THE JERSEY COW—GETTING FOUND OUT.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1918, Page 7

THE JERSEY COW—GETTING FOUND OUT.

To the Editor. Sir. —lu delivering a frontal attack, whitii tl)e Jersey people to minimise its ellcct, call • ! «d<le-stcjjpiiig," X pricked the distended windbag of Jersey pretensions with up-to-date, unrefutable Jiguro;> from the actual workings oi companies, and your readers and 1 stood aside waiting for the great escape of "hot air" that would foilow- "Well, wo got what we looked for in the president's letter in Tuesday's News, hut this letter contained a lot of wind as follows: "My friend of the unmentionable name, my friend with the wrong name, Mr. Wright whose name should liave (been Mi*. Wron™*, etc." 11he.se personalities are 110 doubt regarded in Jersey circles as the very highest efforts in argument, but let one assure the J.J3. society that they don't hurt, for I really enjoy them, knowing that they are the wincings of the galled jade. In stripping tlio camouflage off the pocket-picking Jersey, I have left some very sore spots amongst recent buyers, that a reformer abvay s meets abuse, and ii 13 tille loser who invariably loses his temper and gets ugly, and nothing could ho much uglier tlvau the above" quotations. However, it is- the old story of "no cast, abuse the .plaintiff's attorney." Then we have tlo ungenerous sneer about public busmesa delaying my retdy, hut if the worthy preoident of ifche JMs[ were like me, chairman of a. county equal to Stratford, director of a meat freezing works, a dairy factory, with five places to look after, and ail my eons in the firing line in France and Egypt, I -would certainly extend ihim that consideration common courtesy demands, Ibut it shows, tho type of person I am dealing with, one who looks around in desperation for anything to heave my way. I wonder* Sir, how yon would rate men, who, at a conference say of newspaper proprietor?,, or directors of freezing co.'s would go in for these' personalities Just another instance of how tho Jersey keeps upi her reputation as a robber cow occurred in tho Wellington (Harbor Uoajxi's cheese store, where the fat from the stewing cheese (temperature 70 degrees), so it was per&istently rumored, ran into the harbor. There wu.s a sort of a shuffling denial of it, -but lit was true all right, and tlus fat came from cheese charged with the surplus fat that we are toH makes such good cheese (?). JTowfor tho business end. Your read'era wero treated by Mr. Ranford to a column of unmitigated piffle, the Otauto factory figures which show only 4-llbs of whey birfoter at 1/3 for every ton of cheese made, or .010 per cent, giving the lie direct to every single figure quoteil from that early Victorian writer (Long), whose hcrd'book has been so many years obsolete and fly-'blown that in second-hand booksellers' shops it was found in the 'hos marked "your choice, twopence-" Poor old Long, fancy him being resurrected to bolster up jerseys, with his last century figures, which compared with JJ./C. factory returns are like bullock drays to motor cars for speed. This quotation, which tho ABS. considered was something telling, is only doddering imbecility-about a trial in Chicago of j Jerseys. Guernseys and Shorthorns, these being the three important breeds (in choirs and places where tliev sing, here follows slow music!). Mow this trial occurred cither before tlie Holsteins had overrun America or elso Hie ilMstein return was too favorable to publish. Anyhow l'Mfl figures .show tho number of U S.A. registrations, Jersey ifi.SST,, Holstein 72,005, Guernsey 11 ,594, the membership of the Breed Association for tho same year being: Jerseys CSS, JTolsteins SS3). Guernseys 530 (the invincible Holbein again), and it is news to people who in the dairying world keep abreast of things to read that in America tho Shorthorn was considered a. dairy animal.

From Chicago wo are taken by the

J.'B.S. who are still hanging on to the old •renturian coat-tails for frim life, to New York, then to the west of England, anywhere but to Bell Block and Ofcauto, where those unansweralbb questions to the J.B.S. are still blocking the war awaiting an answer. I have given far too much time to Long, but when I am specially asked to read that this ancient

party says "particular attention is drawn to the fact that tlwre is a, greater los.s of fat in poor milk than rich," then

I am quite justified, Sir, in adopting Gorgon Graham's instruction to Hi is son ("Self-made Merchant's Letters"), "Never discuss questions wjtli people who do not understand them." Even Mr. JVeeth, who has earned tho undying respect of Holsteiners for speaking out tho truth, says there is no whey butter in 3.5 milk. I hope shortly to go into standardized ml 11c and legal standard cheese, and I hope that every Ayrshire, Holstein and Shorthorn man will rise up in the audience when they know that milk with 3-105 !B.F. produces thi 3 cheese, that the average test for the Colony is 3.762, and assist in getting their own, as they would do at Otauto, where Jersey milk is unknown. Meanwhile let the J.U.S. put up a man to rep'v, not a, Kip Van Winkle who, after thirty years' skep same iback with "nothing of the dog and very little of the gun," tho guu in this case heing Long'g last century handbook—l am, etc, W. I!. WEIGHT. Eahotu, Bth August, 1011 S.