1909. 
5FUEJ RURA-Ii NEW-YOKKER 
347 
FRENZIED COW TESTING. 
J. Grant Morse, in trying to show 
the superiority of the Jersey cow over 
the Holstein, cites the Pan-American 
Exposition test, in which the best one 
in the lot made 17.65 pounds butter 
in a week, and then jumps to the St. 
Louis test to make a good showing for 
his Jersey. If it is true that there is 
progress in breeding, why not play fair 
and compare both breeds at the same 
test, instead of vice versa? I will com¬ 
pare both at the St. Louis test. The 
average per cent of butter fat for the 
entire herd of 120 days was 3.42 per 
cent, against 2.9S per cent at the Pan- 
American for the Holsteins. The lat¬ 
ter produced an average of 254,146 
pounds of butter each, or 14.84 pounds 
per week for the entire test, or for 
the best cow 19.271 pounds butter per 
week on an average, and for the best 
Jersey, Loretta D, a fraction less, and 
she is worthless as a breeder, and others 
of the same test dead, while the Hol¬ 
steins are still up and at it. Not so 
much difference by your Jersey tac¬ 
tics way of comparison as you would 
have us believe. What he says about 
cows making a great seven days’ test 
finding their way to the sausage ma¬ 
chine (if they live a year or two) is 
not true of what he calls freak 
cows among the Holsteins. Colantha 
4th’s Johanna is hale and hearty, and 
no Jersey has yet wrested the champion- 
shin from her.' It is true she was dry a 
long time. But there _ are others. 
Aaggie Cornucopia Pauline, with the 
previous world’s record of 34.31 butter 
in seven days, dropped a calf again 
in less than 12 months, and again made 
an A. R. O. record of over 30 pounds 
(I have not the official figures at hand),' 
and is hale and hearty, with no indica¬ 
tions of an early decay. I have no 
interest in her, but I believe her to be 
the greatest cow of the breed, and that 
she will some day be a champion of 
the present queen of cows. The above 
applies to many other 30-pound cows. 
If they are freaks they are getting 
pretty plentiful in the LTolstein camp, 
and, consequently, it will be unnecessary 
for breeders to mate the best cows and 
sires. 
But it is not true that they are freaks. 
The Holsteins have vitality, size and 
a rugged constitution, and a cow can 
stand developing like a race horse, and 
not go off on her legs or have sexual 
impairments because she made 30 
pounds of butter in seven cFvs for four 
weeks in succession. Mina Pietertje 
Aaggie is a common farmer’s cow\ and 
in her nine years’ form she made 6,- 
615)4 pounds of milk in 120 days, be¬ 
ginning November 12. 1908. The last 
week of the third month she gave 420(4 
pounds milk. She gave milk every day 
for four full years, and a calf each 
year previous to her present lactation, 
when she was dry six weeks, and she 
was not fattened or cared for any bet¬ 
ter than other dry cows in the herd, 
and she is in better rig now than 
when dry or at freshening, and her 
milk tests 3.42 per cent fat, too. Yes, 
the Holstein cow has a future. Tn re¬ 
gard to Mr. Morse’s idea about the Bab¬ 
cock test, I’m just going to let every 
Jersey man ride his hobby to death or 
till he dies himself, for some men can¬ 
not consent to be measured by a ra¬ 
tional standard, because of illogical de¬ 
ductions that tliey can’t eradicate from 
Jersified craniums. For it is no other 
than a hobby, and every statement made 
has been disproved a hundred times. 
Wayne Co., Ohio. a. hursh. 
I am glad to note, page 261, that 
there is one breeder of Jerseys who 
has the strength of purpose to tell some 
things that many '‘innocents abroad 
do not know. I refer to. the article 
by Mr. Morse on the high-pressure 
breeding tests. From wfat I know by 
hearsay in Wisconsin I believe he is 
absolutely correct in what he says. 
Things are going at such a pace in 
dairying that the jockey business is not 
confined to horses. h. a. bush. 
Wisconsin. 
_ If Mr. Morse would investigate a 
little he would find as a starter Aaggie 
Cornucopia Pauline, owned by the Field 
Bros., that made as a four-year record 
34.31 pounds butter in seven days, 
which was a world’s record for some 
years, and she has five daughters owned 
by the Fields. Mr. Morse says that 
the present champion was dry three 
years. That she may be, but she only 
had a 22-pound record before, and now 
has a record of 35.22 in seven days, 
and gave almost 1,200 pounds in one 
year, and six months was A. R. O., 
and the last was semi-official. The 
Holstein-Friesian breed has some 30 odd 
cows in the 30-pound seven-day list, 
so if they are freaks it only goes to 
show that that kind of freak cow is 
in the breed of Holstein only. One of 
them sold for $8,000, and her unborn 
calf-, if a bull, was sold for $4,000, and 
it proved to be a bull. 
The Jersey breeders did not call their 
cows freaks in times gone by when 
they made (private) records by the 
churn up to 49 pounds per week when 
they were gathering all the solids in 
the milk together and calling it butter 
and doing it all at home alone on the 
quiet. But when the breeders of the 
black and whites got the Babcock tester 
to do with they called in a man from 
an experiment station and made the 
record A. R. O., and not the owner’s 
say-so. And then what happened? The 
Jersey record went down, down, till 
it is no wonder Friend Morse gasps 
to hear a man asking for a 25-pound 
three-year-old. They have so few of 
them in the breed that they want to 
keep them as memories of the great 
past. But the buyer can find that kind 
in the black and white in plenty, and 
we can go him five pounds better with 
second calf, as Stevens Bros.-Hastings 
Co., have made a 30.47 record with one. 
I do not blame Mr. Morse for feeling 
sore on the matter, but he can change 
colors and get into line. H. t. fuller. 
Tompkins Co., N. Y. 
That article by J. Grant Morse, on 
page 251, does me a heap of good. I 
thank Mr. Morse and The R. N.-Y., 
and may such men multiply and cover 
the face of the earth. h. a. f. 
New Jersey. 
Crimson Clover Hay. 
J. A. W., Ephrata, Pa .—I was told that 
Crimson clover cut in bloom for hay is in¬ 
jurious to cattle, owing to sharp objects 
which the heads contain. Will you let me 
know whether this is correct? 
Ans.—I lay from Crimson clover is 
not dangerous to cattle. When the 
clover stands too long,,so that the seeds 
form hard, the heads contain small 
barbs or hooks which are often quite 
hard. These hard heads in the hay 
have caused some damage to horses 
and mules by forming balls in the 
stomach. Some cases of death are re¬ 
ported. There is no danger when the 
clover is cut early—while the bloorh 
is fully colored. For cattle the hay 
is as safe as that from any clover. 
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