1910. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
749 
JERSEYS AS MILKMAN’S COWS. 
Can n small Jersey herd make as good 
prollt producing milk to sell by the quart, 
regardless of quality, as a Ilolstein herd? 
What will be the difference in this respect 
between an average herd of Jerseys and 
an average herd of Holsteius? Of course, 
the cost of feed is to be taken into con¬ 
sideration. O. W. CASE. 
The question submitted is a very diffi¬ 
cult one for the average dairyman to 
answer with any degree of accuracy. 
The average Holstein owner will at once 
say that there is no comparison; that the 
Holsteius will produce milk at a lower 
cost than the Jerseys. On the other 
hand, the Jersey cow man will generally 
say that his breed is best, for he keeps 
Jerseys because he thinks they arc best. 
It is a general practice in this section to 
keep at least grade Holsteius to furnish 
milk for the New York trade. I have 
recently bought a Jersey cow from a 
man who is changing his mode of dairy¬ 
ing from butter making to selling milk 
by weight. The Jersey in question is 
giving over 40 pounds of milk per day, 
and her cream brings me $1 per day. It 
is doubtful if this man will be able to 
go out and buy a Holstein that will make 
him more profit than this Jersey was do¬ 
ing. As to the eating capacity of the 
two breeds, I think it safe to say that 
one can keep four Jerseys in place of 
three Holsteius. Many will say that one 
can keep three Jerseys in place of two 
Holsteius, but I know from experience 
that a Rood Jersey cow will consume a 
surprising amount of food. 
But what is the use of guessing about 
this question when we have the famous 
“battle of breeds” at St. Louis to refer 
to? In Class II (for demonstrating the 
economic production of milk for all pur¬ 
poses) 25 Jerseys, 25 Short-horns, 15 
1 lolsteins and five Brown Swiss were 
entered. The champion cow was a Jer¬ 
sey with a net profit of $07.74. The 
second best cow was a Holstein with a 
profit of $66.82. She was followed by 
nine Jerseys before we reach the second 
best Holstein. Then comes three more 
Jerseys, one Holstein, one Jersey, an¬ 
other Holstein, five Jerseys, then two 
Holsteins, to make up the best 25 cows. 
Thus in “the roll of honor” of 25 cows 
we find 19 Jerseys and six Holsteius. 
Twenty-six cows beat the best Short¬ 
horn, and 31 the best Brown Swiss. 
Every Jersey went through the test of 
120 days; no cow was withdrawn, and 
no “averages" were taken. The work 
shown was the work actually done. The 
Holstein cow No. 19 was withdrawn 
for seven days, and credit given her as 
“per average.” Brown Swiss No. 5 was 
out for two periods of seven days each, 
and credited by average; also Brown 
Swiss No. 2 was out for the limit of 
seven days, and credited. The reason 
why T mention this fact of all the Jer¬ 
seys being “on the job” every day of the 
test, is that it is often wrongfully 
charged that the Jerseys are delicate and 
that the larger breeds are more hardy. 
Yet here we find every Jersey of the 25 
at work every day, while one of the 
15 Holsteins and two of the five Brown 
Swiss were “laid off for repairs.” 
The Jerseys in this test were good 
ones, the best that could reasonably be 
got together. But they were handi¬ 
capped by being, on an average, two 
months in milk before the test began. 
'I'he Holsteins were also good ones, 
carefully selected from the herds where 
big records are made, and placed in the 
hands of a man who understood feeding 
and had made at least one world’s rec¬ 
ord before the test. I think that the 
chief reason why the Jerseys won out in 
this test is the fact that they keep “ever¬ 
lastingly at it” when well cared for. 
Take for instance the work of “cow 14,” 
Blossom of Florence (164108). This 
cow calved April 6, and from April If) 
to June 15 (when the test began) she 
had given 2,654 pounds of milk contain¬ 
ing 134 pounds estimated butter, and 
from June 15 to October 13 she gave 
4,906 pounds of milk and 278)4 pounds 
estimated butter, or a total of 7,560 
pounds milk and 412.84 pounds esti¬ 
mated butter. And the most significant 
fact of all was that she gave 41)4 pounds 
of milk October 13, the last day of the 
test. Now 1 do not pretend to say 
that the test at St. Louis demonstrated 
which breed of cattle would be the most 
profitable for you to keep, but I do think 
that it demonstrated beyond contradic¬ 
tion that the Jersey cow is a very profit¬ 
able one, even to sell milk from, and if 
you already have Jerseys, or even if you 
naturally like Jerseys, I should not hesi¬ 
tate to keep them for selling milk on 
the open market. Place a bull at the 
head of your herd from a deep milking 
strain of Jerseys, and pay particular at¬ 
tention to breeding for quantity and 
staying qualities. If they do not “beat 
the Holsteins” they will at least bring 
you in a good profit. Besides, there is 
great satisfaction in knowing that you 
are helping along the milk business by 
selling good milk. j. grant morse. 
LATE HATCHED CHICKS. 
I do not hatch chicks for my own 
use after the middle of May. I aim to 
have the majority of the birds I expect 
to keep for breeders hatched out by the 
first of April, but cannot always do so, 
as the demand for eggs for hatching is 
sometimes greater than 1 can supply, 
and my incubators have to wait. Leg¬ 
horns, which mature six weeks to two 
months sooner than the American 
breeds, can be hatched later; in fact, 
ought to be, as they will if hatched in 
March or April, start laying by Sep¬ 
tember, lay out the first laying and com¬ 
mence to molt and not lay again until 
Spring. I want my White Wyandotte 
pnllets to begin laying by the middle of 
October or first of November. Eggs 
are the highest in price during Novem¬ 
ber and December and my main depend¬ 
ence for Winter eggs has always been 
the early-hatched pullets. Usually my 
hens lay all Summer and well into the 
Fall, and do not begin to molt until last 
of August or September; some do not 
molt until November, but continue lay¬ 
ing steadily through the Fall. As it 
takes 80 or 90 days to complete the molt, 
of course these birds do not produce 
many market eggs in Winter, but get 
to laying just in time for hatching egg 
trade in Spring, and experienced breed¬ 
ers much prefer eggs from year-old hens 
for hatching purposes. I have had cus¬ 
tomers who made it part of the con¬ 
tract that no pullets’ eggs should be 
shipped. P'rom my own experience I 
have never found that there was any 
difference in the strength or vitality of 
the chicks, whether the eggs were laid 
by hens or pullets, but my pullets by 
Spring are well matured, and have got 
past the small egg stage of early pullet- 
hood, which makes quite a difference. 
As a rule, I prefer to mate year-old 
cocks with pullets, and use the cockerels 
with the old hens. There is another 
gain in early hatching; the cockerels 
are better fitted for breeders, are more 
mature, and chicks from them likely to 
be stronger. There is a good profit in 
selling the early cockerels for broilers, 
but 1 prefer to keep mine for breeders, 
selling for broilers only those that are 
culled out for some defect. At this date 
—last of June—some of my cockerels 
weigh over four pounds each. They 
were batched the last week in March. 
The only people I know who keep 
their incubators running all Summer 
are those who make a business of selling 
day-old chicks. Probably the demand 
comes mainly from those who have had 
bad luck with earlier chicks, and are 
trying to make up for losses. In the 
Fall 1 let most of my hens run at large 
and every year two or three will “steal” 
their nest and hatch out broods in Sep¬ 
tember or October. These chicks, while 
healthy and strong, rarely grow into 
full-sized fowls. They make just as 
good layers for all I can see, but are 
usually undersized, and always remain 
so. Answering the question whether I 
would advise late hatching, would say 
that if I were going into the hen busi¬ 
ness for utility purposes only, I should 
not hesitate to hatch chicks at any time 
in the Summer, especially if I had a 
shady apple orchard to keep them in. 
Connecticut. george a. cosgrove. 
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