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Live Stock and Dairy 
Tell Us About Jersey Cattle 
We live on a hill farm where cream, 
hogs and chickens seem more profitable 
than the production of whole milk. We 
favor the Jersey cow. and have been plan¬ 
ning replacing our scrub Ilolsteins grad¬ 
ually with .Ter.sevs of good breeding, but 
on reading advertisements of Jersey 
breeders in yours and other farm papers 
of the East find very few advertised in 
comparison with Ilolsteins and Guernsey 
cattle. Why is this true? Have eastern 
farmers a sound objection to offer against 
the Jersey breed, or do they favor Ilol¬ 
steins and Guernseys because of the larger 
flow of milk they give? Or isn’t the 
Jersey healthv in this climate? M. O. 
New York. 
I kept Jerseys for 20 years and then 
changed to Ilolsteins. So this is about 
like writing an eulogy of one’s first wife—- 
with number two looking over one's 
shoulder. 
Some .30 years ago. T began farming 
on a hill farm and kept a small dairy 
from which we made butter for the local 
tr -de, and kept calves and pigs to take 
care of the skim milk. In the course 
of trade. I got hold of a little Jersey 
heifer, purebred but not registered. The 
neighbors guyed me unmercifully about 
the “cat-hanyued Jersey” and I took 
pretty good care of the heifer, perhaps to 
show them that there might be something 
in a Jersey after all. This heifer devel¬ 
oped into a cow that made IfG/a ll> s - n * 
churned butter in seven days, by the old 
method of setting the milk and skimming. 
In fact she converted me to the belief 
that a Jersey cow will produce more 
butter from a given amount of food than 
any other cow. and may add that T have 
never had any occasion to change that 
opinion. 
Later on. I began picking up regis¬ 
tered Jerseys as \ got the chance. Not 
always the best, for we were pretty poor, 
and the best were out of reach. But I 
soon found that the highest priced Jer¬ 
seys were not necessarily the best ones. 
You see. a lot of rich people got into the 
habit of going over to the Island of Jersey 
land buying little pop-eyed pug-nosed play¬ 
things that some Jersey fellow had tied 
a red ribbon on maybe just to fool the 
millionaires, and bringing them over here 
and swapping them among themselves at 
a few thousand dollars a head. On the 
other hand. American breeders had de¬ 
veloped cows that would sometimes 
weigh a thousand or more pounds, and 
give 50 lbs. of milk in a day. 
T remember that while T was getting 
my Jersey experience I saw the advertise¬ 
ment of the dispersal of a high-toned Jer¬ 
sey establishment, and got crazy to go and 
buy at least one fancy Jersey cow. So T 
went and bought her. She was a regular 
little butter factory to look at. and I think 
had been a first-class cow. But there was 
something wrong with her. In a couple 
of months she dropped a perfect little 
beauty of a heifer calf—and a couple of 
days later it laid down and died. The 
next * year she had another heifer calf, 
and in spite of all T could do. that fol¬ 
lowed her sister. Then the next Spring 
the old cow presented me with the third 
heifer, this one even prettier than the 
Others, if possible. Then Mrs. Morse 
took a hand in the game, and informed 
me that I didn’t know how to raise calves, 
and that she wanted me to bring that one 
right up to the house where she could give 
it proper attention. So T rigged up a big 
box in the corner of the kitchen and 
dropped bossy into it. T will have to con¬ 
fess that the lady did rather beat me at 
the game, for she kept that calf alive 
nearly a week. 
But. as a general thing. I had fairly 
good luck with the calves Of course they 
are rather small at birth, and I think 
that I was inclined to overfeed them. I 
always liked to see them grow, and some¬ 
times got in too much of a hurry about 
if. I think the cows were just as hardy 
as the Ilolsteins. A good cow of either 
breed is thinner than a beef animal, and 
won't stand sis much cold. But that is 
nothing against her. No dairyman who 
knows his business wants a cow that can 
endure zero weather. lie should have a 
barn where she won’t have to. 
Now, T suppose you will want to know 
why I changed from Jerseys to Ilolsteins. 
Well, it was like this: I spent 20 years 
of my life trying to make people believe 
that the Jersey was the best cow on 
earth—and the people kept right on com¬ 
ing to Madison County after Ilolsteins. 
(You see, Madison County has more Ilol¬ 
steins than any other county in the United 
States, and when one speaks of cows in 
connection with Madison County, why. 
they just naturally mean Ilolsteins.) So 
it finally soaked into my head that it is 
easier to let a man have what he wants 
than it is to make him believe that he 
wants something that he doesn’t. So I 
gave it up. and began breedings Ilolsteins 
like all the rest. 
If M. O. It. likes the Jerseys the best 
|there is no reason why he should not 
keep them, and I think he can keep about 
three Jerseys where he would keep two 
Ilolsteins. But I can’t close this without 
a word of advice. If I were going to 
change. I would either sell all of my pres¬ 
ent herd, disinfect the premises and start 
over; or T should have all of my present 
herd tuberculin tested, and add nothing 
but tested cattle in the future. Don’t, 
under any circumstance, buy in cattle 
from other herds without the test. If you 
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