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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
823 
AMERICAN BRED JERSEY CATTLE. 
Why is it that imported Jersey and Guern¬ 
sey cows and bulls do and always have 
brought more money at sales than the best of 
American dairy stock? Is it true that they 
are really more valuable for milk and butter 
production than the best of our American-bred 
stock? Some dairymen have told me that our 
American Jersey and Guernsey cattle deterio¬ 
rate from generation to generation, especially 
in show points; grow coarse in head, neck 
and shoulders especially and somewhat in all 
other respects as a dairy animal. I can 
hardly believe this, but the premium the 
Island stock continue to bring would seem ti 
confirm the theory. Can we not in America 
develop a strain of dairy cows from Jersey 
and Guernsey stock that will sustain me 
milking qualities of (heir progenitors and also 
improve as rapidly as their relatives do in 
the islands of the English Channel? I would, 
like to hear this question discussed by compe¬ 
tent. authorities. s. 
Lexington, Ky. 
The Island cattle have been bred for 
years simply for the show ring, while here 
in America large quantities of milk and 
large butter yields have been the aim in 
breeding. We have a little larger 
stronger type of cattle here than is bred 
upon the Island This, however, is owing 
to climate and heavier feeding; for just 
beauty the Island cattle beat 11 s to death, 
but as “bread winners” the Yankees are. 
far ahead. george e. peer. 
Superiority or American Cattle. 
This is a very pertinent question. I 
have had Jersey cattle for almost 30 years,, 
have imported several times, bought at im¬ 
porter’s sales for myself and others, be¬ 
sides visiting the Island twice, and do not 
know it all yet. The cattle sold at great 
prices in late years have been well se¬ 
lected, well fitted and much advertised. 
Then, every year certain rich men are 
rivals for the choicest in the sale; poorer 
men to get any at all must take inferior 
ones or compete with their wealthy com¬ 
petitors. A certain wild enthusiasm is 
created and we lose our heads. The im¬ 
ported cattle as a rule are smoother than 
ours, because not fed as much grain as 
we do, and the Island type is smaller. A 
great exposition of imported against 
home-bred was decided at St. Louis, where 
the sweepstakes bull is for generations 
American, the sweepstakes cow the same, 
the sweepstakes herd strongly American. 
And in the great dairy contest, where we 
have 25 cows, some giving over 25 quarts 
milk a day and showing butter fat equal 
to over V/2 pounds butter per day, one 
cow at end of 90 days continuous stable 
feeding, no pasture, no water in stall, 
gave over 335 pounds milk in seven days 
and fat equal to nearly 20 pounds butter, 
and fresh over five months. In this test 
there is not a single imported cow nor a 
pure St. Lambert. Why? Because I 
believe while they put a show finish on, 
and a certain strain of recent years has 
much improved the shape of udder, which 
has become too much unsymmetrical, they 
have not increased the milk flow, which 
we must have first, as a rule, before we 
get butter, for I do not believe in absurd¬ 
ly high churn records from little milk, and 
this St. Louis test shows that the normal 
butter fat in flush of lactation is from 
four to five per cent. In my judgment 
poor results in this country are found in 
the fact, that any solid colored fawn bull 
is considered a Jersey, no matter if his 
dam has any kind of shaped udder and 
if teats were only an inch long. If farm¬ 
ers would buy better bulls, leaving the 
color question out, but registered, sure; 
take better care of them and not demand 
butter records, they would raise better 
cows. The best cow I ever raised (and 
her dam and grandatn had considerable 
white on them) had so much white on 
her, that the average man would have said 
she was a grade, but she gave 38 pounds 
of milk a day with first calf. Educate the 
farmer to know that a black switch, black 
tongue and solid color are not essential 
to pure breeding, and he will have better 
cows, more milk, more butter, a lot more 
money in his purse, and above all, the 
satisfaction of having the best all-’round 
dairy cow on earth. R. f. shannon. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
Use of Imported Bulls. 
Your question as to why the imported 
Jersey cow brings more money at sales 
than the American-bred cow is a hard 
problem to solve. In my opinion this is 
due to the fact that most of the American 
breeders have bred for milk and butter 
production, regardless of beauty of form 
and shape of udder; then too we feed our 
young stock much heavier in this country 
than they do on the Island, hence the 
heavy shoulders, coarse heads and bodies. 
On the Island the young stock look as 
though they were starved; when they ar¬ 
rive at the age of 15 months they begin 
to feed them, and at the age of two years 
we see a heifer that it does one good to 
look at; therefore I think we can improve 
on the Island cow by using an imported 
bull on our American-bred cows to get 
the beautiful udders and fine heads of the 
Island type, and feeding our young stock 
less to fine down the bone. By doing 
this I think we can produce a cow much 
larger than the Island cow and yet have 
all the fine points of that grand little cow 
from the Channel Island. There is one 
point that is very essential, and that is, 
we must be very careful of the^ way we 
mate our animals. If we find ‘that our 
bull does not transmit his good qualities 
to his get he should be disposed of at 
•once, and a new one put in his place. We 
are now experimenting both ways, by 
using an Island-bred bull on American- 
bred cows, and an American bull on Island 
cows. The result of this experiment we 
shall be pleased to show to the public 
later on. l. e. ortiz. 
Mgr. Gedney Farm. 
-MOTHER AND SON KEEP HENS. 
Our hens had indifferent care, like too 
many farmers’ flocks, until my son and I 
formed a partnership for their care and 
profit. We commenced the year 1902 with 
18 fowls two and three years old, making 
in the year $25.91. The first of January, 
1903, we had 32, all ages, and made in that 
year $56.04. Our house is not very good, 
and we do almost nothing extra for them; 
feed whole grain mostly, dry, except in 
Winter pour hot water on cracked corn, 
feeding it while warm; this every other 
day. Wheat is our main Summer feed, 
with a few oats and a little cracked corn 
to make a variation. We keep oyster 
shells by them all the year. We can buy 
a mixed feed consisting of wheat, whole 
and cracked, corn whole and cracked, oats, 
buckwheat, barley and millet; this we feed 
three times a week in Winter. We feed 
small chicks wheat and corn both cracked 
with millet, all dry, from the first, very 
seldom anything else until they are a week- 
old- Then we add twice a week separated 
milk, or pot cheese, the cheese washed in 
two waters after it. is made and drained 
dry. I think it is the sour whey which 
makes bowel trouble. When the milk is 
sweet and the cheese washed the chicks 
have no such trouble. 
We succeed in having Winter eggs bv 
feeding light in July and August, add a 
little in September, more in October, and 
feed heavy all Winter. Last Winter we 
had eggs all the time; the price was high. 
We fence the garden and fruit yard, giv¬ 
ing the hens and chicks all the rest of 
the farm. Chicks are hatched with hens 
from early in February until middle of 
September, the earlies making nice broilers 
when the price is best, the late making 
layers when the older hens are having 
their Summer vacation. With three hens 
sitting at once, give the first hatched 
chicks to one, the eggs to another and put 
the third in “solitary confinement,” with 
no food or drink for two days. By that 
time she will go foraging, and forget all 
about sitting; if not back she goes for a 
third day. The hen who is finishing the 
late eggs I give feed and water on the 
nest, holding them in small dishes; with 
this extra care she will hover any that 
may be weak. Instead of being frjghtened 
at the high price of grain, we are building 
a new house with deep scratching shed, 
and planning to keep 50 fowls this coming 
Winter. o. e. b. 
Southbury, Conn. 
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