1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
DUTCH BELTED CATTLE. 
Their Pan-American Record Explained. 
In your article on the great Pan- 
American dairy test in The R. N.-Y. of 
October 12, you do the Dutch Belted cat¬ 
tle an injustice. True, this breed is 
“close to the tail of the race,” and doubt¬ 
less many people have inferred that the 
reason was about as you stated in your 
article. But there are other reasons. 
Some may even think that there are no 
good cows in this breed. To such let 
me say that Cyrene No. 315, an old cow. 
that I sold for beef in January, 1899, 
gave 196 quarts of milk in one week, in 
June, 1897, with no grain, and only very 
ordinary pasture. Her daughter. Fern 
No. 781, now six years of age, has al¬ 
ways calved in December; but, should 
sne come fresh in Spring, I think she 
would give as much or more than her 
dam ever did. Lady Baird No. 82 gave 
32 quarts per day at the World’s Fair. 
Queen gave 70 pounds a day for seven 
days on pasture alone, and milked 14 
years without going dry, breeding year¬ 
ly. How much longer she would have 
bred yearly and milked continually can¬ 
not be known, as she was burned to 
death when 16 years old. 
You may ask: “Why were not such 
cows selected for the Pan-American 
Model Dairy?” There are probably not 
more than 200 mature cows of this breed 
in America. The owners of many of 
these exhibit stock at the fairs annually, 
and have their cows come fresh at that 
time, that they may be in good show 
condition. Other owners, like myself, 
make a specialty of Winter milk and 
also have their cows to come fresh in 
the Fall. Breeders of other breeds of 
cattle planned for the contest a year in 
advance anu had their best cows freshen 
the last of April of this year. Then some 
cattle associations bought 10 of the best 
cows of their respective breeds that 
could be procured, that would be fresh 
the last of April and sent them to the 
Exposition grounds a few days before 
May 1, and some of them actually calved 
after their arrival. These cows were 
tested and the best five selected for the 
Model Dairy, and were rested from their 
journey ready for business when the 
contest began. Understand me; 1 am 
not charging other cattle associations 
with underhand methods. They only 
did what in my opinion the Dutch Belted 
Cattle Association should have done, 
but neither the Dutch Belted Associa¬ 
tion nor individual breeders of Dutch 
Belted stock made any previous prepara¬ 
tions for the contest, and two of this 
breed did not reach Buffalo until the 
contest was three weeks under way. The 
Dutch Belted cows were not strictly 
fresh, but had been milked two or three 
months, and some of them were so old 
as no longer to be prime cattle. 
In substantiation of the above state¬ 
ments I will say that early in April I 
asked Mrs. Servin, who owns one of the 
largest herds of Dutch Belted cattle, and 
who exhibits at many fairs, and is also 
a member of the executive committee 
of the Dutch Belted Cattle Association, 
whether any of her cows would be in the 
Model Dairy. She replied under date of 
April 8: “I believe that the Dutch Belt¬ 
ed cattle will not compete. Compared 
with the other breeds we have so very 
few cattle to select from that it is doubt¬ 
ful whether we could make a good show¬ 
ing. Personally, we could not possibly 
enter more than two, as others will not 
be fresh at that time.” After this an¬ 
other breeder concluded that the Dutch 
Belted breed must make a showing in 
the Model Dairy. He had one cow that 
he thought would do to enter, and ha 
got Mrs. Servin’s consent to enter her 
two; then he engaged Mr. Sanders to 
look after this breed during the six 
months’ contest at Buffalo. But there 
were stiii needed two cows to make up 
the five required, and these two were not 
forthcoming. The first of May was al¬ 
most at hand, and other fresh cows 
could not be found, so he added two 
more from his own herd. Under date 
of May 1 he wrote me: “Sanders took 
three of my cows to Buffalo—not what 
I would have liked to send, but my best 
cows are too near dry. I gave him in¬ 
structions, if any other breeder sent 
cows, to dispose of two of mine, and 
only keep one in the Model Dairy.” 
Mr. Richards, secretary of the Dutch 
Belted Cattle Association, who is an ex¬ 
pert judge of dairy cattle, and who has 
seen most of the mature cows of this 
breed, had written of one of my herd: 
“I don’t know of a better cow for the 
Model Dairy than Lady of Warren.” 
Then I was requested to enter her. But 
she did not come fresh till July 3, and, 
of course, this practically barred her 
from the contest. The only cow I had 
to become fresh this year earlier than 
that was Lady of Warren’s daughter, 
Electress, a two-year-old heifer, who 
calved May 10. She was due—counting 
nine months—April 28. Mr. Sanders 
and Superintendent Converse did not 
think the cows representative animals 
of the breed, and renewed the search 
for other cows. On April 29 I received 
four telegrams from them and others, 
and they urged me to forward my heifer. 
I refused to ship her before she calved. 
On May 1 Mr. Sanders came to my place 
to see her. He decided not to take her 
because she, though of good size and 
very promising for a two-year-old,-was 
not as large as the mature cows, and he 
liked to have the cows of the Model 
Dairy herd of uniform size. Here is 
where outside appearance took the place 
of performance! In the meantime Mrs. 
Servin got the idea that the intention to 
enter Dutch Belted cattle in the Model 
Dairy had fallen through, and was sur¬ 
prised about that time to receive a tele¬ 
gram from Buffalo stating that her cows 
had not yet arrived. No wonder, they 
hadn’t started. Well, after unavoidable 
delays they were started, but did not get 
there to enter the contest till May 21— 
just three weeks behind time. Consider¬ 
ing these and other facts it is no wonder 
that the Dutch Belted cattle are “close 
to the tail of the race.” It would be 
about as reasonable to sow grain on the 
unplowed earth and expect a full harvest 
as to expect any but the best cows of 
any breed to win laurels in such a con¬ 
test. The color characteristic of these 
cattle was established hundreds of years 
ago, and it is scarcely ever that it is not 
transmitted. No, we don’t have to re¬ 
ject our best animals because they are 
“off color.” G. Q. GIBBS. 
Warren Co., N. J. 
If you have that kicking cow yet I would 
like you to take a strap or rope and put It 
around her just forward of the hips and 
udder, and draw tight; then buckle or tie. 
Should she continue to kick tighten the 
strap or rope. I have never known this 
plan to fail. w. t. c. 
Albion, Ind. 
Sharpies “Tubular” 
Dairy Separatory 
Official Report of State Authorities. 
UnlversityofWisconsin—630)bs 
por hour; test skim milk.. .01 
Conn. Agr. College—927 lbs per 
hour; test skim milk.02 
Ohio State University—“Doing 
good work”test skimmilk.oa 
Univ. of Tenn—-‘Very satisfac¬ 
tory ;>> test sk-im milk... .trace 
N. H. Agr. Coiiege—“The bovs 
like It;” test skim milk..,bl --- 
Batch Experiment Station, Mass.—692 lbs 
per hour; testskim milk . no 
Kan.sas State Agr.College—6601bs per hour- 
test skim milk. 03 
Pennsylvania Agr.College—“Did very’gooil 
work. It skims very clean.” 
University et Nebraska—“Runs very light. 
Doing good work.” 
I Tuskegee, Ala.. Industrial Inst.—“The thor- 
oughness of skimming Is remarkable. 
SHARPIES CO., P. M. SHARPLES. 
Chicago, Ills, West Chester, Pa. 
751 
Uncle Sam is Out Again with 
His Blandest Smile. 
HE WON 
THE GOLD MEDAL 
AT THE 
Pan-Attiericati 
Exposition 
in spite of the “would-be com¬ 
petitors,” fiercest opposition, who 
imagined that everything was fixed 
to come their way, and who had a 
lawyer in their interests almost 
constantly at Buffalo; but, oh! 
what a disappointment when they 
found that they were not the “Only 
Pebble on the Beach.” 
Our “ would-be competitors,” the De Laval Separator Co., re¬ 
hearse at great length their view of how the U. S. Separator beat 
them at the Pan-American, but the fact remains just the same that 
the U. S. did beat them by its work in the Model Dairy. 
Now, to draw attention away from the actual workings of the 
Separators, these “ would-be competitors” begin to shout “fire” and 
talk much about sparks that caught in the roof of some boiler-house 
instead of giving the actual tests of the Separators. 
These “would-be competitors” go back to the World’s Fair, 
Chicago, and state “they received the gold and only medal awarded 
by the regular jury.” Everybody who knows anything about that 
Fair knows that the De Laval Company received no Gold Medal, and 
all they got was a Bronze Medal. 
It is true they did have the jury fixed to their liking, and that 
jury turned everybody down but themselves, but when it was shown 
to the Fair officers that this jury was made up of De Laval agents 
and partisans, they immediately appointed a new jury, and that jury 
awarded the Vermont Farm Machine Company twelve medals 
of highest merit on its different articles of manufacture ; twelve 
times as many awards as our “would-be competitors” the De Laval 
Company got. 
At Paris, 1900, the De Laval Separator Co. had no exhibit or 
Separators. Their foster-father, the Aktiebolaget Separator of Stock¬ 
holm, Sweden, did have a big exhibit, but no prize was awarded them 
by the regular or class jury. When the class jury was examining the 
separators, our representative urged that the separators be tested to 
prove our claims of superior merits, and also presented a written 
request that such tests be made, but was informed by the jury that 
the De Laval Company’s foster-father, the Aktiebolaget Separator, 
objected to tests, claiming that it would take six months (three in 
Winter and three in Summer) to make reliable tests. 
Every one knew this was only for a bluff to prevent tests, and the 
jury so looked upon it, and gave the Aktiebolaget Separator no prize, 
and the official list of the prizes published and distributed at the 
Paris Exposition did not contain any award to the Aktiebolaget Sep¬ 
arator or the De Laval Separator Co. 
The Aktiebolaget Separator Co., of course, were dissatisfied, and 
appealed to the Grand or Superior Jury. They got the King of 
Sweden to make a personal appeal to the jury for them when he was 
on a visit to the Paris Exposition, and also the Swedish Minister to 
France, and the Swedish Commissioner-General to the Exposition 
made personal appeals to the Grand or Superior Jury in behalf of 
the Aktiebolaget Separator and its child, the De Laval Company, 
and made it a political matter, so that it is now reported that when 
the revised list of prizes, which is not yet published, is issued, it 
will contain notice of an award to the Aktiebolaget Separator Co. 
The above statement can be proved as correct. The De Laval 
Company and their foster-father had to get the King and the Minister 
and the Commissioner to use their political influence before they 
could get an award at Paris, and then only on an appeal to the 
Superior or Grand Jury. 
We ask the dairy public how much that reflects on the merits of 
the De Laval Separator, and who it is that does the “after pulling 
and hauling which unsuccessful exhibitors always, resort to?” 
The United States Separator has been awarded 
the GOLD MEDAL or the Highest Prize at 
EVERY INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION where it 
has been exhibited since its manufacture. 
We are always pleased to send illustrated circulars for the asking. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Gellows Falls, Vt. 
