Identifier: buildersofpyrami00will (find matches)
Title: The builders of the pyramid; the story of Shelby County: its resources and developments
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Williams, Joseph R
Subjects: Nashville (Tenn.). Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, 1897
Publisher: Memphis, De Garis printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of the county. In Shelby there are no farmsdevoted exclusively to the breeding of registered Jersrys, but verymany farmers and numbers of town residents possess one or moreof this breed. Hence the Jerseys of Shelby are not known to theworld, but nevertheless they are found distributed more generallythrough the County than any other breed of stock. Another excellent effect brought about by this general dissem-ination of high-grade cattle is that Shelby County has no scrubstock. The Jersey or the Holstein blood has mingled with that ofthe old Indian cow and the strain is proving one of the healthiestand best of family cows. This Indian breed, as the scrub catde iscalled, is a hardy animal. It is a kind of a survival of the fittest.It grew up under d.fificulties too innumerable to mention, but itsurvived, consequently when allied to the rich butter making qual-ity of the Jersey it brings hardihood and health, two qualities thatare found lacking in the pure Jersey. It also produces a more
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55 copious flow of milk, without decreasing the general richness, thuseven the humblest farmer in Shelby County is able to own milchcows second to none. The pure Jersey does as well and is as healthy in this Countyas in others. The Holstein, too, thrives and is not more subject todisease than the native cow, but the Ayeshire is prone to take mur-rain and therefore this breed is not a favorite in Shelby. Long ago the razor-back hog disappeared from Shelby. Insome portions of the South it is still held that unless a hog is thinenough to outrun a negro and his dogs and has a snout long enoughto root under a fence he is of no value. In Shelby these condi-tions have ceased to exist. Here the life of the hog is now assacred as that of any other domestic animal. He has his rightsand he knows them, and he has become a self-assertive animal,quite ready to enter the prize lists with any of his Northern breth-ren. The breeds that are most general and seem to find the climatemost suitable are the

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