
Ayrshires to America are yearly increasing, 
and this first of dairy breeds for use and 
profit Is becoming more popular. Let dairy¬ 
men make a note of this while the best of 
BELLE OF MIDDLEFIELD.— [From a Photograph.] - Fig. 178. 
months after calving she gave thirteen pounds Princess Lily, 6250, another of her progeny, 
fourteen ounces in seveu days. Her progeny won the first prize as a yearling at the Con- 
are us follows: Dido of Middlefield, 3410, with | ueeticut State Fair in 1878, and was in the 
a record of two pounds live ounces in 24 hours first-prize herd at the Maryland 8tate Fair of 
In Winter. She is a twenty-quart cow, and 1881. Her other offsprings a re: Princess Gen- 
won the second prize at the Connecticut State tian, 9114, au exceedingly rich milker not yet 
Fair of 1878, and the third prize at the same tested for butter; Princess Bellwoith, 6801, 
Fair in 1880. She also carried off the second winner of the second priae at the Connecticut 
eagerly pursued as this, the present feverish the stock can be procured at a very small 
excitement will continue, advance upon the values of common scrub 
- cattle, and fill up their herds before the 
Perhaps some of your readers will differ boom arrives. And it is as certain to come 
very nmeh from me in this estimate. To such as all those which have already come. 
persona I will submit the following facts: -- 
At the Cooper & Maddux sales au uuregis- What is the cost of keeping dogs—not as 
tered cow, Gray Coomassie, with the famed reg iris the direct expeusa of feeling them 
