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Show MmEXCELfENT QUALITIES OF PURE-BRED JERSEY COW ,t'. t': . Reasons for Claim That Anlmnl la Superior to All Other Is Her AMIIty to Produce Ilutter and Cheese Eco nomlcally ami Records Made In Many r ', Tests Gives tier Reputation Tbat Is Indisputable. :' 1 y, I a Prlso Winning Jersey Cove. I After a lifetime sfenl In Icnrnliig the bualnea of keeping cow I do not beltute to any to the young man reared on a farm: "Farm; and If you farm, keep Block; and If you keep lock, keep row; and If you keep cowa, keep Jerey cow," write II. K. t'hnpmsn in thn Hreeder'a tlasetle. Of course, I add to thla, "If you keep Jersey cowa, keep registered Jersey rows. My reasons for maintaining that the Jeraey cow la auperlor to all others aa a butter row are aa follows: fol-lows: Her ability lo produce butter and cheese economically alanda undisputed. undisput-ed. Her record In many public testa, Including the Chicago, Ht. Ixtula and I'ortlnnd expositions, haa given her the reputation, enviable and Indisputable, Indisput-able, of bring Ihe world' greatest butter but-ter cow. The estra sits of the fat globules In Jersey milk render the butter of auperlor grain and flrmneaa and more easily separated from Ihe cream. The Jersey cow haa the function of saalmllstlon developed to a greater degree than any other breed. Hhe I a high-grade specialist aa a feeder. She will give profitable return from a ration ao rich (concentrated) tbat other row can not assimilate It. Hla thla ability to aland force-feeding tbat haa brought the Jersey out ahead In so many public teats. ..This la a merit of the Jeraey that can profitably be taken advantage of In a working dairy herd. In the herd In which the raising rais-ing of stork la th primary consideration considera-tion I would keep a little cloaer to nature, na-ture, even at the risk of surrendering to some estent the meritorloua qualities quali-ties that artificial condition have produced. pro-duced. Huperlorlty In numbers tnakre the Jersey a more practical animal than her rivals. The animal thut naturally la matched against the Jersey Is the (luernsey. The Guernsey hss ber good point and doubtless merits the friends she has won. If you like (liiernseya better than Jeraeya, that may be a reason why you may succeed better with them. I am frank to ad mil that my personal preference for Jerseys doubtless haa been a factor In my success with Jersey. Hut Betting aside personal likes and dislikes, II Is far easier for the beginner to start with Jeraeya, because ao many more bulls of that breed are kept than of fluemseya. Consequently, there Is fsr less escuse for Inbreeding, and the breeder easily ran find thn bloodlines that ha needs In hla herd without the eipense of frequently buying a bull. Another point In favor of th Jersey row la her medlumsmall also. Ki-perlmenta Ki-perlmenta have proved that It requires re-quires about 1 pound of balanced ration per day tn auatnln esrh 100 pounds of an animals live weight: Ihe dairy product and gcJ " '1 I've weight are made from what r ed 1 an be asslmllsted In escess of the bus Islnlng ration. Then If the DOu pound cow will produce aa much dairy product prod-uct In 10 years aa will the 1, too pound cow, can we afford to carry thla eilra (no pounds of live weight for a term of 10 yrsrs at a coat of So.COO pound of feed, just for the estra G00 pounds ol poor beef we would have at the end of that time? Just the Item of estra cost of barn room for the larger animal ani-mal fur the 10 year wonld overbalance overbal-ance tb value of Ihe eilra amount of beef. However, If there I aurh a thing aa a practical dual purpose row It Is to be found In Borne of tbe families fam-ilies of large Jeraeya. Th popular demand for large cowa made It necessary for me to carry a family of large Jeraey during th Inst 10 year. This family of row weighed from 1,100 to 1,100 pounds each, but In our families of amaller j row w had a far greater proportion that would make I pounda of butter per day, and they woulil do It on less feed. Laat but not leaal lo thla brief summing sum-ming up of th most salient arellen-clr arellen-clr of the Jeraey, I place her beauty. No other member of th whole bovine family ran for a moment romps re ' with her. fihe la the prettiest cow " QpT" there la. Her prominent aye and e-prrsalve e-prrsalve countenance, together with her alert, dress-parade attitude, win for ber tb admiration of all lover of the beautiful. Her rapabllltle In point of looks ar so great that It real-ly real-ly haa to be admitted that In some famllle beauty hss been cultivated at (he eipenae of other and more Important Im-portant characteristics. The Car ef Lamb. I At eight lo ten daya of age lambs j will begin to eat. At that time a creep should be built which will give them access to a feed boi containing grain and a trough with bay. Hoi. trough and feed ahould always be kept awret and clean. A good grain ration for lambs la made aa follows: Mil one-third part of ollmeal with one part each of bran, oat and fin cornmval. Hed alfalfa hay or the aerond rutting of alfalfa hay ar th moat dealrabl form of roughage. Of the two alfalfa I to b much preferred. It Is a good Idea to keep np tk grain feed right along until Ihe lamb ar sent to msrket. Ily ao doing tb lambs ar kept fat all the time and ar ready to be turned Into rash on short nolle should th market take a udden rise. |