[Entered aejording to Act of Congress, In the year 1882, by the Kurul New-Yorker. In the office of the Libiarlan of Congress at Washington.J 
points. But, after all, color is a matter of 
taste, and there are those persons—good 
judges too—who still like the white and fawn 
of the old fashioned Jerseys. 
and long-experienced breeder, who gave his 
sole attention and study to it; but the prac¬ 
tice can scarcely fail to be injurious when it 
is pursued merely for lengthening out a cer¬ 
tain strain founded upon one particular 
phenomenal animal and for the sole purpose 
of making money by selling a pedigree and 
not the animal. 
the pedigrees of English-bred South Downs 
offered for entry in the American Record, 
chose the Prince of Wales, with J. J. Coleman 
and Henry Webb. Messrs. Coleman aad Webb 
are unexceptionable in every way, but to 
choose the Prince, who personally, doubtless, 
knows nothing at all of the business in ques¬ 
tion, and who is chosen simply because he is 
a Prince, is a bit of silly flunkeyism and 
nothing more. 
OUR ANIMAL PORTRAITS, 
NOTES BY A STOCKMAN, 
JERSEY BULL, SAM. 
, 7 ;^ T F 'g- 467 is 
a portrait of 
.o'-^ the Jersey 
bull Sam, 
whicb heads 
u pon the Ru- 
/J&v ;%l means of 
• ~ aristocrat i c 
lineage, and 
has not the 
■' fashionable 
markings of 
the five black points, nor is he of solid 
color, nor j-- 
has he many 
“ 600 pound 
cows ” in his 
progeny or 
among his ; 
ancestry. 
He is simply 
a worthy, j 
respectable _ u , . . .. 
f a r m e r’s •• 
bull, for ser- ; 
sists in his f ;* 
being a { 
hands ome, j 
well propor ^ ' 
t i o n e d, if 
sound and i Jfc 
useful ani- | 
mal. And ;■ % 
( 
yet he is not 
without his \ XX 
share of ■ . ±\. \Xy 
“the blue l ; ' 
blood of the . JX kAL J’ 
island,” for 
his dam was ;; ' • /; 
an imported * 
, . , ; fet-v -j 
cow which ' , 
was 15years ■ w . -'-T, ; ; 7 . 
old at his 
birth, „„d 
therefore ; 
showed a 
remarkable ■_ 
vigor and 
strength of 
constitu- , 
tion. His 
sire was old > -•■■■'' /- - X;.' vM 
Geo. Jack- 
sol. Sam ■ 
was three . ; .. r >'f 
years old on '['' 
July' -4. We 
The scale of figuring by which Mr. Stew¬ 
art makes out the value of a 20 pound cow, 
that is, a cow which gives 20 pounds of butter 
a week for 80 weeks or 600 pounds in the yeai* 
—of which I believe but few have so far been 
reported—needs another element introduced, 
and this is the risk of losses by death among 
these high-bred and high-led animals, A noted 
and so accounted successful breeder once said 
tome, ‘ Oh, yes, I have some failures of course, 
I have my graveyard where a good many 
hopes are buried, but it’s away back and I 
don’t show it.” And tbero is more of this 
than is generally supposed or heard of. It is 
reported that one prominent dealer, or specu¬ 
lator, or breeder of Jerseys in Massachusetts 
A notable event in connection with the 
Chicago Show was the sale of an Angus 
(polled) cow for 11,300. It is quite safe to 
predict, knowing of what stuff these black 
polled cattle are made, that one day, when 
they are sufficiently numerous to afford it and 
their beef will be on exhibition, it will como 
into successful competition too with the 
Short-horn beef and run the white-faced 
Herefords very closely. 
Feeders of stock should not fail to learn 
the lessons now so prominently and numer¬ 
ously given to them, that the sooner an animal 
is made ready for sale the greater profit there 
' ••• *i V. v 
: 'i- i •' "T;i S 
Hon. J. B. Grinnell of Iowa who is quite 
competent to form an opinion, says after a 
quarter of a century of observation, “ I know 
of no sober painstaking breeder and feeder of 
cattle who has failed of finding a fair return 
for his labor in improving bis stock, and 
many have become rich and have secured a 
competency for old age; while fast horsemen 
have universally come to grief or bankruptcy.” 
the dairy, I have had 
as long an 
jj) experience 
- as Mr.Grin- 
nell, or 
||||||||];! longer, and 
1 wm s& y 
f JucxiM-ijf tn© same of 
iti H >:¥■ dairy me n, 
and thi8 
P*j much more 
f |WWiX — that not 
| - -X>} % one who has 
|: |- given care- 
5 d:| ful atten- 
tion to the 
.V; improve- 
J ment of his 
j.;-:.' stock has 
* f a i 1 e d to 
| double his 
: ? . : ; : . | income in a 
: l ■.< 1 few years 
• : | and secure 
j . § the safest 
< ,i} and surest 
! ; ? of all kinds 
} * of compe- 
| . tence — a 
i; valuable 
i ; ; ,;t and profit¬ 
's. ‘ > ig able herd 
■ and an im¬ 
proved and 
fertile farm. 
y&i'ji: 
.-■vSssg 
: ,M ; ' . d make no 
I ' ¥(■ exception in 
Sfek. gf/l \ . XJ regard to 
llv- : • ' < v -.v'f br «e da - 1 
\ L if f - r have had ex- 
AX- I Perience 
4 - with all of 
them andI 
. give as 
”• great prom- 
^ .-. I ineucetoour 
’ native stock 
a^ the foun. 
-- 1 '* dation fora 
course of 
-Fig, 467, improve- 
meuts, as to the most popular thoroughbreds. 
Our native cattle have more money in them to¬ 
day for the dairymen than any other kind, 
and a well selected herd of them improved for 
a few years by crossing with a good bull— 
Jersey, Ayrshire, or Short-horn of the Prin¬ 
cess family—will make more profit for the 
dairyman than any purebred herd he can se¬ 
lect, at the prices at which these cattle are 
necessarily held. 
It would not be right to count out the 
Short-horns from the list of our dairy stock. 
For the milk and cheese dairy they are prob¬ 
ably the best of all, for the reason that when 
their milking is about over they may be mad 
A piece of foolishness and un-American ser¬ 
vility and toadyism was shown by the South 
Down Breeders’ Association, who, in search¬ 
ing for an English committee to pass upon 
I have at times vigorously defended the 
practice of inbreeding, when the purpose was 
the improvement of the stock and by a skilled 
