Jerseys at the World's Fair.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 248, 24 February 1894, Page 4

Jerseys at the World's Fair.

Here is the choice fashion in which the Chicago Times talks of the Jerseys at the great exhibition: — "Mr Signal's Lrty Flag lay on a pile of straw and chewed her cud just as calmly as if she were not the champion Jersey cow of the earth, and worth 15,000 dollars at that. A group of cowmen stood about looking awe* somely upon her ladyship as the chewed, ■nd talked with respectful voices about how she had produced 10471 b. of butter in one little year — for that is Lily Fine's record. There was one coarse fellow from Missouri on the ground who wanted the Lilj punched up so he could look at her legs But Superintendent Davis gare him a look that went through him like the trenchant tin blade of a Columbian guard. Aud the Lily chewed and chewed. Lily Flag is not the only cow on the grounds, though. There are three barns full of them already. All cows — there are no cattle there. Blue-blooded and aristocratic cows, with poetic Dames and pedigrees longer and more specific than the pedigreo of a Spanish grandee. It would not be a good place to go and buy a cow or two. You can get a new and very wobbly -kneed calf out there for 100 or 200 dollars, but if you want a whole cow in fall blossom you will need * pocketful of Government bonds. Kaoh of the barns leads to a warm, light, well ventilated building, and each contains a double row of stalls with abundant aisles for feeding and milking purposes and the passage of Ftablemen. In the Jersey barn are fifty«tbree high -born and dainty Jerseys. They come from eighteen States. They are worth no less then 50.UK) dollars, enough to buy a whole range of Texas steers. Each of them has abundant clean straw for a bed, care* fully regulated quantities of ensilage, carrots and such like to eat, and there are plenty of obsequious attendants to se«? that all is comfortable. Twice a day each, cow is respect! ully milked, and some of the milkers wear creased trousers and diamonds. If a cow chances to be lying down when milking time comes, the milker politely takes off his cap and taps the high-priced creature gently _ until she chooses to rise. There arc signs on tlie walls like these:— 'Do not disturb the cows when ljing down/ 'Do not talk to milkers.'"