1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
867 
“THE FAMILY COW.” 
The crops had failed in Ireland and 
famine stared the people in the face. Pat 
met Mike and the following conversation 
took place: 
“Whativcr will we do, Moike? The 
praties are no good at all, at all. Shure, 
we will all starve 1” 
“Indade, we will not starve. I have a 
coze.” 
“But your cow will starve. There is 
no hay.” 
“Sure, she will not starve. She sucks 
herself 
Here was an ideal family cow: One 
that not only provided food for the fam¬ 
ily, but provided her own food. But here 
in America we are willing to provide the 
food for bossy if she is not too particu¬ 
lar as to the kind, and will give us all 
of the milk. I began this article with 
dialogue between Pat and Mike because 
it comes near describing what some peo¬ 
ple expect of the family cow. She us¬ 
ually has but a limited run of pasture, 
and is expected to eat the refuse from the 
kitchen and the garden. Sometimes it is 
a market garden, and while the refuse is 
abundant, a big quantity must be eaten 
to supply the proper amount of nourish¬ 
ment for her maintenance, and to pro¬ 
duce a good flow of milk. Therefore the 
family cow should have a big storage 
room, but she should not be too big of 
frame or too much will be required to 
maintain her. There is no profit in keep- 
example of this is in the family of Jer¬ 
seys known as the St. Lamberts, which 
were developed in Canada. 
1 his family of Jerseys has been bred 
for big production at the sacrifice of 
beauty for so long a time that were it 
not for their color, one would fail to 
recognize some of them as Jerseys. For 
those who have cared to maintain the 
grace and beauty of the island cattle, 
it has been necessary to import new blood 
from time to time to overcome these 
American tendencies. Breeders of other 
cattle have been very jealous of the place 
that the Jersey cow has held in the fam¬ 
ily, and have tried by every method to de¬ 
tract from her value. The most popular 
of these canards was the statement that 
the Jersey’s milk was nothing but fat 
and water. They claimed that the milk 
was lacking in casein- or albuminoids, and 
therefore was really not as valuable as 
food as the milk that contained less fat. 
But happily, this is found to be untrue, 
the fact being that the albuminoids fol¬ 
low the fat in proportion more closely 
in milk testing from four per cent tc 
six per cent fat than in milk of a lower 
percentage. This is now very generally 
known among the dairymen who sell their 
milk to the shipping stations, it being a 
very common occurrence for their milk 
to fall below the legal requirement of 12 
per cent total solids, but rarely below 
three per cent fat. 
Another quality that makes the Jersey 
A TYPICAL FAMILY COW. Fig. 432. 
ing three or four hundred extra pounds 
of cow for 10 years, to be ultimately con¬ 
verted into a “canncr” at 2]/ 2 cents per 
pound. The market garden was the 
mother of the original “family cow.” 
Those wonderful little islands in the Eng¬ 
lish Channel which are so productive that 
they rent for $100 per acre, are the homes 
of the greatest market gardens in the 
world, and there the cows are all “fam¬ 
ily cows;” never running loose at pas¬ 
ture, but picketed out on a small grass 
plot, and fed largely on roots and refuse 
of the gardens, a breed of family cows 
has unconsciously been produced. I say 
“a breed” because the cattle of both 
Guernsey and Jersey were originally one 
breed—the breed of family cows. But 
they have been divided into two breeds, 
according to the tastes of the inhabitants 
of the two islands, and I think that the 
American people generally agree with 
the taste of the Jersey islander and pre¬ 
fer the Jersey to the Guernsey cow. The 
reason for this preference is that the Jer¬ 
sey is the more beautiful of the two, and 
one likes a handsome cow just as much 
as one does a handsome horse. There is 
no doubt but that mules are hardier than 
horses, but they will never become popu¬ 
lar 1 as “family horses.” 
The Jersey cattle in America have, 
some of them, been bred away from the. 
ideal family cow type, and indeed, our 
climate and the liberal feeding methods 
of the breeders would naturally tend to 
produce coarser cattle. A very noticeable 
pre-eminently a family cow is her per¬ 
sistency in giving milk, many of them 
keeping up their flow of milk in a most 
remarkable manner. A striking instance 
of this persistency was shown in the Jer¬ 
sey cow, Blossom of Florence, a member 
of the Dairy Cow Demonstration at St. 
Louis. This cow was in milk for 67 
days before the test began, during which 
she gave 2,654 pounds of milk which con¬ 
tained 134 pounds of butter. During the 
public test of the following 120 days, she 
gave 4,906 pounds of milk containing 
278?4 pounds.of butter, an average of 40.9 
pounds of milk and 2.32 pounds of but¬ 
ter per day, and the most remarkable 
thing of all is the fact that her best seven 
days’ work was the last week of the test, 
when she gave 2S5.5 pounds of milk, 183 
days after calving. j. grant morse. 
Gentleman Lodger: “I say, Mrs. Nap- 
per; I don’t care for your bacon this 
morning! It doesn’t seem fresh.” Mrs. 
Napper: “Very strange, sir. The shop¬ 
man said it was only cured last week.” 
Gentleman Lodger: “Well, it must have 
had a relapse.”—Punch. 
“So the big touring car came within 
an inch of running down your bronco?” 
said the new arrival. “Did you take the 
number?” “You bet I did, pard,” replied 
Amber Pete, as he jubilantly displayed a 
piece of punctured tin. “I took it right 
off at the second shot. Here it is.”— 
Chicago Daily News. 
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