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JERSEY MILK vs. HOLSTEIN. 
Can a small Jersey herd make as good 
profit producing milk to sell by the quart, 
regardless of quality, as a Holstein herd? 
What will be the difference in this respect 
between an average herd of Jerseys and 
an average herd of Ilolsteins? Of course, 
the cost of feed is to be taken into con¬ 
sideration. O. W. CASE. 
No, not if the milk is sold, I under¬ 
stand the question, all for the same price. 
The milk from an average herd of Jer¬ 
seys should test about five per cent fat 
and 11 of other solids. A herd of aver¬ 
age Holsteins would give milk with about 
3J4 per cent fat, and scarce nine of other 
solids. An annual yield of 6,000 pounds 
might be expected from the former, 10 ,- 
000 from the latter. My experience is 
that it will take about the same amount 
of feed to produce one as the other, 
what the Jersey lacks in quantity she 
puts in quality. Th argument so often 
heard as to the extra value of the larger 
amount of skim-milk—when it is manu¬ 
factured—is more seeming than real, for 
the value of it is not in its bulk—water 
—but in its casein, sugar and ash. This 
however, is aside from the question at 
issue, but I call attention to it in this 
connection. The quart of Jersey milk 
therefore is worth more intrinsically, and 
costs more to produce. At the Pan- 
American Exposition, the Holsteins 
made a quact of milk for the food con¬ 
sumed for a trifle over .09—average for 
the six months .3.25 per cent fat. The 
Jerseys made a quart for food con¬ 
sumed for about .12, average test for six 
months 4.79. Of course feed was cheap¬ 
er then than now, but the same relative 
proportions would undoubtedly obtain. 
In the light of the above, it must be ap¬ 
parent that a man is very foolish to at¬ 
tempt to sell milk high in fat, and other 
solids, in competition with that low in 
the same, where one price is paid for 
both. The change in the law lowering 
the standard to 11.50 per cent solids 
while in a sense just, in view of the fact 
that the old standard was always incor¬ 
rect, from the fact milk with 12 per 
cent total solids, “three of which should 
be fat,” with only that amount of the lat¬ 
ter, would not have to exceed 8.75 per 
cent of solids not fat, will hasten the 
day when milk will be sold and paid for 
for what it really contains, as is a bushel 
of grain. I would have been glad to see 
the standard abolished, then it would be 
up to every man to produce pure milk, 
and the price would always be according 
to the quality. It must not be supposed 
that I am an advocate of the Jersey, and 
against the Holstein. I keep neither, 
and believe each is of equal value in 
her particular place, and for her proper 
purpose. EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
Yes and No! 
Explain contradiction? I visited a 
Jersey dairy herd this week, producing 
and retailing their product; they are 
selling out after 15 years. Their farm 
looks good, buildings average farm con¬ 
dition, earth floors, low ceiling, old 
wooden mangers, plenty bedding, cattle 
fairly clean. Splendid tile silo. A clover 
country apparently. A good market in 
a large (40,000 population) manufac¬ 
turing town of high wages, four miles 
away on good roads. What was evi¬ 
dently wrong? First, poor dairy cattle. 
(Now, remember, all Jerseys arc not 
good Jerseys; all black-and-white cattle 
are not high-class Holsteins, and so on). 
Not more than four in that 30 head of 
milking cows were even second-class 
dairy cows. Second, run down, as tu¬ 
berculosis was seemingly rampant, and 
he did not sell his herd with tuberculin 
test guarantee—showing he at least had 
his suspicions. Your inquirer cannot 
make money with a poor herd of any 
breed, and he is foolish to sell milk 
where quality does not count. If his 
market will pay for quality, he should 
select his breed accordingly. Of course, 
as a lover of the Jersey, I would refer 
to what she has done in public tests, 
both in production and cost of mainten- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
ance. The experiment stations, o'n their 
own grounds, are doing good work. 
But any test should be of every milking 
and Babcock tests of each lot, although 
1 have had a demonstration this week 
that surprised me. Our club appointed 
me as tester for an authenticated seven- 
day test. Using on the fifth milking the 
last of my acid, I got a new lot The 
sixth test jumped nearly one-half of one 
per cent Doubting it, I made a four- 
bottle test of next milking, and that 
went one-tenth per cent higher. This 
shows, to my mind, how the Babcock 
is sometimes 'blamed for mistakes that 
are the operator’s. What is a good 
cow? One that, at six years old, will 
give on poor pasture, no hay, and 16 
pounds a day of equal parts of Alfalfa 
meal, bran and corn chop—not a bal¬ 
anced ration by long odds, the expert 
saves— 266 pounds milk containing 12.92 
pounds fat in seven days. Now this 
is a seven-year-old Jersey of unfashion¬ 
able breeding, about 900 pounds weight, 
good udder and long, well-placed teats. A 
family cow, cared for by a man who is 
not even a good feeder, and his boss 
knows less about cows. To answer the 
cost of maintenance, let anyone figure 
the profit or loss, and answer your ques¬ 
tion. Then let the Guernsey and Ayr¬ 
shire and Holstein people blow their 
horns. r. f. shannon. 
VALUE OF TESTING FOR ADVANCED 
REGISTRY. 
In addition to the registers of pure¬ 
bred stock maintained by the live stock 
associations, the leading dairy breeds of 
this country have advanced registers. 
For admission to the advanced registers 
is required the production of a certain 
amount of butter fat, or milk and butter 
fat. The requirements vary with the 
breeds, and usually with age up to five 
years, after which there is no increase. 
The direct value is to the breeder and 
purchaser of purebred stock. With au¬ 
thenticated records and pedigrees to sub¬ 
stantiate the breeder’s statements, the 
buyer is better able to judge if the ani¬ 
mal is desirable. And because he is able 
to furnish accurate figures of the produc¬ 
tion of his cattle, the breeder is able to 
get better prices for his stock. A far¬ 
mer writes, “I find I can get much more 
money for my calves if their dams have 
advanced registry records, even if they 
don’t much more than qualify.” Aside 
from this, however, the publication of 
official and semi-official records has stim¬ 
ulated the dairy breeding of the country, 
and has resulted in untold improvement. 
L. K. DAVIES. 
SPECIAL PREMIUMS FOR JERSEY CATTLE. 
The American Jersey Cattle Club will 
award special premiums as follows to regis¬ 
tered Jersey cattle exhibited at the fairs 
na lin'd below : 
Class 1.—Grand champion bull, exhibited 
by breeder. Gold medal (value .$20), suit¬ 
ably inscribed. 
Class 2.—Grand champion female, ex¬ 
hibited by her breeder. Gold medal (value 
$20), suitably inscribed. 
Class 3.—Cow having accepted record in 
authenticated test for one year, made ac¬ 
cording to the rules of the Club, which is 
awarded the highest number of counts, on 
the basis of 100 for perfect, by the official 
judge at such show, by adding to the 
counts allowed for conformation one count 
for each 20 pounds of butter-fat produced 
by the cow in one year over and above the 
minimum required at her age, no cow scored 
on conformation under 80 per cent to re¬ 
ceive an award. First, $30; second, $20; 
third $10. 
Class 4.—Four females over one year, the 
get of one sire, three of which must be in 
milk, exhibited by the breeder. First, -(>40; 
second, $30; third, $20. 
The committee has decided to offer the 
above premiums in 1910 at Brockton Fair, 
Massachusetts; Illinois State Fair, Ken¬ 
tucky State Fair, Michigan State Fair, Min¬ 
nesota State Fair, New York State Fair, 
Ohio State Fair, Oregon State Fair, Ten¬ 
nessee State Fair, Texas State Fair, Ver¬ 
mont State Fair. Virginia State Fair, Wis¬ 
consin State Fair and the National Jersey 
Show, Shelbyville, Ky. At Indiana State 
Fair $150 in prizes are offered for a 48- 
hour butter contest, open to all Jerseys, 
under the supervision of I’urdue Univer¬ 
sity. For the National Dairy Show $1,200 
have been appropriated for an exhibit of 
Jersey cattle, under charge of the Commit¬ 
tee on Fairs. At this show the Club also 
sets up a Student’s Judging Trophy (a sil¬ 
ver cup costing $107), awarded the best 
team from an agricultural college in judg¬ 
ing Jerseys, and offers a scholarship in 
post-graduate dairy husbandry to the lead¬ 
ing member of the winning team. At the 
New England Fair, Worcester, Mass., $100 
in cash prizes are offered. At the Alabama 
State Fair $100 in cash prizes are offered. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Moon Blindness. 
I have a horse that has a disease some 
people call pink eye; it started about a 
year ago. The eyes run, and after a few 
days a white scum comes over the eye¬ 
ball, and the horse gets better. Then it 
gets worse again. Is there any help? 
r. s. 
The disease is “moon blindness” (periodic 
ophthalmia), and it is incurable. Blind¬ 
ness of one or both eyes will be the result 
after several attacks. This may be re¬ 
tarded by giving one dram of iodide of 
potash in the drinking water night and 
morning at time of an attack, and con¬ 
tinuing until the eyes clear up. At same 
time, keep eyes covered with a soft cloth 
to be kept wet with a lotion composed of 
half a dram each of sulphate of zinc and 
fluid extract of belladonna leaves, with 10 
drops of pure carbolic acid in a quart of 
cold water. Affected marcs or stallions 
should not be used for breeding, as the 
disease is considered hereditary, a. s. a. 
Founder. 
I have a large sorrel horse 13 years old 
that has been used on farm and road since 
I have had him, about five years. About 
a year ago he began to lame, and, at 
spells has been very lame since. There are 
times when he doesn’t limp or show the 
least signs of lameness for different lengths 
of time, but most of the time he is stiff. 
It is in his fore legs, one man says in his 
feet, and my blacksmith says it is in 
shoulder. lie will act as if his fore legs 
were made of kindling wood, and was 
afraid they would break. He seems to be 
tender in trying to move his foot ahead. 
At his worst, he humps all feet close to¬ 
gether, and appears to put as much weight 
on hind legs as possible. I have used him 
on farm and road whether lame or not, but 
for two months back I have kept him on 
farm most of the time, probably working 
on fields three days per week. About six 
years ago he was brought from New York 
to be placed in the country as he was 
“tender forward, from steady pavement 
work,” as the stablemen called it. We are 
feeding ground oats and little cornmeal, 
12 quarts per day. He is generally hearty, 
but, once in a while, he will not clean 
up his box. J. F. M. 
New York. 
Clip the hair from both fore coronets 
(hoof heads) and blister repeatedly with 
cerate of cantharides at intervals of three 
or four weeks. Let him stand on wet clay 
stall floor during daytime, or run out on 
grass when blister is not acting. If it is 
chronic lamiuitis (founder) as we suspect, 
this may do some good, but it will not 
prove wholly curable. If it is navicular 
disease unnerving is the only recourse. 
That removes the lameness, but of course 
does not cure the disease of the navicular 
bones. a. s. a. 
Ringworm; Anthrax. 
1. I have several heifers that have cir¬ 
cular places on their heads and neck 
where the hair has come out and a whitish 
crust forms. One heifer has five such 
places. What will cure and stop it? 2. 
One of my heifers died without any illness 
that I noticed; after death there was a 
bloody froth discharged from the nostrils. 
She was out to pasture. What wfas the 
probable cause? g. w. n. 
New York. 
1. Ringworm, due to the vegetable para¬ 
site known as “trieophyton tonsurans,” is 
present, and usually subsides when cattle 
are turned on pasture. Scrub and scrape 
each spot tree from scales. When dry 
rub In Iodine ointment and repeat each 
other day until cured. 2. The issue of 
blood from the nostrils and the suddenness 
of the death indicates that dread disease, 
“anthrax,” which is communicable and fatal 
to other animals and also to man. The 
carcase should be dug up and burned or 
covered deeply with quicklime. The grave 
should be fenced around to keep other 
cattle away, and if, as is likely, the death 
occurred on low\ wet pasture along a creek, 
lake or pond, that pasture should be aban¬ 
doned this season. The disease is incurable 
and its presence necessitates quarantine 
of the farm by the State authorities, who 
should be notified, l’rotection against the 
disease is had by vaccination with anti¬ 
anthrax vaccine; this only is used under 
supervision of the graduate veterinarian 
where the disease has appeared. Notify 
the State authorities (local health officer 
and State veterinarian) if another case 
occurs. a. s. a. 
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