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January 27, 
the rural new-yorker 
jf J VP QfYYpL Qtirl Flairs 3 s P ott ed bull, because $50 will buy 
1ut.y kJlvrVylY <11111 L/dll j more good breeding in a spotted hide 
than it will in a “solid-colored” one, and 
$100 will buy a spotted bull of about 
the best of breeding. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
SHOWING A SPOTTED JERSEY. 
I have a Jersey bull calf from an extra 
good cow that is purebred, but for some 
cause it has a star or spot on back about 
six inches from tail and about six inches 
°£ his feet are white. Would it be marked 
oft at the show ring? The dam is one of 
the best cows anywhere near here. I am 
thinking of showing my Jerseys, and do 
not want any that are not right, s c. t 
New York. 
Whether the white on this calf will 
hurt his chances in the show ring will 
depend entirely on who is the judge. 
If he is a good capable man who knows 
Jerseys, it will not make any difference 
at all; but, on the other hand, if he is 
some short-course graduate who has 
gleaned his knowledge from a few books 
that lie has only half studied, and a 
quarter remembered, then, in all prob¬ 
ability, he will throw out the “broken- 
colored” calf as a grade. There cer¬ 
tainly is a notion among the uninitiated 
that a Jersey, to be of pure blood, 
must be of “solid color” or “whole 
color” as our British cousins say, and 
must have a black tongue and switch. 
Where this notion came from, nobody 
seems to know; but here is a pretty 
good guess: Every breeder has some 
animals turn up in his. herd with noth¬ 
ing in particular to recommend them. 
When he offers them for sale, he just 
simply has to say something about them. 
So, if there is nothing else to say, he 
says “Here is a perfectly marked Jersey 
—solid color, and full black points.” If 
the prospective buyer is a greenhorn, the 
chances are thaj he will bite, and he 
becomes the proud possessor of a pure¬ 
bred scrub that he exploits to his friends 
as a “genuine Jersey” without a wrong- 
colored hair on her; although about 
everything else about her may be wrong. 
Referring to Volume I of the Jersey 
Herd Register I find that about half 
of the early importations were of broken 
color. “Daisy” No. 67 is described 
“Fawn with some white; white heart 
in forehead; buff nosey From num¬ 
bers 110 to 150 I find onlv three ani¬ 
mals described as “solid color.” The 
first Jersey cow to make a notable year 
ly record, “Jersey Belle of Scituate,” 
was spotted all over; about as much 
white as “orange ” Then came “Land¬ 
seer’s Fancy” with a record of 836 
pounds of butter in a year, and having 
star in forehead, spot on withers, flanks, 
belly and legs white, also tongue and 
switch. Then there was that “‘perfect” 
Jersey cow Coomassie, that won the 
championship over the Island of Jersey 
for three years in succession, and then 
came to this country and brought $3,000 
at auction. Coomassie had a white star 
in forehead, white belly, legs, flanks and 
long stripe back of left fore leg. 
I could go on and name notable 
spotted Jerseys for a column; but there 
is no denying the fact that this color 
fad has taken a strong hold on the peo¬ 
ple, and it is much easier to give the 
people what they want than it is to make 
them think they want something else. 
So as a breeder of purebred Jerseys, I 
would hesitate to place a broken-colored 
bull at the head of my herd. Not 
that a solid-colored bull will always get 
solid-colored calves; but he will get a 
greater percentage of them. The prog¬ 
eny ©f an animal is most apt to be like 
its immediate ancestors, with the chances 
of its “taking back” after a more remole 
ancestor in direct proportion to the dis¬ 
tance removed, or, in other words, the 
percentage of the blood of the ancestor 
that the animal carries, although this 
law is modified by the law of “pre¬ 
potency,” which will sometimes make 
an animal exert a decided influence for 
several generations, although the per¬ 
centage of that strain of blood is much 
less than some other. 
My present herd bull is solid color, 
and from solid-colored ancestors for 
three generations. Back of that he has 
two strains of the above mentioned 
“Landseer’s Fancy” and about one in 
six of his calves are spotted, and they 
come from solid-colored cows as well 
as the others. I recently sold one of 
these “reproductions” of the old cow to 
the New York School of Agriculture at 
Morrisville, N. Y., and here will be one 
place at least where the boys will be 
taught that purebred Jersey cows some¬ 
times wear spots. In closing I am going 
to give a pointer to the man who* has 
a herd of grades, and wishes to breed 
up. In the first place, you can never 
get a herd of purebreds by grading up, 
so you need not count on fancy mark¬ 
ings to help to sell cattle. All you have 
to look out for is the intrinsic value, 
or in other words, the ability to change 
farm produce into a more valuable com¬ 
modity. This being so, I advise you to 
Blindness in Heifer. 
I had a heifer that became blind and 
would grate her teeth, carry her head low, 
resting it on anything she came in contact 
with. I gave for a. cathartic two pounds 
Epsom salts, two drams calomel, one ounce 
gentian. I also gave oil. After four days 
physic worked, then she seemed much bet¬ 
ter. Now she seems all right, only she 
cannot see; her eyes look bright and all 
right. I would like to know what the mat¬ 
ter was and what I can do for her eye¬ 
sight. _ G. G. B. 
New York. 
An acute attack of indigestion sometimes 
has the effect mentioned here, or it may 
follow a blow or shock. The treatment 
was correct. Now give her a dram of 
iodide of potash twice a day in drinking 
water until salivation is induced and skin 
tends to become scurfy. If she is in calf 
this drug cannot safely be given. It would 
also be well to apply a blister to the poll 
of the head just back of ears. a. s. a. 
Cow With Scours. 
I have a cow which is bothered with 
scours, and of course has fallen off in her 
milk. I am feeding silage, barley sprouts, 
mixed hay, corn fodder and oat straw. Can 
you give me any light on the subject, or a 
cure? j. m. p. 
Ohio. 
Diarrhoea is simply a symptom of indi¬ 
gestion, irritation of the mucous mem¬ 
branes of the intestines, or any one of a 
large number of different diseases. For ex¬ 
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tuberculosis, and is the characteristic 
symptoms of Johne's disease. These dis¬ 
eases are incurable. Without an examina¬ 
tion we are unable to say what is causing 
the trouble, and so it would be wise to 
have a veterinarian make a thorough in¬ 
vestigation.. Meanwhile avoid all irritating 
foods, physic the cow and afterward seek 
to check the scouring by mixing in the 
feed two or three times a day a mixture 
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catechu and subnitrate of bismuth. 
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