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•THE ST. LAMBERT"

Mary Anne of St. Lambert.

FAMILY OF

JERSEYS.

BY

Valancky E. Fuller.

/

ST. OMER HERD

A. J. C. C.

HEADED BY

ST. OMER'S EXILE,

a pure St. Lambert. Sou of that greatest of bulls, living or dead,

EXILE OF ST. LAMBERT,

who proves the great elaims made for him by being the sire of
^^ -seventy eight daughters, ivitJi reeords of i^ lbs. to J2 lbs., and
quite a number yet to hear from, who, zvhen old enough, will
add still greater lustre to this matehless performanee.

BUT THE MOST WONDERFUL PART

of it is that notivithstanding he was bred to anything and every-
thing that eame along, yet, with his zvonderful prepoteney, he
almost zvithout exeeption

SIRED LARGE, STRONG COWS WITH PERFECT UD-
DERS AND GOOD TEATS, GOOD DISPO-
SITION AND GREAT CONSTITUTION,

whe7i judged by their great and persistent ability to give a large
flow of rieli milk, year in and year out.

MANY OF HIS DAUGHTERS IN THIS HERD HAVE

RECORDS OF 6,000 TO 7,000 lbs. OF MILK WITH

FIRST CALF AT TWO YEARS OLD,

SHOWING 5% TO 6.2% FAT,

30284

and this trait docs not stop zvitli his daughters, for in more
than one instance liave his

GRANDDAUGHTERS GIVEN AN AVERAGE OF OVER
7,000 lbs. WITH FIRST CALVES,

taking a bnnch of six or more together, and this on regular dairy

rations, zvithont }in\> frefitration or forcing.

There are fithe,r' Oiilts ivith great records as producers of
• ''''■'
great eozvs, but ivJieii you take into account the many different

unskilled dairymen ivho ozvn and have tested these daughters of

Exile, the greatness of this old bull grozvs on you, and you are

forced to t/ie belief that not one in ten tliousand li'ill ever reach

his wonderful record.

THEN WHY WASTE TIME TRYING OTHER STRAINS?

IN THE ST. OMER HERD

ARE TWENTY-FOUR DAUGHTERS AND MORE THAN
THIS NUMBER OF GRANDDAUGHTERS,

and a better lot of good business cows, averaging 7 gallo)is
daily, or better,

WITH PERFECT UDDERS AND GOOD TEATS,
BACKED BY GREAT CONSTITUTION,

is hard to find.

WE CAN KURNISti

you with double grandsons and daughters with 50% to 62 1-2%
of the blood of this greatest of all sires.

Study the breeding of St. Omcr's Exile and see if you don't
think he is likely to perpetuate the great name of his sire.

Address JOS. T. HOOFER,

By num. Md.

THE ST. LAMBERT FAMILY
OF JERSEYS.

By Valancey E. Fuller.

MARY ANNE OF ST. LAMBERT 9770.
(Bought by V. E. Fuller from Wm. Rolph, Markham, Ontario.)

It is the intention in this pamphlet to give a detailed history of the impor-
tation of the foundation of the St. Lambert herd, tracing it through the hands
•of the Stephens, its founders, reciting matters connected with its develop-
ment, until the dairy world was startled by the work of Mary Anne of St.
Lambert, Ida of St. Lambert, Mermaid of St. Lambert, and others of this
family at my farm, "Oaklands," Hamilton, Ontario. It is also proposed to
give the "inner lights" of how the "St. Lamberts" were launched to fame in
the "boom" days ; the enormous prices realized ; the individual character-
istics of such of the family as Mary Anne of St. Lambert, Ida of St. Lambert,
Allie of St. Lambert, Mermaid of St. Lambert, Kathleen of St. Lambert, Lucy
of St. Lambert, Canada's John Bull, and others. In this connection, I will
try to give the characteristics of Stoke Pogis 3d, and his descendants, and the
same of Victor Hugo.

As it was my good fortune to bring to light the (until then) unrecognized
capacity of this great family, and to carry it into popularity ; and as I owned
■a majority of the sons and daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d, and in many instances
their dams and descendants, I think I may, without undue egotism, claim to
■be in a position to speak "by the book." None of us are growing younger.

4 The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

In years to come, as those familiar witli the facts seek new pastures, the get-
ting together of this data would be almost impossible ; yet there is hardly a
herd on this continent, nay, in some cases, in foreign climes, where you do not
find some of this blood ; so I am in hopes this history will prove of interest
and profit to readers.

The importation was made in the name of S. Sheldon Stephens, of Mon-
treal, Quebec, Canada, by Mr. Harrison Stephens, his father. Mr. Harrison
Stephens resided in Montreal from 1828 to the time of his death, and was one
of the most prominent merchants in Canada. He always took an active in-
terest in agriculture. He had three sons — Geo. Washington Stephens, one of
the substantial capitalists of Lower Canada, who served in the Cabinet of his
native province, under more than one government ; S. Sheldon Stephens, and
Romeo H. Stephens. Both the latter have been members of the American
Jersey Cattle Club, although Mr. Romeo H. Stephens resigned his member-
ship some years ago. Mr. S. Sheldon Stephens resided in Montreal at the
time of the formation of the herd, and still resides there. Mr. Romeo H.
Stephens, lately deceased, during his life made his headquarters at St. Lam-
bert, Quebec, when at home, but traveled most of his time. Mr. Harrison
Stephens had accumulated large means, and being anxious to establish Mr. S.
Sheldon Stephens as a farmer, arranged with Mr. L. P. Fowler, of Bushey
Farm, Bushey, Herts, England, to buy a herd of Jerseys for him. Mr. Jas.
Duncan Gibbs, a friend of Mr. Harrison Stephens, accompanied Mr. Fowler
when he made the purchase. Messrs. Gibbs and Fowler had carte blanche as
to price. The order was, to send out the very best specimens of the breed to
be found either in England or on the Isle of Jersey. How well they suc-
ceeded in their mission, subsequent events bear witness.

The animals were imported August 17, 18GS, and comprised the following
bulls : Defiance 196, bred at the Queen's Shaw Farm, Windsor, England,
and Victor Hugo 197, bred by J. De Veulle, St. Clements, Jersey.

The cows were Victoria 411, Pride of Windsor 483, Amelia 484 and Juliet
485, all bred by Her Majesty the Queen, and Alice 488, Hebe 489, Berthe 490,
Bonnie 491, Lisette 492, Ophelie 493. Pauline 494, Lydie 495, Portie 496,
Fancy 1318 and Beauty 1319. In July, 1871, Mr. Andrew Allan, of Mon-
treal, who, with his brother. Sir Hugh Allan, composed the great shipping
firm of Allan Bros., imported Taffy 5523, and she and Topsey of St. Lambert
(imported in her dam, Taffy) were added to the herd. Later on Stoke Pogis
3d 2238 was purchased by Mr. Romeo H. Stephens from his breeder, Peter
Leclair, of Winooski, Vermont, and added to the St. Lambert herd. The
original herd, as owned by the two Stephens, consisted of the 2 bulls, 15 cows
imported August 17, 1868, Taffy and Topsey of St. Lambert (before men-
tioned) and Stoke Pogis 3d 2238; so that, to be technically speaking a pure
St. Lamhert, an animal must have as foundation, without an out-cross, one of
the following bulls : Defiance 196, Victor Hugo 197, or Stoke Pogis 3d 2238,
and the following cows: Victoria 411, Pride of Windsor 283, Amelia 484,
Juliet 485, Alice 488, Hebe 489, Berthe 490, Bonnie 491, Lisette 492, Ophelie
493, Pauline 494, Lydie 495, Portie 496, Fancy 1338, Beauty 1319, Taffy 5523
or Topsey of St. Lambert 5524.

This is, according to my judgment, the "technical" definition of a "pure
St. Lambert." It is only my individual opinion. It may be no more correct
than those who differ from me, and I know there are many such. They claim
that the term "pure St. Lambert" should include, beside the animals specified,
the descendants of Stoke Pogis 1259, imp., and Marjoram 3239, imp., and
not be limited to Stoke Pogis 3d ; and there is a great show of reason in their
argument. They claim that inasmuch as Stoke Pogis 3d was. by my conten-
tion, the most potent factor in the St. Lambert family, and he could only
have inherited his groat prepotency through his sire and dam, the inheritance
of Stoke Posis 3d is common to Stoke Pogis 5th. Leclair's Marjoram, and
Marjoram 2d. full brother and full sisters, respectively, of Stoke Pogis 3d,
and they ought to be classed as pure St. Lamberts. While these three ani-
mals may not be "technically" pure St. Lamberts, they are practically so.

The St. Lamheri Family of Jerseys. 5

They have the same common inheritance. This narrows it down to a question
of prepotency, which it is not my province to discuss in this pamphlet. Let
us reverse matters. Suppose Stoke Pogis 5th had been used in the St. Lam-
bert herd in place of Stoke Pogis 3d. Would the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d
have been less valuable on that account? Every one will admit that apart
from the contributing cause of the "nick" With "Victor Hugos," the value of
the get and descendants of Stoke Pogis 3d would have been equally as great.
Many claim that my definition is a "distinction without a difference." Practi-
cally it is so ; technically it is not. Again, others claim that Stoke Pogis, Mar-
joram, Matilda and Violet 3d, having been bred from Philip Dauncey Stock,
and all being imported from England at the same time by Peter Leclair, their
descendants must be classed as "pure St. Lamberts." Upon the same line of
reasoning, and with better foundation, it might be claimed that Rioter 2d and
Dolphin 2d should be classed as "pure St, Lamberts ;" yet no one ever makes
such a claim, nor if made would it be entertained. The general belief that
Marjoram was what is called "pure Dauncey" is incorrect. This much must
be conceded in all fairness: that while the descendants of Stoke Pogis 5th,
Leclair's Marjoram and Marjoram 2d are not "technically" pure St. Lam-
berts, according to my conception of it, they are practically so, having one
common inheritance, and are consequently equally valuable, dependent upon

SOME "AMERICAN BEAUTIES" IN MRS. ADDA F. HOWIE'S HERD.

the prepotency of each. Stoke Pogis 3d could inherit nothing but what was
given him through his sire and dam, an inheritance common to his full broth-
ers and sisters.

STEPHENS HERD LOCATED.

The herd was not taken to St. Lambert when first imported, as is generally
believed, but was kept on a farm, by Mr. S. Sheldon Stephens, on the lower
Lachine Road, near Montreal, which had been bought for him by his father.
They were kept there for several years, and while on this farm the name "St.
Lambert" was never used. Mr. S. Sheldon Stephens devoted his entire time
and attention to his Jerseys and agricultural pursuits, more for pleasure than
profit. The records of the A. J. C. C. show that Victor Hugo was sold by
S. S. Stephens to Z. G. Simmons of Kenosha, Wis., February 1, 1871, and
that he remained in the possession of Mr. Simmons until Februai-y, 1878,
when he sold him to R. S. Houston, of the same place. In later years I cor-
responded with one of these gentlemen with regard to Victor Hugo, while this
bull was in Wisconsin, and found that he had been used principally on grades,
but his get were uncommonly fine, and were very much thought of.

While the herd was in the possession of S. Sheldon Stephens, he bred the
following bulls : Lord Monck 304, Frontenac 492, Gaspe 493, Montmorenci
494, Montcalm 495, Megantic 496, Robcrval 497, Laval 506, Lord Lisgar 1066,
Lord Aylmar 1067. aiid Orloff 3143.

6 The 8t. Lamhei't Family of Jerseys.

Of the above, Orloff and Lord Lisgar were the only bulls that were trans-
ferred by S. Sheldon Stephens to liomeo II. Stephens.

" The following were some of the sales of the original importation : Hebe
489, to N. R. Boutelle, Waterville, Maine; Berthe 490, to John Shedden,
Montreal, May 20, 1871; Bonnie 491, to William Redden of Plantagenet,
Quebec, June 28, 1871 ; Lisette 492, to S. Hickson, general manager of the
Grand Trunk Railroad, Montreal, June 0, 1872.

Of course there is a large number of descendants of this original importa-
tion which were transferred to Romeo H. Stephens by S. Sheldon Stephens,
but their number is too great to enumerate. I am told, though, by members
of the family that only the very choicest selection of S. S. Stephens' herd was
handed over to Romeo II. Stephens and taken to St. Lambert.

Mr, R. H. Stephens personally told me of his acquisition of Stoke Pogis 3d,
which he bought from Peter Leclair, of Winooski, Vt. He said that, having
inbred his cows as much as he thought he could afford to do, he made up his
mind he must get an out-cross ; so he journeyed to Winooski to see Mr. Leclair,
to ascertain if he could make a trade for a bull that he had. This was in the
winter time. Mr. Leclair was practising law at that time in Winooski. The
farm being some distance, they started to drive out to it in the depth of win-
ter. The climate of Vermont is exceedingly cold and these gentlemen took
the precaution to have with them the "wherewithal" to withstand the rigorous
climate. It must have warmed the cockles of their hearts, and been pro-
ductive of good-fellowship, because before the farm was reached Mr. Stephens
decided to return without seeing the bull, taking Mr. Leclair's statement and
concluding the purchase.

That it was a wonderfully wise one has been more than demonstrated by
the great notoriety attained by this bull, through his unquestioned inheritance
and powers of transmission. That the purchase was accidental, and that Mr.
Stephens had no conception of the value of Stoke Pogis 3d, I have no reason to
doubt. Inasmuch as. in my judgment, for the reasons that I will enumerate
later. Stoke Pogis 3d was the controlling influence in this family, so far as
ability at the pail and churn is concerned, it is desirable that a full account
should be given of the breeding of the ancestors of this bull, and the purchase
by Mr. Leclair of the sire and dam. Of course all these facts are known to
old breeders, but are not so familiar to younger ones.

EARLY IMPORTATIONS FROM ENGLAND.

The importation made from England, by Mr. Peter Leclair in 1873, con-
sisted of Stoke Pogis 1259 A. J. C. C. (846 E. H. B.), Matilda 3238 A. J. C.
C, Marjoram 3239 A. J. C. C, and Violet 3d 3240, the last three being pur-
chased at the closing-out sale of Wm. George Duncan's herd at Bradwell,
Stony Stratford, Bucks, on Thursday, April 24, 3873. Stoke Pogis, Matilda
and Violet 3d. partaking as they do so largely of the blood of the herd of Mr.
Philip Dauncey, and Marjoram of the blood of the herd of Mr. Wm. Geo.
Duncan, it will be necessary to make an extended reference to both of these
herds, the purity of their blood, and their standing in England. With this
purpose in view, I glean largely from the English Herd Book, published in
1880, under the authorship of Mr. Jno. Thornton (the Secretary of the Eng-
lish Jersey Cattle Society) and a committee of some of the very best breeders
in England, and men of the highest standing, business ability and integrity,
who devoted months of labor and careful research, both in England and on
the Island, before the publication of the Herd Book.

MR. PHILIP DAUNCEY

was born in the previous century. At the time of the publication of the Eng-
lish Herd Book, in 1880, the following reference was made to him : "Mr.
Philip Dauncey of Horwood may justly claim to be the father of Jersey
breeders in England. Although in his 85th year, his memory is still clear,
and his zeal and activity for the improvement of the breed, and for developing
its production of butter, are as gi-eat as ever. ITis private herd book is full

The 8t. Lambert Family of Jerseys. 7

of quaint and instructive remarks exceedingly interesting to those engaged in
breeding Jerseys. With a great taste for rural pursuits, a keen sportsman,
and a rare lover of a good horse, he went to reside in Swaubourne (which is
in Bucks) in 1821."

The Herd Book goes on to relate that at that time he owned a Suffolk cow ;
he also purchased a cow called Pug, which had been imported by Mr. Michael
Fowler from the Island of Jersey, and which so often appears in the pedi-
grees of the Dauncey stock. Testing her, he found that though she gave but
11 quarts — 27i^ lbs. — of milk, she made lOi/a lbs. of butter a week, as against
1014 lbs. of butter from the Suffolk cow, which gave 21 quarts — 52% lbs. —
of milk per day. His mind was then made up as to the breed of cows he
would keep. He moved from Swanbourne to Horwood four years afterward,
and there began the actual work of building up his herd in 1826 by the pur-
chase of Pope 652 E. H. B., the ancestor which so often appears in the pedi-
grees hereafter referred to, particularly in those of Stoke Pogis and Matilda.
Pope was imported from the Island of Jersey by INIr. Michael Fowler, and
sold by him to Philip Dauncey.

Speaking of some of the individual cows, the Herd Book says : "Bru-
nette, which many considered the best cow at his sale, was a great favorite,
and her blood permeated the whole herd. Mr. Dauncey heard of her dapi as
a wonderful cow, which had made 17 lbs. of butter in one week. He rode
thirty miles to see her. Mr. Dauncey did not conclude to purchase at that
time." Later, while hunting with the Duke of Grafton, he heard that a cow
at Cold Higham was an extraordinary butter-maker, and on pulling up at the
farm to look at her, Mr. Dauncey at once identified his old acquaintance, Mr.
Wight's cow. Knowing of Welch 930 E. H. B., a very good young bull which
he had bred, hard by, he offered Mr. Clarke, as she was then fresh calved,
three pounds for her next calf, if he would send the cow to this bull. The
produce was Brunette, a beautiful and most useful cow, producing altogether
fourteen calves, "which was pushed into the brook by another cow and
drowned. Brunette milked well to the last." Violet was another celebrated
cow. She was Island bred and came from Col. Le Couteur's herd, in May,
1845.

"The herd at Horwood, as a rule, was kept up to fifty cows, which gen-
erally yielded, in butter alone, a thousand pounds a year. The butter always
went to London, and for many years Her Majesty's table was supplied with
it. The greatest yield was the first week in June, 1867, when the entire herd
of fifty cows made 10% lbs. each cow, and 9% lbs. over." This was for every
cow in the herd, young and old, dry or not dry. The average produce the
same year, for the whole herd, was within the slightest fraction of 7 lbs. per
head per week, dry or milking. Twenty-two quarts (55 lbs.) was the highest
record for any cow in one day. The reader must bear in mind that an Eng-
lish or imperial quart is about one-fifth in excess of an American quart, each
imperial quart weighing 2% lbs.

"At last, increasing years, declining health and domestic bereavement in-
duced Mr. Dauncey to offer the entire herd at auction. So strong, however,
was his love for his cows that, feeling better, he withdrew the sale when an-
nounced for the spring. Autumn's falling leaf again shook his resolution,
and on October 24. 1867, the herd was actually sold." An eye-witness of the
sale states : "Nothing but grays, as they are termed, had been admitted at
Horwood, although with certain shades, from the light-reddish tint to the
duns, fawns, smoke-cojored. with black markings, black tongues and tan
muzzles. Mr. Dauncey has been a breeder rather than a buyer, in which he
has acquired more size and constitution. In going through the herd the first
thing that struck the visitor was their fine size and level looks. There were
but few of those ragged, razor-backed bags of bones so often supposed to
typify good milkers ; but most of the cows carried some flesh, with thick,
kindly coats, and other such attributes of the hardy, healthy animal. What
with their free, graceful carriage and kindly, placid manners they bore about
them the very impress of highly-bred, but not over-bred animals. Long and

8 The St. Lambert Family of Jersey's.

low, level but not fat, their symmetry and condition were equally admirable.
No wonder that the Squire is loth to part with them, now that he has
fashioned them, as it were, all of a family, for to sketch one is to portray the
whole herd. The same dark pointing of the same somber garments is the very
livery of the tribe, set off by the gamely-tanned muzzle, the blood-like necks
and light, deer-like limbs and movements."

In Volume II. of the E. H. B. it is stated "Lord Braybrooke's herd in
Essex, Mr. Selby Lowndes', Mr. Dauncey's in Buckinghamshire, and the Rev.
John Hill's in Shropshire, are among the very few herds that have been kept
pure for half a century." This was written in 1880. As Mr. Dauncey often
bred on to the Whaddon cow, I quote again from the E. H. B., where it says :
"The herd at Whaddon is, however, of anterior date to that at Horwood."

W. G. DUNCAN'S HERD
was hardly of less notoriety than that of Mr. Dauncey, although established
at a later date. The E. H. B. says: "The late Mr. W. G. Duncan's herd at
Bradwell ranked next to that at Horwood. It had been bred upon the farm
since 1849 from imported cows. Bulls were also imported, or bred from im-
ported cows. Gipsy, the dam of one of them, yielded 17 lbs. of butter for
several weeks after calving, and gave 21 quarts (52% lbs.) of milk a day.
The Dauncey blood was introduced after the sale, as well as a strain from
Whaddon. Like Horwood, the herd was celebrated for its extraordinary
yield of butter. In 22 years an average of 29 cows yielded from udder prod-
uce alone £14,722 ($71,348.92), or an annual profit of £23 (?111.78) for
each cow. Color was studied, and the cows were generally of a uniform gray
fawn, with black points. In size they were a little smaller than those at
Horwood (Philip Dauncey's), and, except one tribe with rather cocked horns,
showed little coarseness."

When the herd was dispersed, April 24, 1873, at which time Mr. Philip
Leclair purchased his three cows, it averaged £40 5s. 2d. ($195.69) per head,
an extraordinary average in those days. I again quote from the E. H. B. :
"Mr, Coleman's herd, at Stoke Park, which was mainly dispersed in 1879,
had been bred from Mr. Duncan's, Mr. Simpson's and Mr. Dauncey's stocks.
The cows generally were of large frame, principally silver grays, and many of
them great milkers. The Rev. Dr. Booth, at Stone, Aylesbury, and Mr. Acton
Tlndal, of Aylesbury, both kept good herds as far back as 1860. They bred
from Mr. Dauncey's stock. Dr. Booth had one celebrated cow of the Dauncey
blood that gave 26 quarts (65 lbs.) daily."

These are all matters of "ancient history," but inasmuch as the quotations
extracted from the E. H. B. (which is official and authoritative) relate to
animals which appear in the pedigrees of Stoke Pogis, Marjoram, Violet 3d,
Matilda, Rioter 2d and Dolphin 2d, they cannot help but be intei-esting to the
numerous breeders scattered throughout the United States and Canada who
have the descendants of these animals in their herds. It proves that these
.Jerseys, from the middle of the century — and even in some cases anterior to
that — when the Jersey cow had not been developed to the extent she has since
been, stood out as peers of all the Jerseys in England or elsewhere ; and con-
sidering that they had not the benefit of high feeding and forcing, which have
been later practised in this country, the yields spoken of are enormous, and
in many cases even exceed some large ones of to-day.

GREAT CONSTITUTION.

Apart from their ability at the pail and churn, the Philip Dauncey cattle
were noted for their great constitution and larger size as compared to IsJand-
bred ones. Mr. Dauncey's system was to breed from descendants of one bull,
without taking in out-cross for years, whereby the animals having become ac-
climated and subjected to heavier feeding and gazing in pasture, gained in
constitution and size. Doubtless this was also contributed to by the fact thar
nearly three before they calved.

The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys. i)

Mr. Duncan's system of breeding differed from tliat of Philip Dauncey,
as his custom was (as shown in the pedigree of Marjoram) to breed an Island
bull unto one of his cows, and then take an out-cross from the Island of
Jersey. Both of them were most skilled breeders, and the beneficial results
following the introduction into this country of this noted blood has but con-
tributed to perpetuate the skill of these two famous English breeders. Al-
though the only two factors in the importation from England that enter into
the St. Lambert family are Stoke Pogis and Marjoram, there are other animals
imported from England in the early days that are so interwoven in their
history with them that, for a better understanding of the matter, it would be
of interest to readers to learn of the ancestors of Stoke Pogis, Marjoram,
Matilda, Violet 3d, Rioter 2d and Dolphin 2d. Marjoram, Violet 2d and
Matilda were all bred by Mr. Wm. George Duncan. Violet 3d, on the sire's
side, is 25 per cent, of Philip Dauncey breeding and 25 per cent. Duncan
breeding. On the dam's side, Violet 3d has as a dam a cow bred entirely by
Mr. Duncan. Marjoram may be called a Duncan-bred cow. I always la-
bored under the impression, until I recently ran out this pedigree (although I
did so some fifteen years ago), that Marjoram was a Dauncey-bred cow. The
only Dauncey blood she has in her is her maternal great-grandam, Blossom,
bred by Philip Dauncey.

Dolphin 2d, known in England as "Young Dolphin" 247 E. H. B., was
bred by Col. F. M. Wilson, of Stowlantoft Hall, Suffolk, his sire being a
Dauncey-bred bull. Rioter 2d was bred by the Marquis of Bristol, but was
Dauncey-bred. Matilda was bred by Mr. Wm. Geo. Duncan ; was on sire's
side Dauncey-bred, and on the dam's side Duncan-bred. It will be seen that
all the animals above referred to, with the exception of Marjoram, partake
largely of the Dauncey line of breeding. Marjoram was very close to imported
blood all the way through. I will endeavor to give some conception of the
ancestry of each, starting with

STOKE POGIS 1259 A. .7. C. C.,

sire of Stoke Pogis 3d, Stoke Pogis 5th and some most noted cows. Mr. Philip
Dauncey bought the cow Pug imported from Jersey in 1821. The following
cows were the foundation of Stoke Pogis 1259 : Imp. Pug, the cow before
referred to; the "Dauncey cow," dam of Cardinal 157 E. H. B. (all male an-
cestors of Stoke Pogis 1259 imported have E. H. B. numbers) ; the Whaddon
cow, imported from Island of Jersey ; Poppy, imported and bought from Mr.
Fowler. In 1826 Mr. Michael Fowler, who was the chief exporter of Jerseys
from the Island into England, imported the bull Pope 652 and sold him to Mr.
Dauncey, who bred him to all the cows above named, coupling his daugh-
ters to the sons of Pope. He continued inbreeding the descendants of
Pope and these cows to one another from 1826 to 1845, the only exception
being in 1830, when he bred Welch 930, son of Pope and Daisy, to Mr. Wight's
cow (before specifically referred to) and produced Brunette. In other words,
the male ancestry of Stoke Pogis 1259 in each case runs back to Pope 652,
his sons being bred to his own daughters in almost -every instance, and the
result of that a grandson (when a male) being bred back to Pope's daughters
or granddaughters. This was persisted in until 1845, when Mr. Dauncey
bought the bull Fowler 332, imported from the Island of Jersey in dam. Con-
tinuing the same system of breeding, Mr. Dauncey bred Fortune to the inbred
Pope cows, and again bred sons and daughters of Fortune together and later
grandsons of Fortune to daughters of this bull. In 1845 Mr. Dauncey added
Violet, imported by Mr. Fowler, to his herd, and bred a son of Fortune (whose
dam was, of course, an inbred Pope cow) to her. Rioter 746 was the sire of
Young Rioter 751, who sired Stoke Pogis, and he was also the sire of Rioter
2d, who sired Eurotas. No other animals than the ones named appear in the
pedigree of Young Rioter, nor was there any other animal in such pedigree,
until we go five generations back on the maternal side of the dam of Stoke
Pogis. There we find that the imported bull Welchman 931 was bred to a

10 The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

great-great-granddaughter of Pope by another imported bull. Close attentioa
to the breeding indicated will show how intensely and incestuously inbred
was Stoke Pogis 1259 A. J. 0. C. He has 41 crosses of imp. Pope 652 in
eleven generations, 25 crosses of Fortune 332 (imported in dam) in eight gen-
erations, the former imported in 1826, the latter in 1845. I question if any
bull, be it on the Island of Jersey or elsewhere, can trace his lineage in un-
broken line and with such undisputable data back so far.

VIOLET 3D 3240 A. J. C. C.

was of Dauncey and Duncan breeding. Her sire, Bustler 137, was bred by
Mr. Duncan, but his dam, Bustle, was a Dauncey-bred cow, being a daugh-
ter of Rioter 746, sire of Rioter 2d 4G9 A. J. C. C, as well as grandsire and
great-grandsire of Stoke Pogis 1259 A. J. C. C. The sire of Bustler 137 E.
H. B. is entirely of Duncan breeding, and is similar to the maternal blood in
Marjoram 3239 A. J. 0. C. and Matilda 3238 A. J. C. O. The dam of Violet
3d (Violetta) is entirely of Duncan breeding, and is very similar to that of
the dam of Marjoram. Marjoram has as her maternal grandsire Gipsy 354
E. H. B., who is maternal grandsire and paternal great-grandsire of Violet 3d.

MATILDA 3238 A. J. C. C.

is, on her sire's side, an intensely and incestuously inbred Dauncey cow. On
her dam's side she is Duncan-bred, of the same line of breeding as and closely
related to Marjoram and Violet 3d. The dam of Matilda is Mattie, a 17-lb.
daughter of Bedesman 49 and Maggie. Bedesman is by Gipsy 354. The dam
of Marjoram is Magnet, a daughter of Maggie (grandam of Matilda), by
Gipsy 354 E. H. B. Mattie, the dam of Matilda, was sold at the closing-out
sale of Mr. Duncan on April 24, 1873, for 90 guineas, the highest price paid
for any animal, and only equaled by the bull Midas. The paternal great-
grandsire of Matilda is Dolphin 242, sire of Dauncey 2d 468 A. J. C. C.

So close is the relationship of Matilda to Stoke Pogis and Marjoram
combined that Matilda is almost a full sister in blood of Stoke Pogis 3d,
Stoke Pogis 5th, Leclair's Marjoram and Marjoram 2d.

Matilda had 24 crosses of Pope 652 E. H. B., imp., and 15 crosses of
Fortune 33 E. H. B., imp., the bulls that figure so largely in the pedigree of
Stoke Pogis.

RIOTER 2D 469 A. J. C. C. (212 E. H. B.),

the sire of the great Eurotas, was a Dauncey-bred bull, but not nearly so much
inbred as Stoke Pogis, Matilda or Violet 3d, having but 5 crosses of Pope
652 E. H. B., imp. ; 5 of Fortune 332 E. H. B., imp., and 2 of Fowler 335
E. H. B., yet the relationship between this bull and Stoke Pogis is very close.
Rioter 746 is the sire of Rioter 2d 469 A. J .0. C, and paternal grandsire and
maternal great-grandsire of Stoke Pogis. But in the case of Stoke Pogis,
the dam, like the sire, is very much inbred to the early Dauncey breeding,
Pope 652, while the maternal line of breeding of Rioter 2d, although Dauncey,
is of later importation, being inbred to Fortune 332 and Fowler 335 ; the
latter was used by Mr. Dauncey up to 1863. The dam of Rioter 2d has no
cross of Pope, but was produced by the usual custom of Mr. Dauncey, of in-
breeding half-brother and half-sister by the sire together whose dams were
closely related.

DOLPHIN 2D 468 A. J. C. C,

known as Young Dolphin 247 E. H. B., was bred by Col. P. M. Wilson, of
Stowlangtoft Hall, Suffolk, and was dropped March 30, 1868 ; was imported
into this country by the late Mr. Richard M. Hoe, November, 1869. Dolphin 2d
is a Dauncey bull on the sires' and dams' side, very much inbred, though more
so on the part of his paternal grandsire, whose breeding is similar to Stoke
Pogis, parts of Matilda, Violet and Rioter 2d, but more inbred to Pope 652

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E. H. B., imp., than is Rioter 2d. There is a particular interest attaching
to the breeding of

MARJORAM 3239 A. J. C. C.

for those owning St. Lambert blood. Marjoram, like Matilda and Violet 3d,
was bred by Mr. W. G. Duncan. The sire of Marjoram, Dr. Syntax, was
a grandson of Blossom, bred by Mr. Philip Dauncey, and it is only through
her that Marjoram has any Dauncey blood — namely, 121/^ per cent. — the
balance (87i/^ per cent.) is Duncan-bred. The foundation bull on the dam's
side of Marjoram is Love Apple 5121, imported in dam, 1850, and bought by
Mr. Duncan from Mr. Fowler. So far as the maternal line of breeding is
concerned, after the third generation, the system of Mr. Duncan materially
differed from that of Mr. Dauncey. Mr. Duncan bred an Island-bred bull in
each case save one to the daughters of an Island-bred bull. The exception is
the case where he bred a home-bred bull (but very close to imported blood)
to an Island-bred cow. In giving the breeding of Matilda, I referred to her
grandam, Maggie, who is also the maternal grandam of Marjoram. The con-
tinuous introduction of Island-bred animals into the pedigree of Marjoram, I
have no doubt, largely accounts for the claim that is made, that Marjoram
was of a finer type than the Dauncey-bred animals.

T. S. COOPER'S PURCHASE OF LECLAIR HERD. >

Mr. Peter Leclair's herd was at Winooski, Vt., and here were taken
Stoke Pogis, Marjoram, Violet 3d and Matilda in the summer of 1873. The
correspondence I had with Mr. Leclair in my early investigations into the
St. Lambert family, and conversations I have lately had with him, clearly
showed me that he had a very thorough appreciation of the merits of this
English-bred stock. Jerseys were not then so numerous as they are now ; and
he seems to have disposed of but comparatively few except to people in his
own locality, all of whom did not register them. The exception was
Stoke Pogis 3d. In 1880 financial misfortunes having overtaken Mr. Leclair.
he was forced to sell, and Mr. T. S. Cooper, at that time a member
of the firm of Cooper, Maddox & Co., of Reading, Ohio, was the fortunate
purchaser. How Mr. Cooper came to buy them, and the impress they made
on his mind, is best told in his own words, which appeared in the "Jersey
Bulletin" of March 13, 1895, when he said :

"In June, 1880, I received a letter from Mr. Peter Leclair, of Winooski,
Vt., offering to sell me 27 head of Jerseys at a price that I thought was very
reasonable. I sent my younger brother up to look at them, and if a good

12 The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

bargain to buy them. He came home and reported that they had grand
udders, but were a rough-looking lot of cattle ; also told me that two gentle-
men from New York had been there, but left without buying them. I soon
after received a letter from Mr. Leclair urging me to come up myself and
have a look at them ; he felt certain that I would make an offer for them ;
so I went soon after and got there on Sunday morning. To kill time I walked
out to the farm to have a look at the herd, as they were grazing in the
pasture lot. Imagine my surprise as there before me was the grandest and
most useful lot of cows that I had ever seen together. What made matters
still worse, the cattle were too good for the price, and the more I thought
over the matter the more I was convinced that there must be a 'catch' some-
where ; and I could hardly wait till Monday morning to learn particulars. To
get you interested I will tell you the names of some of the best. The three
imported cows, Marjoram, Matilda and Violet 3d; Marjoram 2d, 3d and 4th;
Matilda 4th and 2d, Minnie of Oxford 1st and 2d, La Petite Mere 1st, 2d and
3d; La Belle Petite, La Plus Belle, Lily o*= St. Lambert 1st and 2d, Lily
of Oxford, and a host of other good ones. In the stable were such great bulls
as Stoke Pogis 5th, Stoke Pogis of Linden (full brother to Matilda 4th),
Rioter's Vulcan, Midas of Oxford, Marjoram's Rioter and Oxford Rioter;
and what do you think he asked me for the entire herd? — $2,500 for the 27
head, and the freight paid to Albany. I admit that I felt uneasy until I got
out of the State, but I have since ascertained why these cattle were not ad-
vertised for sale. I could not get all of them into one car, and I sold, before
I left Vermont, Matilda 2d (on account of her having a defect in the shape
of an eruption on the cheek), Midas of Oxford and Rioter Vulcan for $90."

When I was gathering together the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d I visited
Winooski, Vt., to see if I could purchase any of the descendants of the
Leclair herd. It was then I bought Rioter Vulcan. I saw Midas of Oxford
in a stable in Winooski, but being unable to satisfy my mind as to his identity,
I did not buy him. Had I remained long enough, there is no doubt I could
have done so, as unquestionably he was the bull he was represented to be.
While I was unable to buy any female descendants from the Leclair herd en-
titled to registry, I saw in one field the grandest lot of apparently pure Jer-
seys, which passed as grades, that I have ever seen together. They had
splendid forms, superb udders, and were essentially dairy animals. Had they
been entitled to registry I think few of them would have remained in Ver-
mont. They were descended from the Leclair stock. When Mr. Cooper got
the Leclair cattle home he selected five of the best cows, including that superb
cow, Lady Mary 1148, imp., and sent them to the farm of Mr. A. B. Darling,
at Ramseys, N. J., to be bred to Duke of Darlington and Black Prince of
Hanover.

DISPERSAL OF COOPER-MADDOX HERD.
Owing to the death of Mr. Maddox, the partnership cattle, 186 head, had
to be sold. They were sold in two lots on December 1, 1881, and May, 1882.
Sixty-five head were sold at the first sale, averaging $412.46, and the second
instalment $496 a head. The 29 head of "Rioters," as Mr. Cooper designated
them, aggregated $11,540, an average of $397.93. The Leclair cows were
Marjoram, her daughter, Marjoram 2d (by old Stoke Pogis), Matilda, imp.,
Minnie of Oxford and La Belle Petite, by Stoke Pogis 3d, and out of a
daughter of the old Stoke Pogis.

J. H. WALKER BUYS MATILDA.
At the Cooper-Maddox sale Matilda, imp., sold for $860 to Mr. J. H.
Walker, and, dropping a heifer calf shortly after the sale, it was registered
as Matilda 5th. Minnie of Oxford dropped a bull calf by Duke of Darlington,
Minnie's Duke of Darlington, which sold in the Cooper-Maddox sale for
$1,000 when a few weeks old. The purchaser, Mr. Rand, sold his half-interest
in Minnie's Duke of Darlington for $5,000. Minnie of Oxford sold for $710.

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SALE OF MARJORAM 3239.

That grand old cow, Marjoram 3239, sold for $G00, and her bull calf,
Lord Darlington 7285, sired by Duke of Darlington, dropped the night pre-
vious to the sale, realized $530, and was later sold by the purchaser to Hon.
Henry C. Kelsey, of Trenton, N. .T., who sold him to Hon. Jos. H. Walker
for $2,500. At the time of the sale Marjoram 2d 12805 was in calf to Black
Prince of Hanover, a son of Rioter 2d, dam Leda 799, and she was sold to
Geo. Jackson of Beech Grove Farm for $750. Mr. Cooper, in purchasing
her from Mr. Jackson at a later date, was obliged to make a very large ad-
vance upon the price paid by Mr. Jackson to secure her and her bull calf,
Black Prince of Linden 9063, and he afterward sold the latter to the late
Mr. Samuel Shoemaker, then President of the Adams Express Company, at
a figure stated to be $15,000.

MILLER & SIBLEY BUY STOKE POGIS 5TH.

To St. Lambert men a great deal of interest attaches to the sale and
purchase of Stoke Pogis 5th. In the "Jersey Bulletin" of March 20, 1895,
Mr. T. S. Cooper in effect says : Their first sale was a great success, but the
spring one was still more so. It was at the latter sale (May, 1882) that Mr.
Joseph Sibley (of the firm of Miller & Sibley), acting on the advice of Mr.
Cooper, bought some of the best females of the Leclair line of breeding,
among which was the now famous Matilda 4th, then only three years old.
Mr. Cooper also advised him to buy Stoke Pogis 5th. Mr. Cooper said :
"He looked anything but prepossessing, as he had lost his entire switch, but
Mr. Sibley took my advice and bought him, and I have heard that they re-
fused $15,000 for him some years later ; I myself offered them $10,000. They
also refused very tempting offers for Matilda 4th and other members of the
Rioter family."

Shortly after I had made the day's test of Mary Anne of St. Lambert,
hereafter referred to, and while I was acquiring the daughters of Stoke Pogis
3d, Messrs. Miller & Sibley inserted an advertisement in the "Jersey Bul-
letin" offering for sale Stoke Pogis 5th at a very low figure. I had had the
pleasure of meeting Mr. J. C. Sibley prior to this time, and held him in high
esteem. I immediately wrote him that I thought he was making a mistake in
offering for sale Stoke Pogis 5th ; that certain matters in connection with the
St. Lambert family would, unless I was greatly mistaken, shortly transpire
that would add very materially to the value of Stoke Pogis 5th ; that no harm
could be done by withholding him from sale for a short time, and if my pre-
conceived estimate with regard to this family proved to be incorrect, I would
promptly notify him to that effect. I added that I was not making my plans
public, for the reason that by so doing I would frustrate my own ends ; that
if he had enough confidence in me to act on my judgment, without my giving
any more reasons than those stated, I thought he would find it to his interest
so to do.

Immediately after that the advertisement was withdrawn, and Miller
& Sibley owned Stoke Pogis 5th to the time of his death. It was subsequent
to this that Mr. Cooper offered $10,000 for him.

INFLUENCES OF STOKE POGIS AND MARJORAM.

If I am asked the question, "Which was the predominating influence for
good in Stoke Pogis 3d?" I would say that, so far as the structural form of
his daughters and descendants is concerned, Marjoram was the controlling
influence rather than Stoke Pogis. I have little doubt in my mind that the
structural form in the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d, as also the conformation
of Marjoram 2d and Leclair's Marjoram, were inherited from Marjoram. It
will be remembered that Stoke Pogis is an incestuously inbred Rioter bull;
that Marjoram is not Rioter-bred, but was bred mainly by the crossing of
Island bulls onto the daughters of bulls imported from the Island, and I have
no doubt that in that way the form Marjoram had was distinct, as compared

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The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

This

with the Dauncey stock, and was transmitted to and through her sons,
view is confirmed by Mr. Peter Leclair.

There are descendants in this country of the English-bred Rioter bull,
apart from those coming through Stoke Pogis, and they show a tendency to
sloping rumps.

LA PETITE MERE 2D 111810 (owned by Miller & Sibley),
a daughter of Stoke Pogis 1259, out of his own daughter, with no Marjoram
blood in her, gave 57 lbs. of milk in a day, and 16,699% lbs. for the year
ending November 2. 1886. This remarkable record, made for Miller & Sibley,
remained the largest one in the Jersey world for over 12 years, and has only
recently been surpassed by Mr. C. A. Sweet's cow, Gertie of Glynllyn, referred
to later in this pamphlet. The butter test of La Petite Mere 2d was 66 lbs.
13 oz. for the month of January^ 63 lbs. 1 oz. for the month of May, seven
months after calving, and 660 lbs. 4 oz. for one year. She was dam of La
Petite Pogis, test 20 lbs. 10% oz,

STOKE POGIS 3D 2238.
was himself an uncommonly handsome bull, straight on the back, very long
of body, very deep, and, though said to have weighed 1,850 lbs., was not in
the least degree coarse. In fact, he was not only a bull of remarkable consti-
tution, but of so fine a finish that had he been put in the show-ring with
bulls of later date he would have scored exceedingly high. There were a
few exceptions in the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d where some of them had
sloping rumps, but this is an exception rather than a I'ule.

Again, the English Rioter blood, as we have it in this country, where it
does not partake of the blood of Marjoram or Stoke Pogis, had, in some
cases, a tendency to cut front udders. This was not noticeable to any great
extent in daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d, but most of them took that rounded
front udder which INIarjoram possessed. Marjoram was straight on back to
setting on of tail. The daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d — their straightness of
back, as a rule, style of head and front udders, and where descendants are

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inbred to Stoke Pogis 3d the possession of similar characteristics, indicate to
me that the controlling influence in the daughters and descendants of Stoke
Pogis 3d, in structural form, was Marjoram.

When one comes to dissect the inheritance at the pail and churn pos-
sessed by Stoke Pogis 3d, Stoke Pogis 5th, Marjoram 2d, Leclair's Marjoram
ixnd the daughters of Stoke Pogis 1259, one is forced by the facts to believe
that such inheritance at the pail and churn was largely attributable to Stoke
Pogis 1259. The reasons for such a conclusion are that the herd of Philip
Dauncey, and the animals found in the pedigree of Stoke Pogis, had no equal,
be it on the Island of Jersey or in England, at the time of the importation
into this country of Stoke Pogis and Marjoram. Then, again, the work of
the daughters of Stoke Pogis 1259 without the Marjoram blood bear out the
assertion. He had but eight registered daughters, and of these, even in the
early days, when testing was not in vogue, four have published weekly records
as follows : Matilda 4th, 21 lbs. 8% oz. ; Le Petite Mere 2d, 16 lbs. 7 oz. ; Le-
clair's Marjoram, 15 lbs. 3 oz., and Marjoram 2d, 15 lbs. Again, it must be
borne in mind that

LA PETITE MERE 5470,
a daughter of Stoke Pogis and Violet 3d, was not only dam of La Petite
Mere 2d, but also of La Petite Mere 3d, 16.9; Little Pogis, 16.1, and La
Belle Petite, 15.8, being every daughter that ever had a calf.

Still another daughter of Stoke Pogis, without any Marjoram blood,
stands out prominently as a great producer, namely,

MATILDA 4TH 12816.
(Owned by Miller & Sibley.)
She gave 60 lbs. of milk per day, and 16,153% lbs. for the year ending
April 6, 1886. During the year of her milk record her milk was set and
churned 144 days in eleven different months. She made 73 lbs. 1^ oz. of but-
ter for the month of Januarj% ten months after calving. Her official test was

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21 lbs. 8V^ oz., but previous and subsequent to this official test she showed
much better results. In June she made for half a week at the rate of 26 lbs.
4 oz., and in September at the rate of 22 lbs. 12 oz. It is generally admitted
that a conservative estimate of her yearly butter yield is 950 lbs.

Stoke Pogis 1259, the sire of these two cows, is the only bull having two
daughters with records of over 16,000 lbs. of milk in one year.

The dam of Matilda 4th 12816 was Matilda 3238, imp. The dam of La
Petite Mere 2d 12810 was La Petite Mere 5470, a daughter of Stoke Pogis
1259 and Violet 3d 3240 ; so it seems that whatever dam Stoke Pogis was
crossed on of the three imported by Mr. Peter Leclair — namely. Marjoram,
Violet 3d or Matilda — he produced extraordinary results, showing what a
wonderful inheritance at the pail and churn he transmitted. Let the ability
at the pail and churn come from whatever source it may, there is no question
that the descendants of Stoke Pogis — Marjoram, Matilda and Violet 3d, im-
ported by Mr. Leclair, and Dolphin 2d 468 and Rioter 2d (the latter the sire
of the great Eurotas), imported by Mr. Richard M. Hoe — all possessed it to a
very remarkable extent, and had a most useful influence upon the Jersey cat-
tle of this country and Canada, an influence for good that exists to this day.

MATILDA 3238,
her dam, and her great-great-grandam, were each 17-lb. cows. Matilda 3238,
besides being the dam of Matilda 4th 12816, was the dam of Matilda 6th
39290, 20 lbs. 1 oz., and Matilda 5th 18068, 16 lbs. 4 oz. ; and two full sisters
of Matilda 4th, Matilda 2d 5471 and Matilda 3d 12808, were the dams re-
spectively of Minnie of Oxford 12806, 17 lbs., and Mintha 12812, 15 lbs.
Matilda was the dam of Matilda of Meridale 57176, 23 lbs. 5% oz. ; The
Queen's Gift 75186, 22 lbs. 9 oz., and Matilda's Queen of St. Lambert 93746,
18 lbs. ISV2 oz. She is also dam of Matilda 4th's son, hereafter referred to.

MATILDA 5TH 18068
was the dam of Matilda's Matilda 75348, 17 lbs. 2^^ oz., and St Helier'a
Matilda 52857, 14 lbs. 1 oz.

It is of interest to note that Matilda 3d, though nearly 21 years old, is
living and breeding, as is Matilda 5th, both being in the herd of the Misses
Lawrence at Sparkill, N. Y. Surely this is a wonderful family.

Sufficient facts have been adduced to show that Stoke Pogis, apart from
Marjoram, produced animals of the very highest order at the pail and churn :
and his prepotency is unquestionable. He "nicked" well with any blood. To
show his "nicking" with Marjoram, we have but to point to Stoke Pogis 3d.
Stoke Pogis 5th, Marjoram 2d and Leclair's Marjoram, four full brothers and
sisters, the like of whom we have never produced, and for the production of
whose equals we will have to have a Philip Dauncey.

The nearest approach to a Philip Dauncey, we had in this country, in
my judgment, was the late Mr. O. S. Hubbell, who in his breeding with St.
Helier 45 produced lanthe and Chroma, two cows for whom I offered $10,000,
and whose equal in dairy form, udder, milk veins and great paunches I have
rarely seen. Mr. Hubbell was a most skilled breeder in whatever he put his
hand to. He bred on scientific lines. He was a close student of Darwin, and
it is to be regretted that he lost his interest in Jerseys years ago, and did
not, like Philip Dauncey, make it his life work.

I think, though, that in the foundation of Mr. Hubbell's inbreeding St.
Helier 45 lacked the constitution necessary to become a founder of incestu-
ously inbred animals. It is a well-known fact that inbreeding intensifies
the bad qualities as well as the good, and if the fountain-head is lacking in
constitution, the inbred descendants will show it to an intensified degree. I
had great faith in Mr. Hubbell, and it may have been that had his been the
guiding hand of the destinies of the descendants of St. Helier 45, he might
have overcome the difficulty. I revere his memory for what he did for the
Jersey cause. I wish there were more like him in his skill and love for
scientific breeding. To him, in my earlier experience in breeding, T was in-

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debted not only for much kindly encouragement, but also for much valuable
advice.

MARJORAM 2D 12805 (owned by Mr. T. S. Cooper),

own full sister of Stoke Pogis 3d, Stoke Pogis 5th and Le Clair's Marjoram,
is worthy of and entitled to special mention.

Her owner, Mr. T. S. Cooper, claimed in the "Jersey Bulletin," "in ap-
pearance and for usefulness, both as a breeder and at the pail, she has proved
herself the most remarkable cow I have ever seen or heard of." In color she
is a solid orange fawn ; she has a Rioter head, long, grand, wedge-shaped
body, being wide and deep ; is very thin over the withers ; has a superb udder,
very large and perfectly rounded, with good-sized and well-placed teats. Her
skin is very rich, soft and mellow. She tested 16 lbs. on grass alone for Mr.
Cooper when 3 years old, the only time she was ever tested.

Marjoram 2d is dam of Marjoram of Linden, 22 lbs. 2 oz. ; Pedro's Fame,
19 lbs. 12 oz. ; Marjoram's Matilda, 19 lbs. 6 oz. ; Pedro's Fair Marjoram,
18 lbs. 12 oz. ; Pedro's Marjoram, 17 lbs. 10 oz., and Pedro's Pretty Marjoram,
14 lbs. 10 oz. as a 2-year-old. She is also dam of the World's Fair bull, Pedro
Royal Marjoram ; also dam of Black Prince of Linden, that is said to have
been sold as a yearling for $15,000 to the late Mr. Samuel Shoemaker, Balti-
more, Md.

Mr. Cooper says of Marjoram 2d : "She has never been sick or missed a
meal and has never aborted." Mr. Cooper always valued her most highly ;
his appreciation of her is testified to by his having bred Pedro to her, and
using in his herd the result of such cross, PEDRO ROYAL MARJORAM.
She lived till 23 years old and was a regular breeder. As she has
six daughters in the 14-lb. list, no further comment of her prepotency
is necessary. That her individuality is of the highest type is demon-

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strated by her being placed sixth at the World's Fair at Chicago iu the sweep-
stakes show-ring for aged cows, at which I believe there were more good cows
in the ring than have ever faced judges in this country ; taking in, as it did,
most of the cows in the World's Fair dairy tests. In this connection I would
say that many visitors, seeing the Jersey herd in the dairy barns, remarked
that they had never seen, and never again expected to see, twenty-five such
cows under one roof. Yet had they visited "Oaklands" (my farm) in its
palmy days, I could have shown them fifteen daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d that,
ill individuality in udder and in all that goes to make a dairy cow and a show
cow, would have equaled the fifteen best cows in the dairy barns. This state-
ment has been borne out by people who were familiar with both herds.

LECLAIR'S MARJORAM

was a wonderfully good cow. I purchased her after her front udder had
been spoiled. She possessed all the characteristics of a perfect type of dairy
cow. Believing Stoke Pogis 3d at that time to be dead, and being unable to
buy Stoke Pogis 5th, I purchased Leclair's Marjoram, their full sister, to
breed to Stoke Pogis 5th for a bull, if possible. The resulting calf was a
bull and was called

ONE HUNDRED PER CENT. 16590
to designate that he was 100 per cent, of the blood of Stoke Pogis 3d, Le-
clair's Marjoram, Stoke Pogis 5th and Marjoram 2d. He was not a hand-
some bull, but on the contrary was a very homely one, although possessing
good dairy lines. As I made it my rule never to retain anything in the
herd that was not desirable, in individuality as well as inheritance, I dis-
posed of him to Mr. Wm. Rolph, of Markham, Ontario. Although he him-
self was not of a desirable type individually, his daughters are uncommonly
handsome, possess great capacity at the pail and churn, and in form of head,
and especially in shape of udder, clearly point to old Marjoram as the an-
cestor whose likeness they take. In this bull's daughters we see the folly of
"pinning our faith" to the outward conformation of any bull rather than to
his inheritance. His ancestry, with which I was so familiar, should have
told me that his progeny could not fail to be most worthy, provided he had
the vigor to hand down his inherited qualities. This he unquestionably had.
My folly was Mr. Rolph's gain, but I frankly admit to a weakness for
handsome-looking animls, combined with utility. One Hundred Per Cent, was
bred by Mr. Rolph to his own dam. who was in blood his own full sister, and
produced "Two Hundred Per Cent." This bull is an uncommonly handsome
one ; was the champion sweepstakes bull for Canada in 1895, wherever ex-
hibited ; the champion sweepstakes bull for Canada in 1896, and in every
State fair in the United States, wherever exhibited. He has three full sisters
whom I have seen, and all of them have the most remarkable constitutions, as
has "Two Hundred Per Cent." (a remarkable thing when you consider their
terrible inbreeding), and in udder and many characteristics resembled old
Majoram 3239.

Knowing of a tendency of some Rioters to sloping rumps, it was with the
greatest misgivings I went to Mr. Rolph's to see "Two Hundred Per Cent, and
his three full sisters. I feared that the fearful inbreeding would have pro-
duced two results — a weakened constitution and sloping rumps. Much to my
surprise and pleasure, I found neither, but absolutely the reverse. Had the
old English Rioter blood been the controlling influence in outward form in
this chain or line of breeding, I believe I w^ould have seen sloping rumps and a
tendency to cut front udder. As neither of them was present, and because of
the characteristics of the three full sisters of Two Hundred Per Cent., and of
the progeny of One Hundred Per Cent., that I have seen, I am satisfied that
in his case old Marjoi-am 3239 was the controlling influence in structural
form. So pleased was I with these three full sisters I bought two of them
for friends of mine, and Miller & Sibley later bought the third, as also Two
Hundred Per Cent.

The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys. 19

But to resume my narrative of the St. Lambert family, from which I
have departed to narrate what I considered of great importance as bearing on
the family.

THE ST. LAMBERT HERD
was kept as any good dairy farmer, in affluent circumstances, would maintain
his cows. No effort was made to test them nor force them. They were not
pampered ; on the contrary, were at times neglected, if what I am told is cor-
rect. The climate of St. Lambert, Quebec, is a very rigorous one, and
snow often lies there to the depth of six feet in the middle of winter. St.
Lambert is on the St. Lawrence river, in a valley, and is subject to sweep-
ing winds in winter time. That such a rigorous climate added to the con-
stitution, stamina and size of this family, I have but little doubt ; although
what is known as the Victor Hugo strain, where it is not crossed with Stoke
Pogis 3d, maintained, when it came it into my hands, all the characteristics
of the Island-bred cattle — fine limbs, high hip-bones, straight backs to the set-
ting on of tail, thin withers, wedge-shape, with pot bellies, long ewe necks and
uncommonly well-dished heads, but were of larger frames than imported cows.

Inasmuch as I owned, in many cases, the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d,
their dams, principally Victor Hugos, and daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d with-
out any Victor Hugo blood in them, I made it my study to satisfy my mind
as to the relative values and characteristics of the daughters of Stoke Pogis
3d, as compared with their dams where the latter were Victor Hugos, as well
as the result of daughters where there was no Victor Hugo blood. While the
Victor Hugo cows were very much prettier than their daughters by Stoke
Pogis 3d, they did not approach the latter in milking capacity, in constitution,
or in ability to assimilate their food profitably. The Victor Hugos were un-
doubtedly richer than the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d. In beauty they ex-
celled the latter, but in business capacity, in my judgment, they did not ap-
proach the former. The daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d were of a most ex-
cellent type, apart from their ability at the pail and churn. As a rule, they
were, as already stated, straight on back, without the sloping rump that you
now at times find in this family. That their straight back did not come
alone from the Victor Hugo strain was demonstrated to me by the fact that
daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d in my herd, without the Victor Hugo blood, were
just as straight as those out of Victor Hugo cowa.

THE FIRST PURCHASE OF ST. LAMBERTS
was made by me in 1881, from that old veteran St. Lambert Jersey breeder,
Mr. William Rolph, Markham, Ontario, who, be it said to his credit, has never
swerved from his allegiance to this strain, though once he became weak-kneed
and purchased another strain for trial, but was soon convinced of "the error
of his ways" and returned to the fold "a sadder but wiser man." Eighteen
years after my first purchase from him, we still find Mr. Rolph a breeder of,
and a firm believer in, St. Lamberts, and his adherence to the St. Lamberts
has made him a comparatively rich man.

In 1881 I purchased from him Matchless of St. Lambert 9773, Nymph of
St. Lambert 12968 and Nancy of St. Lambert 12964, Matchless being in milk
and Nymph and Nancy being in calf. I also purchased the pure St. Lambert
calves, Oaklands Nora 14880, destined to be the founder of a great branch of
the family ; Oaklands Lily 14881, and Rioter's Ruth 14882. In the year 1882
I began a system of testing all cows, with the avowed intention of retaining
in the herd none that would make less than 14 lbs. per week at maturity.

Previous to that time I had brought together the best herd that I could
purchase, without any regard to prices paid. I had visited the principal herds
in Ontario and in the United States, and had sent to the Island of Jersey to
buy the best there, and when it is stated it included such cows as those named
below, it was a good one — Bertha Morgan 4770, test 19 lbs. 6 oz. ; Faith of
Oaklands 19696, imp., test 17 lbs. 4 oz., 46 lbs. milk per day — a cow that was
champion sweepstakes over all England, repeatedly over Canada, and, so far

20 The St. Lambert Fumily of Jerseys.

as I know, never beaten, and nevei- gave less for mc in one year than 10,000
lbs. of milk, though weighing but 750 lbs. ; Rose of Eden, 13437, imp., test 20
lbs. 11/^ oz., the champion sweepstakes cow of the world for milk, cheese and
butter combined; the imported cow Victory 16379 (one of the ancestors of
Golden Lad), first at St. Mary's and third over all Jersey ; Satin Bird 16380,
and Epigea 4631, both of which sold at public auction to Moulton Bros, at
figures well up in the hundreds, and which were typical dairy and show cows.
These were fair samples of the style of herd I then possessed. Most of them
are very favorably known to old breeders. Yet no sooner did I apply the pail
and churn as a test to all my cattle than I was convinced of the superiority
of the St. Lamberts, then called "Stephens' cattle," and I sought to add the
best I could find to my herd.

MARY ANNE OF ST. LAMBERT BOUGHT.

While attending the Toronto Fair, in 1882, I was wonderfully impressed
with Mary Anne of St. Lambert 9770, and sought by every means I could
employ to buy her, but Mr. Wm. Rolph, her owner, refused to put any price
on her. I purchased some other St. Lamberts from him, but he would not
part with Mary Anne. He told me at that time that she was the most won-
derful cow he had ever seen ; and as a reason for so doing, related the follow-
ing facts : He was making some weekly tests of some of his cows. Mary
Anne, then two years old, was not among them. His dairy maid besought
him to test Mary Anne. Mr. Rolph had not at that time the experience with
Jerseys he has since acquired, and thought it useless. Still his dairy maid
persisted. More to please her than from any faith in "a 2-year-old making
14. lbs. of butter in a week," he consented. It was in May, and the heat
for that season of the year was intense. So little faith did Mr. Rolph have in
her ability to make 14 lbs. that her milk was set but for 12 hours in water
without ice. Imagine his surprise to find that "though but two years old"
she made nearly 16 lbs. I knew the treatment of the milk did the cow the
greatest injustice, and that her test, under such circumstances, did not ap-
proach the full measure of her ability. Her individuality bore this out, and
if I ever broke the Tenth Commandment, by coveting my neighbor's goods, I
did in my ever-increasing desire to own Mary Anne. That I would do so
eventually I was determined, if she lived. I will tell my readers the "fluke"
by which she became my property. In the early summer of 1883 Mr. Rolph
came to me and desired to purchase some cattle of another strain then very
popular, some six or seven head of females and a bull of the same strain. I
asked him "why he sought for that blood?" His answer was, "I must swim
with the tide," in answer to which remark I said to him : "Be careful the
tide does not go out and leave you on the beach." I was led to make this re-
mark by the fact that, though the strain was very popular, I had not found
them butter-makers or large milk-givers ; as workers they did not compare
with the St. Lamberts, and I told him so. LTpon my asking him why he did
not adhere to the Stephens cattle, he replied that "while he knew them to be
the best he had ever handled, breeders considered them too large and too
coarse." My remark to him was, "why don't you educate the breeders up to
the appreciation of a working cow?" He said he couldn't do it ; I told him I
would make an effort to do so ; which was the cause of much merriment to Mr.
Rolph.

Upon my telling Mr. Rolph of another strain that I knew of — the St.
Heliers — which was fine enough in type and which had dairy merit in it — we
arranged to go to Lockport and see the St. Helier herds of Mr. George L.
Williams, Mr. Charles Keep and Mr. Mark A. Nicolls. and a grand lot of cat-
tle they were. Returning home, although Mr. Rolph was very much im-
pressed with what he saw. and still adhering to his determination to "swim
with the tide," he desired a price upon the cattle he had sought to buy from
me. While urging him not to buy, I told him I would charge him what I
could get in the open market, though I did not believe they were worth it.

The St. Lamhcit Family of Jerseys. 21

He objected to my pi-ice as exorbitant, remarking tbat he bad not a cow on
his place for which he would charge me more than $600.

Remembering my efforts to get Mary Anne, and with that sole object in
view, I asked thirty days of him, as I was a very busy man then, in which to
visit his place and make my selection. It was granted, and although in the
railroad car, in true British fashion we "shook hands" on the bargain. Prior
to the expiration of the time, Mr. Ilolph visited Oaklands, and decided to buy
the cattle I had priced him, which he did. It was then he was "weak-kneed."
Upon his writing out a check for the amount, I remarked to him : "You can
take $600 off and ship me Mary Anne of St. Lambert." He objected strenu-
ously, and quite a wrangle ensued.

Finally I declined to sell him the cattle unless he sold me Mary Anne.
He sought a compromise by offering to sell me the cow and retain the calf
soon to be dropped. This I declined, stating I would have the cow as she
was or not at all. Finally he assented. That night I sent my (then) man-
ager, Mr. W. T. Norton, to Markham to bring the cow home, fearing Mr.
Rolph might change his mind. When she arrived she had hair an inch and
a half long. Mr. Rolph did not then have the comfortable stables he now
has. When she had calved and her first photograph was taken, by Schreiber
Bros., we had to use soap to plaster down her hair, it was so long. This was
in the end of April, 1S83. Upon my next visiting Oaklands, Mr. Norton was
inclined to twit me, saying : "Is this the cow, Mr. Fuller, I have heard you
talk so much about?" I told him to wait until she had made up her udder.
She was then dry. When her calving time arrived, the size of her udder, for
her age, and the beautiful shape of it (being remarkably long and full in
front), would attract any one's attention. She was then just four years old.
At that time Messrs. Schreiber Bros., who are uncommonly good judges of a
dairy cow, were at Oaklands photographing some of my cows. Early in the
day of May 3, 1883, I received a telephone message from Mr. Norton saying
that Mary Anne had calved, and upon my asking the sex of it, was informed
that it was a bull. It seemed to me that every calf dropped by the last 25
cows had been bulls. Upon Mr. Norton's inquii-ing whether I would sell the
calf, as the Messrs. Schreiber had taken a great fancy to the cow, I told him
to "either sell it or knock it on the head." Mr. Norton told me he thought
he could get $100 for it, and I authorized him to sell the calf at that price.
In place of this, fortunately for me, he asked $200. The Schreibers made an
offer. In the afternoon of the same day I visited the farm, and, on seeing
the cow, I told Mr. Norton I would not sell the calf at any price.

THIS WAS PRINCE POGIS 106S2,
the only son Mary Anne of St. Lambert ever had, and whom I sold to the late
Mr. Henry L. Pierce, proprietor of Walter Baker & Co.'s chocolate, for
$12,500, as a two-year-old, including the services he had already performed on
Mr. Pierce's cows, and who had previously earned for me, in services in the
United States (at $500 each), $3,000, making a total of $15,500 by a bull I
had offered for $200. The Messrs. Schreiber, till this day, tell how, by bid-
ding $100 too low, they lost a small fortune.

Mary Anne of St. Lambei't was not only a great cow, but she was an un-
commonly handsome one. When shown in 1S85 (I think it was) she was
the champion sweepstakes cow and was the banner cow of my herd that won
the special $100 A. J. C. C. prize. Her head, while strong, was fairly well
dished, her eyes were large and her horns very incurving, and for her size,
small. When I first bought her, and, in fact, when her photograph (repro-
duced in this book) was taken, she was leggy; but the heavy feeding in her
year's test brought down her belly and made her an unusually deep cow, with
an enormous paunch. She was the longest Jei-sey I ever remember seeing,
and ex-Secretary T. J. Hand has said "it was a day's journey to walk around
her." She had a long neck, was not as thin on withers as she might have
been. Her back was as straight as an arrow and extended out to the setting-
on of tail, which was very long, tipped off by a superb switch. There was no

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sloping rump here. Her uddei', which in later life came down with the weight
of milk it carried, was perfect; wonderfully far up on the belly, full, very
broad and perfectly rounded and well out behind. Her teats, which were on
the small side, were perfectly placed ; but such milk veins as she had ! Her
belly was literally covered with them. Speaking of her fore-udder, it was a
remarkable thing that she had an unusually large and perfectly defined belly
"escutcheon." Mary Anne's jaw was remarkable ; it was so large and strong
that it was almost out of proportion to the rest of her head. But she needed
it all. Such an appetite as she had ! It was insatiable. She never seemed
to have enough to eat, and yet she consumed at times 32 quarts of grain a
day, a large proportion of which was pea meal. Yet she was never off her
feed during her year's test ; in fact, she was never "sick or sorry." I attribute
this to the exercise she always had. In the summer time, during her year's
test, she ran with the rest of the herd, but in the winter she had to have her
exercise, rain, snow or sunshine. Just before she was sent out for her exer-
cise she was given a large horse stable bucket of feed, and on her return she
had another.

MAKl AJNiNlt; Uf ST. LAMBERT 9770 A BEAuiii^ uL kjOW.

When taking this exercise she had on two heavy blankets, partly to sweat
off any tendency to put the feed on her back and for protection from cold.
When snow was on the ground a team of farm horses was at times sent
through an unbroken field of snow, and through this Mary Anne was led for
an hour. My readers may think these precautions uncalled for, and that the
outcome did not warrant such great pains. I know many at the time thought
80. I did not, nor did they later, when the St. Lamberts realized such fabu-
lous prices. I tell these facts, as I promised to take my readers into my con-
fidence. She was a far better dairy cow after her long test than before.

Mary Anne of St. Lambert's temperament was the most placid I ever saw
in a cow. Nothing ever upset her, nothing ever disturbed her. She was
easily the "Queen" of the herd, and she seemed to know it. She led all the
cows in going to pasture, and if any ever tried to pass her a hint from her
horns told the ill-advised one to "keep her place." Although I had a standing
offer in writing of $26,000, good for one year, she ran with the rest of the
herd. She stood in a box stall in the stable, with a railing around it, just
high enough to rest your hands on comfortably ; but woe betide any one who
did so when Mary Anne was within reach. She brought her horns down on

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your bauds aud then quietly walked away. She was a great cow, individu-
ally ; I thing the gi-eatest that ever lived. I dearly loved her, and to have to
part with her was a sore trial. She made my reputation, and the reputation
of the St. Lambert family.

When Mary Anne of St. Lambert had been in milk about seven days,
during which we had kept down the grain, for fear of her udder, which was
very swollen, and before she came to her full milk, we tested her for one day,
when she made 2 lbs. iVz oz. I told Mr. Norton to shut down on the test and
say nothing about it.

Plans were immediately formulated by mc to corral the daughters of Stoke
Pogis 3d, those of Victor Hugo living, and as many of the daughters of Lord
Lisgar and Buffer as I could find that were desirable. It was my aim then,
as much as it would be to-day were I breeding, never to take a cow for her
pedigree alone ; but I then sought, as I now seek, for as nearly a perfect com-
bination as possible. Let me say right here that in all my purchases of
daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d I never had to reject one for want of individual-
ity, yet all the purchases were not made by me, nor did I see all the animals
previous to such purchase. I never saw so many good daughters of one bull,
with like capacity, nor so few poor ones. The nearest approach to it was in
the daughters of that grand old bull. Combination.

STOKE POGIS 3D BUTCHERED.

I need hardly tell my readers that one of the first things I did was to en-
deavor to secure the "fountain-head," Stoke Pogis 3d. Imagine my disap-
pointment, on journeying to St. Lambert, Quebec, to be told by both Mr.
Romeo H. Stephens and his son, Harrison Stephens, who then had what re-
mained of the old St. Lambert herd, that he was dead. Later on I received a
wire from Harrison Stephens to say he had found Stoke Pogis 3d at Three
Rivers, Quebec, and that he could be bought for $1,000. I wired him to draw
on me at sight for $1,000 to buy him immediately, and not "to let the grass
grow under his feet." I was elated, but was correspondingly depressed to
learn in a short time that he had been butchered two weeks prior to that time,
and his carcass sold on the Montreal market as common butcher's meat.
Think of it ! when every calf which might have been dropped to him was
worth at least $1,000. Alive, he was worth $100 a pound ; dead, probably not
three cents a pound. So little did Mr. Romeo H. Stephens appreciate him
that he sold him to a farmer to be used on grades, took no further interest in
him and lost track of him. He was sold to the butcher at Three Rivers, Que-
bec. Shortly after receiving this information I went to Three Rivers, the
oldest settlement in the province (and a quaint old town it is), looking for
daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d, entitled to registry, but could find none. I did
buy some grade daughters of his, out of native cows, and took them to my
farm, Oaklands, for the purpose of following out my study as to the inheri-
tance, through Stoke Pogis, the Victor Hugos and the "nicking" of both.

They were a grand lot of workers, and supported my belief and conviction
that the "working" qualities came through Stoke Pogis 3d.

A GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK.
An amusing incident occurred on this trip. In the rural districts of
Quebec the French-Canadian language or patois is spoken. I knew it not.
Mr. Harrison Stephens was to have accompanied me. He was unable to do
so. He sent me a so-called interpreter, but his knowledge of the English
language about equaled mine of the French-Canadian. Here was a nice
predicament, but we managed to make the owner of the cows know I wanted
to buy them, as also an old "grandfather's clock," nearly three hundred years
old. I bought the clock and the cows and took the precaution to pay the man
prior to his re-entering the house. When he did so and handed the money for
the clock to his wife there was an animated discussion, emphasized by the wife
chasing the husband around the room with a broomstick. I learned this was

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oa account of him having sold me the clock, which had been in her family for
untold generations ; from the look of it, I should say since before the flood.

The sons and daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d were scattered from Cape
Breton to Michigan, and as far south as Mississippi. It took me nearly a
month of incessant work to locate them, using the Herd Registers and the
transfers therein set out.

To purchase all these cattle I knew involved a considerable sum of money,
which aggregated over $50,000 before I had completed it. Yet, such was
my confidence in the superiority of the strain that I never hesitated, and
while inspecting different daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d for purchase I visited
the farm of the late Mr. A. B. Darling, the owner of that grand old cow,
Eurotas, whose descendants then commanded the highest prices, and also
the farm of Mr. S. M. Burnham, whose beautiful cow Coomassie I saw
and admired, and whose descendants were then disputing the market with
the Eurotas strain. I remarked to both of these gentlemen that I believed
there was a strain of blood, comparatively unknown, which would yet displace
both of them in public esteem and in the open markets — a remark which was
received with incredulity by both. Plow far my prophecy then made has been
fulfilled is now a matter of Jersey history.

PRICE PAID FOR BERTHA MORGAN.

I had been paying pretty long prices for cows, previous to this, .^2,500 for
Bertha Morgan, then an old cow, which was the highest price that had, so far
as I know, ever been paid for a cow of her age up to that time, and I was not
anxious to have my brother breeders come in competition with me by knowing
my plans. First, I arranged with Mr. Wm. Rolph to join me in buying — I to
furnish the money, he to buy the stock, which was to be owned jointly. He
did not act quickly enough to suit my impatience, and after he had bought a
few daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d, among them Maggie of St. Lambert and
others, bought at from $200 to $300 each, I decided to adopt another course.
When we met by appointment to close out our proposed joint purchase, tho
question came, "How are we to divide up?" I felt sure that in a short time
the cows we had bought would each be worth from five to ten times the
amount paid. I suggested we "pitch head or tail" as to who should take the
lot. Rolph's a "lucky dog." His luck did not desert him then. He "won
the toss," and got the lot and paid me what I had advanced. In a few months
he sold some, and could have sold all for as many thousands as he had paid
hundreds. "Tough luck," I hear some of my readers remark. Not at all.
I knew there were plenty more, and I thought I could move quicker than my
friend Rolph. I did, and through the aid of some of my friends in this coun-
try I arranged to have honest dairy farmers, good judges of a dairy cow, sent
to me to buy up the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d. These men were strangers
to me and to each other. They were sent to me at Hamilton. To know
them on arrival, they were to have a handkerchief tied about their right arm
at the wrist. Strange to say, two arrived at Hamilton station from opposite
directions at the same time. I was awaiting them. To see them survey each
other was most amusing. I fancy each thought "he had lost his job." I sent
four of these agents simultaneously into different sections of the country with
instructions to buy, as per list handed them, and to report to me every night
by telegraph, tolling them, if necessary, to "make their telegrams as long as
their arm," so I might understand exactly what they were doing. I had
bankers in different sections to pay out the money for purchases. By the first
of August of that year (1883) I had purchased the following daughters of
Stoke Pogis 3d : Cowslip of St. Lambert 8840. Columbine of St. Lambert
8350 ; the two full sisters of INIary Anne of St. Lambert, Crocus of St. Lam-
bert 8351. Naiad of St. Lambert 12965; Honeymoon of St. Lambert,
Mermaid of St. Lambert 9771. Niobe of St. Lambert 129(;9. Jessie Brown of
Maxwell 7200, Cora of St. Lambert 8347, Mavourneen of St. Lambert 9777,
Brenda of Elmhurst 10762; and later I purchased Minette of St. Lambert
9774, Cheerful of St. Lambert 8347 and Ida of St. Lambert, and immediately

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sold a half interest in the latter to Messrs. Miller & Siblej'. I made strenu-
ous efforts to buy Allie of St. Lambert and Kitty of St. Lambert, but was un-
successful.

As I then owned Nancy of St. Lambert and Nymph of St. Lambert,, it will
be seen that I owned half the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d, and more than half
then living. I have not by me a list of the Victor Hugo cows that I bought,
nor of the granddaughters of Stoke Pogis 3d ; but I bought Lolly of St. Lam-
bert, the dam of Mary Anne of St. Lambert, on July 19, 1883, and imme-
diately sold her to Major Campbell Brown, July 20, 1883, at the same price I
paid for her, being anxious to have him interested in the family. Whenever
possible, I bought the dams of the cows I owned. It was not until April 30,
1885, that I was able to acquire that grand old cow,

LUCY OF ST. LAMBERT 51116.

It has always been a source of great regret to me that, though she was
past her prime, we did not test this old cow. That she would have made a
good test, old as she was, I have no doubt, but our hands were so full in test-
ing the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d we did not at that time realize the im-
portance of testing her.

When I sold Major Campbell Brown Lolly of St. Lambert 5480, dam of
Mary Anne of St. Lambert, she had just dropped a bull calf, Sheldon being
the sire I think ; but unfortunately she never bred again.

Mary Anne of St. Lambert had two daughters, born previous to Prince
Pogis, namely, Rioter's Silvie 14893 and Marianne Pogis 23008. These I
purchased from Mr. William Rolph. It may interest my readers to give
some figures paid and prices later realized for the same animals.

When I first purchased from Romeo H. Stephens he gave me a list of the
daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d, and priced them at $200 each. In the meantime
the boom on the St. Lamberts had set in.

Old breeders will remember that the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d offered at
auction rarely sold under $2,000 each, and in many cases came close to $5,000.
Any one who assumes that a market for a new strain can be created by
chance and without hard work would have had his ideas dispelled had he en-
compassed the amount of labor that I went through in placing these animals
on the market. My telegraph bill alone from my agents amounted to close on
to $250 in thirty days. Any one consulting the "Jersey Bulletin" or "Coun-
try Gentleman" of those days will find how lavish was my expenditure in ad-
vertising. If my memory serves me right, I paid one agricultural journal
$1,000 for advertising previous to one of my sales. The correspondence was
enormous. At that time I was practising law at Hamilton, Ontario ; was
the senior member of the firm having the largest practice there, and my part-
ner was ill in New York. In consequence I had his work as well as my own
to perform. I was in my ofiice at 8 :30 every morning ; was hard pressed by
my law practice all day ; reached my farm at 8 .'SO at night ; allowed myself
one hour for dinner and recreation ; punctually at 9 :30 I took up my Jersey
work, and never ceased it till 4 :30 and sometimes 5 in the morning. This I
kept up for four weeks previous to the sale in New York, in which the fame
and value of the St. Lambert strain was started. That was in the fall of
1883.

One of the "white-handkerchiefed" agents I have before referred to had
been despatched to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, where, some years before,
the bull Baron of St. Lambert, Naiad of St. Lambert, Mermaid of St. Lambert
and Cowslip of St. Lambert, all daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d, had been sold,
and from whom had been bred a number of their descendants. I bought them
all at a cost, laid down at Oaklands, Hamilton, Ontario, of less than $3,500.
I well knew their value and had instructed my agent to value them at $25,000
when billing them through to Oaklands ; not to release the railroad company,
but if necessary to pay double freight rates, thereby assuring a prompt de-
livery. My father, who was always deeply interested in my Jerseys, thought
I was "wild" in placing such a value on the stock. Besides Baron of St.

26 The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

Lambert, Naiad of St. Lambert, Mermaid of St. Lambert and Cowslip of St.
Lambert, the purchase included Jennie Pogis 22984, Violet Pogis 22985, Daisy
Pogis 23015, Leo Pogis 10785 (a bull calf). La Belle Canadienne, Carrie
Pogis 22568, and others whose names ai-e not available to me. This purchase
was made in August, 1883.

FIRST PUBLIC SALE OF ST. LAMBERTS IN NEW YORK.

It was the custom at that time for Messrs. Peter C. Kellogg & Co. to hold
public sales of Jerseys in the spring and fall, to which Jersey breeders con-
tributed. Having given great prominence in the public press to the test of
Mary Anne of St. Lambert and the other daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d, I be-
lieved the time was ripe to test the pulse of the public and made a consignment
to the New York fall sale in 1883. Among those bought in Nova Scotia and
Cape Breton were the following, selling at the prices named : Jennie Pogis,
$3,000; Violet Pogis, $2,000; Daisy Pogis, $2,400; all heifers, coming two
years old. The purchaser was Mr. Fred Loeser, the great merchant, of
Brooklyn, N. Y. He bought also Leo Pogis 10785, a bull calf, for $700.
Primrose Pogis 22361 and Maude Pogis 24240 sold at the same sale to Mr.
Henry Pierce, of San Francisco, for $925 and $800 respectively. A total of
$9,225 for six head, not one of which had matured. Four of them were from
the Nova Scotia and Cape Breton purchase, and they sold for $7,900, or an
average of nearly $2,000 each. In the spring sale of 1883, I sold Nymph of
St. Lambert, the only inbred daughter of Stoke Pogis 3d, to Mr. F. A. Have-
meyer for $675, and bought her back again later on ; and Oakland's Lily, to
Mr. J. H. Walker for $590. Contrast the prices paid in the spring and fall
sales.

With reference to my "excessive valuation" of the Nova Scotia and Cape
Breton purchase, let us pursue the matter a little furthei-. Baron of St.
Lambert was in that lot. I rented him to the late Mr. Theo. A. Havemeyer for
two months for $3,000 ; sold him in the Kellogg May sale of 1884 for $4,400
(he had cost me $275). In the same sale I disposed of Cowslip of St, Lam-
bert for $3,600, La Belle Canadienne for $1,250, and her calf at her side, two
months old, brought $550. Counting the service fees of Baron of St, Lam-
bert, we have a total of $22,210.

I had a cash offer of $15,000 for Naiad of St. Lambert to go into the herd
of Samuel Shoemaker, and a like offer for Mermaid of St. Lambert, both in
the Nova Scotia and Cape Breton purchase, or a total of $52,210 for what
had cost me less than $3,500. Nor is this all. I sold by private sale and
retained others from that purchase, but the figures are not available.

THE BOOM IN ST. LAMBERTS MAY BE SAID TO HAVE FAIRLY

SET IN,

I cannot refrain from mentioning in detail another rather profitable pur-
chase. I had negotiated with a resident of New York (who had already pur-
chased a daughter of Mary Anne) to sell him six females at $20,000, but he
wanted a double-grandson of Stoke Pogis 3d ; I had none, but I knew of one,
a son of Crocus of St. Lambert (full sister of Mary Anne of St. Lambert),
by Rambler of St. Lambert 5285, just about two years old. He was owned
by an actor, an old schoolmate of mine, from whom I had bought Crocus of
St, Lambert and all the female descendants he owned. I stated to my cus-
tomer that I wanted $5,000 for this bull. After further negotiation he as-
sented to the proposition. I visited my friend's theatre, New York, where he
was playing, and after considerable "dickering" bought the bull for $500,
being about five times what he thought he was worth. When the agent of the
purchaser reached Oaklands the bull was there. He accepted him, and the
purchase money M^as paid for the seven head, $25,000, paying $5,000 for the
bull. This was Victor Hugo Pogis 11250.

The former owner (the actor) thought he had made a great sale, and told
our mutual friends that "Fuller had gone 'daft' on Jerseys ;" that "he had
actually paid him $500 for a bull that was only worth $100." Learning this,

The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys. 27

I said nothing, but visited him when next in New Yorlr, and bought the bal-
ance of his St. Lamberts, paying him in cash and taking transfers. Then I
suggested that it was a pretty good "dicker" I had made with him for the
bull. He said : "It was good for me." To which I replied : "It was good
for me, too." Whereupon I told him what I had sold the bull for. He was
very indignant, and declared that I (who before was "daft") was a "d — d
thief."

A FAMOUS LUNCH.
There were few Jersey breeders in Ontario at that time, and my sales
were made almost wholly to the United States. I wished prominent breeders
to see what class of cows the St. Lamberts were, besides making some slight
return for the many courtesies extended to me, and in the spring of 1884 it
was my pleasure to entertain at Oaklands, Hamilton, many of the most
prominent Jersey breeders from all parts of the Eastern and Central States.
My brother, Mr. Henry H. Fuller, now deceased, was then in partnership with
me in the cattle other than the St. Lamberts. I sent railroad tickets to my
friends, with their invitations ; engaged two sleeping cars in New York ;
brought the breeders to Hamilton by special train from Buffalo ; treated them
as handsomely as I could to a champagne lunch, at which were the Ministers
of Agriculture for the Province of Ontario and the Dominion of Canada, the
Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, the late Secretary of Crown Lands, Ontario,
many prominent Senators and citizens, and my dear old father, the late
Bishop of Niagara, who took the keenest interest in my cattle and success.
Fifty-seven sat down to lunch in the dining-room. I venture to say that
there is not one breeder living who was pi'esent at the lunch who does not
recall with pleasure the short address which my father delivered to them,
although he had been requested by me "not to say a word." As he arose to
speak, with his fine presence, grand bearing and silver locks, a shout arose in
the room. Though a "man of the cloth," he was also "a man of the world,"
and no one enjoyed the lunch or the lunchers more thoroughly than he. To
me it was a great pleasure to meet my friends. I have reason to believe that
my guests enjoyed their holiday and outing, for as such they treated it. That
the visitors appreciated the cattle they then saw was shown by the fact that
in the following month, at a public sale in New York, conducted by Peter G.
Kellogg & Co., I sold 10 head for $22,700. One amusing incident of the trip
to and from Oaklands was that the party, on leaving New York, were divided
between two "sleepers," one for those who wanted to sleep during the night's
ran and the other for those who didn't. I know most of them had a jolly good
time, and it is one of the pleasant incidents of one's past life that I look back-
ward upon. Mr. T. J. Hand, the ex-Secretary of the A. J. C. C, kindly fur-
nished me with a list of the American breeders who were at the lunch. They
were John I. Holly of New Jersey and Mr. T. J. Hand, President and Secre-
tary respectively of the club ; Messrs. Benj. F. Swan of Oyster Bay, L. I. ;
Dr. H. M. Howe of Rhode Island, D. F. Appleton of Massachusetts, Jos. C.
Sibley of Pennsylvania, John O. Couch of Connecticut, Oilman S. Moulton of
Vermont, Nathan Robins, Frederick Loeser and his superintendent, Mr. Mer-
riam, and J. R. Hand, all of New Jersey ; Mr. Branch, banker, of Georgia ;
J. H. Small of Pennsylvania, Dr. A. S. Heath, Dr. J. S. Linsley, M. A. Nich-
ols, Chas. Keep, Geo. E. Waring, Jr. (first secretary of the club), Geo. L.
Williams and T. R. Proctor, all of New York ; Warren H. Corning of Ohio,
H. L. Pierce of Massachusetts and Oscar Ricklefson of Maryland — truly at
that date a representative Jersey party.

OAKLANDS DESCRIBED.

My farm, Oaklands, was about six miles from Hamilton, Ontario, on
Burlington Bay, at the western extremity of Lake Ontario. A beautiful spot
it was. Here it was that my Jerseys were kept. I reprint an account of a
visit, written by a Jersey breeder, which appeared in the public press in 1884 :

"Let me describe briefly a hurried visit I made to Oaklands, the beautiful
country home of Mr. Fuller and that wonderful Jersey Queen, Mary Anne of

28 The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

St. Lambert. So much has been written of Mary Anue and Mr. Fuller's
superb herd that added reference to them and their great qualities would
seem superfluous.

"Oaklands is situated on the north shore of Hamilton Bay, a beautiful
sheet of water of about 9 miles in length and 3 miles in breadth. The resi-
dential portion is more like an English park than a country house. Leaving
the barns and farm buildings, you walk south down a grassy lane ; to your
right, orchards and fields of waving corn ; to your left, undulating pasture
lands, merging into almost a primeval forest. At the lower gate, which
divides the park from the farm lands, if you are a lover of the beautiful in
nature, as I am, you pause and say, 'How lovely !' You look across acres of
lawn, green as emeralds, not made smooth and flat by art, but gently rolling,
as nature had willed it. Here and there are groups of magnificent oaks and
chestnuts, and further on clusters of evergreens make soft shadows on the
velvet turf. Beyond the waters of the bay flash and glitter in the sunshine
and white-winged yachts flit back and forth. The large but long, low house
looks cool and inviting. Deep verandas surround it on almost every side.
Roses, red and white, climb the pillars and you pass under a bower of sweet-
scented woodbine to enter the wide front doors, through which have passed
and been royally entertained many of the best known Jersey breeders and
prominent men of Canada. With true English hospitality Mr. and Mrs.
Fuller see that the 'inner man' is well provided for. Rested and refreshed,
you wish to explore still further this sweet spot. Crossing a pathway of
sunshine you enter the 'Pine Walk,' quiet and solemn as a church aisle ; the
trees meeting overhead, so thickly interlaced that the sunlight can only gleam
and flicker on the soft carpet of pine needles in which your feet sink — so
sweet, so restful.

"Time is fleeting, and you want to go down to the water for 'just a mo-
ment.' A pretty, winding road leads to the sandy beach. Half-way down
there is a little glade at one side. You stand and wonder at the size and
number of blue violets, which literally carpet the mossy ground ; ferns and
pale anemones nod at you, too. Y'ou cannot wait, even to gather a handful.
A few all too brief moments on the beach, with the baby waves lapping at
your feet, a glance up and down the beautiful bay and across at the city of
Hamilton, and you turn and ascend the hill. You bid your kind host 'good-
by,' regretting you cannot tan-y longer in this paradise, and return to the
main road, not by the farm, but drive through the beautiful grove at the
back of the house called the 'West Drive.' You are conscious of the stately
forest trees overhead ; more moss and violets under foot ; deep gullies, whose
sides are a mass of waving maidenhair fern ; another lane, with fields of corn
on either side, then the high road. Good-by, beautiful Oaklands."

Mrs. B. W. Hunt, wife of the oldest member of the A. .T. C. C. in Georgia,
thus refers to a visit she and her husband made to Oaklands :

BEAUTIFUL MARY ANNE.
"I have patted Mary Anne of St. Lambert on the head and I have
scratched the horns of 'Canada's John Bull' said I to my husband, and
now "

"Are you ready to die?"

"No, I am ready to go back to Georgia."

Before us lay the blue expanse of Lake Ontario, sparkling in the summer
sun. and sloping to it on every side and spreading far as the eye could reach,
were daisy-sprinkled, dew-gemmed meadows.

Here and there great oaks and graceful elms were grouped as in a park,
and where their long dark shadows of cool greenness fell across the bending
grass, herds of beautiful Jerseys raised fawn-like heads and looked at us with
soft inquiring eyes.

In the foreground a many-angled picturesque cottage, ringed with radiant
flower beds set in an emerald lawn, semi-circled by a lake of sapphire and
opal. Near by great barns filled with new mown hay, overflowing with

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plenty and perfume, and everywhere, everywhere ran riot the rich grass, cov-
ering the hillsides, spreading over the valleys like a green sea — each wander-
ing breeze that crested with "white caps" the waves of Lake Ontario, chasing
the quivering ripples of verdure across the meadows till they broke a seethijig
foam of daisies.

"Yes," I said, slowly and doubtfully, "I am ready to go back to Georgia,
but I am not in a hurry about it Oh ! if I could take all this back with me."

"This what?"

"This beautiful landscape, these lordly trees, this — beyond and above all
else — this beautiful, beautiful grass !

"Ah, this verdant velvet mantle nature wraps around the bare, bony, ugly
eai'th ! How we Southerners have mutilated and destroyed it, hacked it,
chopped it, stripped it off and torn it away till our poor land, left in hideous
nakedness, has turned red for very shame ! Truly, I never see one of those
devastated, desecrated red-gullied old Georgia plantations, but I feel that
mother earth is literally blushing, blushing for herself and for man's ignorance
and folly.

"Look around you here. You see not one bare, unsightly spot ; not one
washed-out galled hillside, nor worn-out field. Everywhere is radiant, af-
fluent beauty — beauty that thrills the eye and thrills every sense and steeps
the soul in delight. Ah ! We are out of the realm of old King Cotton !
Happy people, favored land that have never known his sway."

SALE OF BERTHA MORGAN 4770.
As showing how greatly my father was interested in my work, and demon-
strating that human nature is about the same in an ecclesiastic as in us
"common mortals," I will relate another incident. I had bought Bertha
Morgan for $2,500 when 9 years old. I had sold calves from her for $1,750.
A customer had visited Hamilton the week previous to the fall sale of 1883
and wanted to buy her. He offered me $2,500 for her. I refused it and
asked $4,000. My father urged me to take the $2,500. I said, "No, I will
get my price." Reaching New York on Friday morning, I saw my customer ;
he said he would give me an answer on Saturday. The sale was consum-
mated late on Saturday at $4,000. Thereupon I wired Mrs. Fuller to that
effect. On Sunday my father had a "confirmation" at his cathedral in Ham-
ilton, but before proceeding to his church he drove to my home, not far dis-
tant, to see if Mrs. Fuller had heard from me. Being told that I had sold
Bertha Morgan at my price, he went on his way happy. He fulfilled first
the duty of a father and later that of a bishop.

FIGURES PAID AND PRICES REALIZED.
I will resume the account of some of the figures I paid and the prices I
realized.

I paid $600 for Mary Anne of St. Lambert, and had an offer in writing
from a prominent Jersey breeder, good for one year, of $26,000. Yet I had
the "nerve" to refuse it, and never regretted doing so, and in so doing dis-
played good business judgment, as she was my trade-mark, and the magnet
that drew to Oaklands buyers, resulting in my selling $97,400 worth of stock
in a year, from the spi-ing of 1884 to the spring of 1885. For the two daugh-
ters of Mary Anne of St. Lambert I paid $1,100 ; I sold one of them for
$6,000 (Rioter's Silvie), and refused $6,000 for Marianne Pogis. I acquired
Prince of St. Lambert for $175. rented him three months for $1,000, and sold
him for $4.000 ; all within a year.

LARGEST AVERAGE EVER REALIZED AT AUCTION.

At the spring annual sale held in New York, on May 7, 1884, conducted
by Peter C. Kellogg & Co., the following animals were sold, at the prices
named: Baron of St. Lambert 5286, to John F. Maxfield of Bloomfield.
N. J., for $4,400; Honeymoon of St. Lambert 11221, for $4,100, and
Cowslip of St. Lambert 8349, for .$3,600, to Henrv L. Pierce ; Bijou of St.

30 The 8t. Latnbert Family of Jerseys.

Lambert 5112 (dam of Honeymoon), to L. W. and H. W. Simons, Berlin,
Ontario, for $3,000 ; Matchless of St. Lambert 9773, to Theo. A. Havemeyer,
Mahwah, N, J., for $1,650 ; bull, Rioter's Combination 10363, to J. O. Mat-
thews, Barre, Mass., for $1,600; La Belle Canadienne 22569, to Frederick
Loeser, for $1,250, and her heifer calf, a few days old, to the same person,
for $550 ; Pauline Pogis 24148, a heifer, to W. H. Corning, Cleveland, O., for
$1,100; Kate of St. Lambert 26235, a heifer, to Theo. A. Havemeyer, for
$1,000, and Mava Pogis 23937, a heifer, to Theo. A. Havemeyer, for $1,000 ;
making a total of $23,250 for eleven head, an average of $2,113.33 per head,
one of which was a calf, and three heifers. Leaving out the heifer calf, the
total for ten head was $22,700, an average of $2,270 each, three of which were
heifers.

CHAMPION CUP WON.

In these days it was the custom to present a cup of solid silver, or some
other trophy, to the breeder obtaining the highest average price for five head
contributed by him to the spring sale. This cup was won by me at this sale
of May 7-10, 1884. The average price obtained by me for the five head was
$3,350 per head ($16,750 for the five), being largely in excess of that ever
obtained by any Jersey breeder at any public auction. Of the animals con-
tributing toward this result. Baron of St. Lambert, Cowslip of St. Lambert
and Honeymoon of St. Lambert, son and daughters respectively of Stoke
Pogis 3d, realized $12,100, an average of $4,033.33. The cup presented to
me was a very handsome one, most beautiful in its lines, and I value it very
highly. It took less than half an hour to sell over $23,000 worth of stock,
and, as may be imagined by the results, the bidding was most keen.

BREEDER'S CUP WON.

It was also customary, in addition to the "Contributor's Cup," for the
breeders in the sale to give a cup for the breeder who obtained the highest
price on cattle of his own breeding in the sale. This cup was won by me the
following spring — if I mistake not — namely, 1885 ; and if my memory serves
me right, Mrs. E. M. Jones, of Brockville, Ontario, won the "Contributor's
Cup." It is needless to say that these cups were won by submitting to sale
St, Lamberts, as they were most in demand.

A perusal of the names of the purchasers at such high prices will show
that the realization of these extravagant amounts was caused by compara-
tively few bidders. The mass of breeders followed in the wake of the lead-
ers, but usually, when the figures ran to thousands, the masses dropped out,
and the few became competitors with one another for the possession of the
coveted animals.

This has been the history of nearly all "booms," which bring in their wake
corresponding depression, and are never as healthy as good, fair, living prices.

I feel that a description of the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d will interest
most breeders.

ALLIE OF ST. LAMBERT 24991,
full sister of Ida of St. Lambert, was, in my opinion, fully as good a cow
individually as Ida of St. Lambert, if not a better one. She did not have the
same advantage in handling as did her full sister, but her descendants thi'ough
her sons, Exile of St. Lambert and King of St. Lambert, and grandsons, King
of St. Lambert's King, Garfield's Exile and Rioter of St. Lambert, have shown
her value. She had fully as good an udder as Ida, equal if not better milk
veins, but was not quite so large and of a finer type.

MERMAID OF ST. LAMBERT 9771
was in my judgment the best daughter of Stoke Pogis 3d, based on a year's
work. She has a fine though rather straight head, good horns, neck and
back, with a slight tendency to slope on rump. In color she was solid silver
gray, with dark facings ; her udder was an enormous one, and while broad in

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31

front was not as full as it should have been. Her teats were beautifully placed
and large, and her milk veins it would be difficult to excel. She was a very
heavy milker, and I am satisfied could have made more butter in a year on less
feed than Mary Anue of St. Lambert.

XAIAD OP' ST. LAMBERT 12969
was a full sister of Mary Anne of St. Lambert, and was the best "little cow"
for her inches of the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d. Unlike her full sister,
Mary Anne of St. Lambert, she was not nearly so long, nor as high ; but her
girth was very great, with a tremendous paunch, unusually short legs ; she
was, in fact, what might be called a "big little cow." She was a perfect wedge
shape, with an extremely pretty head, thin withers ; high, prominent bones,
flat thighs, straight to the setting-on of tail, and swung an enormous udder of
perfect shape, very large and square in front and well out behind. Her teats
were of excellent size and perfectly placed. Her belly was a net-work of
veins. I was so fond of her that I refused an offer of $15,000 for her, and
made her a present to my son in order that I might not be obliged to refuse to
put a price on her, as I had often done theretofore.

IDA OF ST. LAMBERT, 24990

PROPERTY OF MILLER 4. SIBLEY, FRANKLIN, PA.

was in the Oaklands herd and was, as is before stated, sold to Miller & Sibley,
and though we appreciated her highly, our esteem for her did not equal that
for Mary Anne. As a breeder, results show that Ida was the better of the two,
through the great work of her three sons, Ida's Stoke Pogis, Ida's Rioter of
St. L. and Ida of St. Lambert's Bull; yet I doubt if she were the better
cow of the two, or more prepotent than Mary Anne. The greatness of a cow
is usually perpetuated through her sons, and a great deal depends into
whose hands such sons pass, on what cows they are used, the skill of the
handler of the herd, and whether or no testing is in vogue in such herd.

Ida of St. Lambert had not as fine a head as Mary. Anne, nor was she so
long a cow ; her horns were not as pretty, and she had more of a Stoke Pogis
head. She was a light fawn with dark shading, with long and exceedingly
deep body, an enormous paunch, strong, flat, open ribs — very long from hip
bone to setting-on of tail. She had great stowage and digestive capacity, with
a very large udder, good-sized teats well placed, and grand milk veins. Her

32 The /S7. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

udder was well rounded, broad and full in front, and extended well out be-
hind. She was a very deep cow and an excessively heavy milker.
The most beautiful daughter of Stoke Pogis 3d was

HONEYMOON OF ST. LAMBERT 11221.
She was solid silver gray, with a good head, straight back to setting-on of
tail, deep flanks and big paunch, but not so heavy a cow as the four I have
heretofore described, but of very much finer finish, and a great show cow all
over. Her udder was perfect in shape, extended very far up on belly, and was
set off with four good-sized, perfectly-placed teats. She took her beauty from
her dam, who in my judgment was one of the most handsome Victor Hugos I
ever saw.

CROCUS OP ST. LAMBERT 8351,
another full sister to Mary Anne of St. Lambert, was very dark in color ; an
excellent cow, not carrying as large an udder as Mary Anne of St. Lambert
or Naiad of St. Lambert, not giving so much milk as either of them, but a
cow that was most tenacious in milk. In appearance she was not so pleasing
to the eyes as Mary Anne or Naiad, and yet on a close scrutiny it was very
difficult to say wherein she was deficient.

BRENDA OP ELMHURST 10762,
and Rosette of St. Lambert 5108, her dam, were so much alike that describing
one describes the other. They were both very long, deep cows, of great
capacity, exceedingly deep in belly, very short legged, large udders and per-
fectly placed teats, and were, in point of fact, exceptionally good cows in
every way. They were as straight on the back as arrows, and, outside of
their color (which I did not like, being almost black) they were superb
cows. I bought both of them together. They had never been separated from
the time Brenda was dropped. They were simply inseparable.

Judged by every indication, Rosette of St. Lambert was possessed of great
capacity at the pail and churn ; yet as showing the value of the Stoke Pogis
3d cross, Brenda was far the better worker of the two.

While looking up the St. Lamberts, I had seen Rosette and Brenda, and
had a price on them, $1,200, for the two. While visiting the farm of a then
prominent member of the club in New England, he expressed a wish to buy
two good St. Lambert cows. I told him of Rosette and Brenda, and offered to
buy them for him for $1,200. Thinking the price too high, he wanted me to
"dicker" for a lower figure. Having given him his opportunity, which he did
not embrace, I bought them for myself. Brenda was then in calf to a Victor
Hugo bull, and dropped a bull, within two weeks of my buying her ; and T
sold this very calf to my New England friend, when about four months old, for
$1,300. He had the calf ; I had the cows free of cost. He might have had all
three for the money he paid for the calf, and for once New England shrewd-
ness overreached itself. I sold the two cows later, I think, for $8,000.

NYMPH OP ST. LAMBERT 129G8
was the only inbred daughter of Stoke Pogis 3d, her dam, Diana of St. Lam-
bert 6636, being also a daughter of Stoke Pogis 3d. An exceptionally good
cow she was, too, and carried a beautiful udder — very large and perfect in
shape, very broad in front, extending well out in rear, with good-sized and
perfectly-placed teats. She was i-ather dark in color, tending towards mouse-
color, if my memory serves me aright, barring Nancy of St. Lambert, she
made her test on less feed than any other daughter of Stoke Pogis 3d tested
at Oaklands.

When I come to describe that grand old cow,

LUCY OF ST. LAMBERT 5116,
I feel I cannot do justice to her. She was 14 years old when I bought her.
and yet was as hale and hearty as a youngster. For a Victor Hugo, she was
an unusually large cow. beautiful head, long ewe neck, thin on her withers,

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straight as an arrow on back to setting-on of tail ; high, prominent hip bones,
flat thighs well cnt out, with an enormous udder of beautiful shape, superb
teats and a perfect net-work of milk veins. She had tremendous stowage
capacity, was short-legged, and a perfect wedge shape. She was, in fact, the
typical early Jersey cow of Connecticut. Where have they gone to? What
has become of them? Why is it that one travels for hundreds, nay, thousands
of miles and finds but few such cows? They are so rare, and the owner ap-
preciates them so highly, you cannot buy them. Lucy of St. Lambert was
doubtless a great cow, but a still greater breeder, yet bred to a Victor Hugo
bull she never produced anything extraordinary ; but her daughter, when
crossed by Stoke Pogis 3d, produced Ida of St. Lambert and Allie of St.
Lambert. When Stoke Pogis 3d was crossed directly upon Lucy of St. Lam-
bert he produced two superb cows, in Cora of St. Lambert 8347 and Nancy of
St. Lambert 12964, the latter being, in my judgment, the richest daughter of
Stoke Pogis 3d. I know this will surprise many, when they realize that her
test was but 14 lbs. 5 oz. But she was tested when she was three years old,
without forcing, and before we knew much about testing at Oaklands. Had
she been tested with the same forcing and heavy feeding for a long time as
were Mary Anne and Ida, and her milk retained with the same care and
churned with the same skill, it would, in my judgment, have shown great
richness. She was one of the best breeders I had on my place, and I realized
more profit from her sons and daughters than from any other daughter of
Stoke Pogis 3d, barring Mary Anne of St. Lambert.

NANCY OF ST. LAMBERT

was one of the most difficult cows to approach in pasture that I had.
She would never allow a woman to come near her in the barn, or in pasture.
She was sold at my closing out sale and was bought by Mr. Nat F. Berry, of
Lexington, Ky. When I was selecting the Jersey herd to compete in the
World's Fair dairy tests, in 1892, in company with Prof. Scovell, I visited the
farm of jNIr. Berry. It had escaped my memory that he owned Nancy. I
was looking for cows available for the test. Some cows were pasturing at a
distance. I remarked to Prof. Scovell : "There's a grand cow over there ; I
would like to examine her." His answer was : "I should think she was ;
don't you know her? You ought to; that is Nancy of St. Lambert." My in-
terest was immediately aroused, as she w^as, as before stated, one of my first
purchases of the St. Lamberts, in 1881, and I was very fond of her. But
Prof. Scovell remarked : "You will never get near her." As we approached
her, hearing my voice, she lifted her head, stood perfectly still, and allowed
me to examine her all over, and from that time till I left the pasture, she fol-
lowed me about like a dog. I am convinced she recognized me, even to my
voice.

COLUMBINE OF ST. LAMBERT 8350

was full sister of Honeymoon of St. Lambert 11221. She was solid silver-
gray, with a Stoke Pogis head and thin withers, not so long as Honeymoon of
St. Lambert, as I remember her, but with more of a paunch. She had promi-
nent high hip-bones, a flat thigh and was well cut out behind. She was not
so pretty a cow as Honeymoon, nor did I esteem her so highly individually ;
but she has been the progenitor of some remarkable descendants, as will be
seen later on.

NIOBE OF ST. LAMBERT 12969
was one of the smallest daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d. She had an extremely
pretty head, fine tapering horns, a good eye with broad forehead, an excellent
neck, with very thin withers, high prominent hip-bones, flat thighs and a deep
though rather short body for a daughter of Stoke Pogis 3d. Her back and
loins were good, but she sloped in the rump. Her udder was an excellent
shape and very large, and her milk veins were splendid. Her teats might
have been larger, though they were beautifully placed. Barring her sloping
rump, she was very pretty. She was an exceedingly nervous cow, but was a

34 The tit. Lambert FumUy of Jerseys.

great worker and a very deep milker. She had an "official test" of 21 lbs.
91/2 oz.

MAVOURNEEN OF ST. LAMBEltT 9777,
a daughter of Amelia 484, imp., and consequently having none of the blood of
Victor Hugo, but her sire being Stoke Pogis 3d, was a long, rangy cow, with a
true Stoke Pogis head, rather leggy, and an excellent milker — a very heavy one
— but not so rich as the other daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d with the Victor
Hugo blood in them. She had a test of 15 lbs. 12 oz. from 298 lbs. of milk.

CORA OF ST. LAMBERT 8347
was a very pretty cow — I do not recollect her well enough to describe her indi-
viduality, I regret to say, but I think she was a light fawn. She was a very
rich cow and had a test of 21 lbs. 6% oz., and was full sister of Nancy of St.
Lambert.

CHEERFUL OF ST. LAMBERT 8348

was a very large light fawn cow, very deep body, set on short legs, with an
immense udder, full both in front and in rear ; she had good teats, was
straight on back, her hips were wide apart ; she had good milk veins, a true
Rioter head and rather coarse horns. She was out of Jessamine of St. Lam-
bert 512.5, and consequently was full sister of Romeo de Bonair 4091. here-
after referred to. She made a test for me of 20 lbs. 8 oz., and is the dam of
Cheerful of St. Lambert 2d, test 22 lbs. 2 oz., who is the dam of Cheerful
Pogis, 21 lbs. 4% oz., who is the dam of Maud of Glen Rouge, 22 lbs. 10 oz.
Showing that her own butter inheritance was handed down to the fourth
generation.

COMELY OF ST. LAMBERT 6639
was a light gray fawn, with very large and deep body ; she had a superb
udder, very perfect in shape, with splendid teats and milk veins. She had a
beautiful head, well dished, and pretty horns. She was a very heavy milker,
said to have milked 66 lbs. per day in her prime, but was never tested for but-
ter. She is the dam of Comely of St. Lambert 2d, test 20 lbs. 10 oz.

MINNETTE OF ST. LAMBERT 9774
was a large, very deep-bodied cow, with short legs, light fawn in color. She
had an immense udder, superb in front, nice teats and good milk veins. She
was very straight in the back and a very handsome cow, with good head and
horns. I bought her from Mr. Wm. Rolph, on September 13, 1883, for $1,500,
and sold her to Mr. Frederick Loeser on October 23 of the same year at $4,000.
Mr. Rolph was always very partial to Minnette. She was a very heavy
milker, and had a test for Mr. Rolph of 17 lbs. 4 oz., without forcing. She
has but three daughters, two of which Avere tested, as follows : Princess Min-
nette, test 18 lbs. QV2 oz. ; Oakland's Lily, 15 lbs. 4 oz. ; the other daughter,
Minnette Pogis, was the dam of Pedro's Minnette, 19 lbs. 8 oz. Minnette of
St. Lambert had no sons. Princess Minnette is the dam of the champion
milking Jersey, Adelaide of St. Lambert, owned by Miller <& Sibley, Franklin,
Pa., referred to in this pamphlet.

KITTY OF ST. LAilBERT 6637
was a very dark cow. not nearly as large as her full sister, Brenda of Elm-,
hurst, nor did she have so good a front udder. She had a true Rioter head,
good horns, handled uncommonly well, and was a heavy milker, milking as
high as 48 lbs. a day. She had a test of 16 lbs. 11 oz., made when 15 years
old. She is also the dam of

LEONORA OF CANADA,
who is portrayed in this pamphlet — test. 22 lbs. 11 oz. — and Kitty of St.
Lambert 2d — test. 16 lbs. 5 oz. I once offered $4,000 for her, but the offer
was refused.

The St. Lambert FamiUj of Jerseys.

35

DIANA OF ST. LAMBERT 6636,
to whom I was not so partial as I was to the other daughters of Stoke Pogis
3d, was a very long, deep, gray-colored cow, with short legs ; she was straight
on back and wide across the hips. Her udder was very large, but it was not
so perfect in front as some of the others. Her teats were good, as were her
milk veins. She had a good head and hoi-ns. She had a test of 16 lbs. 8 oz.,
from 298 lbs. of milk, and was the dam of Nymph of St. Lambert, test 24 lbs.
14 oz. She was full sister of Dido of St. Lambert, and half sister on her
dam's side of Oakland's Nora, test 23 lbs. 5 oz., fully described elsewhere.
She was the dam of Diana's Rioter, sire of 7 in 14-lb. list, among them Letty
Rioter, test 24 lbs. 2 oz., and she was also the dam of Diana's Stoke Pogis,
sire of Diana Doon, test 15 lbs. 9 oz.

MAGGIE OF ST. LAMBERT 9776
was out of old imported Ophelia 493, and a grand cow she was. In color she
was a light fawn. She had a beautiful head and horns. Had a very deep
body and deep paunch, set on short legs. She had splendid milk veins. She
was not as thin over the shoulder as she ought to have been, but tended to the
beefy type. She had a butter test of 3 0.3 from 278 lbs. of milk, on ordinary
feed. She was an excellent breeder, though, and was the dam of that great
old cow, Maggie Sheldon, test 21.5.

MOTH OF ST. LAMBERT 9775
was solid light fawn, with beautiful head and horns, of a perfect dairy con-
formation, with a splendid body. She carried a vei-y large and beautiful
udder and teats. She was straight on the back. I was very fond of her dam,
Bessie of St. Lambert, and her full brother, Rambler of St. Lambert. Moth
had a test of 16 lbs. 2 oz., made when three years old. She was the dam of
Rioter's Ruth, by her own full brother, test 19 lbs. 6i/^ oz., a beautiful cow
that died young. She was the dam of Rab 22937, who got some very superior
daughters in the herd of H. L. Pierce. Mr. Pierce paid a long price for Moth.
Mr. Rolph sold her to Mr. Cooper, if I remember aright, and he sold her to-
Mr. Pierce.

MELIA ANN 5444,
dropped June 23, 1875, bred by Mr. C. M. Berrill, of Waterville, Me., has been
attracting a great deal of attention of late owing to the number of tested
daughters and granddaughters she has and their high average. Her sire is
Lord Aylmar 1067. a son of Lord Lisgar 1066, out of the latter's dam,
Pauline 494. The dam of Melia Ann was Amelia 2d 1730, a daughter of Vic-
tor Hugo 197, out of Amelia 484, both imported by S. Sheldon Stephens.
Melia Ann has a test of 18 lbs. % oz., on grass only, made at the farm of Mr.
Jos. H. Walker, who became her possessor on September 27, 1881. On April
5, 1886, Mr. Jno. P. Pomeroy, of West Stockbridge, Mass., bought her from
Mr. Walker, and shortly after she dropped Melia Ann 2d. Melia Ann was
then sent to the farm of Dr. Westlake, at Hillsdale, N. Y., to be bred to- Lucy's
Stoke Pogis. Here she dropped Melia Ann's Son, Melia Ann's Stoke Pogis,
as well as Melia Ann 3d, her last calf, dropped September 3, 1889, all by
Lucy's Stoke Pogis. Melia Ann lived till 1891. but did not have another calf.
Mr. Walker was completely wrapped up in this cow, and believed her to be
one of the greatest then living. The results at a later date would seem to
justify this belief, as besides having sons with tested daughters she herself
was the dam of five tested daughters, with an average of 21.9i^ in 7 days,
namely : Melia Ann 3d. 28.8, now owned by Mr. Geo. E. Peer ; Daisy Morri-
son, 25.121/2 ; L. D.'s Melia, 20.6 ; Dona Marina. 18.8 ; Melia Ann 2d, 18.6.
Melia Ann 3d was sired by Lucy's Stoke Pogis ; L. D.'s Melia and Melia Ann
2d, by Lord Darlington, a son of Duke of Darlington and imported Marjoram ;
Daisy Morrison was sired by John Morrison 4551, and Dona Marina by King
Arthur 2170. This shows conclusively that whatever blood she "nicked" with

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The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

it produced extraordinary results. I saw Melia Ann when at Mr. Walker's
in 1883. As I remember her, she was a long, very deep-bodied cow, more
than the average size. What impressed me most was her extra large udder,
exceedingly well rounded, large and broad in front and well out behind. Her
teats were very large and well placed and her milk veins were grand. Dr.
Westlake bought Melia Ann 2d ; the first calf of the latter, Melia Ann's Vic-
tor Pogis 2069, he sold to Mr. .T. H. Martin. In an account which Dr. West-
lake published of Melia Ann in the "Jersey Bulletin," February 18, 1899, he
said he had two daughters of Melia Ann 2d, and that one of them, Melia Ann
2d's Pogis 68757, milked 54i4 lbs. in a day, and made 17 lbs. 1 oz. of butter.
I have in another part of this pamphlet dealt with the sons of Melia Ann, but
it may not be amiss to reiterate shortly what such sons did in the way of
tested daughters. Her sou, Melia Ann's Stoke Pogis, is the sire of 3 in the
list from 14 lbs to 23 lbs. 3 oz. ; Melia Ann's Son is the sire of 17 in the
charmed circle from 14 lbs. to 22 lbs. 12 oz. The prepotency of Melia Ann
does not terminate with her immediate progeny, as she is the grandam of
Melia Ann 2d (test 17.1), the dam of ^Melia Ann's Victor Pogis 20697, that
great getter of butter daughters referred to later. Melia Ann was doubtless a
great cow and "nicked" well with almost any blood.

ADELAIDE ()F ST. LAMDEKT lZ^Vo2

the property of Miller & Sibley, Franklin. Pa., is one of the greatest of all
cows, by reason of her enormous milk yield of 82% lbs. in one day, for her for-
mer owner. ]Mr. Henry Harrison, of Cannington, Ontario, and by her later 31-
day milk record for jNIiller »fc Sibley. This yield, though so enormous, is at-
tested to under oath, by ^Ir. Harrison. Messrs. Miller »& Sibley bought her on
the 4th of February, 1898, from Mr. Wm. Rolph, of Markham". Ontario. She
calved on April 19, 1898. For 31 days, from May 25 to June 24. 1898, she
gave, for Miller & Sibley, 2,005% lbs. of milk, an average of 64.85.124 lbs.
Her weight was 1,002 lbs., so that she gave more than twice her weight in 31
days. This, too, at a time when she was undergoing acclimation, as is always

The >it. Lumhcrt Familij of Jerseys. 37

the case with a cow coming from Ontai-io. Iler best day for Miller & Sibley
was 75% lbs.; the next best, 73 lbs.; the next best, 70% lbs. This makes
Adelaide of St. Lambert the champion Jersey cow for not only 1 day's milk,
but for 31 consecutive days' yield of milk. No effort was made to test her for
butter, but she showed by the Babcock, for Miller & Sibley, in the time above
referred to, 4^4 to 4 1-3 lbs. of butter per day. Adelaide of St. Lambert is
sired by the pure St. Lambert bull Comely's Stoke Pogis 19327, whose mater-
nal grandsire is Stoke Pogis 3d. Comeley's Stoke Pogis runs to Stoke Pogis
3d twice also through his sire. The dam of Adelaide is a granddaughter of
Stoke Pogis 3d, so that she runs four times to Stoke Pogis 3d, and has 31^/4 per
cent, of his blood. She is not a pure St. Lambert. Just as the year's test of
Gertie of Glynllyn has been of the greatest benefit to all Jersey breeders as
demonstrating the marvellous cajiacity of the Jersey, so has the day and the
month's record of Adelaide of St. Lambert inured to the benefit of all Jersey
men, and in it all rejoice. Adelaide of St. Lambert is a cow of great depth of
barrel, an enormous paunch, with great stowage capacity, a tremendous
udder, absolutely perfect in shape, and a perfect network of milk veins. As a
machine, she is a marvel : as a cow, a grand one in every way. On my recom-
mendation, Mr. H. J. Gilbert, of Milton, Mass., bought her son, and now has
him in use in his herd — of almost pure St. Lamberts.

COLUMBINE OF ST. LAMBERT 8350
has proved a wonderful breeder. Her dam. Bijou of St. Lambert 5112, was
the handsomest Victor Hugo I owned. She had an extremely pretty head, a
good deep body and paunch, good back, hips, udder and milk veins, and she
was a good cow, too. She was broken color. Columbine of St. Lambert was
the dam of

LETTY COLES 23351,
whom I owned for a short time, but sold, and who later passed into the hands
of Judge Bradbury, who tested her at 14 years old. Li writing of her,
Judge Bradbury says :

"She will pass into her 19th year on May 4th, 1899. She is with calf,
and we hope will live to bear it; but is getting feeble. She is a large cow,
solid fawn, has a large, well-balanced udder and good teats, and was a heavy
milker in her prime, yielding as high as 49 lbs. G oz. in one day. Her test of
18 lbs. V2 oz. in seven days was made when she was 14 years old." There
seems to have been a wonderful prepotence in the strain, as Letty Coles is the
dam of

LETTY COLES 2D 48128,
with a butter test of 21 lbs. 8 oz. ; milk given in test, 300 lbs. 15 oz. Letty
Coles 2d is the dam of Letty Rioter 73475, 24 lbs. 2 oz., from 318 lbs. 14 oz.
of milk : Rioter's Lettie, 21 lbs. 91/2 oz. ; Emsie of St. Lambert, 21 lbs. 21/2 oz..
and Eoline of St. Lambert, 19 lbs. 1 oz.

LETTY RIOTER 73475.

Judge Bradbury, in speaking of Letty Rioter (by Diana's Rioter 10481),
which I have never seen, says : "She is considerably smaller than her dam
or dam's dam, but has an udder larger and more symmetrical than either of
them.

"She is what might be called a big-little cow, being low down. She is
heavier than she looks to the common observer. She has a good front udder,
but the rear development is so much better that it to some extent overshad-
ows the front ; but. as a whole, it is a first-class udder, and the teats are just
the right size and set on wide apart."

So highly did Judge Bradbury think of Letty Rioter that she was sent by
him to be bred to Exile of St. Lambert, and as a result she had a bull calf,
dropped June 5, 1890, which was registered as Rioter's Exile of St. Lambert
48228, now being used in the herd of Judge Bradbury, and which is later on
referred to.

38 The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

Although the Jersey cow that holds the champion milk record for a year,

GERTIE OF GLYNLLYN 74474,
is not a St. Lambert in all lines, but having 25 per cent, of the blood of Bache-
lor of St. Lambert, it is appropriate that so grand a cow find a place in this
pamphlet.

When Gertie of Glyllyn 74474 completed her year's test of milk, on Janu-
ary 6, 1890, she was past eight years old. She is owned by Mr. C. A. Sweet,
of Buffalo, N. Y.. and in her year's work was under the immediate personal
supervision of Mr. Geo. Sweet, who showed consummate skill in his handling
of her. She gave the astonishing yield of 16,780 lbs. 3 oz. of milk in 365 days —
a remarkable record ; a splendid work for the Jersey cause ; another evidence
of the deep milking qualities of the Jerseys of to-day. During her milk test
53 Babcock tests of her milk were taken, at intervals of one week. The aver-
age butter-fat was 4,728, which, computing it on the basis of the World's
Fair Dairy Test (of 80 per cent, fat in the butter), shows that the milk of
Gertie of Glynllyn had 991.7 lbs. of estimated butter in the 365 days. This
test is another evidence of the almost incredible capacity of the Jersey cow.
not only in milk, but in butter, and sets at rest the claims made by the critics
and detractors of the Jersey cow as to the impossibility of any cow producing
750 lbs. or more of "marketable butter" in 365 consecutive days.

Knowing both Mr. Sweet and his son as I do — knowing the scrupulous
care and exactness that is practised at the farm — I know that the reported
yield is absolutely correct. No greater, no more convincing refutation could
be given to the unbelievers in the yearly capacity of the Jersey cow than has
been dealt by the work of Gertie of Glynllyn. "Truth will not down." It
only remains for the opportunity to present itself to again proclaim the great
superiority of the Jersey. Jersey breeders, one and all, are benefited by
"Gertie's" test.

In color, Gertie of Glynllyn is a golden fawn. She has a good back,
splendid loins, is very long from hip bone to setting-on of tail, has splendid

The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys. 39

open, flat ribs, is very large in body, witli enormous bread-basket. She is of
perfect wedge-shape, starting in at her withers and widening out till you
reach her bread-basket. Her legs are short ; she has a good neck and withers.
Her eye is large, brilliant, and stands out well. Like all great performers,
her jaws are large and strong, and she was never "sick or sorry" a day during
the test. But it is when you come to her evidence of ability that you are lost
in admiration : the udder, which is enormous, as it would have to be to hold
the milk she gives, is of splendid shape, full front and rear, and it is set
off by a grand set of teats. Her belly is almost a network of veins, so full, so
plump and so tortuous. She is not only the greatest of all cows, in milk and
butter combined for a year, but is a beauty and a show cow. In many ways
she reminded me of old Mai'joram. Her greatest milk yield for a day was 54
lbs. 12 oz., and when she ended her test she was giving .an average of over 30
lbs. a day. Her capacity to take care of feed is remarkable ; that she responds
to it is shown by results.

Of all the well-known blood comprising the pedigree of Gertie, Bachelor
of St. Lambert contributes the highest percentage, though Mr. Sweet thinks
her type is largely St. Helier.

OAKLAND'S NORA 14880
has left behind her some splendid descendants and is worthy of special men-
tion. It will be remembered that she is the dam of St. Lambert Boy, here-
after referred to. I have not a very distinct recollection of her, as I sold her
when young, although I know I considered her extremely pretty. She is by
Lome 5248. the sire of 7 in the 14-lb. list, out of Pet of St. Lambert 5123,
dam of two. She is thus the double grand-daughter of Lord Lisgar, as well
as a granddaughter of that greatest of all progenitors of butter ancestors,
Lucy of St. Lambert 5116. In color she is a light silver-gray, with a little
white in switch. She has a deep body, set on short legs, with an udder run-
ning well forward, and when distended showing distinctly behind the thighs.
Her teats are large and set on wide apart. Her owner, .Judge Bradbury, in
referring to her great length of usefulness, says : "Her temperament is as
placid as any cow I ever knew. Nothing excites her. Her long life is partly
due to this, no doubt. She will pass into her 19th year on the 11th day of
this month (February), has not a blemish, and dropped a calf in October
last. Her dam lived to be 16 years old, and then died of milk fever, being at
the time a strong, vigorous cow." She herself has a test of 23 lbs. 5 oz., but,
what is better still, she is the dam of four tested cows, as follows : Nora
Pogis, 21.14% ; St. Lambert's Nora B., 21.1 ; Oakland's Nora 2d, 19.1, and
Meridale Oakland's Nora, 15.1. Is it to be wondered at, with such an array
of butter ancestors on the side of St. Lambert Boy. that he should have pro-
duced so many tested daughters and to many excellent animals to be found
in many of the prominent herds of this country?

Recently Mr. M. H. Olin, of Perry, N. Y.. in writing to the "Jersey Bul-
letin" on the subject of Oakland's Nora 2d. quotes from a letter of Dr. H. G.
Westlake, of Hillsdale, N. Y., her breeder, as follows :

"You of course saw in last week's 'Jersey Bulletin' the Island cow Name-
less. Oakland's Nora 2d would score very close to Nameless, and many con-
sider her about as nearly a perfect cow as it is possible to secure." Oak-
land's Nora 2d 4.5967 is not only a daughter of Oakland's Nora, but is sired
by a son of Canada's John Bull and Oakland's Nora, namely, Canada's John
Bull. Jr. : so that Oakland's Nora 2d is a full sister in blood to St. Lambert
Boy 17408. Dr. Westlake is, from my own personal knowledge, extremely
conservative in any statement he may make. In a letter to me of recent date
he says : "Oakland's Nora 2d 45967 is the most nearly perfect cow I ever
owned, being in build and conformation almost the counterpart of the Island
cow Nameless, whose picture is in the '.Jersey Bulletin' of December 25. except
that Oakland's Nora has a lighter neck, smaller head, and smaller, more in-
curving horns, and greater depth of body ; she has perfect udder and teats :
light fawn in color. Her butter test is 19 lbs. 1 oz. I purchased her with

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The St. Latnhert Family of Jerseys.

Rose of Englewood 472G0 [Rose of Englewood is another daughter of Canada's
John Bull, Jr., out of Bijou's Rose of Berlin 24758.— V. E. F.]. She was
darker in color than Oakland's Nora, but a beautiful cow. I sold her, before
she dropped her second calf, to Mr. George Baker, of Sands Point, Long Isl-
and, and I learn that she has given more than 10.000 pounds of milk in a
year."

Those who saw St. Lambert Boy in his prime remember he was very hand-
some, and coupling that with the statement of Dr. Westlake as to the great
beauty of Oakland's Nora 2d, will realize that this blood is not only prepotent
in its inheritance and transmission, but has produced uncommonlj' handsome
animals.

Another unusually handsome cow, as well as a great breeder and a good
individual, who traces to the St. Lambert family on the part of both sire and
dam, is

DONNEY FOGIS 2D 8242G,
the property of Mr. C. I. Hood, of Hood Farm, Lowell. Mass. Her paternal
grandsire is Landseer's Pogis, a son of Pogis Chief, and her dam is a daughter
of Pogis Chief. Her butter record is 17 lbs. li^ oz. from 280.303 lbs. of milk,
but she has milked as high as 41 lbs. 12 oz. in a day. She is a long, deep-bodied,
straight-backed cow, straight to the setting-on of tail, with long, thin neck,
thin on withers. Her udder is superb, an enormous one, and is perfect in
shape, with large and splendidly placed teats. When I was at Hood Farm I
was impressed by her ability to produce uncommonly handsome progeny, and
the result, in the show ring of her sons, bears this out. One son.

DON OF HOOD FARM,
has to his credit sixteen first premiums. Another son of hers has won two
first prizes, while a daughter has taken seven blue ribbons.

Fancy Pogis, a daughter of Donney Pogis 2d, with third calf, made 17 lbs.
11/^ oz. of butter in seven days and 8.793 lbs. of milk in a year, testing 622 lbs.
8 oz. of butter fin a year).

Th£ St. Lambert Fainily of Jcrscyn. 41

Another St. Lambert cow, whose picture appears in this pamphlet with
that of her sou, Maplecroft's Rioter 4S0T2, worthy of special meutiou is

BESS POGIS OF PROSPECT 87048,
the property of J. Gerow Dutcher, Maplecroft Farm, Pawling, N. Y., who
has gathered together a most remarkably good lot of St. Lambert cows in his
herd. Bess Pogis of Prospect made a test for Miller & Sibley of 29 lbs.
1% oz. in 7 days, previous to Mr. Dutcher buying her ; gave 04 lbs. of milk
in one day, 425 lbs. in 7 days, and 1,711 lbs. S oz. in 31 days. After being
acquired by Mr. Dutcher, while running with the rest of the herd, and having
no especial feed or care, she gave 11,186 lbs. 12 oz. of milk in one year. Her
breeding and butter inheritance will be found under the description of her son,
Maplecroft's Rioter 48072. In fact, to be a member of this herd proclaims
their great merit both at the pail and churn and individually, as none other
are ever permitted into the herd. Bess Pogis of Prospect is a cow of great
length and depth of barrel and stowage capacity. She has a good head, neck
and withers, an unusually straight back, splendid rump and hips, and is very
long from hip bones (which are prominent) to setting-on of tail. Her udder
is a grand one of splendid shape, set off by large and perfectly placed teats,
and her milk veins are grand. She is an unusually handsome cow and as
good as she is handsome.

STOKE POGIS 3D AND STOKE POGIS 5TH.

I couple these two bulls together, as they are own full brothers. In deal-
ing with the value of any bull as a sire, or of his prepotency demonstrated by
his descendants, there are many matters that must be weighed, tending, as
they do, to influence the value of such a bull as a sire or progenitor. Some
of these are : the number of daughters the bull has ; the class of stock he was
coupled with ; the skill of the herdsman or the owner in whose herd the bull
was used ; the efforts made by the owner to have his daughters tested.

Herewith are given the total numbers of registered daughters of most of
the bulls I propose to deal with : Stoke Pogis 3d, 40 ; Stoke Pogis 5th. 81 ;
Exile of St. Lambert, 251 ; Ida's Stoke Pogis, 97 ; Ida's Rioter of St. Lam-
bert, 110 ; King of St. Lambert, 57 ; Garfield Stoke Pogis, 57 ; Stoke Pogis of
Prospect. 43 ; Rioter of St. Lambert, 53 ; Matilda 4th's Son, 58 ; Canada's
.John Bull 5th. 51; One Hundred Per Cent., 61; St. Lambert's Boy, 110;
King of St. Lambert, 59 : Prince of Melrose, 59 ; Prince of Melrose 2d, 69 ;
King of St. Lambert's King, 16.

STOKE POGIS 3d.

At the time the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d began to be tested there were
but 31 of the 40 then alive. Of these, two had spoiled udders and were giving
milk out of but one-half of the udder ; one was barren, and never bred again,
leaving 28 daughters that could be tested. Out of the remaining 28. one
leaked her milk, so that the udder never held her natural product. An effort
was made to test her, and she came within a few ounces of the magic 14 lbs. a
week. The remaining 27 each passed the coveted line of 14 lbs. in seven days
(including one who had a rated test), with an average for the 26 of over
20 lbs. each.

THE TESTED DAUGHTERS OF STOKE POGIS 3D
are Mary Anne of St. Lambert ("official test"), 36 lbs. 12% oz. in 7 days,
867 lbs. 14% oz. in 310 days: Ida of St. Lambert ("official test"). 30 lbs.
2% oz. ; Allie of St. Lambert, 26.12; Mermaid of St. Lambert ("official"),
25.131/2; Nymph of St. Lambert. 24.14: Naiad of St. Lambert (full sister of
Mary Anne of St. Lambert) ("official"), 22.2i4 : Nora of St. Lambert, 22.0;
Niobe of St. Lambert ("official"), 21. 9% ; Cora of St. Lambert, 21.6%;
Brenda of Elmhurst, 20.8 : Cheerful of St. Lambert, 20.8 : Honeymoon of St.
Lambert, 20.5*4 ; Rioter Pink of Berlin ("official"), 19.14; Columbine of St.

42 The St. Lmubert Family of Jerseys.

Lambert (full sister of Honeymoon of St. Lambert), 19.1; May Day Stoke
Pogis, 19.01/2; Cowslip of St. Lambert, 17.12; Crocus of St. Lambert (full
sister of Mary Anne of St. Lambert), 17.12; Minnette of St. Lambert (full
sister of May Day Stoke Pogis), 17.4; Kitty of St. Lambert (full sister of
Brenda of Elmhurst), 16.11; Diana of St. Lambert, 16.8; Maggie of St.
Lambert, 16.3 ; Moth of St. Lambert, 16.2 ; Mavourneen of St. Lambert,
15.12 : La Belle Petite, 15.8 ; Cupid of I>ee Farm, 14.6 ; Nancy of St. Lam-
bert, 14.5 ; Jessie Brown of Maxwell, at the rate of over 14 lbs. in 7 days.

The reputation of Stoke Pogis 3d has been maintained more through his
daughters than his sons, and more especially through Ida of St. Lambert and
Allie of St. Lambert, as will be later shown. Of later years the prepotency
of Mary Anne of St. Lambert is cropping out through her grandson, Canada's
John Bull 5th.

While the total number and the percentage of the tested daughters of

STOKP: pogis 5TH 5987
do not equal those of Stoke Pogis 3d, they are not far behind. Stoke Pogis
5th, at the present date, has 24 tested daughters, from 14 lbs. to 24 lbs. MVz
oz., as follows : Sister of Charity, 24.14y2 ; Mary Idagold, 23.9 ; May Dee
Pogis, 20.51/2 : Lady Mary of Prospect, 19.151/^ : Pretty Patty, 19.1 ; Priscilla
Pogis, 18.61/2: Frankness, 18.4; Pogis' May, 18.2; Candelabrum, 17.13; Pau-
letta Pogis, 17.12 ; Princess Aurea Pogis, I7.71/2 ; Mary M. Pogis, 16.4y2 ;
Sweet Blossom Pogis, I6.I1/2 ; Little Pogis, 16.1 ; Mary Hinman, I5.II1/2 :
Sterling Merit, 15.4 ; Rho A. Pogis, 14.15 ; Pomona's Ida of St. Lambert.
14.141/2 : Rioter's Zoe. 14.12 ; Gilfilia Pogis, I4.21/2 ; Sweet Leona B., i4.l1/2 :
Priscilla Pogis, 77 lbs. 12% oz. in 31 days, and three not reported by the
A. J. C. C. Seven of these made their tests at three years old, tested by six
different owners.

I have not by me the data of the tested granddaughters of Stoke Pogis 3d.
Stoke Pogis 5th has 126 tested granddaughters, from 14 lbs. to 26 lbs. 11 1/2
oz., a record which I believe is unequaled by any other bull. The principal
contributing sources of these tested granddaughters are :

The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys. 43

IDA OF ST. LAMBERT'S BULL 191G9,
sire of 10, from 14 lbs. 2 oz. to 2U lbs. \1% oz. ; Stoke Pogis of Prospect 29121,
sire of 23, from 14 lbs. 10 oz. to 20 lbs. 1 oz., all made with first calf except
live : One Hundred Per Cent., sire of 14, from 14 lbs. 3 oz. to 21 lbs. % oz.

Ida of St. Lambert's Bull and Stoke Pog-is of Prospect partake of the
blood of Ida of St. Lambert, the former being out of this cow, and the dam of
Stoke Pogis of Prospect being the great Ida Marigold, of World's Fair re-
nown, a daughter of Ida's Rioter of St. L. and a granddaughter of Ida of St.
Lambert. One Hundred Per Cent, is a full brother in blood of Stoke Pogis
5th, although a son of his, and also of Stoke Pogis 3d, being a pure Stoke-
Pogis-Marjoram bull, without an outcross.

The daughters of Stoke Pogis 5th were universally heavy milkers, and
were grand dairy cows with great constitutions. Sons and grandsons have
been sold to head the most prominent herds in every State in the Union.
The fact that he not only got 24 tested daughters, but that the number of his
tested granddaughters exceeds that of any bull, so far as I know, demonstrates
his great prepotency.

Taking Stoke Pogis 3d, Stoke Pogis 5th. Leclair's Marjoram and Mar-
joram 2d together, the tests of their immediate progeny and their remote de-
scendants show what grand inheritance Stoke Pogis and Marjoram had, and
how they have transmitted it, THROUGH EVERY LINE, to remote gen-
erations.

At the head of the list of the sons of Ida of St. Lambert, in number and
average of tests of daughters, stands

, IDA'S RIOTER OF ST. L. 13656,

who is sire of 29 with full seven-day tests, from 14 lbs. 10% oz. to 26 lbs. 5^/4
oz., and whose averages are 20 lbs. 3.116 oz. each, thus exceeding the average
weekly yield of the daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d. These tests were made by
eight different owners. Five of the 29 made their records with first calf and
three with second calf. The daughters of Ida's Rioter of St. L. are lai'ge

44 The St. Lamhert Fumilij of Jenscys.

cows, many weighing over 1,000 lbs. each. His daughters are heavy mi liters,
some having milked 40 lbs. with first calf.

The show-ring record of the get of Ida's Rioter of St. L. has been most re-
markable. They have won 70 first prizes and sweepstakes at State fairs or
greater expositions. Ida's Kioter of St. L. had a grand constitution, which
he imparted to his get. He weighed 1,700 lbs. His stamina is shown by the
fact that he lived to be 15 years old, and was in service up to the time of his
death.

I am not so familiar with the daughters of Ida's Rioter of St. L.
as I am with the get of some of the St. Lambert bulls, so I quote from printed
matter of them : "His daughters are of the best dairy type. They have size
and constitution. Their udders are capacious and symmetrical, their teats
large and well-placed. The daughters of Ida's Rioter of St. L. are believed to
be, on the average, heavier milkers than the daughters of any other sire yet
developed."

Familiar as I was with Ida of St. Lambert, and knowing what a great and
prepotent cow she was, remembering her milk i-ecord of 67 lbs. a day, 455%
lbs. in 7 days, 1,891 lbs. in 31 days, and her butter test, which was "official,"
of 30 lbs. 2y2 oz. in 7 days, it is no wonder that Ida's Rioter of St. L. is so
great a bull.

When it is borne in mind that he is full brother of Ida's Stoke Pogis 13658,
sire of 29 in the list, sire of and full brother in blood of King of St. Lambert
15175, full brother in blood of Exile of St. Lambert 13057, of Ida of St.
Lambert's Bull, it but adds to the value of the inheritance of Ida's Rioter of
St. L. and strengthens the proof (if any there need be) of his power of
transmitting the great inheritance he himself possesses. The following are
the tested daughters of Ida's Rioter of St. L. of 20 lbs. or over, as
reported in the last "Butter Test Book :" Fable, 26.51^ : Ida Marigold,
25.21/2 ; Daisy Hinman, 24.10 ; Calculus, 23.111/2 ; Matilda of Meridale, 23.5% ;
Ida Twinkle, 23.2i/2 ; Metaphysics, 23.2i4 ; Experience, 22.13 ; St. Lambert's
Crescent, 22.10 ; The Queen's Gift, 22.9 : Crown, 20.12 ; Pomona of Prospect,
20.614. The most noted daughter of Ida's Rioter of St. L. is Ida Mari-
gold, who by reason of her great performance in the show-ring and in the
World's Fair dairy tests attained a most coveted position — a reputation that
is being continuously increased through her son. Stoke Pogis of Prospect.

The son of Ida's Rioter of St. L. with the greatest number of tested
daughters is King of St. Lambert, who has 22 in the list. But inasmuch as
he is also a son of Allie of St. Lambert, I shall deal with him when speaking
of the sons of this cow.

MATILDA 4TH'S SON 20214
is another son of Ida's Rioter of St. L. with 13 tested daughters to his
credit. As his name indicates, he is a son of that great producing cow Matilda
4th, a daughter of Stoke Pogis 12.59. imp., and old Mailda 3239. imp., a
great heritage. I have in another part of this pamphlet referred to her
official test of 21 lbs. Si/^ oz., and that she is the dam of three in the list. As
is to be expected from such an inheritance, the daughters of Matilda 4th's Son
are great dairy cows, of robust, strong constitutions, excessively heavy
milkers and great workers. Though in his 13th year, he is still hale and
vigorous, and is doing work in the great "Meridale Herd" of Ayer & McKin-
ney, at Meredith, N. Y.

Unfortunately for the reputation of the two great bulls in the "Meridale"
herd, Ida of St. Lambert's Bull and Matilda 4th"s Son. it was the policy of
the proprietors to sell the get of their bulls before they had matured, and with-
out testing them. Passing into the hands of many owners, they were not
often tested, and the sires have never had as many tested daughters to their
credit as their capabilities justified. I am glad to say, however, their policy
now is to retain cows of their own breeding till they mature, and to test
them. Under these unfavorable circumstances, it is a marvel that Matilda
4th's Son had 12 tested daughters to his credit. The six highest are Pink of

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Meridale, IS.IO; Meridale Diana, 17.11; Point Lace, 17.8; Matilda's Matilda.
17.2% ; Matilda of the Ledges, IG.Oya ; Ribbons Matilda, 1G.4. To show that
the full capacity of the daughters of Ida of St. Lambeit's Bull and Matilda
4th's Son was never brought out at Meridale Farm, out of 28 tested daugh-
ters to the credit of these two bulls, 10 of them made or have increased their
tests in the hands of the buyers. So highly are the daughters of these bulls
thought of by their owners, that some of them are held at from $500 to $1,200.
The able superintendent, Mr. T. M. Ware, wrote me February 23 that he
had just measured the udders of two daughters of Matilda 4th's Son (out of
daughters of Ida of St. Lambert's Bull), and that they measured 51% inches
and 53 inches respectively. Another producing son of Ida's Rioter of St.
L., with five tested daughters to his credit, is

IDA'S POGIS 18000.

His dam is La Petite Pogis 28757, with a test of 20.10% oz., and is dam of
that great cow of Mr. C. A. Sweet's, Crown, test 20.12. La Petite Pogis is a
daughter of Titan 8548 (by Uproar), out of La Petite Mere 2d 12810, who
gave 16.669 lbs. of milk in one year. Her dam. La Petite Mere 5470, is the
dam of four in the list. Ida's Pogis is the dam of five in the list.

I have already stated that

STOKE POGIS OF PROSPECT 29121,

that great bull of Mr. C. A. Sweet's, is a son of Stoke Pogis 5th. and it might
have been proper to have referred to him under the heading of that bull. But
he is also a son of the champion cow.

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The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

IDA MARIGOLD 32615,
a daughter of Ida's Rioter of St. L. I am a great believer in the in-
fluence the dam of a bull exerts on his progeny. Hei-e we have an ideal dam
in Ida Marigold. Who is there who has not heard of her and her achieve-
ments in the World's Fair tests and the World's Fair show-ring, and her
work in these two great arenas of publicity will never be forgotten by the
present generation of Jersey breeders; but they are so grand they will bear
repetition. In the World's Fair tests she gave the greatest quantity of milk
in a day of any Jersey cow in the tests. She was the champion cow of
all breeds in Test No. 1 (the cheese test). In this test she ex-
ceeded 44 lbs. of milk a day, 14 days out of the 15, milking as high as
46 lbs. 7 oz. in one day and averaging 44 lbs. 9 oz. for the whole test. In
Test No. 2 she exceeded 44 lbs. of milk four times. She made as high as 2.G1
lbs. of butter in a day. Her achievements in the tests were but a forerunner
of her renown in the show-ring. Ida Marigold was awarded first place in
aged class and declared winner of sweepstakes for cows of all ages — a feat
that stamped her as the greatest cow in individuality in this country, and
richly she deserved it. Consider her ability at the pail and churn, her record
in the show-ring, and you will see what manner of dam she was. She had a
seven-day test of 25 lbs. 2% oz.

Referring to the position attained in the show-ring by Ida Marigold, the
result of the judging showed that the

DAIRY COWS ARE SHOW COWS, TOO.

It is generally conceded the Jersey cows in the dairy barns were essentially
workers. They were more — they were exceedingly handsome, and as indi-
viduals very perfect. This is not my own idea, born of prejudice, but the
result of the judging in the show-ring. Sixteen of the cows from the dairy
barns were entered in the aged class for cows. They were all scored and
placed in the following positions : 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th. 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th. 10th. 11th,
12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th. The sixth place was awarded to Mar-
joram 2d not in the test. As I had personally selected all these cows for the

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47

test, it was most gratifying to me to have them so placed in the show-ring.
It was a practical illustration that beautj' and utility can be and were com-
bined in the same cow.

In the case of Stoke Pogis of Prospect, it seems superfluous to dwell on
his ancestry. He has created a reputation for himself which of right will
stand alone — a great one and an enviable one — but I wish to emphasize that
the undoubted prepotency possessed by him is there as a matter of right, of
breeding, and being an inherited quality, will be transmitted.

Stoke Pogis of Prospect is a bull of grand constitution, great length and
depth of barrel, and yet not coarse. He possesses a clean head, well dished,
with good eye, long neck, and his carriage is lordly. His ribs are very open,
flat and well sprung. He has grand loins, good hips, and is extra long from
hip bone to setting-on of tail. He is square on rump to tail, and has a very
long tail, with splendid switch. He is well cut out behind. He is especially
strong in rudimentaries, which are extra long and uncommonly well placed.

As additional collateral evidence of the great value of Stoke Pogis of
Prospect as a sire, it may be stated that he is full brother of

MARY IDAGOLD 88186,
owned by Mr. C. A. Sweet, and a grand cow she is. She has a test of 23 lbs.
9 oz. from 343 lbs. 5V2 oz. of milk, made in her three-year-old form, a test
that stamps her as a great cow. She, like her full brother, has a grand con-

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The St. Lambert Familij of Jernfyti.

stitution, with a superb udder, very full in front and rear, splendidly
rounded, and a most excellent pair of teats, well placed. Her milk veins are
grand and very tortuous, and her flow of milk in her test shows she is a very
heavy milker.

Grand a bull as he is, he is a still greater sire. Judged by the tests of his
daughters that are in milk, and the age of them when tested (and that is the
only true criterion of a sire), he is the greatest bull living. I am aware this
is claiming a great deal, but I am prepared to back it up by facts which will
not admit of disputation.

He is eight years old, but for the first three years of his existence he did
but little service. He has now 23 daughters in milk. Of these, 20 have
been tested. He has now 20 in the 14-lb. list, 18 of which made their tests
with first calf, and all under three years old. The average milk in the tests
for those IS two-year-olds with first calf was over 31.57 lbs. per day — a truly
remarkable and astonishing record.

MAPLECROFT'S RIOTER 48072.

Only one of them has been retested since passing out of the hands of Mr.
Sweet — Bella Marigold — and she has increased her test from 17 lbs. 2 oz. at
two years old. to 20 lbs. 15 oz.

A careful study of the tests of the daughters of Stoke Pogis of Prospect
will at once show how uniformly heavy milkers they are for their age. Their
dams represent various lines of breeding, demonstrating most clearly a won-
derful prepotency in this great sire. Nor is this prepotency evidenced by pail
and churn alone ; it is shown in the uniformity of his get, both male and
female, from different dams. With his inheritance, with such a dam, with
the uniformity with which he marks his progeny, with the ability he gives his
daughters at the pail and churn, his sons and daughters must inherit his great
prepotency, with powers of transmission, or all rules of breeding fail.

His daughters have great constitution ; their udders are very large, full

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and well shaped ; the teats are large and well placed, and the milk veins are
splendid ; the bodies are long, deep of paunch, with well sprung ribs,

I have now given evidence for the faith that is in me, and have adduced
facts to prove my assertion that Stoke Pogis of Prospect is the greatest living
bull of the day, judged on the basis before stated.

The following are his six highest tested daughters : Bella Marigold, 20.15 ;
Grace Marigold, 20.1; Elma Marigold, 17.13i^ ; Tuaa St. Lambert of A.,
17.1 ; Beech Leaf, IG.Sya, and Ida of Elma, IG-SVa ; all made with their first
calf, at two years old, except Bella Marigold, who had a test of 17.2 with first
calf.

Through the greatness of Stoke Pogis of Prospect and Mary Idagold
it will be seen that Ida's Rioter of St. L. was not only a remarkable
bull in the getting of butter and milk-giving daughters, but that his pre-
potency is descending to remote generations. When you take the perform-
ances of his daughters and his descendants at the pail, the churn, and in the
show-ring, it stamps him as one of the greatest bulls that ever lived.

Another son of Ida's Rioter of St. L., too young yet to have any daughters
for test, but who, if the highest type of breeding and a superb dam, backed by
the best of ancestors, has its usual influence, will be heard from in the future, is

MAPLECROFT'S RIOTER 48072 (See Page 48),
owned by J. Gerow Dutcher, of Maplecroft Farm, Pawling, N. Y. He was
dropped July, 1896, and though only in his two-year-old form, weighed 1,500
lbs. in December last. As will be seen by his photograph, reproduced, he is a
bull of great constitution, extremely long and straight on back to setting-on of
tail, good head and horns, though of the Rioter type, deep flanks, good loins
and hips, tail well set on, open, well-sprung ribs ; in fact, a good bull all over.
His dam is

BESS POGIS OF PROSPECT 87045,

50 The St. Lamhert Family of Jerseys.

a daughter of Gipsy's Lome Pogis 2034G, out of Bess of Ingleslde
ST045. Bess Pogis is a grand cow in every way — in performance and
in individuality. (Had slie not been she would not have been ad-
mitted into the Maplecroft herd.) She has a test of 20 lbs. 1%
oz. for Miller & Sibley. She gave 64 lbs. of milk in one day, 425 lbs. in
seven daj's, 1,711 lbs. 8 oz. in 31 days, for Miller & Sibley. Since owned by
Mr. Dutcher she has given 11,186 lbs. 12 oz. of milk in one year, without
extra attention or feed, and running with the rest of the herd — truly a great
record. Gipsy's Lome Pogis, who formerly belonged to Mr. George M. Oris
of Meadville, Pa., now in charge of the grand lot of imported cattle at Mr.
William Rockefeller's, Tarry town, N. Y., under the supervision of the super-
intendent, Mr. B. M. Hawks, was the getter of superb daughters. He was
but little used, and his value was not discovered till he had been butchered,
yet he is the sire of the following: Bess Pogis of Prospect, 29 lbs. 1% oz. ;
Xyst, 23 lbs. QV2 oz. ; Gipsy Bess of Prospect, 22 lbs. lOV^ oz., at three years
old. Bess Pogis of Prospect, Gipsy Bess of Prospect and Bess of Ingleside 2d
are out of Bess of Ingleside, test 19.10%. The avei-age weekly test of the
dam and paternal grandam (Ida of St. Lambert) of Maplecroft Rioter is 29
lbs. 10% oz., and an average milk record, 65% lbs.

Mr. Dutcher was a most successful breeder of Holsteins, having owned
and developed the great Holstein cow Pauline Paul, and in such breeding has
gained the experience that the best individual with the most prepotent inheri-
tance is the most profitable, if backed up by performance and individuality of
ancestors. He determined that none but the very best he could buy should
find a place in his herd ; and he has pinned his faith to the St. Lamberts.
That he has succeeded beyond any question of doubt is shown by the grand
array of cows portrayed in a reproduced photograph of seven of them, en-
titled the "business end of some of Mr. Dutcher's cows," the half-tone plate of
whom is to be found on page 51.

The conviction that a great future is before Maplecroft's Rioter is added
to by the fact that he has been bred to such cows as these : Flower of Meri-
dale, 26 lbs. llVa oz. ; Xyst, 23 lbs. 61/2 oz. ; Denise's Pearl, 20 lbs. 11 oz. ;
Haidee Signal, 20 lbs. 2 oz. ; Prospect's Edwina, 18 lbs. 5 oz. ; Maybee H.,
18 lbs. 4 oz. ; Garibaldi's Kate 2d, 18 lbs. 2% oz. ; Gingerbread 5th, 18 lbs.
9% oz., and his own dam, Bess Pogis of Prospect, 29 lbs. 1% oz. All in the
Maplecroft herd.

Just as Mr. Dutcher took front rank among breeders of Holsteins, so will
he among the Jersey breeders, with the splendid material he has to work with.

Still another son of Ida's Rioter of St. L. to demonstrate the prepotency
of this great bull, namely,

IDA'S RIOTER PRINCE 32355,
was used for some time in the Cedar Hill Jersey Herd, the property of Mr.
M. Lothrop, Marshall, Texas. Ida's Rioter Prince has as dam that great cow
Sister of Charity, the highest tested daughter of Stoke Pogis 5th, whose test
is 24 lbs. 14% oz. The dam of Sister of Charity is Nell Pogis, who has as
dam a full sister of Ida's Rioter of St. L. and Ida's Stoke Pogis.

As Mr. Lothrop was among the first, if he was not the very first, Jersey
breeder in Texas to gather together a herd, and has ever since persistently
labored in the Jersey cause, I may be pardoned if I refer at some length to
what he did in building up a herd and maintaining it at the highest standard.
I am led to do so to show my numerous readers that all the enthusiasm for the
Jersey cow is not possessed by Eastern and Western breeders, and to demon-
strate what has been done away off in Texas, notwithstanding the great loss
Texas Jersey breeders suffered, by acclimating or tick fever, in all stock they
took in from the North. Nothing daunted, be it said to the credit of the
breeders of the "Lone Star" State, they persevered, and have met their re-
ward by having within their State a grand lot of Jerseys.

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The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

CEDAR HILL JERSEY FARM
is located on one of the many hills overlooking the pretty little city of Mar-
shall, Texas. The house — an old-fashioned southern one — is surrounded by
a magnificent grove of old cedars, from which it derives its name. It was my
pleasure to spend a day and night under this hospitable roof. The Jersey
herd was founded by its present owner, ilr. M. Lothrop, about 1885, and the
first purchase of St. Lambert blood made in 1886. This consisted of two
splendid daughters of the great bull,

PRINCE OF MELROSE 4819,
a son of Stoke Pogis 3d, hereafter referred to. So great was Mr. Lothrop's
satisfaction and faith in this line of breeding that within the space of a few
years there were owned at Cedar Hill 21 of the daughters of Prince of Mel-
rose, costing, Mr. Lothrop told me, an average of nearly $300 per head. These
daughters were all light squirrel-gray, or light fawn, and when I visited the
"Cedar Hill" herd, in 1895, some of them were still living, and a beautiful lot
they were, not only in appearance, but they had enormous udders, very per-
fect in shape, splendid teats, and great, tortuous veins.

To head a herd of such cows as the daughters of Prince of Melrose and
Prince of Melrose 2d, Mr. Lothrop always bought the best that money could
buy. He pinned his faith to Ida's Rioter of St. L. He considers the best bull
he ever owned was.

IDA'S RIOTER OF ST. L.'S SON 288G9.

Unfortunately, Mr. Lothrop sold the bull at three years old, before he
knew his value ; but later, recognizing the high character of his daughters,
Mr. Lothi-op bought him back, and he is now in service in'the herd.

I have never seen him, but he is described as one of "great dairy con-
formation, having long body, deep barrel, good loins and hips." A half-tone
plate of one of his daughters,

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SURPRISE MELROSE 92562,
Owned by Mr. Lothrop, Marshall, Tex.,
with a test of 21.14%, made at four years old. is reproduced in this pam-
phlet, and is given as a sample of the daughters of this bull — a hand-
some animal she is, too. Some of his daughters have milked as high as
46 lbs. a day. Ida's Rioter of St. L.'s Son is the sire of Surprise Melrose,
21 lbs. 14% oz. ; Son's Princess, 16 lbs. 15 oz. ; May Dee Pogis of C. H.,
15 lbs. 8 oz. ; Colza Melrose, 14 lbs. I314 oz., and Southern Belle of C.
H., 14 lbs. 7% oz. When sold by Mr. Lothrop, this bull was used only
on grades, so his value to the Jersey world was practically lost for
four years. The dam of this bull is May Dee Pogis 36993, a daugh-
ter of Stoke Pogis 5th, out of May Dee 18058. May Dee Pogis has a test
of 20 lbs. 5% oz., when four years old, and is a daughter, as stated, of
May Dee 18058 (test 15 lbs. 10 oz.) by Eupidee (the grandsire of Mr. 0. A.
Sweet's "Big Four," and other good cows), running back to Eurotas, so
that Ida's Rioter of St. L.'s Son is steeped in the blood of old Rioter,
through Stoke Pogis 3d and 5th, and through Eurotas — truly a rich and
goodly inheritance. Still another son of Ida's Rioter of St. L. is in use in the
Cedar Hill Jersey Herd, viz..

IDA'S RIOTER OF ST. L.'S KING 43516,

three years old past. His dam is Fresh 91786, test 17 lbs. 11 oz., a daughter
of Dalton 20117 (sire of five in the list, two of which are over 20 lbs. each),
and Fresh is consequently 'a granddaughter of Stoke Pogis 5th.

I was very much interested in the pure St. Lambert cow Comely of St.
Lambert 2d 41177, test 20 lbs. 10 oz., at three years old, a granddaughter of
Stoke Pogis 3d, her sire being Brier's Pogis 14163, dam Comely of St. Lam-
bert 6639.

My readers will see from this account of a Texas herd that, notwith-
standing all the disadvantages and loss there is in building up a herd, this
Texan, at least, was undaunted by them, and was possessed by an enthusiasm
that nothing could kill.

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Having seen and examined the herd twice, I can bear testimony to the
very high character of it.

IDA'S RIOTER OF ST. L. 5TH 34957,
owned by Mrs. Adda F. Howie, of Sunny Peak Farm, Elm Grove, Wis., is
another son of Ida's Rioter of St. L., who ought to add lustre to the fame
of this great sire. The dam of this bull is Frankness 62451, test 18.4, at
2 years 11 months old ; a daughter of Stoke Pogis 5th 5987 and Yellow
Emmie 28756, a daughter of Yellow Boy 6381 and Fannie B. 2d 15802.
Yellow Boy is a son of Duke of Darlington and Daisy 692. Here is
royal breeding indeed, an inheritance full of butter and milk giving.
But it is not only his inheritance that leads me to believe that Ida's
Rioter of St. L. •5th will make a name for himself. No one could
have followed the writings of Mrs. Howie as I have, without being convinced
of her great love for her stock, her keenness of perception, and that she is
displaying unusually good judgment. The latter statement is borne out by
one equally true, viz., that though her herd is a comparatively small one, each
animal composing the same has superior individuality and breeding ; unless
these two requisites are fulfilled, no animal is permitted to be in the Sunny
Peak Herd. This herd has many tested cows, from 15 lbs. up to 22 lbs. 5 oz.
It is not only a herd selected for individuality, but is essentially a working
one, and as is always the case where the stock is of the best, and good man-
agement and care ai'e present, it has proved a most profitable investmenr.
Ida's Rioter of St. L. 5th. like all the sons of his sire, is a bull of great sub-
stance, weighing over 1,600 lbs. His photo, reproduced, does not begin to do
him justice. The cut of

DELIA MARTIN 92358,
Owned by Mrs. Adda F. Howie,

The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys. 55

"one of the gems from the jewel casket of Sunny Feak Farm," gives a fair
idea of the class of cows Mrs. Plowie insists on having. This cow has a test of
18.12, and easily milks 40 lbs. Personally, I am glad to know that a son of
Ida's Rioter of St. L. is heading so splendid a herd.

IDA'S STOKE POGIS 13658,
full brother of Ida's Rioter of St. L., is the sire of 29 in the 14-lb. list, the six
highest being: Bessie Lewis (full sister of Lily Martin), test 32 lbs. 4 oz. ;
Edith Golding, 19 lbs. 1% oz. ; Nonnie Pogis, 18 lbs. 12 oz. ; Mysinda 2d, 18
lbs. 8 oz. ; Ida Longfield, 18 lbs. % oz. ; Denise's Ida, 17 lbs. IS^^ oz. ; Sat-
aline, 17 lbs. 6i^ oz.

I sold him to Maj. Campbell Brown and Capt. M. C. Campbell for $5,000,
when a calf. He was not so much used as his worth and inheritance justi-
fied, Maj. Brown being persuaded by a brother breeder that it was unde-
sirable to use him. He met with an accident and was shot at a comparatively
early age. As is too common, his value was only discovered after he was
dead. In 1892 Maj. Campbell Brown told me that "cheap as Jerseys then
were, he would gladly pay $5,000 to have him alive." His daughters were of
a very handsome, uniform dairy type, mostly light fawn, and had, as a rule,
uncommonly square front udders, with grand teats. It seems a pity that so
superb a bull should not have been more extensively used, as his progeny and
their descendants would have been most valuable. Being used on southern-
bred cows, his daughters were of a finer type than many of the get of other
St. Lamberts, especially those that came through Bachelor of St. Lambert,
who was a very large bull, not of a fine type at all.

The son of Ida's Stoke Pogis having the greatest number of tested daugh-
ters to his credit, so far as I call to recollection, is

ODELIO 20223,
out of that grand cow, Adelle Sales 15564, test 16 lbs. 15% oz., who is dam of
Little Accident, 16 lbs. lO^^ oz. ; Solava, 15 lbs. 3% oz. Odelio is sire of 11
in the 14-lb. list, from 14.3V2 to 19.12, the highest being Tormendova, 19.12,
and the next Soeurette 2d, 18.1%. Another son is

SIG POGIS 22806,
out of Sigletta 32915, test 16 lbs. (dam of Bessie Lewis, test 32.4; Sigletta
3d, test 20.10%, and Lily ]\[artin, of World's Fair Dairy Test fame, 16.8), is
the next highest producing son of Ida's Stoke Pogis. He is full brother of
Bessie Lewis and Lily Martin, and ought to be a good bull, as he is. Sig
Pogis is the sire of eight in the 14-lb. list, from 15.1% to 18.13%, the highest
being Hearty Pogis, 18.13%, and the next highest Saucy Pogis, 17.2i4. An-
other son is

OONAN'S POGIS 17165,
out of that grand old dam Oonan 1485, who has done more, in my judgment,
to make the fame of the Tennessee Jerseys than any other factor, and who
has added credit and fame to the Jerseys wherever her blood has been utilized.
She has, as every one knows, a test of 22.2%, but (it is a great big "but")
she is dam of six in the list, from 14.2% to 20.4, and is the dam of that great
bull, now in the herd of Mr. Matt Gardiner, of Nashville, Tenn.,

OONAN'S TORMENTOR 22250,
who is getting such a wonderful lot of butter daughters, 32 of which are in
the list, and "more to follow" soon, I doubt not, from what I know of the bull.
Oonan's Pogis is sire of six in the list, from 15.0% to 16.1. There are
other producing sons of Ida's Stoke Pogis. such as Ida's Landseer 17746, sire
of seven in the 14-lb. list, from 14.4 to 17.6% ; Kathy's Stoke Pogis 17566,
sire of six in the charmed circle, 'from 14.4 to 17.3, and Wine 29954, sire of
Euro Polono 2d, 14.2; Kitty Black Prince, test 14.0%, and others. But
€nough sources of butter inheritance have been shown to prove that Ida's

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Stoke Pogis, like his full and all his half-brothers, was a remarkably pre-
potent bull.

In the New England States there is a son of Oonan's Pogis 17165 (before
referred to), whose dam -s a daughter of Ida's Landseer, and who conse-
quently is a double grandson of Ida's Stoke Pogis. He is creating quite a
stir, not only on account of the high quality of his get, but his show-ring per-
formances and his own individuality. I refer to

Uo&d fiirfn iSa^zs, 'fo6r •

HOOD FARM POGIS 40684,
owned by Mr. C. I. Hood, of Hood Farm, Lowell. Mass. In color he is a
lemon fawn, is very long and deep, with open, well-sprung ribs ; he has a
good long neck, good withers, extra good head, broad across the loins, short-
legged, and though a large bull, is not coarse. His rudimentaries are grand
and well placed. He handles splendidly and carries himself uncommonly well.

This is his record as a show bull : New England Fair, 1895, best bull of
any age, though but two years old ; in 1897, at both the New England Fair,
Portland, Maine, and the Massachusetts State Fair, Worcester, he headed
first prize herd, won first for bull and get, and his daughters won first
and second prizes as best heifers under one year old. In 1898, at the N. E.
Fair, Portland, he headed the first prize herd, won second for bull and get,
and one of his daughters won first as best yearling heifer. At Saco, Me., he
headed the first prize herd, won first as best bull with get, and his yearling
heifers won first and second. The first prize yearling bull and calf were by
him.

He is comparatively a young bull yet, and his daughters have not ma-
tured. Knowing him as I do, and knowing his inheritance on both his sire's
and dam's side, and that his dam. Kathletta's Fancy 60738. is a superb cow
as a worker and as an individual. I feel sure Hood Farm Pogis will later
on have many tested daughters to his credit. Kathletta's Fancy has the fol-
lowing record : Test, 17 lbs. 6% oz. ; 50 lbs. 6 oz. of milk in one day, 344 lbs.
9 oz. one week, 1,416 lbs. 1 oz. one month, and 11,778 lbs. 2 oz. in one year ;
22,374 lbs. in two years. She is by Ida's Landseer, out of the great and very

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beautiful cow Kathletta 19567, who has a test of 22.12i^, and is the dam of
four in the 14-lb. list.

Another very prominent son of Ida's Rioter of St. L. is in use in the
superb herd of Mr. J. E. Robbins, Greensburg, Indiana, namely,

IDA'S RIOTER OF ST. L. lOTH 41011.

In color he is light gray, and, like all the sons of his sire, has great con-
stitution, length and depth of barrel. He has a good back, open, well-sprung
ribs, and is of excellent dairy type. His heifers are not yet in milk, but such
as I have seen give wonderful promise of dairy form, with splendid bodies,
any quantity of loose skin to form udder, and large and well-placed teats.

My readers need hardly be told that Mr. Robbins has one of the best herds
in the country, not only for business, but his record in the show-ring is a most
enviable one, and the position he has attained for the short length of time he
has been before the public could not have been accomplished except through
possessing the highest quality of stock. In forming his herd, he visited the
most prominent ones throughout this country, and purchased with rare judg-
ment the very best that could be procured, wisely paying a price commen-
surate with the high quality of the stock bought. Not content with this, he
visited the Island of Jersey, and bought the very best animals available there,
among them the world-renowned Jersey Venture, whose triumphs in the show-
ring, as well as those of her young son. Venture's Lad, are too well known to
need repetition at my hands. Mr. Robbins believes that utility and beauty
can be combined in the one animal, and he has amply demonstrated in his
herd the truth of this assertion. It was my pleasure to buy for him his two
show bulls. Czar Coomassie and Catono Khedive, who have held their own in
almost every fair at which they have been shown.

Breeding Ida's Rioter of St. L. 10th to such cows cannot fail but
produce superior daughters at the pail and churn, especially when we con-
sider that this bull is not only a son of the great Ida's Rioter of St. L.,
but that his dam is Vernon Dolly 52284, test 21 lbs. (full sister to Esclar-
monde, 17 lbs. 4 oz.), and that Vernon Dolly is a granddaughter of Stoke
Pogis 5th through his producing son Dalton 20117, and that the dam of
Vernon Dolly has two daughters to her credit in the 14-lb. list. The daugh-
ters of Ida's Rioter of St. L. 10th not being in milk, we have to fall
back for evidence of their superiority upon their records made in the show-
ring, a record truly astonishing, which are : OHIO STATE FAIR, first for
yearling, first for heifer calves, first for get of sire; three daughters in the
first premium aged herd. INDIANA STATE FAIR, first for yearling heifer,
first, second and third for heifer calves, first for get of sire, first on young
herd ; two of his daughters were in the first prize aged herd. WISCONSIN
STATE PAIR, second on yearling heifer, first, second and third on heifer
calves, first for Junior Champion, first for get of sire, first for two, the
produce of one cow ; two of his daughters were in the first premium aged herd.
ILLINOIS STATE FAIR, third for yearling heifer, first and third for
heifer calves, first for Junior Champion, first for get of sire, first for young
herd ; two of his daughters were in first prize premium aged herd. At the
OMAHA EXPOSITION, where the keenest competition prevailed, and where
some of the very best herds in the country were shown, the get of Ida's Rioter
of St. Lambert 10th again demonstrated their worth ; they captured the fol-
lowing : First and fourth for heifer calves, second prize for get of sire, first
for young herd, second for two females, the produce of one cow. When it is
considered that all these daughters were less than two years old, higher com-
mendation for the get of Ida's Rioter of St. Lambert 10th could not be given.

IDA OF ST. LAMBERT'S BULL

is another son of Ida of St. Lambert, by Stoke Pogis 5th. Although he has
not as many tested daughters as the other two sons of this cow, I am con-
vinced that this was not the fault of the bull, but of circumstances. It was

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my pleasure to carefully examine a large number of his daughters in the herd
of Ayer & McKinney, about two years ago. and I was very much pleased with
them. They were a very uniform lot, with good udders, well-placed teats,
and superior at the pail and churn.

No persistent effort has been made to have the daughters of this bull
tested. As before stated, in former years his owners sold his daughters when
quite young, and it has only been of late years that they have retained his
female get in the herd and have done much testing. Yet he has 19 daughters
in the 14-lb. listj, with tests of from 14 lbs. 2 oz. to 26 lbs. llV^ oz. — no un-
worthy record, and yet not by any means the full measure of his ability. I
predict there will be a lot more tested daughters ; and as more of his daugh-
ters and those of Matilda 4th's Son mature, they will place these two bulls in
that front rank as producers of tested daughters that their breeding and indi-
viduality warrant.

When Stoke Pogis 3d had 2G tested daughters, now 27, and Tormentor
had 30, now 42, we old breeders thought this was the limit of any bull in
tested daughters ; but when

EXILE OF St. LAMBERT 13657

PROPERTY OF P. J. COGSWELL, ROCHESTER, N.Y.

the son of that great cow Allie of St. Lambert (full sister of Ida ot St. Lam-
bert), kept the reel rolling until he had surpassed all bulls and has long since
left them in his wake with seventy-two tested daughters to his credit, we all
stood aghast and asked ourselves, "Where is this to end?" Judgment based on
the record of his daughters must crown Exile of St. Lambert as the "king" of
Jersey bulls. It will not avail his detractors (success was never attained
without bringing to the fore others prone to pull down what we have built up)
that his daughters have not the fineness of finish some seek ; that he had a

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very large number of daughters, and that he was handled with rare skill and
judgment. To the first-named objection I say, he got workers ; to the second,
it showed his stamina and constitution ; and to the third, "Go thou and do
likewise" if you can, but to do so you must be possessed of the tenacity, the as-
tuteness and the suavity of a P. J. Cogswell, and there are not many such.

To all I say "he got there," and "with all four feet." His record has
been wonderful — nay, astonishing. He has attained a record with his daugh-
ters never yet approached, and all honor to his owner, Mr. Cogswell, for it.
Many knowing Exile of St. Lambert, his daughters and granddaughters, tell
me that the latter excel the daughters, and that it was the misfortune of
Exile to be bred to indifferent cows in many cases ; yet his progeny from such
cows were among his best. These two facts prove wonderful prepotency.
His daughters were not only great buttermakers, but exceedingly heavy milk-
ers, and there is a remarkable uniformity in them.

With an ever rapidly increasing list of tested daughters of Exile of St.
Lambert, it is impossible to keep up with them, but I give his ten highest
tested daughters : Exile's Belle, 32 lbs. 6 oz. ; Rachel Spencer, 23 lbs. 314 oz. ;
Paola Stoke Pogis, 23 lbs.; Marilla of St. Lambert, 21 lbs. ISYa oz. ; Yum
Yum of St. Lambert, 21 lbs. 4 oz. ; Exile's Dolly, 19 lbs. 71/2 oz. ; Exile's Bessie,
18 lbs. 32% oz. ; Lena Stoke Pogis, 18 lbs. 8 oz. ; Exile's Penelope, 18 lbs. 3%
oz. ; Exile's Myrtle 2d, 17 lbs. 131/0 oz.

Before dealing with the producing son of Exile I will go to the next son of
Allie of St. Lambert, namely,

KING OF ST. LAMBERT 15175,
that had the good fortune not only to have Allie as his dam, but to have Ida's
Rioter of St. L., a son of Ida of St. Lambert, as his sire. He is the only son of
Allie of St. Lambert, who is at the same time a grandson of Ida. As these two
cows are the most prepotent source of "the St. Lambert family," there would
seem to be justice in the claim of his owners (as King is still living and doing
service) — J. L. Shallcross & Son, Louisville, Ky. — that King of St. Lambert
is "the highest-bred pure St. Lambert bull living or dead." I must confess to
a very strong partiality for the blood of King of St. Lambert, based upon the
fine finish and dairy qualities of his daughters and descendants. In my judg-
ment there is a fineness of finish to them, unequaled by the get of any other
son of Allie of St. Lambert or of Ida of St. Lambert. Individually, he is a
superb specimen of the race ; of true dairy type, there is a "breeding" look
about him I admire. His prepotency is unquestionable. It is not alone that
he gives a most desirable individuality to his daughters, but they are heavy
milkers, with grand udders and great capacity at the churn as well. It was
not destined that he was to be enrolled on the top notch of the begetters of
tested daughters, and again, circumstances were not propitious to him.
Bought as a calf from Mr. George Smith, of Grimsby, Ontario, by Mr. C. A.
Reesor. of Springfield, O., he remained in his hands till June 15, 1887, when he
passed into the possession of Mrs. M. Cone, Penfield, O. ; June 8, 1892, he be-
came the property of Mrs. Jennie E. Hall, of Columbus, O., who owned him
till March 22, 1894, and sold him to Capt. J. L. Shallcross, of Louisville. Until
Capt. Shallcross bought him no effort was made to test his daughters. His
impress for good was left in the herds of Mrs. Cone and Mrs. Hall, and their
bank accounts attest the value of the work he did for them. As is always the
case, the bull lea-^s his impress for good or for ill in any herd in which he is
(Oh, that all breeders would only realize this truth and select their bulls with
care and judgment), and in this case, fortunately for these good ladies, it was,
as it could not help but be, for "good." King has yielded to them both an
ample competency. Since passing into the ownership of Capt. Shallcross,
King has forged steadily ahead with his number of tested daughters till they
now reach 23. The ball thus started will not cease to roll, nor will the tests,
until King stands very high as the getter of tested daughters. The intrinsic
merit is thej-e and the fates cannot decree that it be kept dormant. Was it a
coincidence he was named "King?" Will not his future class him as one of

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such? Breeders seem to realize this, as the blood of King of St. Lambert
commands the top notch in the open market. Of the twenty tested daughters,

GAZELLE'S FAWN 03704,

owned by that rising Jersey breeder, Mr. Frank W. Hart, Cleveland,
O., has the highest — 25 lbs. 4% oz., and an average of 47V^ lbs. of
milk per day during the test. The highest tested daughter of "King," viz..
Gazelle's Fawn, is worthy of notice : She is of mahogany color, with dark
shadings ; a cow of great substance, and does not carry a pound of super-
fluous flesh, but carries an enormous udder of great capacity, perfect in shape,
with large and perfectly placed teats. Her milk veins are enormous and very
tortuous. In fact she is a perfect machine, and a beauty too, with a consti-
tution to stand up to the rack and do her work throughout the entire year.
With ordinary herd care and feed, she gave G,372 lbs. of milk in six months,
an average of 1,062 lbs. per month. The next highest is Philiis of St. Lam-
bert, 23 lbs. 12 oz., made for the noted pure St. Lambert exponent, George E.
Peer. The following are some of the other tested daughters : St. Lambert's
Gazelle, 22 lbs. 14 oz. ; Zetta King, owned by Mr. F. W. Hart, 22 lbs. 3 oz. ;
Elsie Bonner, 21 lbs. ; Queen Deeline, 20 lbs. 13^,^ oz. ; Nettie of St. Lambert,
20 lbs. 12 oz. ; Elsie of Shadyside. 20 lbs. 5 oz., and 16 others.

Did the evidence of the prepotency of Ida of St. Lambert and Allie of St.
Lambert end with Exile of St. Lambert and King of St. Lambert and the
other sons, its value would not be so marked, but there are many grandsons of
both of these cows perpetuating the dairy qualities transmitted to the grand-
daughters through Exile and King, one of them being

GARFIELD'S STOKE POGIS 15963,
Owned by the Estate of Frederick Billings,
a son of Exile of St. Lambert. Garfield's Stoke Pogis is a son of Mollie Gar-
field 12172. She was undoubtedly a great cow, and I well remember her.
Her test was 22 lbs. 12 oz. in one week and an average of 19 lbs. SVz oz. for

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twenty weeks. She was a 60-lb. cow and was most persistent in her milking.
Her "nick" with Exile of St. Lambert was a most "happy" one and produced
the best of results. Garfield's daughters not only gave an enormous amount
of milk, but it was very rich ; so great was their milking capacity that Mr.
George Aitken, the manager of the Billings herd, in which Garfield's Stoke
Pogis was used, was so fearful of milk fever with them that he crossed them
with a bull to breed out the flow of milk if possible. I think the most beauti-
ful daughter of Garfield's Stoke Pogis — in fact, one of the handsomest cows I
ever saw — was Garella. I saw her give 43 lbs. of milk in twenty-four hours
with her first calf at twenty-two months old. She was a rarely beautiful
heifer, with exceedingly pretty head, grand, deep body, and superb udder of
tuormous size. I selected her for the thirty days' test in the World's Fair
tests, and though she was barely three years old I fully expected she would
crowd every cow in the test for first place. Unfortunately she died at the dairy
barns, and her death was not only a great loss to her owners, but also to the
Jersey cause in that test. Although the services of Garella were lost to us.
another daughter of the same bull, Lily Garfield, well sustained the reputation
of her sire, being the champion heifer in the twenty-one days' heifer test at the
World's Fair. Another daughter of Garfield's Stoke Pogis — Princess Hono-
ria — distinguished herself in the Chicago tests, as she stood twenty-ninth in
the great ninety days' test out of the seventy-five competing cows, though she
was the youngest Jersey in the test. Princess Honoria was equally successful
in the show-ring at the World's Fair, being awarded the first prize in the
three-year-old class and second only to Ida Marigold in the sweepstakes for
cows of all ages — truly a great honor for so young a cow. Garfield's Stoke
Pogis has thirty-four tested daughters in the list, most of them made with
their first calf. His opportunities were limited, but his accomplished work
proves him a great sire. His greatness will evidently be perpetuated, as he
has two sons with tested daughters coming rapidly to the fore, viz. : Woodstock
Chief, sire of eight in the list, and Garfield of Woodstock, also sire of eight.
EXILE OF ST. LAMBERT'S GRANDSONS.

There is one feature that speaks most strongly for the working properties
of the Exile strain — that when a breeder has taken a son into his herd, and
has granddaughters of the old bull in milk, they are so much pleased that
many come back again to Mr. Cogswell for the same blood, and pin their
faith to it.

I think one reason why breeders best posted in this strain tell me that the
granddaughters of Exile excel the daughters is that Exile, being bred to many
cows, not of the highest order of merit, produced from such cows, through the
unquestioned prepotency of Exile, a daughter much superior to the dam ; yet
the want of quality of the dam lessens the highest quality of such daughter.
This daughter, as a rule, was bred back to a close descendant of Exile, and
partaking more of his blood, the progeny was a marked improvement over the
dam ; or, in other words, the more blood you get of Exile, the better. Here
again is a wonderful prepotency displayed. Another characteristic of the
Exile strain is that inbreeding does not seemingly weaken the constitution.
Like most inbreeding, it has a tendency to "fine down" the resulting progeny,
but not at the expense of the constitution. I attribute this to the great con-
stitution Exile and his ancestors possessed. By inbreeding you not only in-
tensify the good qualities, but the weak ones too. Had Exile been a bull of
weak constitution, every additional cross taken, if close up, would tend to
intensify the weak constitution ; being a most rugged bull, strong and vigor-
ous, the inbreeding cannot dispel this inheritance from Exile.

Apart from Mr. Cogswell, I know of no one who has had a better oppor-
tunity of knowing of the quality of such granddaughters than Mr. Timothy
Herrick, superintendent of the W. B. Dinsmore herd, at Staatsburg, N. Y.,
and Mr. Jos. T. Hoopes, Bynum, Md., owner of

ST. OMER HERD.
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Exiles. He has 24 daughters of old Exile in his herd, and more than
that number of granddaughters, and he is confident that many of such daugh-
ters will add to the list of tested daughters of Exile of St. Lambert. He says :
"His daughters are all large, strong cows, with perfect udders and good teats ;
good dispositions and great constitutions — when judged by their persistent
ability to give a large flow of rich milk year in and year out." Mr. Hoopes
further says that many of Exile's daughters have, in his herd, records of from
(5,000 to 7,000 lbs. of milk a year, with their first calves, at two years old,
showing 5 per cent, to 6.2 per cent, of butter-fat. Truly these are the sort of
profitable dairy cows to keep. Mr. Hoopes further claims that the grand-
daughters of Exile are better than the daughters, and that he has had in-
stances in his own herd where the granddaughters have given an average of
over 7,000 lbs. of milk with first calf- — not picking out individual cows, but by
bunching six or more together ; not on a forced I'ation. but fed the regular
dairy ration of the herd. It goes without saying that the "regular dairy
ration of the herd" is a liberal one. Even granting the very best machinery
(in this case the cow), you cannot make something out of nothing. At pres-
ent I\fr. Hoopes is using at the head of his herd

ST. OMER'S EXILE 44342.

a three-year-old son of Exile of St. Lambert, out of Flower of Glen Rouge 2d
55559, test 18.13y2. She is by Canada's John Bull 3d 17750 (sire of Flower
of Glen Rouge 2d, test 1 8.131/2 : Brier of St. Lambert, 18.4, and Pomona's
Coquette, 14.10). Canada's John Bull 3d is by Canada's John Bull 8388.
and Crocus of St. Lambert 8351, test 17 lbs. 12 oz. from 282 lbs. of milk, and
full sister of Mary Anne of St. Lambert, test 3G.12i4. and Naiad of St. Lam-
bert, test 22.2V4. Crocus of St. Lambert is dam of INIaud Pogis, test 14.12% at
3 years old. The dam of Flower of Glen Rouge 2d 55.559 is that great cow
Flower of Glen Rouge 175G0, with a test of 23.14%. and is dam of Flower of

The (5)7. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

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Meridale 64537, test 26.11^. and Flower of Glen Rouge 2d, test 18.13V2. The
sire of Flower of Glen Rouge 17560 is the pure St. Lambert bull Lord Mc-
Duff (a son of Jack Frost of St. Lambert, a son of Buer), out of that beauti-
ful cow Clematis of St. Lambert, test 14.3 from 285 lbs, of milk, and dam of
two in the list. Clematis of St. Lambert is a daughter of Lord Lisgar 1006.
A perusal of the ancestry of St. Omer's Exile will show that he is not only a
pure St. Lambert, but that he is of superb breeding, and the half-tone plate
of him shows that he is a very handsome bull, as straight as an arrow on his
back, past the hips to the setting-on of tail ; in fact, he is of a most desirable
type. Two daughters of Exile of St. Lambert, the property of Mr. Hoopes,
4ire shown in this pamphlet.

EXILE'S SAPPHO 114262,
who with her first calf gave 8,300 lbs. of milk, testing an average of 6.2 per
cent, of butter-fat, showing that she had a capacity of close to 600 lbs. with
her first calf. She completed her year's test February 27, 1899, and will not
be three years old till April 7. In March, 1899, she was milking 15 lbs. daily.
During the year's record, from May 1 to July 15, she had no grain rations
whatever, and at no time did she have more than 7 lbs. of grain a day. Truly
this is a wonderful heifer. Another daughter of Exile of St. Lambert owned
at St. Omer Farm is

EXILE'S DEWDROP 106104,
test 18.4 in 7 days with second calf, when she milked 49 lbs. in one day and
326 lbs. in the 7 days of the test. Her half-tone plate appears on page 64.
Though these two daughters are not of the same type of body, they both show
the usual ability of the daughters of Exile at the pail and churn, and Mr.
Hoopes tells me he has many such — which shows what a splendid herd of
Jerseys is to be found at St. Omer Farm.

W. B. DINSMORE'S HERD.

As is well known to old Jersey breeders, this herd dates back to 1860. He
■made large importations from the Island and gathered together the best that

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EXILE'S DEWDROP 106104 (See Page 63).

money could buy. Those who bought from this herd — and their name is
legion — know the high quality of the stock he had. Mr. Dinsmore died in
1888, and in 1889 Mr. Timothy Herrick, the superintendent, bought Exile of
St. Lambert 23d 20712, sire of Jocal, 20 lbs. 14 oz. ; Runaway, 16 lbs. 10 oz.,
and May Day, 16 lbs. SVz oz.

The result of the use of this bull so improved the herd that Noble Exile
35378, another son of Exile, was bought in 1894, and again in 1898 still an-
other son of Exile, viz.. Exile of St. Lambert 59th 46727, was brought into
use. Mr. Herrick tells me the results have been most gratifying and profit-
able. This whole herd now partakes of the blood of old Exile of St. Lambert
and contains many choice ones.

Another grandson of old Exile who ought to eventually have many tested
daughters in the list is

LEONAN OF ST. LAMBERT 53185,
the property of M. H. Olin, Perry, N. Y. I base this belief not only on the
breeding of this bull, but on the fact that he will be bred on an uncommonly
good lot of cows. Mr. Olin's herd is a comparatively new one. and the great-
est care has been exercised in its selection. Mr. Olin is a great believer in the
St. Lambert blood. But he does not want only the pedigree ; he insists on hav-
ing superior individuality in combination. To secure this he has scoured the
country, and I believe he has succeeded.

Leonan of St. Lambert is a son of Rioter's Exile of St. Lambert 48228.
out of St. Lambert's Edith 113708, test 19.11%. The sire is a son of old
Exile, out of Letty Rioter 73475, test 24.2, referred to in this pamphlet. St.
Lambert's Edith 113708, the dam of Leonan, is a daughter of St. Lambert's
Boy, fully described before, and Edith Haley 92643, test 22.1% from 304 lbs.
14 oz. of milk. Leonan of St. Lambert will be bred to such cows as Vida's
Riotress 99041, by St. Lambert's Boy ; Alebel of St. Lambert 77607, by King

The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys. 65

of St. Lambert out of Allie of St. Lambert 2d 43G71 ; that great cow Oak-
land's Nora 2d (heretofore fully described) ; File 94972, by Lucy's Stoke
Pogis 4th and Oakland's Nora; St. Lambert's Vida O. 135406, and Esther
Reil of St. Lambert 99023, by Nell's John Bull 21921, who was recently
tested by Mr. Olin, 19 lbs. 12 oz., and milked an average of over 51% lbs. a
day. I note this test with pleasure, as I selected this cow for him. All these
cows are pure St. Lamberts. Mr. Olin has also three cows with SlVz per
cent. St. Lambert.

There is another son of Exile in a herd in Indiana long bred in the St.
Lambert line. I refer to that of Mr. Samuel McKeen. Terre Haute, Ind..
where he has an uncommonly good chance of making a reputation for himself
if his owner would only test his cows. The bull in question is

EXILE OF ST. LAMBERT 57TH 37833,
out of Irondequoit Belle 74696, test 14.3 at 3 years old, a daughter of Exile's
Belle 40524, test 30.2 in 7 days. 122.6y2 in 30 days. Exile's Belle is a daugh-
ter of Success of St. Lambert, test 16.2, and is the dam of two in the list.
It will be noted that Exile of St. Lambert 57th is a son and grandson of the
veteran Exile, and has grand blood on his dam's side.

Mr. McKeen may truly be classed as a veteran St. Lambert man. He
started in 1886 with Rubano 8806, a son of Sir George of St. Lambert, out of
Nina of St. Lambert, and thus a double grandson of Stoke Pogis 3d. Mr.
McKeen has two of the daughters of Rubano, and they each have tests of over
20 lbs. In 1889 Mr. ]McKeen bought Ruby Star of St. Lambert 20719, a son
of King of St. Lambert, out of Ruby of St. Lambert 34751 (by Rioter's Pride
11694 and Lisgar's Duchess 26299). Judging by what I have seen of the
daughters of Ruby Star of St. Lambert, they were good ones, and he is sii-e of
five in the 14-lb. list. One of his daughters remains in the herd ; she has a
test of 16 lbs. 2 oz. with first calf. Ruby was succeeded by that great stock
sire Rioter of St. Lambert 16501, now owned by Mr. Geo. E. Peer, and de-
scribed in this pamphlet, and Mr. McKeen has three of his daughters. In the
herd is Allie of St. Lambert 2d 43671, a daughter of the great Allie of St.
Lambert, sired by Canada's .John Bull. I have seen her. She has great
capacity and has recently made a test of 15 lbs. 15 oz. Mr. McKeen has lately
added to his herd

TWO HUNDRED'S SON 51453,
a year and a half son of that great prize-taking pure Stoke Pogis-Marjoram
bull Two Plundred Per Cent. The pure St. Lambert cow Brier of St. Lam-
bert 61750, test 18.4, is his dam. Brier of St. Lambert is by Canada's John
Bull 3d 17750, out of Rioter's Sweet Briar, test 18.9, who is dam of Meri-
dale Sweet Briar, test 20.8, and Brier of St. Lambert, 18.4. If there is any-
thing in inheritance, here is a great bull. He is large for his age, has a fine
head and slightly dished face : is long and deep and has a great bread-basket,
and is an excellent type of dairy bull.

Another prominent son of Exile of St. Lambert in Pennsylvania is

EXILED OF ST. LAMBERT 37540,
a son of old Exile, out of Exile's Lily 61476, a daughter of old Exile ; so Ex-
iled of St. Lambert 37540 is a son and grandson of Exile of St. Lambert. He
is owned by J. Aldus Herr, of Lampeter, Pa., whose herd's special blood lines
are St. Lamberts.

Mr. D. W. Voyles. of Carndall. 111., is another who has found it profitable
to have the Exile blood in his herd, and has

MACEO OF ST. LAMBERT 48399,
a son of Exile of St. Lambert Jr. 29418 (who is sired by Exile of St. Lam
bert out of Paola Stoke Pogis 34691). Dam, the pure St. Lambert, Aggie of
St. Lambert 37085. Paola of St. Lambert, who has a test of 23 lbs. at three
years old, is a daughter of Exile ; so Maceo of St. Lambert is a grandson and
great-grandson of Exile.

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Another son of Exile of St. Lambert that has an excellent opportunity to
add renown to this old bull is to be found in the Allen Dairy Farm Herd,
namely,

RUDOLPH OF ST. LAMBERT 37274,

the property of Mr. L. W. Dyer, Cumberland Centre, Maine, President of the
Maine Jersey Breeders' Cattle Club. When I attended the meeting of the
Maine State Dairymen's Convention in December last I was very much im-
pressed with the very beautiful display of fancy butter made by Mrs. Dyer.
It was moulded in every conceivable form by the hand of Mrs. Dyer, and
showed mgst artistic taste. I had no conception that butter could be so
moulded. One of the pieces was a reproduction of their country house, a
most commodious, handsome and typical New England home. That the
judges were equally impressed with the beauty of the display is attested by
their awarding the first prize to this exhibit. It was with extreme regret I
was obliged through lack of time to decline an invitation to visit Mr, Dyer's
herd, as on all sides I heard nothing but words of commendation of it. I
was informed that the get of Rudolph of St. Lambert are worthy of his in-
heritance ; that they are cows of great constitution, good size, but not coarse,
with fine udders and teats, and are heavy producers at the pail. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Dyer are enthusiastic in their admiration of and faith in the Jersey
cow, and, as is to be expected with the class of stock they maintain at their
farm, they are making a great success of their Jersey breeding. The election
of Mr. Dyer as President of the Maine Jersey Cattle Club is but a just tribute
to his work and an evidence of the high esteem in which he is held. The
Allen Dairy Farm makes a specialty of the St. Lambert line of breeding.

In the earlier part of this pamphlet I stated that the having of tested
daughters by any bull was largely affected by the person in whose hands such
a bull is. This fact was especially brought to my mind when contemplating

KING OF ST. LAMBERT'S KING 30752,

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67

who must take a very high rank, not only for his great butter inheritance and
for his individual merit, but above all for the very high class of daughters of
which he is the sire. He is owned by Mr. Frank \V. Hart.

It is strange how little had been known of the true merits of this bull (al-
though he is seven years of age) until he passed into the hands of his present
owner, Mr. Frank W. Hart, of Cleveland. Ohio, whose farm is at Painesville,
Ohio. Mr. Hart is one of those astute business men who, having a love for
the Jersey and making it a special study, and applying his business talent to
his work on his farm, saw in the daughters of King of St. Lambert's King a
wonderful uniformity in individual excellence and unquestionable ability at
the pail and churn. Having previously acquired some of the daughters of this
bull, he possessed himself of King of St. Lambert's King on the 12th dav of

J

RUBA K. OF ST. LAMBERT 127631
(a daughter of King of St. Lambert's King. See page 69.)
April, 1898. The bull had previously been owned by Judge J. P. Bradbury of
Pomeroy, Ohio, for over two years, and had his daughters come into milk in
the Judge's hands I am sure he would not have sold him. King of St. Lam-
bert's King is a son of that great sire King of St. Lambert 15175, out of
Elsie Bonner 78864, test 21 lbs. from 290 lbs. 12 oz. of milk, without forcing,
who is herself a daughter of King of St. Lambert 15175. Her dam is Elsie
D. 18057. Elsie D. is a daughter of the Rioter bull Eupidee 4097, the grand-
sire of Mr. Sweet's "Big Four," namely : Inis of Riverside 51781, Massey
Polo 67010, Holyoke's Leda 52812, and Matina of Riverside, specifically re-
ferred to in another part of this pamphlet.

Eupidee, as my readers well know, is a Rioter-bred bull, so that King of
St. Lambert's King has not only 75 per cent, of King of St. Lambert, but he is

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fortified on his dam's side by the Rioter blood, through Eupidee, who must
have been a remarkable bull.

I have always considered that Elsie Bonner, the dam of King of St.
Lambert's King, was the best daughter "King" ever had, notwithstanding
that the records of tests do not confirm this ; but she was handled on ordinary
dairy feed, without any special preparation ; and considering her individuality,
her test, her three full sisters, and her descendants, I am strong in this con-
viction. Elsie Bonner is full sister to the following tested cows : Melbina,
test 20.2; Elsie of Shadysides, test 20.5, and Nelly Dow, test 17.0 — and a
good lot they are, each and every one of them.

Mr. Hart has now in his herd all the registered daughters of King of St.
Lambert's King. 16 in number. I am frank to admit that I never saw so
many matured daughters sired by one bull (save Stoke Pogis 3d) who are
their equals in individuality, in good dairy form, in large, well-rounded fore
udders, in large, tortuous and elastic milk veins, in uniformly large and well-
placed teats, in depth and length of barrel, in straightness of back, and all
that goes to make a most desirable individuality. They are not in the least
degree coarse. As a rule their heads are fine, with a good, prominent eye.
They are exceedingly deep milkers, and it seems to me that the claim made by
Mr. Hart is well founded, that there is not one of them in the stable that
would not give 40 lbs. of milk or over when she had passed four years old.
As most of the tests have been made since the lists were closed for the last
Butter-Test Book, I give the tests of the daughters, so far as tested :

t v.

LADY K. OF ST. LAMBERT 112294,

test 24 lbs. 6 oz. ; Gipsy W., test 21 lbs. 4 oz. ; Lady Perfection 2d, test 20 Ibi.
6 oz. ; Baby K. Pogis, test 20 lbs. 3 oz. : Daisy K. of St. Lambert, test 20 lbs.

The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

5 oz. ; Luella K. of St. Lambert, test 20 lbs. 6 oz. ; Cornelia K. of St. Lam-
bert, test 17 lbs. 8 oz. ; Doris W., test 17 lbs. 5 oz. ; Ruba K. of St. Lambert,
test 18 lbs. 12V> oz., whose cast is fonud on page G7 ;

SANTA K. OF ST. LAMBERT 127632,

test 17 lbs. 10 oz. ; Dell K. of St. Lambert, test 14 lbs. 9 oz. King of St.
Lambert's King has but 16 registered daughters ; of these 11 have tests and 2
are less than two years old. and a higher percentage of tested daughters to
those in milk it would be difficult to attain. It seems invidious, where there
are so many exceptionally good cows, to make any comparison between them,
but I should say, according to my judgment, that the following are among the
choicest of the daughters of King of St. Lambert's King that I have seen, in
the order named : Lady K. of St. Lambert, Gipsy W., Daisy K. of St. Lam-
bert, Ruba of St. Lambert, Luella K. of St. Lambert, Lady Perfection 2d,
Doris W.

As stated, King of St. Lambert's King is a little over seven years old. In
color he is silver-gray, with dark shadings on neck and belly ; splendid head,
large, placid eye, superb withers, straight as an arrow on back, great loins,
extra long, high hip-bones to setting-on of tail, long, thin tail, short legs; deep
of body, with splendid ribbing, well cut out between hind legs, rudimentaries
well placed, although not large ; he is well veined. It was the depth of win-
ter, with the thermometer much below zero, when I saw him, but he has the
most wonderfully soft hide and the softest silken hair I think I ever saw on a
bull in winter time. He does not show his age in the least. He looks and
acts like a young bull. While very much like his sire, King of St. Lambert,
in his palmy days, he is a bull of more substance and apparently greater con-
stitution. He is. in fact, an exceedingly handsome bull, and a show one.

Mr. Hart has in his barn, besides the daughters of King of St. Lambert's
King, eight daughters of King of St. Lambert, namely. Gazelle's Fawn, Elsie

70 The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

Bonner, Elsie of Shadyside, Zetta King, Butterfly's Queen, Keoka, Keola,
King's Gold ; and, grand as they are, I have no hesitation in saying that in in-
dividual form, in perfectness of udder, in placing of teats, in ability at the pail
and churn, the daughters of King of St. Lambert surpass them. So far as
my knovpledge extends, I think there is good foundation for Mi-. Hart's claim
that he has in his herd more of the blood of "King," close up, than is found in
any other.

Another bull in use in the herd of Mr. Hart is

MARIGOLD PEDRO 42643.

He is a son of that great bull Stoke Pogis of Prospect 22121, whose repu-
tation stands so high in the Jersey world, and his dam is Lorna 2d 33634, test
when over ten years old 17 lbs. 9 oz., and who is the dam of Baron's Lorna
101623, test 21 lbs. 3 oz. ; Lorna's Winner 80376, test 20 lbs. 10 oz., and Lorna
of Maple Glens 48094, test 14 lbs. when two years old. Lorna 2d 33634 is
an exceptionally handsome cow, and her daughters are of a most desirable
type, except possibly Baron's Lorna, a daughter of Baron's Hugo Pogis 1400S,
whom I bred. Baron's Loi-na is a great dairy cow and carries a superb udder.
They have large udders of excellent shape, splendid teats and grand constitu-
tions, and they are workers as well.

While Mai'igold Pedro has no heifers in milk, his daughters are most
promising, as they cannot well help but be with such ancestry as they possess.
They are of excellent form, but what attracted my eye more particularly was
the uniformly loose quantity of skin there was for the udder, and the re-
markably large and perfectly-placed teats possessed by each and every one of
them.

With such a herd as Mr. Hart has, and crossing King of St. Lambert's
King onto the cows he owns, he cannot fail biit produce most excellent results.
The reader will not fail to have noted, that King of St. Lambert's King has 75
per cent, of the blood of King of St. Lambert. Bearing in mind that King of
St. Lambert is out of Allie of St. Lambert, and that the dam of his sire is
full sister of Allie of St. Lambert, those who criticise inbreeding would look
for lack of constitution, yet I saw in Mr. Hart's barn daughters of King of
St. Lambert's King out of daughters of King of St. Lambert, and, if I mis-
take not, daughters of King of St. Lambert's King out of his own daughters,
and there certainly was no lack of constitution. This is but another evidence
of the wonderful inbreeding which this St. Lambert family stands without
deterioration.

It is rather a strange thing that some two years ago I should have bought
a full brother of this bull for Mr. Horatio J. Gilbert, of Milton, Mass., from
Mrs. Jennie E. Hall, of Columbus, Ohio — namely,

KING OF ST. LAMBERT'S BOY.

I did so after a visit to Mrs. Hall's farm, and after having seen, care-
fully examined and admired Elsie Bonner and her full sisters. It was then'
that I decided that my next customer for a St. Lambert bull should have a
son of Elsie Bonner. Accordingly, I bought him for Mr. Gilbert. Unless in-
heritance fails here, and judging by his dam and her three full sisters, and by
his full bro<^her. King of St. Lambert's King, Mr. Gilbert's bull. King of St.
Lambert's Boy, ought to prove a most valuable sire, especially as he will be
crossed on daughters of such St. Lambert bulls as have been used by Mr.
Gilbert in his herd, particulars of which will be found later on. Mrs. Hall
has disposed of Elsie Bonner and Nellie Dow, but still has Melbina and King's
Lassie, two daughters of the old "King." They are both superb cows, clean
as a whistle, with splendid uddei-s, full and well-rounded, large teats, splendid-
ly placed, and grand milk veins. They are each of them easily 40-lb. cows at
flush, and most tenacious in milking. They have splendid backs, and are a
fair sample of the good blood that King of St. Lambert has left in Mrs. Hall's
herd. So much impressed was I with the splendid "nick" of King of St. Lam-
bei-t with Elsie Dee that I bought for INIrs. Van Zandt, of Torswold Farm,
New City, N. Y., a son of Melbina,

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MELBINA'S BOY 5035G,
dropped February 15, 1S06. Sired by Honest King 382G8, own brother of
Elsie Bonner, Elsie of Shadysides, Melbina and Nelly Dow. It will be seen
that Melbina's Boy is not only a double grandson of King of St. Lambert,
but is full brother in blood of King of St. Lambert's King, and, by all rules of
breeding, ought to have an equal inheritance. He will have ample oppor-
tunity to display it, as Mrs. Van Zandt has gathered together an uncommonly
good herd, and is using as her other stock bull the great prize-winning Rock-
wood Beau — bred by Mr. Wm. Rockefeller— who is a double grandson of the
Island bull Golden Lad. The bull formerly used by Mrs. Van Zandt was
Midas of Cairnsmuir, a son of Midas of Oxford. I need not tell my
readers what a good foundation this is to build on. Mrs. Van Zandt tells me
the daughters of Midas of Cairnsmuir are grand dairy cows. I predict great
success for Mrs. Van Zandt, as she has bought fine stock of exceptional breed-
ing and is most interested in her good work.

I recommended a friend of mine, Mr. B. W. Gage, of Delevan. N. Y., to buy
a son of King's Lassie, sired by Honest King, viz.. Lassie's Dick 50357.

Mr. S. C. Huntington, of Pulaski, N. Y., who has recently started a herd,
on my recommendation, bought another son of King's Lassie, sired by Honest
King, by name Eupidee's King of St. Lambert 5257, for use in his herd.

These bulls were all bought before I had seen the daughters of King of St.
Lambert's King. Had I seen them, I question if Mi-. Hart would now own
him.

Another collateral branch of equal prepotency, through both Ida and Allie,
and a son of King of St. Lambert, is found in

RIOTER OF ST. LAMBERT 16501,

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owned by Mr. George E. Peer, of Rochester, N. Y., known as one of the per-
sistent exponents of the merits of the pure St. Lamberts. "Rioter's" rise to
fame has been most rapid, yet based as it is on the performance of his daugh-
ters and his inheritance, it is built on a solid foundation — so solid that the
future ought to intensify it. It will be remembered that "Rioter" is a son of
King of St. Lambert, he out of Allie of St. Lambert by a son of Ida of St.
Lambert 24990.

As if this were not a good enough inheritance for any bull, "Rioter" has his
fortified by having a superb cow as his dam, namely, the "pure St. Lambert"
cow, May Day Stoke Pogis 28358, a daughter of Stoke Pogis 3d 2238, out of
a daughter of Lord Lisgar 1066. I remember her well, and a grand cow she
was, not only in performance, but in individuality. As a four-year-old she
gave 284 lbs. of milk and 15 lbs. 3 oz. butter in seven days ; as a six-year-old,
298 lbs. 12 oz. milk and 17 lbs. 7 oz. butter, milking as high as 53 lbs. 6 oz. in
one day. As an eight-year-old she made 19 lbs. % oz. of butter, and in the
same year milked as high as 60 lbs. All three tests were made by different
owners, and ea.ch was an increase on the former. She is also dam of two
tested daughters. The dam of May Day Stoke Pogis milked- 50 lbs. a day.
Is it any wonder that with such a sire as King of St. Lambert and with such
breeding, inheritance and individuality on the side of the dam, "Rioter" is
making such rapid strides to the front as a great butter and milk-producing
sire?

"Rioter" seems to have had rather a checkered career, until he passed
into the hands of Mr. Peer in October, 1894. Up to that time he had half a
dozen owners, but none of his daughters had been tested. Mr. Peer informs
me that, adding his daughters registered since he bought him to those then
living, they number but 35 living that are old enough to be tested, and that
"Rioter" now has 16 daughters in the 14-lb. list; a wonderful achievement,
truly. The highest is Maud Signal 2d, 22 lbs. 4 oz. ; next stands Miss Maud
of St. L., 22 lbs. iVa oz. ; then Rioter's Fawn, 20 lbs. 2 oz.

"Rioter" is a bull of good form, great substance and vigor, and his pre-
potency is shown not only in the performance of his daughters, but in a most
marked uniformity in them. They are usually a handsome light-colored
fawn, of good dairy style, and, for St. Lamberts, good heads and horns. It is
claimed by his owner that he puts unusually good fore-udders on his daugh-
ters. His inheritance, the performance of his daughters, his own individual-
ity, and his great prepotency, stamp him as unquestionably one of the great
St. Lambert bulls.

Another exceptionally good daughter of King of St. Lambert in the herd
of Mrs. Hall, at Columbus, O., is Butterfly of Riverview 3d. test 17 lbs. — a
40-lb. cow. She is full sister of that superb cow in Mr. Hart's herd. Butterfly
Queen. The bull now at the head of Mrs. Hall's herd is

KING HUGO POGIS 32504,

a son of King of St. Lambert, out of the St. Lambert cow Nora Hugo Pogis
35640. He is a bull of superb individuality, of good finish, and has got a fine
lot of stock. He could not well help but do so, bred as he has been, to such a
stock as was left in the herd by the use of King of St. Lambert.

NANCY'S JOHN BULL 18452,

from his breeding and what I have seen of his daughters, ought to have
a number of tested daughters in the list. I bred him, and know the
value of his inheritance. Yet he had four owners before being bought
by Mr. George W. Sissons, of Potsdam, N. Y., who now has him in his herd.
None of the four owners ever tested their cows, but such daughters of his as I
saw were good ones, and many ought to have been in the list. They had
good udders, good teats and milk veins, and were of good dairy type. Nancy's
John Bull is a son of Canada's John Bull 8388, out of Nancy of St. Lambert
12964 (both of whom are fully described elsewhere), a daughter of Stoke
Pogis 3d, out of that great old cow Lucy of St. Lambert. He has four

The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys. 73

crosses of Stoke Pogis Sd, whose grandson he is, and has 5GV4 per cent, of his
blood. His ancestry is chock full of butter and milk-giving inheritance, and
if his life is spared, ought, in Mr. Sissons' hands, to make a great record. He
is well preserved, is of excellent dairy conformation, and when younger was a
very handsome bull.

Mr. Sissons bought Nancy's John Bull to breed to his Melia Ann cows
(by a son of Lucy's Stoke Pogis) and his daughters of Kathleen's Son, all
very strong in the blood of Lucy of St. Lambert.

A bull that in the New England State fairs has created a great deal of
interest through the fact that he has not only proved himself a great show
bull at an advanced age, but that his daughters have swept the show-ring, is

KATHLEEN'S SON 17660,

owned by that veteran Jersey breeder, Mr. Henry Pierce, of San Francisco,
Cal., and East Baldwin, Me. Kathleen's Son is now at the celebrated Sad-
dle-back Farm, East Baldwin, Me., a farm that has a historic interest to all
Jersey breeders as the home of Romeo de Bonair. Here, too, it was that Mr.
Pierce, through his nephew, Orestes Pierce, gathered together so many of the
descendants of that unsurpassable cow,

JERSEY BELLE OF SCITUATE 7828,

among them King of Scituate, son of Jersey Belle, who was the first cow to
make as high as 705 lbs. of butter in a year; and she did it on 2 quarts of
cornmeal, hay or grass daily. In individual form, I know of no cow who is
her equal. She had a daily test of 3 lbs. 6 oz., a weekly test of 22.13 ; and yet
I feel sure that was not her full capacity. She milked as high as 45 lbs.

Kathleen's Son 17660 was the only son of the great Kathleen of St. Lam-
bert. I said great, as she produced Ida of St. Lambert and Allie of St. Lam-
bert, whose names and fame are known to every Jersey breeder the world over.
Kathleen's Son 17660 was sired by Litchfield of Lee Farm 8414, a son of the
great winner of the Centennial, Litchfield, sire of May Blossom, 18.11. and
Beauty Bismack, 14.1. That veteran breeder, Mr. Geo. Blanchard, of Cum-
berland Centre, Me., bought Kathleen's Son when young, and owned him
from March 17, 1886, till May 3, 1893, when he sold him to Mr. Henry
Pierce. Mr. Geo. Blanchard owned the pure St. Lambert bull Sheldon 5250,
a son of Lome 5248, from 1885 up to the time of his death. He also bought
the last bull dropped at "St. Lambert," Sheldon of St. Lambert 13831, a son
of Rioter's Pride 11694 (a son of Stoke Pogis 3d and Pride of Windsor),
out of a daughter of Sheldon 5250 and imported Ophelia 403. This bull re-
mains in Mr. Blanchard's herd. He also owned for eight years Romeo de
Bonair 4091, a son of Stoke Pogis 3d. As Mr. Blanchard had as his founda-
tion and as the main factor in his herd, St. Lamberts — and good ones they
were, too — it will be seen with what good blood Kathleen's Son intermingled
in breeding, and this may, to some extent, account for the grand lot of daugh-
ters he got. To show the show-ring winnings of Kathleen's Son and his
descendants at New England fairs and Rigby Park, Portland. Me., I give a
list: For 1896 — cows, first prize, Bangor Maid 67895 (granddaughter);
second, Easter Maid 67896 (daughter) ; third, Maggie Rexena 2d 110862
(granddaughter). Three-year-olds and heifers, Laurana Briggs 94391
(granddaughter). For the year 1897 — cows, first prize, Bangor Maid 67895;
third prize, Laurana Briggs 94931. But the greatest triumph of all was in
1898, when Kathleen's Son and his get captured the blue ribbon in a hotly
contested ring, though he was then 14 years old. In the same year his son,
Kathlos 51960, won the second prize as a yearling bull, and Laurana Briggs
94391 stood as second prize cow. The first prize for heifers and three-year-
olds was won by Blonde Briggs 124651, a great granddaughter of his. It
was my pleasure to visit Saddle-back Farm in company with the genial host,
Mr. Henry Pierce, in December last. It is an ideal spot, a restful place to
its owner from his many cares of business. I found that though Kathleen's
Son was in his 15th year, he was young in reality, hale and hearty. He does

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not look more than eight years old. He is a bull of grand constitution, great
depth of barrel, level to setting-on of tail, and good head and eyes for so old
a bull ; in fact, all round a grand bull. I saw one of his daughters in the
stable that fairly captured me, by name

,,1^^^^^^^^^r^rS^ S--

EUNA'S FIRST 53505,
who in her day was a great prize taker. She was of the perfect dairy type,
with an enormous udder, superb teats and unsurpassable milk veins. As Mr.
Pierce expressed it, "she had more square inches of udder than any cow in
New England." The half-tone plate of his son, now doing service in Mr.
Henry Pierce's Herd in California,

'^ - :^'^fip^f'

KATHLEEN'S ROY OF Y. B. 52030

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75

EASTER MAID 67896 (See Page 76).

SAPHIE'S DAUGHTER 84217 (See Page 76).

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{out of Romeo's Ultima 43964), and an uncommonly handsome fellow he is,
is a fail* representation of the get of Kathleen's Son ; but that of

EASTER MAID 67896.
whose portrait appears on page 75, owned by Stoughton & Burnham, Mon-
tague, Mass., does not do her justice. She is unfortunately placed, but "no
bag, no cow." Judging from that standpoint, she is a cow, sure enough. An-
other daughter of Kathleen's Son,

SAPHIE'S DAUGHTER 84217,
portrayed on page 75, in the herd of George W. Sissons, Jr., gives a fairer idea
of his get, though this photograph does not do her justice. The "Kathleen's
Son Family" is held in the very highest esteen in Maine, and such esteem is
based on solid worth of inheritance and prepotency in transmitting.

The sons of Stoke Pogis 3d were thirteen in number, of which I owned
seven.

The son of Stoke Pogis 3d having the greatest number of tested daugh-
ters is

PRINCE OF MELROSE 4819,
out of Princess of St. Lambert 5484, a daughter of Buffer 2055 (the ma-
ternal grandsire of Mary Anne of St. Lambert) and Juno of St. Lambert
5110, who is a daughter of Lord Lisgar 1066 and Cupid of St. Lambert 5104.
Prince of Melrose was dropped May 22, 1878. bred by Romeo H. Stephens,
and sold when a calf (in July, 1878) to Mrs. W. A. Horton of Waynesboro,
Miss., who sold him November 2, 1882, to Mr. W. R. Stuart, Ocean Springs.
He only remained in Mr. Stuart's hands for a month, when he was sold to
J. E. Pelton. When I was gathering in the sons of Stoke Pogis 3d I tried
to buy this bull, but was unsuccessful. That noted breeder. Dr. W. E.
Oates'of Vicksburg, Miss., was more fortunate, as he secured him September
11, 1883. I am informed that Prince of Melrose was used on grades only
for four years, up to the time of his purchase by Dr. Oates, and only lived

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77

four j-ears after Dr. Gates bought him, and that the herd he was used in
rarely had more than 25 cows. Prince of Melrose had but 56 registered
daughters, and out of them 23 had tests varying from 14 lbs. 1 oz. to 23 lbs.

I oz. in seven days — a remarkable record. In looking over the Herd Register,
to see in whose hands the first registered daughters of the Prince had been
dropped, I found 11 daughters of his in Volume XXIII., all consecutively
registered by Dr. Gates, beginning at and including No. 40341 up to and in-
clusive of 40351. A perusal of his tested daughters will show that 10 of the

II so recorded have entered the 14-lb. list. The other one never bred. This
clearly demonstrates the remarkable qualities of the daughters of Prince of
Melrose. Such as I saw were very uniform in color, light silver gray or
fawn, very handsome in appearance, good bodied, with splendid udders and
teats ; they were heavy milkers. Herewith is given a half-tone plate of one
of his daughters.

BEE PRINCESS 40345,
test 14 lbs. 2.518 oz. at 3 years old, the property of Mr. M. Lothrop, Mar-
shall. Tex.

Prince of Melrose was of light color and dark shadings, good head, horns
that were thin and not very long, very straight on the back to the setting-on
of tail. He was a deep bull of great constitution and with very short legs.
His tail was short and was set back a little too far. He handled uncom-
monly well. He was very highly esteemed in the South, and well he may
have been, for his blood permeates many of the herds of Mississippi, Texas
and Louisiana, and his daughters in the herds of Dr. Gates and Mr. Lothrop
did much toward giving them so high a standard. The following is a list of
the highest tested daughters as furnished to me by Mr. Lothrop : Romping
Miss 54457, 23.1 ; Busy Melrose 54456, 21.1% : Princess Corinne 48203. 19.1 ;
Sunny Pogis 61919, 17.9y2 ; Silver Melrose 54460, 17.4 ; Busy Princess 48202,

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17.1%. In addition he has 17 others in the 14-lb. list. Considering his
limited opportunities, his record of tested daughters is a most wonderful one,
and proclaims him an unusually good bull. The most noted son of Prince of
Melrose was

PRINCE OF MELROSE 2D 11015,

who was produced by breeding Prince of Melrose back to his own dam, Prin-
cess of St. Lambert 5484. Prince of Melrose was born March 25, 1881, and
on the St. Lambert boom setting in was bought by Col. James Crook of
Jacksonville, Ala., October 23, 1883, who retained him until December 2,
1887, when he was bought by Mr. F. Elliott, Tupelo, Miss., who sold him to
Messrs. Terrell, Harris & Hardin of Terrell, Texas, April 14, 1892. He was*
then 11 years old.

Prince of Melrose 2d had 68 registered daughters. Of these there are
recorded in the last butter test book 21 in the list from 15 lbs. 6 oz. to 24 lbs.
5 oz., the six highest being Hugo's Joie de Vie, 24 lbs. 5 oz. ; Lady Alice Pogis,
22 lbs. 8 oz. ; Clothilde of St. Lambert, 22 lbs. 71/2 oz. ; Pogis Dewdrop, 19 lbs.
12% oz. ; Amanda of St. Lambert, 18 lbs. 14 oz., and Victor Hugo's Maggie,
18 lbs. 14 oz., and doubtless there are others not reported. Unfortunately, I
have never been in a herd where he was used, and regret I cannot give more
details. The percentage of his tested daughters stamps him as one of the

PRINCE OF ST. LAMBERT 5287,

out of Witch of St. Lambert 5479, and consequently full brother to Cowslip
of St. Lambert, test 17 lbs. 12 oz. ; he was a young bull when I owned him,
which was but for a short time, when I rented him to Mr. J. H. Gest for
.$1,000, and sold him to Mr. Warren H. Corning for $4,000. At that time he
was stunted in his growth, but doubtless later developed into a large bull, as
Mr. C. I. Kingsbury of Oswego, N. Y., who owned him up to the time of his
death, says that Prince, when in his prime and in good condition, weighed
l.GOO lbs. He must have been an uncommonly well-preserved bull, for when
121/^ years old — namely, in 1892 — he won the first prize at New York State
Fair, beating that well-known show bull Mahkeenac 2d. Mr. Kingsbury laid
special stress on the softness and mellowness of his hide, adding : "I have
never felt its equal, though I have handled many of our great show bulls."
It is unfortunate Prince was not used in a herd where testing cows was in
get of Rudolph of St. Lambert are worthy of his inheritance ; that they are
vogue. His daughters were scattered far and wide. He left, however, three
tested daughters. His daughters were very heavy milkers as a rule. At the
time of his death Prince was fifteen years old.

Another son of Stoke Pogis 3d, not so well known to the .Jersey public as
he ought to be. is

COWBOY OF ST. LAMBERT 3790,

so long used in the herd of that veteran Jersey breeder. Col. W. B. Mont-
gomery, Starkville, Mass., one of the very oldest breeders in this country,
who, though well advanced in years, has never lost his interest in Jerseys ;
but is now, as always, advancing the Jersey interest with an energy tem-
pered by experience that puts to blush many a younger man. He has been
for 27 years a member of the A. J. C. C. But to resume my comments on
Cowboy. I have said he was not as well known as he ought to be, but in the
circle where his daughters could be seen, and when they passed into the hands
of other owners, the appreciation of them was very great. His daughters
were large milkers, and had Col. Montgomery or their owners tested them for
butter, Cowboy would have undoubtedly made a great record for himself.
He is full brother of May Day Stoke Pogis 28353, test 19 lbs. v, oz.. dam of
two in the list, and of Minette of St. L. 9774, test 17 lbs. 4 oz., dam of two in
the list. Then two daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d (May Day and Minette)
have been the progenitors of some of the most notable animals in the St.
Lambert family.

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Jersey breeders are familiar with the writings of Col. Montgomery, in
which he gives a great share of Ida Marigold's great inheritance to her dam,
Arawaua Marigold, and the line of breeding she represents, especially Cham-
pion of America 15U7, her grandam. While acknowledging the great value
of Arawana Marigold's inheritance, and being a great believer in the in-
fluence of the dam on any sire, with all due respect to the riper experience of
my old and valued friend, I am compelled to say, that the preponderance of
proof points to Ida's Rioter of St. Lambert as the controlling influence in
ability, in Ida Marigold, while her coloring is doubtless taken from Arawana
Marigold.

Col. Montgomery has always had great faith in the blood of St. Helier
45, and for several years Ralph 957, one of his best sons, was used in his
herd, and Oklibbeha Ralphens, a bull with SlVz per cent, of St. Helier blood,
is occasionally used in the herd. Remembering the partiality of Col. Mont-
gomery, with all his experience, and few have had greater, for the lines of
blood indicated, the colonel seems to have in his bull

CHAMPION MARIGOLD 49309

a happy combination. He is sired by that great stock bull, Stoke Pogis of
Prospect 29121, out of Lady St. Helier of S. 51380, test 20 lbs. 91/3 oz. Lady
St. Helier of S. is a daughter of Lord Allison 10402, grandson of Ramapo (a
son of Eurota) out of that grand old cow, Mary M. Allison 6308, test 20 lbs.
14 oz., dam of three in the list. When I come to speak of Lady Grace of Up-
holme 39569, dam of Lady St. Helier of S., and consequently maternal
grandam of Champion Marigold 49309, I feel I cannot do justice to her.
Many a time and oft have I stood and admired her at Mr. C. A. Sweet's, her
beautiful head, her straight back, her good hips and rump, her clean but deep
body, her grand, large udder, perfect in form ; her splendid teats and veins ; I
have thought her my ideal of a dairy cow, combining utility and beauty. A
beauty she certainly was, and her test of 25 lbs. 5^^ oz. butter, and being the
dam of three with tests of 20 lbs. 9% oz., 20 lbs 5. oz. and 20 lbs. 1 oz.. show
her value as a producer.

LUCY'S STOKE POGIS 11544,

son of Stoke Pogis 3d, was a beautiful bull, and a show bull all over. While
very long and very deep, he was not in the least degree coarse. He had a
beautiful head, straight back to the setting-on of tail, splendid loins, good
hips, a long tail and grand switch, and a very deep and wedge-shaped body.
His descendants have proved that he was not only individually a superb bull,
but the inheritance he received through Stoke Pogis 3d and Lucy of St.
Lambert has been transmitted in other channels than through Ida of St.
Lambert and AUie of St. Lambert. I rented him to Col. Charles P. Mills,
Springfield, 111., from August 24, 1884. to March 27, 1886, where he left some
uncommonly good stock.

It is principally through Melia Ann that Lucy's Stoke Pogis begot sires
of tested daughters. The son having the greatest number of tested daugh-
ters is

MELIA ANN'S SON 22041,

now owned by Mr. C. A. Sweet. He is sire of 17, with tests from 14 lbs. to
22 lbs. 12 oz.. the six highest being Faith of Eau Claire, 22 lbs. 12 oz. ;
Marion of Eau Claire, 21 lbs. 14 oz. ; Emma of Eau Claire, 21 lbs. 4 oz. ;
Herpa S., 18 lbs. 6 oz. ; Laura of Eau Claire, 18 lbs. ; Gray Mist of Eau
Claire, 17 lbs. 10% oz.

I have never seen Melia Ann's Son, so cannot describe him. He is full
brother of that great cow Melia Ann 3d, with a record of 28 lbs. 8 oz., now
owned by Mr. George E. Peer. He is also full brother of Mr. Sweet's Melia
Ann's Stoke Pogis, 'whom I have seen and who is an uncommonly handsome
bull, buckskin in color, with good head, neck, back and loins ; very deep in
body, with splendid constitution, and a hide that handles like a glove. He is

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sire of three in tlie list, among them Pride's Olga 4th, test 23 lbs. 3 oz., a
beautiful as well as a superb cow at the pail and churn, with an udder which
in shape and size it would be very difficult to equal anywhere. With all the
grand cows that Mr. Sweet has in his herd, Pride's Olga 4th stands out as
one of the greatest of them all in individuality. Melia Ann's Son was for-
merly owned by Mr. E. L. Van Deusen, Ashley Falls, Mass., and unless I am
greatly mistaken it was from his farm Mr. Sweet bought some of his great
cows.

Another son of Lucy's Stoke Pogis that has attained great notoriety, and
deservedly so, is

MELIA ANN'S VICTOR POGIS 20697,
Owned by Mr. J. H. Martin,
whose dam is Melia Ann 2d, before referred to under the heading of Melia
Ann. He is the sire of 23 in the 14-lb. list, from 14 lbs. 4 oz. to 35 lbs. 1 oz.,
the latter being Princess of Dorset ; the next five highest are Diana Victor
Pogis, 23 lbs. 1 oz. ; Winnifred Victor Pogis, 22 lbs. 9 oz. ; Allie Victor Pogis,
22 lbs. 8 oz. ; Kitty Victor Pogis, 19 lbs. 12 oz. ; Ella Victor Pogis, 19 lbs. 6 oz.

I have never seen him, either, but he is described to me as a bull of won-
derful constitution, great length and depth of barrel ; estimated weight, 1,700
lbs. He is said to be very level on his back, with straight hips and wonder-
ful loins. However, the tests of his daughters, and their wonderful milking
properties, are the best criterion of the bull's worth, and judged from this
standpoint he ranks exceedingly high. A perusal of the quantity of milk
given by his daughters in their tests show that they are exceedinly heavy
milkers. Considering he has but 41 registered daughters, and that many of
them have not yet reached the stage when tests would be expected of them,
his record is a wonderful one. His daughters are characterized, apart from
their milk-giving and butter-making qualities, as cows of great constitution,
good feeders, with capacious, well-shaped udders and good teats.

To show that the butter inheritance of Lucy's Stoke Pogis is not trans-
mitted alone through Melia Ann's Son, we have but to tiirn to the list of
tested daughters of Lucy's Stoke Pogis 4th 26533, owned by Mr. W. J. Hus-
sey, Mt. Pleasant, O. The dam of Lucy's Stoke Pogis 4th is Oaklands Nora
45967, before referred to in this pamphlet. He is the sire of nine in the
14-lb. list. In describing him in the ".Jersey Bulletin," that well-known
breeder, Mr. George E. Peer, says : "In Lucy's Stoke Pogis 4th Mr. Hussey
certainly owns one of the handsomest and best bred bulls in the West. He
is a show animal all over, and his royal breeding commands the attention of
all. In addition to this, he has proven himself a producer of large milk and
butter cows, some of which have milked from 40 to 50 lbs. per day."

When T describe the individuality of Lucy's Stoke Pogis it fits equally
that of

RIOTER'S COMBINATION 10363,
except that in general make-up I preferred Lucy's Stoke Pogis. I sold
Rioter's Combination May 7, 1884, to J. O. Matthews of Massachusetts,
who sold him to J. F. Maxwell of New Jersey, March 7. 1885. He was used
by W. H. Wilkinson of Holyoke, Mass., and later passed into the possession
of J. N. Smith, Goshen, Conn. Mr. O. Ricklefsen was the next owner, and
the last owner was Mr. .Tames Stillman of Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. T.

RAMBLER OF ST. LAMBERT 5285

was a buckskin bull in color and of great mellowness of hide. He was not
nearly so large as Luck's Stoke Pogis, Rioter's Combination or Baron of St.
Lambert, but was of splendid form and a superb breeder. He had been but
little used when I bought him, July 24. 1883 ; was rented to Mrs. E. M.
Jones, Brockville, Ont.. from April 10, 1884, to September 30. 1884. when I
again rented him to G. S. Hutchinson, late of Englewood, N. J. He died
shortly after reaching Mr. Hutchinson's farm. His opportunities were few,
but his stock was superb.

The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys. 81

BARON OF ST. LAMBERT 5286
was individually a grand bull. He was one of the handsomest sons of Stoke
Pogis 3d and was a great show bull. I acquired him iNIarch 7, 1884, and
immediately rented him to the late Theodore A. Havemeyer for a mouth,
for $3,000, when he went to the farm of Mr. John I. Holly, at that time presi-
dent of the American Jersey Cattle Club, for another month ; was bought by
J. F. Maxwell of New Jersey May 7, 1894, who sold him to Judge F. J. Pren-
tiss of Greenport, N. Y., who sold him to A. P. Gardiner of Hamilton, Mass.

The high esteem in which I held Baron of St. Lambert would seem to be
justified by the work of his son,

BARON HUGO 15208,

whose dam was Stolen Kisses 16864, test 16 lbs. 14 oz., imported from the
Island of Jersey, and owned by Congressman E. Stevens Henry of Rockville,
Conn., who also owned Baron Hugo. It will be remembered Baron Hugo was
the sire of that great World's Fair dairy cow Baroness Argyle, who had a
test of 18 lbs. 12 oz., and he was also the sire of 12 others in the 14-lb. list.
The first son of Stoke Pogis 3d I owned was

SIR GEORGE OF ST. LAMBERT 16036,

whose dam was Pride of Windsor 483. Nearly killing one of my employees
when two years old, I sold him to the late Mr. Charles Keep of Lockport, New
York, where he was used for a year and a half, and on my recommendation
Mr. Horatio J. Gilbert of Milton, Mass.. bought him March 3, 1885, and he
thus describes him: "Solid color, grayish fawn along the backbone (shading
very dark on sides), black switch and tongue. His hide is thin, mellow and
rich. His grand constitution is strongly manifested in his great depth of
body, in the breadth over his loins, and his magnificent ribbing. He stands
on short legs, is very long from end to end, having great length of barrel, also
being long from hip bone to end of rump. His present weight, at six years
old, is 1,600 lbs., though he is not fat, but only in robust serving condition.
He has a fine liead and neck for so large an animal." He remained in Mr.
Gilbert's hands until the time of his death, and left behind him many very
valuable daughters. Mr. Gilbert has always been a strong believer in the
St. Lambert blood, and has for years bred on these lines, but has crossed onto
them a son of Pedro — namely. Majestic Pedro's Son — whose dam milked
50 lbs. in a day and made 17 lbs. % oz. of butter in a week. The daughters
of Sir George of St. Lambert were very heavy milkers.
Another St. Lambert bull used by Mr. Gilbert was

BILLY RUSSELL 26384,

a son of Prince Pogis, out of Honeymoon of St. Lambert. This bull has
been the getter of some uncommonly good stock, which will be heard from
later. Another St. Lambert bull used by Mr. Gilbert, bought on my recom-
mendation, as before referred to, was

KING OF ST. LAMBERT'S BOY 44892,

a son of King of St. Lambert, out of Elsie Bonner, a daughter of King of St.
Lambert, and consequently a full brother of that great butter-getter, King of
St. Lambert's King. Still another St. Lambert bull which was purchased
by Mr. Gilbert at my suggestion is

ADELAIDE'S BROCQ OF ST. LAMBERT 49896,

a son of that phenomenal cow Adelaide of St. Lambert, the champion in milk
for a day, or a week, or a month, before particularly referred to. Adelaide's
Brocq of St. Lambert is now at the head of Mr. Gilbert's herd. His sire is
a double-grandson of Canada's .John Bull 5th, and traces to Victory 16379,

82 The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

imported by me as the best cow on the Island of Jersey at that time, and wbo
appears in the pedigree of the Island bull Golden Lad.

For sixteen years, with rare exceptions, it has been my privilege to advise
with Mr. Gilbert on the selection of his breeding bull. Mr. Gilbert is very
fond of a deep milker, realizing that in Jerseys the richness is always there,
and he has succeeded in an eminent degree in the production of large milkers.

DUKE OP ST. ALBANS 11234

was a full brother of Baron of St. Lambert, but was a much smaller bull,
doubtless owing to the fact that he had not been well kept when young. I
owned him for less than a month, when he was sold to Mr. Edward Burnett,
then of Southborough, Mass., November 13, 1883 ; passed into the hands of
AV. P. Ijams of Terre Haute, Ind., February 25, 1884, and was bought by
Mr. Nathaniel F. Berry, Lexington, Ky., November 24, 1887, at whose farm
he died.

THE PREPOTENCY OF MARY ANNE OF ST. L.

It has been repeatedly urged, as detracting from the value of Mary Anne
of St. Lambert, that she had no son or daughter which showed any particular
merit. In one sense this is true, in another it is misleading. The records
tend to show the former ; but circumstances molded them. Mary Anne had
but two daughters and one son. Of the two daughters, one had but one calf
and then became barren ; the second daughter, Marianne Pogis. was as
promising a young cow when I sold her to the late Mr. A. B. Darling, at my
closing-out sale, as I ever owned. Not so large as her dam. Mary Anne, she
was of very fine finish and a beauty all over. Her udder was perfect in form,
and the day's test we gave her showed she was a great producer. Unfor-
tunately, with her first calf, after Mr. Darling bought her, her udder was
spoiled. So highly did Mr. Darling value her that he retained one of her
sons ; he is now being used in that celebrated herd, and is getting a class of
daughters that will make their sire heard from in the future.

The only son Mary Anne had was Prince Pogi^. He was sold when
young to the late Henry L. Pierce, in whose hands he died. Mr. Pierce never
tested his cows, but since the herd of this gentleman has been dispersed, those
who bought the daughters and descendants of Prince Pogis speak in the high-
est terms of them.

The source that goes to show the prepotency of Mary Anne of St. L. is

CANADA'S JOHN BULL 5TH 20092,

a son of Canada's .John Bull, out of Marianne Pogis, a daughter of Mary
Anne of St. L. In the summer of 1S97 I visited many of the herds of Ontario
and saw a large number of the daughters of Canada's John Bull 5th, and a
better or more uniform lot I have rarely seen. Many of them possess great
length of body, which was a characteristic of Marj' Anne of St. L.. and in
common with her still more, they have unusually good fore-udders, although
not equal to Mary Anne in that respect. They are universally deep milkers,
and, when properly handled, great butter cows.

I sold Canada's John Bull 5th to Mr. William Rolph of Markham, On-
tario, when a calf. At the time his calves began to come, the quarantine
restrictions had practically closed this country to Canadian-b'-ed Jerseys.
Mr. Rolph had to sell the bull's daughters to Canadian breeders, and as a
result they passed into the hands of people who had not the necessary experi-
ence to develop or test them. They were kept as ordinary dairy cows, and it
is a great tribute to their inheritance that they did not under such circum-
stances "go back." They did not ; but. on the contrary, are almost all grand
dairy cows to-day. Knowing all the contributing circumstances, it is a won-
der to me that Canada's John Bull 5th has as many as eleven tested daugh-
ters : the highest of these are : Nellie of St. L.. 23 lbs. 12 oz. : then Marjoram
of Glen Rouge, test 22 lbs. 12^4 oz. ; the next highest

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83

l.EUxNuiwV OF CANADA 94906,

22 lbs. 11 oz., and a beautiful young cow she is, a grand dairy cow, too ; next
comes Maud of Glen Rouge, with a test of 22 lbs. 10 oz. Maud of Glen Rouge
is in the herd of Mr. C. A. Sweet, and is a "crack" cow, even in so crack a
herd as Mr. Sweet's. I think she is about as fine a type of a dairy cow as
one wants to see ; were her front udder a little more full, she would be a show
cow all over.

In 1897, when looking for a show animal for Mr. J. E. Robbins, I was
very much tempted to buy Maud of Glen Rouge for him, and had her front
udder been perfect I would have taken her. It was at this time I selected the
two great show bulls for Mr. Robbins. Catono Khedive and Czar Coomassie.

Leonora of Canada has as dam Kitty of St. Lambert, test 16 lbs. 11 oz. at
15 years old, and who, in her prime, milked 48 lbs. at flush. As before stated,
I offered $4,000 for her in the palmy days. Kitty of St. Lambert is a daugh-
ter of Stoke Pogis 3d. is dam of two in the list, and is full sister of Brenda
of Elmhurst, test 20 lbs. 8 oz.

Leonora of Canada has milked as high as 45 lbs. of milk a day. and is dam
of Miss Susan Williams' (Centreville, Md.) pure St. Lambert bull

JOCK OF ST. LAMBERT 52208,

sired by St. Lambert of Berlin 35750, a son of One Hundred Per Cent. 16590,
out of a daughter of Canada John Bull 5th. He has 17 crosses of Stoke
Pogis 3d. and over 60 per cent, of the blood of Stoke Pogis 3d.

The history of the St. Lambert family would be incomplete without re-
ferring to that full brother in blood of Stoke Pogis 3d and Stoke Pogis 5th,

ONE HUNDRED PER CENT.

When I bought Leclair's Marjoram, the dam of this bull. I believed Stoke
Pogis 3d to be dead. Stoke Pogis 5th could not be acquired at any price. I
bred Leclair's Marjoram to Stoke Pogis 5th in hope of producing a bull.

84 The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

My expectation as to the sex was realized, l)ut as One Hundred Per Cent,
grew up I did not like his individuality. He was sold to Mr. William
Rolph of Markham, Ontario, who displayed more judgment in buying him
than I did in selling ; but I made it an invariable rule never to retain any-
thing in my herd that did not come up to my ideal in individuality. I seemed
to have lost sight of the influence of the dam on the progeny of One Hundred
Per Cent. ; she was a grand cow in her dairy form, her udder, her milk ma-
chinery and her ability at the pail and churn.

I made a great mistake in selling this bull. His daughters turned out to
be a superb lot, of the most desirable type, handsome, with great udders. A
fair representation is given in

ST. LAMBERT'S NORA 3D 111218.
the property of Mr. Wm. Rolph, Markham, Ontario, though the photograph
was taken when she had been in milk for some time. Most of them had the
form of udder, straightness of back, and other characteristics of old Marjoram
3239. Their worth did not stop there, but they inherited great milk-giving
and butter-making qualities. Like the daughters of Canada's John Bull 5th.
the daughters of One Hundred Per Cent, were sold when young by Mr.
Rolph to dairy farmers and small breeders, and it is only of recent years that
any effort has been made to test them. Yet under these adverse circum-
stances he has 14 daughters in the 14-lb. list.

Though Canada's John Bull 5th and One Hundred Per Cent, have not as
many tested daughters as the other bulls I have described, it was not caused,
in my judgment, by any less intrinsic merit, inheritance or want of prepo-
tency ; but, rather, because the daughters did not have the same opportunity.
Under like conditions these two bulls would have made a close run for fir-st
place.

Before closing this pamphlet on the St. Lambert family, as descended
through Stoke Pogis and Marjoram, I consider this history would be lacking
did I not refer to the great Eurotas 2454. the daughter of Rioter 2d, the
Dauncey-bred bull. In referring to her and her test, I glean largely from the
writings of "Hark Comstock," which recently appeared in the "Country Gen-
tleman" under the head "Some Jersey Reminiscences."

All old .Jersey breeders will remember that Enrotas 2454 was owned by
the late Mr. A. B. Darling, and was tested at his farm, Ramsey's. N. J. Mr.
Darling was one of the proprietors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and his part-

The iSt. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

85

ner was Mr. Paran Stevens, who had bought a Jersey cow at the World's
Exposition in Paris many years ago.

Mr. Stevens was very fond of dilating upon the richness of this cow's milk.
Hark Comstock relates that Mr. Stevens had a tumblerful of the cow's milk
set in the ice-box of the hotel every night and transferred to his private desk
in the hotel office in the morning, with the cream undisturbed. He was a
man of somewhat uneven moods, and reflected the same in his intercourse
with those about him. When morose and somewhat cross in temper, he
rarely gave heed to the quality of the milk, and drank it without comment;
but when in a happy and sociable frame of mind, he would seek for some one
upon whose attention to impress the remarkable creaming properties of the
milk of his cow. His employees stood in some degree of awe of their su-
perior, but more particularly of certain of his moods, and in inquiring about
the same among each other, instead of asking directly as to his state of mind,
it became a by-word to ask "How thick is the old gentleman's cream this
morning?" Mr. Darling, who was of a very cheerful and sociable disposition,
and stood in awe of no man on earth or elsewhere, keenly enjoyed the humor
of the joke, and in after years related it with much gusto.

Before he visited Europe for the first time, Mr. Darling declared his in-
tention of bringing back with him a cow whose milk would excel that of his
partner's cow in richness. Premium of Darlington. Violet of Darlington and
Grace Darlington (imported in Violet) were brought from the island by Mr.
Darling Nov. 20, 1869, and were the foundation of his herd.

Before the arrival of these cows, Mr. Stevens had died, and in the early
'70s Mr. Darling requested Hark Comstock to find a purchaser for the whole
herd, then numbering about sixty, at the moderate price of $7,000. For-
tunately, the herd was not dispersed, and remains at Ramseys to this day.

The first cow ever tested by Mr. A. B. Darling was

EUROTAS 2454.
She calved on the 4th of December, 1878, and at the solicitation of Hark
Comstock she was tested. It is asserted the result astonished Mr. Darling,
"and I have rarely seen," says Hark Comstock, "a more exultant man than
he was when, in response to a telegram, I called to see him and he told me
Eurotas' milk had churned out more than 19 lbs. of butter for a week. I
urged him to keep on, feed her up and make a year's test, as had been done
with Jersey Belle of Scituate, but he said no, because several of the best
weeks were already passed, and in order to do the work properly for any

86 The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

length of time, he needed to provide special help, and this he would do after
her next calf. This pi'oved a great mistake, for Eurotas fairly boomed that
season, whereas in her following period, when a year-round test took place,
she was nothing like the same cow, albeit she gained the full year cham-
pionship by making 778 lbs. 1 oz. and bringing her next calf within the year.
Had she been tested the preceding year it is my belief that she would have
had the championship to this day. The year of her test was the poorest of
her life, after passing heiferhood. But think of the results : From the same
herd which Mr. Darling proposed to sell for $7,000. and from its descend-
ants, within the next few years, he sold for cash considerably over $100,000
worth of Jerseys and nearly maintained his original number."

This year's test of Eurotas was made entirely between calvings. Mary
Anne of St. Lambert, whose test was also made between calvings and while
she was carrying a calf, wrested the championship from Eurotas, and in the
310 days in which she was tested her record stands unequalled, and Mary
Anne of St. Lambert, on that basis, retains the championship to this day, as
no other cow with a record eclipsing her for 365 days has been tested en-
tirely between one calving and the next and carrying one calf.

THE BREEDING OF EUROTAS

was very similar to that of Stoke Pogis 3d. The sire of Eurotas was Rioter
2d, an inbred Dauncey bull, a son of old Rioter 746 E. H. B. Stoke Pogis
1259 was a grandson and great-grandson of Rioter 746, but more inbred
than was Rioter 2d. The dam of Eurotas was Europa 176, a double grand-
daughter of Saturn and Rhea, or, in other words, a pure Saturn-Rhea, and
close up to importation. The dam of Stoke Pogis 3d was Marjoram 3239,
and although bred in England, was, as has been before shown, practically an
Island cow, inbred. Doubtless the same contributing causes were found in
Eurotas and Stoke Pogis — namely, Rioter 746 E. H. B.

The first son of Eurotas bred by Mr. Darling and dropped at his farm
was the Duke of Darlington. He proved a great sire and got twelve daugh-
ters in the fourteen-pound list, from 14 lbs. 1 1 oz. to 37 lbs. 8 oz., five of them
being over 20 lbs. each, the most prominent of which was Bomba 10330.
Bomba showed remarkable butter capacity, and some prominent members
of the A. J. C. C, being sceptical of her reported yield, Mr. Darling re-
quested the directors of the club to send a committee to his farm at Ramseys.
N. J., to test her to prove to the world the accuracy of her test. She made
21 lbs. 1114 oz. of uusalted butter from Oct. 5 to Oct. 12, 1882, when she was
four years old. This test, the first "official" one, was the beginning of the
system of "oflicial testing" and created a great stir at that time.

Duke of Darlington sired three producing sons, the most prominent of
which was Eupidee, sire of four in the fourteen-pound list. Eupidee, how-
ever, has attained greater notoriety through having sired Holyoke 8417, who
has come in great prominence of late as the sire of

MR. C. A. SWEET'S "BIG FOUR,"

illustrated on page 87.

Holyoke must have been indeed a remarkable bull to have sired four such
daughters as those represented in the "Big Four." Besides, he has three
others to his credit in the fourteen-pound list.

The other registered progeny of Eurotas is :

Pedro 3187, dropped Oct. 10, 1897 ; Lord Dartmouth 6.302, dropped Nov. 4.
1887; Ramapo 4679. dropped Oct. 30. 1879: Eurotas 2d 11980. dropped
Nov. 4. 1880. who died as a heifer ; Darling's Rioter 6383. dropped Sept. 28.
1881, who died young at Mr. Darling's farm; Michael Angelo 10116. dropped
Jan. 19, 1883 ; Eurotas' Black Prince 14334. dropped Dec. 27. 1883 : Eurotas'
Victor Hugo 15G89, dropped .Tan. 5. 1885; Eurotas' Daughter 50951, who
only recently died. Eurotas died July 30, 1888. It will be noticed that, with
a progeny of ten, Eurotas had but two daughters, namely, Eurotas 2d and

The St. Lanthcrt Family of Jerseys.

87

88 The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

Eurotas' Daughter, there being eight bulls, one of which, Darling's Rioter,
died as a calf at Mr. Darling's farm.
Mr. T. S. Cooper, with whose name

PEDRO 3187
has become so closely associated, has told me the history of his acquisition
of the bull, and as all personal reminiscences in connection with a bull that
has been so long before the public are interesting to all readers, I give the
same at length as detailed to me by Mr. Cooper. He told me that twenty-five
years ago he was a breeder of short horn cattle, as well as an importer and
breeder of Ayrshires. His object in having the latter was to feed his Berk-
shire pigs, in which he was much interested, to see what weight he could
make them acquire by the time they were nine months old. While he pinned
his faith to short horns and Ayrshires, he was not unmindful of the trend of
public approbation toward the then comparatively little known Jersey cow.
At last, having visited Mr. Darling's place when Eurotas was young and
her son, Duke of Darlington, was in service in the herd, his eyes were opened
to the value of the Jersey cow, and he sold his other breed of cattle. He
says that his conversation with Mr. Carpenter, then as now Mr. A. B. Dar-
ling's superintendent, convinced him that he would not be able to procure a
price upon Eurotas or any of her progeny, but having disposed of his Short
Horns and Ayrshires, he went to the Island of Jersey and made various im-
portations, which he disposed of by public auction at New York, realizing,
as we old breeders remember, what would now be considered fabulous prie.es.
In his importation of Octobei', 1882, was the Coomassie bull, "Sir George,"
which was sold to Col. Henry S. Russell, of Boston, Mass., for $5,150. Be-
fore this time Col. Russell had bought Pedro from Mr. Darling. Mr. Cooper
tells me that his idea was that Col. Russell intended to cross Sir George upon
the daughters of Pedro, and that while he (Mr. Cooper) was in the Island of
Jersey he was very much surprised to see that Pedro was to be sold at public
auction in New York. His first intention was to cable Peter C. Kellogg, the
auctioneer, to buy Pedro for him. but he decided not to do so. fearing that if
he became the purchaser of Pedro people might believe that it was a sort of
trade between Col. Russell and himself.

One of the first things Mr. Cooper did on reaching this country was to
make inquiries to find out who bought Pedro, and much to his chagrin learned
that Messrs. Miller & Sibley, of Franklin, Pa., had become the purchasers.

The St. Lamhert Family of Jerseys. 89

I say "chagrin," because he immediately realized that they would appreciate
Pedro to his full extent. The purchase by Mr. Cooper of Pedro from Miller
& Sibley for $10,000, and for the services of ten cows in addition, is a matter
of Jersey history so well known there is no necessity of repeating it.

Mr. Cooper says that after his purchase of Pedro he had very many tempt-
ing offers for him, but he believed that he was invaluable and that he could
not afford to sell him at any price.

As above stated, Mr. Cooper at that time was importing Jerseys from
the Island, and was selling them at public auction sale in New York, making
money very rapidly. Having known him for years, I know there is no better
handler or feeder of cattle than Mr. Cooper, nor do I believe there is a better
judge of a dairy animal than he. These combinations, together with un-
doubted pluck and intensely hard work, contributed to the large profits that
he made in exporting.

He had brought out for his own use the Coomassie bull, "Sir George,"
and was using him for service on the cows he had imported from the Island of
Jersey.

Mr. Cooper, however, had had his taste of the "Rioter" blood through hia
handling the Leclair stock, and there is no one I know of who more readily
appreciates a good thing when he sees it than Mr. Cooper. This desire to
have the blood of the English Rioter was intensified when he went to Eng-
land, and, looking up the "Rioter" stock, he noticed it was of the same type
as that found in the Leclair herd. It was no surprise to learn that he had
purchased Pedro, and in his catalogue of his semi-annual sale of May, 1893,
Mr. Cooper gives the reasons why he bought Pedro, the son of Eurotas —
"because he had Rioter blood through his dam, the greatest cow in the world
for yield and constitution and ability to impart the same to her offspring."
He gives as another reason that when "he selected six of the best cows in his
herd to be bred to Duke of Darlington, in 1882, five of them wer^ Rioters."
(Those from the Peter Leclair herd.)

Mr. Cooper's object in acquiring Pedro was to cross him upon the Coomas-
sie females, believing he would add constitution to the get of the Coomassies
by such action.

Pedro has had a wonderful career as a show-ring animal, as the getter of
such and as the getter of butter daughters. Mr. Cooper furnishes me with a
list of forty-four tested daughters, thirty-three averaging over 18 lbs. 4 oz. in
seven days and ten at two years old averaging 15 lbs. 8 oz. Of these thirty
appear in Volume III. of the Butter Test Book. Of the forty-four one is
a rated test. The following are the six highest : Pedro's Alphea, at the rate
of 26 lbs. 3% oz. ; Pedro's Royal Princess, 23 lbs. 14 oz. ; Golightly, 23 lbs. 4
oz. ; Pedro's Pretty Belle, 18 lbs. 8 oz. ; Pedro's Fame, 19 lbs. 12 oz. ; Pedro's
Pansy, 19 lbs. 10 oz.

Mr. Cooper points with a great deal of pride to the work that the grand-
daughters of Pedro are doing and to the fact that eight of the best of them,
tested by different owners, averaged over 20yo lbs. in seven days.

THE SHOW-RING RECORD OF PEDRO

is a remarkable one. He won the $300 prize at the Dairy Show, Madison
Square Garden, New York, May, 1887, for the best bull and five of his get.
Eleven herds competed. Major Campbell Brown and Mr. John O. Couch
were the judges. At the Kellogg combination sale, May, 1888, the Breeders'
Cup was won by Mr. Cooper's contribution. Four out of the five females
were sired by Pedro. In the great World's Fair show-ring at Chicago, 1893,
Pedro won first prize in "bulls three years old and over," won the champion-
ship sweepstakes "for bulls of any age" in the grandest array of bulls ever
seen in a show-ring in this country, under the judgment of Major Alvord.
Pedro also headed the first prize aged herd at the World's Fair. "For four
animals of either sex, get of one sire." Pedro and his get were awarded the
first premium at the World's Fair in Chicago. At the same fair, in the class
"for bulls two years old and under three," Pedro's Royal Marjoram 28560, a

90

The St. Lamhert Family of Jerseys.

son of Pedro, out of that great old cow Marjoram 2d, was awarded third
place. Other get of Pedro were awarded premiums in this fair. At the age
of eighteen years he headed the first prize exhibitor's herd at the Madison
Square Garden Show, New York City, November, 1895. At this show his
daughters, granddaughters, sons and grandsons were among the prize winners.
Another bull out of Pedro and old Marjoram that is claiming much atten-
tion at the present time is

PEDRO ROYAL MARJORAM 285G0,

the sire of eight in the fourteen-pound list, Pedro's Polly Rex, 21 lbs. 4 oz. ;
Infanta Pedro Marjoram, 17 lbs. 6 oz. ; Pedro's Golden Harp 2d, 16 lbs. 9 oz. :
Rioter Flora Marjoram, 16" lbs. 4 oz. ; Grisella Marjoram, 15 lbs. 6 oz. He
is a grand bull. I have seen many of the daughters of the bull lately and a
grand lot they are. They are neat, clean, of good dairy form, with splendid
udder and teats, and are great producers. It was the superiority of his
daughters that so much contributed to the success of the late Cooper Sale.
He was bought by the estate of the late Mr. A. B. Darling, and in that grand
herd will be a great factor.

The constitution and longevity of Pedro were remarkable. He continued
in service in the herd of Mr. T. S. Cooper from Feb. 15, 1883, when he was
purchased, until he was nineteen years old, when he passed away, full of
honor and fame, much to the regret and mourning of his owner, whose confi-
dence in Pedro was unbounded.

While there are many sons of Pedro that have acquired a great reputa-
tion, the one that lias the greatest is probably Y'oung Pedro 9033. inasmuch
as he sired the great

EUROTISSIMA 29668,

whose test of 945 lbs. 9 oz. in one year, from April 22, 1889, to April 21. 1890.
attracted world-wide atention. At the time of the beginning of her test

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she was four years and eleven months old and weighed but 820 lbs. She
averaged from 11 to 17% quarts of milk per day, and her daily feed was about
21 lbs. of grain. Eurotissima was bred by Mr. D. F. Appleton, of Ipswich,
Mass., whose New York office is 21 Maiden Lane, being a member of the firm
of Robbins & Appleton, agents for the Waltham Watch Company. The Jer-
sey cow has had no more steadfast, no more unswerving, no more faithful
friend than Mr. D. F. Appleton. In the old days when public sales were in
vogue none was more loyal in support of the Jersey by opening his pocketbook
for them than was Mr. Appleton, and it was a proud day to him, the breeder
of Eurotissima, when she won the "Championship Cup" for the largest year's
yield from Landseer's Fancy, who up to that time held it with a record of
936 lbs. 14% 02. Mr. Appleton has been a constant adherent of the "Rioter"
blood as found in the Darling herd. Eurotissima was no chance breeding.
It was a well defined line, conceived and executed by Mr. Appleton. Euro-
tissima is not only a great granddaughter of Eurotas through Young Pedro,
but she is also a great-granddaughter through Ramapo 4679. When you con-
sider the size of Eurotissima, her test was the most remarkable that could be
made, and no stronger proof could be given of the prepotency of the old Eng-
lish Rioter breeding, transmitted as it is to many generations, than is to be
found in the wonderful years' records of Eurotissima, Mary Anne of St.
Lambert and Eurotas.

Apart from Eurotissima, Young Pedro is the sire of nine others in the
fourteen-pound list. His six highest tested daughters are : Eurotissima, 27
lbs. 11/2 oz. in seven days ; Pedronina, 21 lbs. 3 oz. ; Dieta, 20 lbs. 9 oz. ;
Riotress 3d. 17 lbs. 3% oz. ; Young Lass, 17 lbs. 3% oz. ; Patona, 16 lbs.
141/2 oz.

LORD DARTMOUTH 6302,

the third son of Eurotas, was used by Mr. Hiram Hitchcock, the partner of
Mr. A. B. Darling. Although he has only three tested daughters, I was
always very partial to the get of Lord Dartmouth and preferred them indi-
vidually over that of any of Eurotas' sons. I think he was a far better bull
than the number of his tested daughters would indicate. Among his tested
daughters is Cretesia 13567, test 20 lbs. 1 oz., the grandam of

CRETESIA'S ALBERT POGIS 21730,

who in the herd of Mr. R. A. Sibley at Spencer, Mass., sired such a wonder-
ful lot of daughters. For uniformity of udder and good dairy type it would
be difficult to find a bull that produces better.

RAMAPO 4679,

the fourth son of Eurotas, was used at Houghton Farm, Mountain vi lie. New
Yoi'k. He is the sire of six in the fourteen-pound list, the highest being
Cornwall Maid, 29 lbs. 12 oz. It will be remembered that he is the maternal
grandsire of Eurotissima.

Old breeders will remember that

MICHAEL ANGELO 10116

was the sixth son of Eurotas and was sold to Messrs. Miller & Sibley for
$12,500, claimed to be the highest price ever paid for a bull in cash. He has
two tested daughters, Angelo's Torment, 22 lbs. 8 oz., and Fashion Plate, 15
lbs. 101/2 oz.

The eighth son of Eurotas was

EUROTAS' VICTOR HUGO 15689.

I well remember when the sire of Eui-otas' Victor Hugo, namely Victor
Hugo Pogis 11256 (the bull I sold to Mr. Frederick Loeser) was coupled
to Eurotas to produce the bull from which Mr. Darling anticipated the great-
est results. Victor Hugo Pogis was a son of Rambler of St. Lambert (a son
of Stoke Pogis 3d, out of Crocus of St. Lambert, a full sister of Mary Anne

92 The 8t. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

of St. Lambert and a daughter of Stoke Pogis 3d), so that Victor Hugo Pogis
was a double grandson of Stoke Pogis 3d. Mr. Darling's idea was that by re-
inforcing the Rioter blood in Eurotas through that to be found in Victor Hugo
Pogis through Stoke Pogis 3d, he would strengthen the Eurotas blood. I am
not sufficiently familiar with the get of Eurotas' Victor Hugo to say what
success attended same, although I have seen in the herd of the late Mr. A. B.
Darling some most excellent daughters of this bull. Eurotas' Victor Hugo
was the sire of seven in the fourteen-pound list : Nutshell 2d, 19 lbs. 2 oz. ;
Belle of Passaic, 17 lbs. 11 oz. ; Miss Albert, 17 lbs. 9 oz. ; Roliuette, 15 lbs.
14 oz. ; Nellie's Picture, 15 lbs. 8 oz. ; Eurotas' Blossom. 15 lbs. 5 oz. ; Leda
Victor, 14 lbs. 1 oz.

As before stated, Eurotas had but two daughters. One died in infancy
and the other, Eurotas' Daughter 50951, never has had a test of her reported
to the club.

Sufficient statistical data have been herein given to demonstrate the value
of the Rioter blood as conveyed to the Jersey public of this country through
Eurotas. We have in the St. Lambert family indisputable evidence of its great
value, its prepotency and its transmission to remote generations. Great as
is this evidence, it is supported and strengthened by the facts herein given of
the value of the old English Rioter blood through Eurotas and her descendants.
On the death of Mr. A. B. Darling, on the 6th day of September, 1896, the
Jersey cause lost a true, a tried, a loyal and a generous friend. I can well
remember at the old sales his genial presence, where he w^as a purchaser of
what his judgment told him was the best, and he was a rarely good judge of a
dairy cow. I have never once known him to really desire an animal but he
succeeded in procuring her, be the bidding as strenuous, as active or as long as
it might. His pocketbook was ever to the support of the Jerseys. Being one
of the oldest breeders, yet he never lost his interest or his confidence in the
Jersey to the day of his death. It is gratifying to know that the herd
founded and made so famous by him is being maintained in its integrity
at the old homestead, and as it is under the guiding hand of his nephew,
Mr. Elmer A. Darling, the president of the club, and under the practical super-
vision of that old stand-by, Mr. Carpenter, who made the test of Eurotas in
years gone by, the highest standard of the herd as it was in Mr. Darling's life-
time is sure to be maintained. It is equally gratifying to know that Pedro
Royal Marjoram now heads the herd.

I have endeavored to interest my readers in the history of this great "fam-
ily," and while much of the matter is purely statistical, it has been my aim to
so intersperse personal reminiscences as not to tire my readei's. I have stated
facts and drawn deductions just as they appeared to me, and in so doing
I have told the truth, the whole truth, and that without fear or favor.

COWS AT CALVING TIME.

Their Usefulness Between Calvings Is Fixed by the Food and Treatment for
Thirty to Forty-five Days Thereafter.

BY VALANCEY E. FULLER.

Assuming a cow to have passed her third yeai", her most critical time for
good or for ill is the month preceding and that immediately following her calv-
ing. I am now referring to good dairy cows that will respond to proper care
and feed. In the month preceding the calving you fit her for the trying ordeal

The St. Lamhert Family of Jerseys. 93

of maternity and in the month following that important event you bring her
up to do good work until next calving.

I believe in having a cow dry for at least thirty days before she calves.
You will procure a larger flow of milk in the year following, and the calf to be
born will come better nui-tured and better prepared to fight its fight for life.
If you milk your cow right up to time of calving you are taxing the strengtJi
of the cow at the expense of the calf, as she ought to be kept on a light diet
previous to calving. The food that ought to go to nurture her and her calf
is used to make milk.

LITTLE FEED; PHYSIC WELL.

Assuming you have your cow dry and that she is a heavy milker, you must
now take steps to avert milk fever. Thirty days before calving, if in summer,
keep her on short grass, just enough to keep her working hard to get but a lit-
tle; give her a quart of bran daily and about a pint of linseed oil meal (old
process), the latter to aid a ready "cleaning" after calving. If in winter,
give her all the hay she will eat and the same quantity of bran and linseed
oil meal as above mentioned.

Three weeks before her due date of calving give her a "drench" of 1 to 1%
lbs. of Epsom salts (according to the size of the cow), one quart of common
molasses, two heaping tablespoonfuls of ground ginger, all dissolved in two
quarts of hot water. Repeat this same drench seven days before she is due to
calve and immediately before or immediately after calving. In addition give
her every day a handful of Epsom salts, either as a drench or in her feed for
the three weeks before calving.

"But why give the handful of salts every day?" Have you ever noticed
that after drenching constipation sets in? Constipation tends to fever. That
is one of the objects sought, but not the most imporant.

THIN THE BLOOD.

The direct or contributing cause of milk fever is shrouded in mystery.
Authorities differ, but there is a general concensus of opinion that the blood
being too thick is the greatest contributing cause. If the blood of a cow that
has died of milk fever be placed in water and examined under the microscope,
the blood corpuscles will expand to double the size, showing there is too little
water and too thick blood. Thin the blood and you go a long way to avert
milk fever, and thei*e is no better agent wherewith to attain that end than
Epsom salts. Do not be deceived because the bowels of your cow are "loose"
that there is no necessity to give a drench. The act of calving will constipate.
Thin the hlood, thin the blood before calving, and you will best prevent milk
fever.

An objection is raised, and with great force, to the system of cutting down
the food and to the Epsom salts treatment I have advocated, on the ground
that it injuriously effects the cow's flow after calving and doubtless also the
richness of her milk. I admit this. It is rough on the cow, but it is neces-
sary, and it is far better to have a live cow, even if you have trouble to bring
her to her best work, than a dead carcass. She can be brought to her best
work (though it takes a longer time) if you go about it the right way.

This is the way I try to do so : I treat her as a sick cow, and am especially
careful not to overtax her digestive organs. I am firmly convinced that unless
you bring your cows to their best performance within thirty to forty-five days
after calving, you will never procure from them the same returns till next
calving. But the process must be gradual. We must be careful not to over-
tax their digestive organs, otherwise indigestion will set in, a serious case of
which greatly reduces their usefulness till next calving.

The cry for a fixed ration for a dairy cow is ever increasing; it "will not
down." But each cow's wants and each cow's power of assimilation differs
from the other. No two are alike. What suits one best does not suit an-
othei'. The successful feeder is he "who knows his cows." who studies them

94 The St. Lambert Family of Jerseys.

and by such study learns to know the composition and quantity of feed that
will best suit each cow, judged by the response she gives. But I think there is

ONE FIXED RULE

that will apply alike to all in the first thirty to forty-five days after calving,
and that is a gradually increasing feed, governed in quantity of increase by
the power of assimilation of the individual cow. This is my practice : To give
the freshly calved cow about two pounds of ground oats, two pounds of wheat
bran, one-half pound of linseed oil meal (old process) for the first six or eight
days after calving as a mash, using hot water, dividing it into three feeds.
Give her all the warm water she will drink. If at the end of that time she is
doing well, increase her bran and ground oats by a total of one-half pound per
day until she is consuming three and one-half pounds of bran, three and one-
half pounds of ground oats and one pound of linseed oil meal, which she ought
to take about the fifteenth day after calving.

Feed this from about the fifteenth to the twentieth day after calving. If
she is taking care of this well and is responding by way of the pail and churn
give her plenty of bulky food. At the end of the twenty-fifth day increase
her bran and oats and the linseed oil meal (the latter up to one and one-half
or two pounds). At the end of the thirtieth day add corn meal if she is used
to it and she responds to it.

The main feature to be observed is to never increase your feed by more than
a total of one-half pound per day. Increase at that rate for three or four
days, then rest the cow for a like period, in order that her digestion again
may become used to taking care of this. The cow ought to gradually increase
in her fiow of milk with the increased feed and the greater distance from
calving.

WHEN TO REDUCE FEED.

If you feel that your cow under this treatment is at any time decreasing
in her flow, rather than showing a steady increase, you may feel pretty sure
you are over-feeding her. In that case reduce the feed, and usually she will
return to her flow.

I dislike very much to see a cow "come to her milk" too rapidly. She
rarely does as well for the entire year as if she came to it gradually. I prefer
to see them come to their milk gradually, and by the treatment I have laid
down in a general way. if she be a good cow she will come to it gradually but
surely in from thirty to forty-five days. After that time you can feed more
concentrated feeds, such as corn meal, cottonseed meal in limited quantities
and increase your lighter feeds, but let the increase be gradual. Experience
of the individual cow must be your guide as to how fast you are to increase
her feed and as to its composition.

Ti'eat your cows kindly. Never be harsh to them. Curry them daily ; it
is healthful and beneficial. Milk them regularly and have the same person
milk the same cow each day. Watch your feed box to see that the food is all
cleaned up with relish. But, above all things, remember that the cow's use-
fulness between calvings is fixed by her treatment and feed for the first thirty
to forty-five days after calving.

INDEX.

Page.

Adelaide of St. L 36

Adelaide's Brocq of St. L 81

Allie of St. L 30

"American Beauties" (some) 5

Auction Sales 26

Baron Hugo 81

Baron of St. L 81

Bee Princess 77

Bertha Morgan 24, 29

Bess Pogis of Prospect 41, 49, 50

^'Big Four," The 86, 87

Billy Russell 81

Brenda of Elmhurst 32

Butterfly of Riverview 3d 72

Calving Time (cows at) 92, 93, 94

Canada's John Bull 5th 82, 83, 84

Cedar Hill Jersey Farm 52

Champion Marigold 79

Cheerful of St. L 34

Columbine of St. L 33, 37

Comely of St. L 34

Cora of St. L 34

Cooper-Maddux Sale 12

Cooper Purchase 11

Cowboy of St. L 78

Cretesia Albert Pogis 91

Crocus of St. L 32

Cups Won 30

Dairy and Show Cows 46

Darling, A. B 92

Dauncey, Philip 6, 8

Dauncey Stock 7, 8

Delia Martin 54, 55

Diana of St. L 35

Dinsmore Herd 64

Dolphin 2d 4, 6, 8, 10

Don of Hood Farm 40

Donney Pogis 2d 40

Duke of St. Albans 82

Duncan, W. G 8, 9

English Importation (early) 6

Easter Maid 75, 76

Eurotas 85, 86

Eurotas' Victor Hugo 91, 92

Eurotissama 90, 91

Exile of St. L 58, 59, 61

Exiled of St. L 65

Exile of St. L. 57th 65

Exile's Dewdrop 63, 64

Exile's Sappho 63

Page.

First Purchase at "Oaklands" 19

Foundation of St. Lambert Herd 4

Garfield's Stoke Pogis 60

Gazelle's Fawn 60, 61

Gertie of Glynllyn 38

Herd (Stephens) Located 5

Herd, St. Lambert 19

Holyoke 86

Honeymoon of St. L 32

Hood Farm Pogis 56

Hubbell, O. S 16

Ida Marigold 46

Ida of St. L 31

Ida of St. Lambert's Bull 43, 57, 58

Ida's Pogis 45

Ida's Rioter of St. L. .' 43, 44

Ida's Rioter of St. L. 5th 54

Ida's Rioter of St. L. 10th 57

Ida's Rioter of St. L.'s King , 53

Ida's Rioter of St. L's Son 52

Ida's Rioter Prince 50

Ida's Stoke Pogis 55

Importation by S. S. Stephens 4

Jersey Belle of Seituate 73

Jock of St. L 83

Kathleen's Roy of Y. B 74

Kathleen's Son 73, 74

King Hugo Pogis 72

King of St. L 59, 60

King of St. Lambert's Boy 70, 81

King of St. Lambert's King 66. 67, 68

Kitty of- St. L 34

Lady K. of St. L 68

La Petite Mere 15

La Petite Mere 2d 14

Largest Average Ever Realized 29

Leclair's Marjoram 18

Leclair, Peter 11, 12

Leclair's, Peter, Herd 11

Leonan of St. L 64

Leonora of Canada 83

Letty Coles 37

Letty Coles 2d 37

Letty Rioter 37

Lord Dartmouth 91

Lucy of St. L 25, 32

Lucy's Stoke Pogis 79

Maceo of St. L 65

Maggie of St. L 35

Maplecroft's Rioter 4S, 49, 50

Index.

Page.

Marigold Pedro 70

Marjoram 11, 13

Marjoram 2d 17

Mary Anne of St. L 4, 20, 22, 28, 82

Mary Idagold 47

Matilda 10, 12, 16

Matilda 4th 15

Matilda 4th's Son 44

Matilda 5th 16

Mavourneen of St. L 34

Melbina's Boy 70, 71

Melia Ann 35

Melia Ann's Son 79

Melia Ann's Victor Pogis 80

Mermaid of St. L 30

Michael Angelo 91

Minette of St. L 34

Molly Garfield 61

Moth of St. L 35

Naiad of St. L 31

Nancy of St. L 33

Nancy's John Bull 72, 73

Niobe of St. L, 33

Nymph of St. L 32

"Oaklands" described 27, 28

"Oaklands," Lunch at 27

Oaklands Nora 39

Odelio 55

One Hundred Per Cent 18, 83, 84

Oonan's Tormentor 55

Oonan's Pogis 55

Pedro 88, 89

Pedro Royal Marjoram 90

Prices Paid and Realized 29

Prince of Melrose 2d 52, 76, 77

Page.

Prince of St. Lambert 78

Prince Pogis 21

Public Sale in N. Y 26

"Pure St. Lambert" Defined 4

Ramapo 91

Rambler of St. L 80

Rioter 2d 10

Rioter of St. L 71, 72

Rioter's Combination 80

Ruba K. of St. L 67, 69

Rudolph of St. L 66

St. Lambert's Nora 3d 84

Santa K. of St. L 69

St. Omer's Exile 62

St. Omer's Herd 61, 62

Saphie's Daughter 75, 76

Show Cows 46

Sig Pogis 55

Sir George of St. L 81

St. Lambert's "Boom" 26

St. Lambert Located 19

Stephens Herd Located 5

St. Helier (45) 16

Stoke Pogis 9

Stoke Pogis — Marjoram, Influences of.. 13

Stoke Pogis of Prospect 45, 47, 48, 49

Stoke Pogis 3d 14, 23, 41, 42

Stoke Pogis 5th 13, 41, 42

Surprise Melrose 53

"The Business End" of J. Gerow Dutch-

er's Herd 51

Two Hundred Per Cent 18

Two Hundred's Son 65

Una's First 74

Violet 3d 10

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