1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
2l5 
Brown Swiss, Short-horn, Red Polled 
and other cattle to produce milk and but¬ 
ter fat. 
There is no limit as to the effort which 
a registry association may adopt to 
make itself useful, but the writer has 
always felt that its influence as an educa¬ 
tor should be very pronounced. There 
arc now a number of associations that 
are wealthy, with a large income and 
surplus. Representatives of these should 
attend the gatherings of stockmen in cer¬ 
tain localities, and set forth the merits 
of the breed. This has been the case 
with the American Short-horn Breeders’ 
Association and a representative of that 
organization has delivered addresses on 
various occasions for the good of the 
breed. More of such work will be sure to 
help the cause of improved live stock. 
In yet another direction our registry 
associations have been promoting a good 
cause. A number of them have con¬ 
ducted annual sales of stock in connec¬ 
tion with such great shows as the Inter¬ 
national Live Stock Exposition at Chi¬ 
cago and the American Royal at Kansas 
City. The stock sold is selected with 
care by a representative of the associa¬ 
tion, and is of the better class and not of 
the scalawag type. It stands to reason 
that on such an occasion only creditable 
individuals will be offered by this official 
medium. 
The promotion of integrity is neccs- 
' sarily a fundamental feature in the work 
of a registry association. Every man 
who registers stock must be impressed 
with the fact that his records must be 
honest and correct, and the secretary 
must check up each animal for correct¬ 
ness of breeding. In the secretary’s office 
will be filed all the applications for regis¬ 
try and transfer. From his office should 
be obtained the most complete and accu¬ 
rate information concerning individuals, 
families and tribes of the breed. The sec¬ 
retary serves as an important medium for 
furnishing correct records, for straight¬ 
ening out pedigree tangles, if possible, 
and for giving official information on 
doubtful points. In these various capaci¬ 
ties he becomes an indispensable per¬ 
son. 
5 As will be discussed in a future article, 
fraud occurs to a more or less extent 
among breeders, and an important phase 
of the work of a registry association is to 
preserve the purity of record, no matter 
whether of pedigree or test. Nearly all 
organizations engaged in registering stock 
in their rules of association, provide for 
dealing with cases of fraud and misrep¬ 
resentation. Most important work in be¬ 
half of the breed occurs when fraud is 
punished and right prevails. Numerous 
cases are on record where, through the 
efforts of breeding associations fraud has 
been suppressed and punished. The Amer¬ 
ican Trotting Register Association stands 
as a prominent organization that has re¬ 
peatedly punished horsemen for fraud 
and unfair method. This would not be 
possible were it not for the influence of 
organization insisting on honorable meth¬ 
ods and high standards. 
During the past 25 years the registry 
associations have been gradually feeling 
their way along, developing slowly, yet 
improving constantly. At first the chief 
purpose was one of preservation of rec¬ 
ord and.maintaining breed genealogy, but 
now it has passed into a higher stage, 
where not only must breed purity be pro¬ 
moted, but an intelligent and helpful 
knowledge of the breed he freely placed 
before an inquiring public. Not only 
that, but the official association must 
stand as a leader in all that goes to make 
the breed better, greater, and more use¬ 
ful to mankind. c. s. plumb 
I don’t like to have him put down as a 
“scrub” or even a “grade.” 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
R. N.-Y.—The pedigree and article cer¬ 
tainly show that a thorough system of 
registration is followed on the Island. In 
a later letter Mr. Morse gives the follow¬ 
ing statement about his new bull. 
The $500 bull arrived Tuesday. lie is 
Fern's Jubilee No. 73852, Ilis sire was 
Louisiana Purchase No. 08494 and was 
dropped in the St. Louis Fair ground by 
Blossom of Florence, one of the high-testing 
cows of that exhibition. The dam of my bull 
is Fern of Florence No. 104025. She is now 
on a year’s test, and so far has made 25 
pounds eight ounces butter in seven days: 
93 pounds four ounces in 30 days, and 330.03 
pounds in 120 days. The buli is an inbred 
“Signal,” a family of Jerseys that have been 
bred in this country for many years, but 
they do not seem to have “run out” yet. 
Mr. Morse need have no fear that Jer¬ 
sey cattle will be “driven out of favor” by 
the discussion lie refers to. He makes 
no mistake in buying good breeding stock. 
The power of the Jersey to take fat out 
of grain and fodder and put it into milk 
is so well known that good Jersey blood 
is a necessity. The present discussion 
will demonstrate that the A. J. C. C. will 
take care of its records, and every repu¬ 
table breeder will be benefited. 
PEDIGREE OF IMPORTED JERSEY 
CATTLE. 
I have followed carefully the Jersey 
cattle controversy in The R. N.-Y. and 
some very surprising statements creep into 
it. One thing that I wish to call your 
attention to is the very remarkable let¬ 
ter from C. D. Smead on page 115 I 
enclose pages from the Jersey Bulletin 
giving the methods of registration in 
vogue on the Island of Jersey, and I also 
inclose the pedigree of an imported in 
dam heifer that I bought last Spring. 
/Ou. will see by these that Dr. Smead 
is either densely ignorant (on this sub¬ 
ject) or that he is misrepresenting the 
facts. His _ statements in regard to reg¬ 
istering animals in England are also ut¬ 
terly devoid of truth as far as Jerseys are 
concerned. Pray, how could the cattle 
the Island of Jersey be “grades” when 
all the cattle are of one breed, and 
there is. a strict law against landing a 
live hovine of any kind on the Island? 
Not even a registered Jersey can go back 
after it leaves the Island. 
> We want the facts of the case, but we 
do. not want our cattle blackmailed, or 
driven out of public favor. T have so 
much faith in the Jerseys that I have just 
added a $500 bull calf tp the herd, and 
LITTLE TROTTING-BRED HORSES. 
-* Tf there Is one place above another in which 
the gain upon the income of the farm can be 
increased, it certainly is in improving the 
farm stock, and horses are no exception to 
this rule. The little horse lias a hard lot 
in the markets now; whether a scrub or little 
trotter be is a drug on the market at cheap 
prices. The best horse for the common farmer 
to raise is the draft horse, because it re¬ 
quires less skill to sell him and less ex¬ 
pense to put him in condition for market. 
Good draft and coach horses always sell 
well, no matter how the times are. and the 
farmer who breeds good ones Is sure of good 
prices, while the small, common horses, mules 
and little trotters find little market demand 
and sell cheap. The draft mares make the 
most successful farm teams and produce colts 
that grow into higher prices than any other 
farm stock, a pride to the farmer and a 
benefit to the farm.—Chicago Live Stock Jour¬ 
nal. 
Is not the above true? You are giving 
us good help with our hens, our cows 
and our orchards; now please work up a 
little enthusiasm for the right kind of 
farm horses, with illustrations, and “jump 
on” that curse of the American farmer— 
the little trotting-bred scrub. 
VERMONT FARMER. ’ 
R. N. Y.—We know to our sorrow that 
the above is only too true. We have two 
of those “little trotting-bred” horses. They 
are not scrubs, for their breeding is excel¬ 
lent, but they are too light for work and 
can do nothing but “go” faster than the 
average farmer needs to or desires to. 
There is very little demand for a small 
horse. _ 
“That is a wonderfully studious and 
conscientious young man.” "Yes,” an¬ 
swered the holiday girl, “terribly so. He 
insisted on hunting up a botanist to make 
sure that the plant he found me standing 
under was really mistletoe.”—Washington 
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