1 
1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
879 
WHATBULL FOR LARGE BUTTER COW 
A reader in New York State says that 
he has a herd of cows that are purebred 
or are three-fourths Jersey. They are 
small, and in order to sell his surplus 
stock to advantage he must have a bigger 
and heavier animal. At the same time he 
wants to keep his cream yield up. He will 
have to buy a purebred bull next Spring, 
and wishes to know whab breed he can get 
to increase the size of his cows, and at 
the same time keep up the butter yield. 
It is doubtful whether your corre¬ 
spondent can combine with economy 
dairy and beef qualities. If this plan is 
to raise steers from the male offspring 
he might increase the size of his stock 
somewhat by the use of a Guernsey bull, 
and still get heifers of a good butter 
type. We would not advise the use of 
a bull of any of the beef breeds, nor 
even a Holstein, if butter is the chief 
object sought after. A Guernsey bull, 
of high breeding, from some good but¬ 
ter strain, will give larger offspring than 
a Jersey, and will probably transmit 
butter qualities fully equal. 
C. S. PHEbPS. 
Your reader should purchase a Guern¬ 
sey bull of a large family, that is, one 
from a large sire and dam. We have 
had them nearly as large as Short-horn 
bulls. If the larger specimens of the 
Guernseys are crossed with the Jerseys, 
the yield of cream will not be diminish¬ 
ed, its color will be improved and the 
size of the offspring enlarged about 20 
per cent. These breeds cross very kind¬ 
ly, whereas if the small Jersey be cross¬ 
ed with the Holstein, or, in fact, with 
any other of the milking breeds but the 
the injury that has been done this mag¬ 
nificent breed of dairy cattle through 
the use of such bulls, and I should be 
very glad to give your correspondent 
the names of some of these men, whose 
first consideration in selecting a Jersey 
is evidence of a vigorous constitution. 
The second course that might be pur¬ 
sued, and one that has been followed by 
a number of dairymen in Wisconsin with 
very satisfactory results, is to purchase 
a strong and vigorous Guernsey bull 
possessed of dairy quality, and cross him 
on these grade Jersey cows. There is 
apparently something invigorating 
about the introduction of an outcross of 
blood from another breed with purebred 
animals that infuses them with fresh 
life and vigor at once. Why this should 
be so is not so easily explained, but the 
fact remains. The Guernsey and Jersey 
breeds are so nearly the same in their 
A WELL-BRED JERSEY BULL. 
George B. Peer says in regard to the 
young bull pictured at Fig. 395: ‘Tt 
might be stated that Melia .4nn’s King 
56581 was bred to order. Having pur¬ 
chased his sire, I bred him to Lottie 
Melia Ann 10U775 (who is a sister of 
Pride’s Olga 4th, with a test of 'r ( pounds 
yz ounce from 420 pounds nine ounces 
milk, both being sired by the same bull), 
with hopes of securing a bull fit to head 
my herd. In this my expectations were 
fully realized, and Melia Ann’s King was 
the result. Next to his famous sire he 
is the highest standard-bred pure St. 
Ijambert-Melia Ann bull living, and the 
only one with 50 per cent of old Melia 
Ann’s blood.” The picture was taken in 
his 17-month form. His sire was Melia 
Ann’s Son 22041; he in turn being sired 
by Lucy’s Stoke Pogis 11544, and out of 
the great old cow Melia Ann 5444, who 
has a butter record of 18 pounds ounce 
THE JERSEY BULL MELIA ANN’S KING .56.581. Fig. 395. 
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Guernsey, the likelihood is that the 
calves will be unlike in size and in milk 
and cream production, i. p. Roberts. 
The use of a large, fleshy type of 
Guernsey male would naturally produce 
larger offspring, and still keep up the 
quality of the milk. Further, this cross 
would in all probability be a very har¬ 
monious one, as the Jersey and Guern¬ 
sey come from a common ancestry, and 
even to-day have much in common. 
Logically, this is the best cross, if the 
surplus stock is to be sold for dairy pur¬ 
poses, and the heifers raised to become 
dairy cows. If, however, the butcher is 
the party to be catered to then another 
cross would seem more fitting. If, for 
example, an Ayrshire male could be se¬ 
cured, that came from an ancestry that 
produced milk rich in butter fat, the ob¬ 
ject might be attained. A Red Poll bull 
from a rich milk strain could also be 
used, and this last would give calves 
that would be the most salable to the 
butcher. Violent crosses on small cows 
are quite undesirable, and the suggested 
Red Poll male is the most violent of the 
three. A large bull will he more or less 
apt to sire large calves, and then the 
danger of difficult calving will be more 
likely to occur than where a more har¬ 
monious mating is used. Personally, I 
should be disposed to use the Guernsey 
male, and then if necessary mate the 
larger females of this cross to a larger 
type of bull if wanted. Why not buy 
and develop a high-class strain of deep¬ 
milking Short-horns or Red Polls in¬ 
stead of crossing at all? c. s. plumb. 
There are two courses of action open 
to your correspondent. The first, and to 
my mind the more desirable one, is to 
select a Jersey sire from a family of this 
breed noted for their size, vigor and 
rugged constitutions. The individual 
should be large with a very masculine 
appearance. A great injury has been 
done the Jersey breed through the se¬ 
lection of Jersey sires having a “cowy 
look. ’ It is not at all incompatible to 
have a bull full of strength, vigor and 
masculinity, and yet possessed of all the 
quality that could be asked for. Many 
of our breeders and dairymen have mis¬ 
taken delicacy and effeminacy in a bull 
for quality, and the result has been dis¬ 
aster. There are a number of Jersey 
breeders, especially in the West, that 
are doing their utmost to undo much of 
breed characteristics that the cross is 
not a violent one, and to use a common 
expression “nicks” remarkably well, the 
offspring being very uniform in type 
and quality, and make excellent dairy 
animals. The Guernseys as a breed are 
larger, stronger, and as a consequence 
are more popular to-day in many dairy 
districts than are the Jerseys. Either 
one of these courses should lead to the 
desired result. w. l. carlyle. 
Madison, Wis. 
HOW MUCH MEAT FOR HEMS ? 
My feed for my White Ijeghorn hens and 
pullets is one-third each of corn, wheat 
and buckwheat mixed morning and night 
(what they will pick up clean); at noon, 
one-half by weight of bran and gluten 
meal, one-third cooked potatoes, all wet 
up with sweet skim-milk, also meat scrap-s. 
cabbhge or beets for green food. Can 1 
better the ration? They are looking fine, 
but are not laying yet; were hatched in 
April and May. Could I use basswood 
boards, just sawed, from a tree cut last 
Spring to put on the under side of my 
rafters to henhouse, to stuff with straw 
(like Van Dreser), or would they be too 
damp? G. L. F. 
G. L. F. does not mention the amount 
of meat scrap used in the mash, which 
is one of the most important parts of 
the food for good results in egg produc¬ 
tion. I have had the best results, usual¬ 
ly, in feeding about four to five pounds 
daily to each 100 fowls. If the food is 
mixed with milk, as in this case, I should 
feed about one pound of meat to each 25 
hens. I should either use cut clover hay, 
about one-half the whole bulk of the 
food in the mash, or else give 'them 
clover hay, cornstalks, etc., to pick at 
as they want. To anyone who has never 
given his fowls such it will be sur¬ 
prising the amount of these bulky feeds 
they will eat. On most farms there is a 
large amount of hay seed, clover leaves, 
etc., that will accumulate under the 
mows, where the hay is thrown down 
for the stock. This in many instances 
goes to waste, while if it were given to 
the fowls they would turn it to good ac¬ 
count. The grain food should be fed in 
litter, so they will have to scratch for 
it; a busy hen is a healthy one. Cut 
cornstalks make the best scratching ma¬ 
terial I have ever tried. G. L. F. does 
not mention anything about grit and 
clean drinking water, but as he says 
they are looking fine I juage they are 
both supplied. I should not hesitate 
to use the unseasoned basswood boards 
for lining. If the roof does not leak 
and the location is high and dry, the 
house is opened on bright days and kept 
closed as tightly as possible on cold 
nights, there need be no fear of bad re¬ 
sults from dampness. j. e. s. 
in a week made upon grass alone. The 
dam of Melia Ann’s King 56581 is Lottie 
Melia Ann 100775, with a test of 21 
pounds two ounces from 305 pounds of 
milk in seven days, her sire being Melia 
Ann’s Stoke Pogis 22042, sire of 10 test¬ 
ed cows, among them Pride’s Uiga 4th 
96870, the sweepstakes cow at the Pan- 
American, whose record of 65^/4 pounds 
of milk in one day, 420 pounds nine 
ounces in seven days, and 27 pounds Vz 
ounce of butter in a week, is well-known 
to the readers of The R. N.-Y. The dam 
of Lottie Melia Ann 100775 is Melia Ann 
3rd 68070—375 pounds eight ounces of 
milk and 28 pounds eight ounces of bu- 
ter in a week. Melia Ann 3rd is a full 
sister to Melia Ann’s Son 22041 and to 
Melia Ann’s Stoke Pogis 22042. 
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PARIS SEPARATOR AWARDS. 
The De Laval Cream Separators received the 
award at the Paris Exposition, in 
the name of “Societe Anoxyme Separator,” which is 
the French translation of“AKTiEBOLAGET Separator,” 
the Swedish name of the De Laval European organiza¬ 
tion, both names meaning “Shareholder’s Separator 
Company, Limited ” 
The repeated misrepresentation of the Vermoxt 
Farm Machine Co. (manufacturers of the so-called 
“U. S.” separator) in this regard, culminating with the 
malicious falsehood that no such award was made and 
that the De Laval Company is guilty of “ lying” in so 
claining brings the matter to a point where common 
bubiness self-respect demands that some radical action 
be taken. 
We have, therefore, this day instructed counsel to 
at once take such legal steps as may he justified and 
proper in the circumstances against both the Vermoat 
Farm Machine Co. and, where practicable, such 
papers as may have given advertising publication to 
these false and libelous statements. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 
New York, Dec. 17, 1901. 
