1905. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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A FINE JERSEY COW . 
Gem of Brookside, shown in Fig. 355, 
this page, dropped a calf February 24, 
1904, after a seven weeks’ rest; one week 
later her milk tested 5.2 per cent butter 
fat. Her average test for the year is 
5.4 per cent fat. She gave during 12 
months 10,052 pounds 10 ounces of milk, 
which upon an 80 per cent basis would 
make 651.389 pounds butter. This little 
cow was cared for exactly like the rest 
of the herd, and fed according to a rule 
which we follow at Brookside; that is, to 
give all the grain that a cow will eat up 
with a relish; yet we stop increasing the 
ration as soon as the milk flow stops in¬ 
creasing. We try to have a balanced ra¬ 
tion ; have for some time been feeding 
clover hay, corn silage, cornmeal, bran, 
oats and cotton-seed meal. This cow is 
purebred Jersey, but, owing to the death 
of a former owner, she cannot be regis¬ 
tered, because no one now living can give 
her pedigree. She is now six years old, 
medium-sized, hair very fine, almost silky, 
eyes keen as those of a trout, and she 
never saw the time, since I owned her, 
that she was not ready for a meal or a 
frolic. She was purchased from a dairy 
where they sent their milk to the factory 
and sold it by the quart, so she was not 
appreciated, and her owner was glad to 
get a nominal price for her. We have 
many fancy priced Jerseys at Brookside, 
but Gem led them all last year by over 
acres are burned over, and at once begin 
their natural function. Factory owners 
often own very large areas, buying after 
the timber is cut, and then caring for the 
property, which means either an annual 
or semi-annual burning. In this way the 
bushes, weeds and every destructive 
growth are removed, and the blueberry at 
once asserts itself. The harvest continues 
through the latter part of July and Au¬ 
gust. The factory pays prices varying 
from three to seven cents per quart de¬ 
livered at the factory. They come in half 
bushel boxes; being stripped from the 
bushes and not picked they contain many 
stems and leaves. These are winnowed 
out by a forced air blast. Then the ber¬ 
ries are put through a cooker and canned, 
sealed, and ready for the market. Very 
extravagant stories are told by the people 
concerning the wages received for pick¬ 
ing, in the record being up to date 14 bush¬ 
els by one man in a single day. 
The towns along the New Brunswick 
line have an exceedingly mutual and cor¬ 
dial relationship one with the other. The 
customs laws in minor trading are not 
rigidly enforced, much to the credit of 
both governments and the people who 
dwell here. At Calais and St. Stephen 
they use a common fire department. As 
one merchant across the line remarked, we 
are to all interests and purposes one 
people. 
C. A. Rockwell of Columbia, Me., gave 
JERSEY COW. GEM OF BROOKSIDE. Fig. 355. 
100 pounds of butter. She was bred to 
Irving of Brookside, a very promising 
young sire, whose blood is nearly half 
that of Batchelor of St. Lambert, and 
who has been shown many times and 
never beaten; she dropped a heifer calf 
April 18, 1905, and it would require a 
very fancy price to cause it to change 
ownership. _ e. m. santee. 
MEATY NOTES FROM MAINE. 
Maine has surely taken a very advanced 
step in a recent enactment providing that 
none of the State monies shall be paid to 
fairs that pay premiums upon grade males. 
No one thing probably has worked greater 
injury to stock improvement than the prac¬ 
tice at many and nearly all local fairs of 
paying premiums upon grade bulls. Occa¬ 
sionally a grade bull has value. But from 
the fact that the form and usually the 
value of the female has its origin in the 
male parent, and that the cow is the com¬ 
mercialized animal, we see the great dan¬ 
ger from grade sires. States not already 
following this practice will do well to 
follow Maine. 
Under their systems of listing, it is easy 
to secure an accurate census of the live 
stock. For three or four years the in¬ 
crease had been very high, from three 
per cent to 30 per cent in the number of 
milch cows. The past year, 1904, showed 
a slight decline, partly brought about 
through large purchases for Boston mar¬ 
kets. I am impressed with the quality 
of cows, mainly Jerseys; large, roomy and 
with good udders. In the sections I have 
visited not many are kept, but they seem 
to be fairly well fed. 
At Columbia, Maine, I was interested 
in the blueberry business. Thousands of 
me while at that place the following inter¬ 
esting information : He had worked from 
here, his native place, to Montana, and 
upon sea as well as land. Six years ago 
he concluded to buy an abandoned farm, 
which was secured at this place, 25 acres 
at a cost of $350, including house and out¬ 
buildings. He paid $50 down and had $70 
to buy household equipment and outdoor 
tools. To-day he owns the place, has the 
comforts of life indoors and out, and 
could sell the land and buildings for 
$1,000. Mr. Rockwell has worked for his 
neighbors day times and at home nights, 
thinking that it would not be a safe in¬ 
vestment to put his whole energy into 
his farm. In fact, he said he did not have 
.sufficient confidence to put in his whole 
time at home. “If I were to repeat the 
operation,” said he, “I would work for no 
one but myself.” The crops have been 
butter, eggs and strawberries. Gross re¬ 
turns from cows $80, from hens $3, from 
strawberries $300 per acre. A short, sim¬ 
ple story to tell, but I dare say many a 
man working for $2 per day in the city 
cannot show as good returns for six years 
as this man on his abandoned farm. 
_H. E. COOK. 
“As I was coming in just now,” said 
Mrs. Oldcastle, “your footman used an 
opprobrious epithet.” “My goodness,” 
replied her hostess, “I must speak to 
James about that. I simply won’t put 
up with it. Josiah says unless there’s 
less of them used around here he’ll have 
to be gettin’ them by the wholesale. I 
never seen the way servants do waste 
things when they ain’t the ones that have 
to pay for them,”—Chicago Record-Her¬ 
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