1907 . 
T1IE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
115 
FACTS FOR THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. 
1 here zoos and is absolutely nothing to investigate.** 
In its issue for January 24 The Country Gentleman 
prints what we assume to be the railroad train which it 
recently said might run over us. Here it is: 
( oniplying with request h from a number of renders, we 
will give the full facts In relation to the absurd charge 
against the American Jersey Cattle Club which Thb Rural 
Ni;w-\orkkr has been misled Into making, the charge that 
that, association has undertaken to “whitewash” one of its 
members, accused of misrepresenting the age of certain 
cuttle sold by him. The charge presented to tlie club Is as 
below : 
Isaac c. Rogers does solemnly affirm ns follows: That 
lie resides In Sparta, Livingston County, New York; and 
• bat on or about November-21, 1005. deponent purchased of 
K. 1C. Hawley, of Fayetteville, Onondaga County, New York, 
for I he Rogers Nurseries, ten head of Jersey cattle, all of 
which cattle said Hawley claimed were registered with the 
American Jersey Cattle Club; that In or about the month of 
April, 100(1, said herd was examined by I)r. C. I). Sinead, of 
Logan, N. Y„ who states that in his opinion as a lodge 
of Jersey cattle, the animal said Hawley claims to be Hots 
home Queen Carey. No. 193277, registered as coming 5 years 
old, is hut three years old: that deponent Is informed'that 
Itotshome Helen Stanley, 105203. is- registered as a 3-year- 
old and as a full sister of Dotshome Queen Carey. Depo¬ 
nent further says that the animal represented hy said Haw¬ 
ley to be Dotshome Harmony, 103207, registered as a 2 year- 
old. Is. stated to lie past 5, coming (i. by said Sinead. ‘ De¬ 
ponent further says that said Sinead 'tells him that the 
animal registered by said Hawley to bo Dotshome Matilda 
Naiad Mil l<>3 as a 2-year-old. coining 3, Is at least 7 years 
old. and deponent further says that said animal was marked 
by said Hawley in the presence of this deponent as Kittv 
l>. A. (dark cow), and was at that lime represented hy him 
to lx* a 5-year old (now coming (i). 
Then, having started the train, our friend puts on 
steam in its characteristic classic style: 
It will lie seen that every charge rests absolutely on 
something that Hr. Sinead is reported to have said; and 
Mr. Hawley submitted to the dub a letter from Hr. Sinead, 
saying : "I see no material difference in your statement and 
my opinion regarding ages." This of course knocked (ho 
ground completely out from under Mr. Rogers' feet; there 
was and Is absolutely nothing to investigate. 
We ought to feel crushed, but somehow we feel more 
like investigating a few of those “facts.” The charge 
docs not rest entirely upon Dr. Sinead's statement. At 
the end of his affidavit (printed above) Mr. Rogers 
affirms that Mr. Dawley marked the animal which Dr. 
Sinead says is over seven as another cow five years 
coming six. Thus Mr. Dawley seems to he a good wit¬ 
ness for Mr. Rogers, for if he is right—the cow cannot 
he No. 191403. \\ r also submit for the attention of our 
friend the following: 
State of New York, 
County of Livings ton. SS. 
Chester I. Hunt, being duly sworn, says that ho resides 
at Hunt, N. Y. That on April 17th. 1906. he was at I ho 
farm of Mr. 1. C. Rogers, at Hansville, N. Y., and there met 
Mr. I<\ E. Hawley. That Mr. Rogers and deponent there 
requested Mr. Hawley to identify the cows and tell their 
ages as registered with the A. J. C. C., as he alone could 
straighten out the matter. Ho refused to do so, and Mr. 
Rogers and deponent then told him that an impartial in¬ 
vestigation would l>c requested from the A. J. c. C. unless 
he could identify the cows and make the register papers of 
the A. J. C. C. compare with the cattle both as regards 
age and name. He then told deponent that he feared no 
investigation, as lie already knew who would be on the 
committee In case an investigation was held. 
CllKSTKIt I. HUNT. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me 
this* 15th day of December, 1900. 
Geo. R. Graves, 
Notary Public. 
Bear in mind that The R. N.-Y. lias done nothing 
but call for a fair investigation. We make no argu¬ 
ment in favor of Mr. Rogers or against Mr. Dawley. 
Our only charge is that the executive committee prom¬ 
ised to investigate this case and then, by what seems 
to us like a repudiation of this promise, failed to do so. 
For the further information of our respected friend 
we quote from a letter written by Mr. Dawley on De¬ 
cember 30: 
‘7 demanded of the American. Jersey Cattle Club a 
complete investigation of the matter." 
This will show perhaps that Mr. Dawley does not 
agree with The Country Gentleman as to the need of 
an investigation. 
As for Dr. Sinead, lie went to see the cattle April 
20. A copy* of bis notes will show that he said two 
black heifers recorded as being from the same sire and 
dam could not be sisters, there being only a few months 
difference in their ages! He also said the cow last 
named in Mr. Rogers’ statement was at least seven 
years old. Dr. Smead would not certify to his state¬ 
ment after be learned that Mr. Dawley sold the cat¬ 
tle. When asked to do so he wrote on May 16—three 
weeks after his visit: 
In answer to yours requesting a statement, will say 1 
lmvo again written Mr. Dawley advising him most urgently 
to arbitrate Or Bottle tills matter. He did not answer my 
drst letter, and if he fails to answer this one, then I will 
make the statement yon ask, and forward to you for you 
to use as you desire. c. i>. smead. 
On May 18 Dr. Smead heard from Mr. Dawley, who 
accused Mr. Rogers of being “the most consummate 
liar” he ever met, “and along with that a thorough 
villain.” Mr. Dawley gave the following explanation 
about the cattle: 
This lot of young heifers are a bunch thnt were kept in 
the barn until they were about 18 months old. and were 
mrced Just as heavily as we could possibly force them, 
home of the same lot. were sold for show animals, which 
were put out In the ring last Kali. Every one of them was 
born with from four to eight well-developed teeth, ami they 
have been precocious and strong, hearty animals. They 
were not bred as early as we have usually bred our heifers 
as l was anxious to try the rad of growing them and 
developing litem to come in when about 30 months old. but 
(lie experiment, so far as lltese animals were concerned, did 
not turn out well, and, as I say, they were sold as a job lot. 
l itis seemed to satisfy Dr. Smead, who wrote: 
Your explanation of the pushing of these heifers hard 
In early life will account for the early shedding and 
development of their teeth. I. therefore, see no material 
difference In. your statement and my opinion regarding ages. 
This makes no reference to the cow which Dr. Smead 
says was at least seven years, and stands under her 
number as having been dropped August 31, 1903! If this 
explanation of the teeth satisfied Dr. Smead with re¬ 
gard to all the cattle lie evidently forgot that he called 
one cow four years older and another two years younger 
than their recorded ages! The forcing process must 
have made one cow appear older and the other younger. 
Later Dr. Smead wrote us, hoping that the matter 
could be settled between the two men. We told him, 
among other things, that were we in Mr. Dawley’s place 
we would not sleep over night until cvcrv taint of sus¬ 
picion was wiped out. To this Dr. Smead replied on 
May 31, and we particularly request our contemporary 
to read every word of his letter! 
After carefully perusing your letter, I am not sure but 
you are right in advising a full investigation by the A. J. 
< . (!, As you state, (he charges of Mr. Rogers arc serious 
ones. I fully agree with you in regard to what you say 
In relation to live-stock registration In general. 'My ex¬ 
perience with some of them leads me to sav there is a 
whole lot of fake In II. There Is no question but what under 
the management of most of them a lot of animals are being 
recorded that are far from being as represented in their 
breeding, and, again, many a miserable, Inferior animal Is 
nit on the record on purpose to sell to those who arc uii- 
nfortned to improve their (locks and herds with. The ro- 
snii is Injury Is being done to the live stock Industries of 
litis country by reason of it. In the show ring every year 
Whore I am called to Judge I find animals of lit He’ merit, 
oilier than a registry certificate In some record association. 
People arc believing that if an animal Is Imported it is 
purely bred, and. In fact, about all any American record 
association goes back to Is* Importation. On the Island of 
Jersey no attention, I am Informed. Is paid to pedigree. In 
France government approval Is all that is required. In 
England no attention is paid to recording anything but 
males, hence what do we get when we Import animals to 
llils country to start our herd and flock books with? prac¬ 
tically nothing but good grade animals, and I notice a lot 
of them are not even superior grades. I fully agree with 
you iu saying the live stock records of Ibis conn try need 
investigation. A goodly per cent, of them are got up sim¬ 
ply to boom speculators' business, and Hie farmer Is not 
benefited as much ns he should be by reason of registered 
animals when he buys them to Improve Ills farm stock with. 
There Is a lack of prepotency simply because there is a 
lack of line breeding enough back of it to develop prepa¬ 
tency. I will frankly say I think there Is a field for the 
agricultural press to work upon In bringing these matters 
before the public. J'erhnps the pending trouble between 
Mr. Rogers and Mr. Hawley will, before* It Is through with, 
bring out through Tub It. N.-Y. something which will benefit 
us all. c. I). SMKAD. 
Now The Country Gentleman says there is “nothing to 
investigate.” We have shown that Mr. Rogers asked 
for an investigation, that Mr. Dawley demanded otic, 
and that Dr. Smead welcomed one! We may be per¬ 
mitted to suggest to our esteemed contemporary that 
sensible Americans will bow to a fact, but have no re¬ 
spect for a sneer. 
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B. S. WATHEN, Chief Engineer, 
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