Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — CATTLE AT THE FAIR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CATTLE AT THE FAIR.

BIG\ EXHIBIT OF HIGH-GRADE JERSEYS. Milkers Valued at IS IS,OOO that Produce 1,047 Pounds of Butter Annually—Calves from Which a Veal Cutlet Would Cost 917,500. Costly Cotvs. Chicago correspondence: Trudging away down in tho southeast corner of Jackson Park, visitors to the grounds occasionally meet a man in top boots, with milk spattered on them, and with a milk-pail of greater or less capacity in one hand. There is a suggestiveness of the country about him not in keeping with the World’s Columbian Exposition, Visitors who have drunk Chicago milk down-town can’t reconcile the man to the scheme of metropolitan life. It looks like a mistake. It is not, however. Down in cattle house No. 1 are the most famous of America’s Jersey milch cows and every morning the milkman squeezes the udder of a cow valued at $15,000. There are forty-four of these animals

gathered by the American .Jersey Cattie Club, of New York, from twenty-two States. They are entered in the great; dairy competition, by which Is to be determined the best grade of dairy cows. Haltered by twos in double rows ■ of stalls separated by a passageway twptttyxieet wide, these- animals enjoy a uniform temperature of 00 degrees. They are, bedded knee deep in straw, and an air of tidiness prevails ■ qultoi in keopingwith animals valued at sls a pound, Among the States represented in this stable are; Alabama, ;{; Connecticut,

6; lowa, 3; Illinois, 2; Kentucky, 6; New York, 7; New Jersey, 4; Massachusetts, 3; Michigan, 1; Minnesota, 1; Ohio, 1; Missouri, 2; Wisconsin, 2; Pennsylvania, 3; Vermont, 1. Alabama leads with the champion butter-maker of America. This cow is Signal’s Lily Flag, with a rocord of 1,047 pounds of butter in one year. She is tho property of W. E. Matthews, of Huntsville. Ala., and she is valued at $16,000. Massachusetts comes next in order with Euro-

tlsslma, an ex-champion, with a record of 947 pounds of butter in a year. This animal is owned by D. F. Appleton, of the Waltham Watch Company. Islip Lonx, with a record of 700 pounds, ranks next. She is owned by Judge Foster, of Minnesota. Little Goldy, belonging to Mr. Matthews, of Huntsville, Ala., has a record of 34 pounds ounces of butter In one week. Alteration, of the same herd, has a record of 34 pounds and 4 an ounce for. the same period. Taking the past records of the forty-four cows, their average, per head, is 19 pounds of butter each week. Separated from Ihe cows in little pens arc four calves, the oldest but three weeks old, and yet it was chowing hay, wh -n your correspondent made his visit, with the gravity of a pine-woods ox. As a general thing kind-hearted people who sec these little animals quit eating veal. They are of a beautiful fawn color, slender in limb, and out of their great black eyes is a look of innocence that might well make a butcher falter. However, veal cutlets are seldom made out of these animals. Assistant Superintendent Goodell estimates that an average cutlet from one of these calves—breaded, of course, with potatoes on the sidp-?-would come to about $17.50. Tiie iirst of the calves born on the Ex] osition grounds is the property of Frederick bionson, president of the New York Coaching Club. Chief Buchanan has asked the privilege of naming the little aristocrat, but while he is searching for a title, John, the colored attendant, has dubbed her "Baby Bronson.” John watches over the baby in hes crated bex as solicitously as a nurse would watch a princess, and he declares his ward has as much sense as most babies. The whole herd of Jerseys is in charge of V. E. Fuller, Superintendent for the American Jersey Cattle Club, which makes the exhibit. They wo< <» selected from 30,000 standard-bred cows. The roster of the exhibitors includes the three Vanderbilts, John D. Rockefeller,

Theodore A. Havemever, C. I. Hooa, H. M. Flagler, all New York millionaires; John Boyd, of Chicago; Ayes and McKinney, of Philadelphia; and J. J. Richardson, of lowa. It Is said the club membership represents more

wealth than any other organization in the country. With such wealth to back'the management the cows are treated like royal beings. They are bedded as luxuriously as can be with straw, the floors ara

scrubbed dally with a solut’on of lime and water, the drains aro purified with dilute sulphuric acid, and their diet is as hygienic as if they were patients in a hospital. Milk from Ihe Jerseys is sold to people who call for it, and the demand Is much greater than the supply. “There are not less than ten babies, ” said Assistant Superintendent Goodoll, “whose lives depend on these eows. Physicians had given them up to die, prescribing as a last resort tho milk of theso Jerseys. You can imagine with what eagerness tho parents of these children applied lor the privilege of purchasing. In nearly every case the babes improved from the first.” A shipment of Guernsey cows waß received the othor day and the animals installed in shed 2. There are twelve of these cows from the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut, but keepers in charge aro under instructions not to give out information. The shipment is the first sent out by the American Guernsey Cattle Club, with headquarters at Farmington, Conn. Other shipments are expected in a few days. Currencies Condensed. The Missouri Scnato killed the antipool selling bill. The Ann Arbor railway strike is practically ended. The free fold in the United States Treasury now amounts to over $5,000,000. The Whisky Trust passed its dividend. It is said none will be declared for a year. Warden Brown, of Sing Sing prison, has tendered his resignation, which Will be accepted. It is said ex-Congressman Blount, of Georgia, will head the Commission to be sent to Huwaii. Burglars secured so,ooo in a raid on the Farmers A Tradtrs’ Bank at Montgomery City, Mo. The Maryland courts have decided that the Henry George s;ngle-tax scheme is unconstitutional. The National Convention of Republican Clubs will be held at Louisville, Ky., May 10 and 11. George Winn, a vagrant negro, was sold under (lie Missouri vagrancy law

at Fayette, Mo., to Charles McCampbell, of Glen Eden Springs, for S2O. Two Indians were killed in a row with soldiers at the Mount Vernon Barracks, near Mobile, Ala. Baron Fava, Italian Minister at "Washington, gave a dinner in honor of King Humbert’s birthday. The Union Loan A Trust Company’s building at Ogden, Utah, burned. Loss, $125,000; insurance, $55,000. The pressure of rising water in the Mississippi lUver caused the levee which protects the lands of the Illinois

bottoms in Lime Lake district, opposite Canton, Mo., to bieak, and the lands are being overflowed. A cemetery vault at Denver was broken open and two coffins demolished. The body of an infant was stolen, rings and other jewelry were taken from the body of a woman, and the silver handles and plate of a casket were broken off and carried away.

“EUROTISSIMA.”

BOVINE AVENUE—AMONG THE STOCK BARNS.

THE $15,000 COW.

AMONG THE JERSEY COWS.

"BABY BRONSON.”