Jersey

Burnside Park herd of Jersey cattle: the property of S.M. Shoemaker Stevenson’s MD; Catalogue of the Crystal Spring Herd consisting of. . . registered Jerseys; The American Jersey Cattle Club prize essay Jersey Cattle for the dairy the household and the lawn. . . Sammelband with TLS and manuscript notes inserted and laid-in.

1881 · 62284 — Baltimore MD; Worcester MA; New York NY & Raleigh NC: Printed by John Cox; American Jersey Cattle Club; J.H. Walker Lizzie Pullen Belvin 1881-1890. Four parts in one sammelband volume. Tall 8vo. 27 leaves included two inserted dittoed TLS manuscript index card & genealogy table engraved genealogy table original printed front wrapper; 104 pp. woodcut-engraved plates original printed wrappers w/ laid-in manuscript note sized by Lizzie Belvin; 14 38 2 pp. including table original printed softcovers some foxing & soiling to outer fore-edge. Contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards raised bands on spine gilt lettering bound as instructed by MS pencil note on first leaf with “100 blank leaves to go in back of book bound with covers†some minor scuffing edgewear rubbing still VG exemplar from the library of Charles Hinton Belvin Sr. 1845-1908 and Lizzie Lee Pullen Belvin 1854-1907 noted farmers and breeders of Jersey cattle in Raleigh NC where Charles Belvin was longtime founder and president of the National Bank of Raleigh. First editions of these works in this Jersey Cattle sammelband organized and bound for Jersey Cattle breeder and specialists Charles & Lizzie Belvin of Raleigh NC in the 1880’s. Samuel Moor Shoemaker’s Jersey Cattle herd was one of the most significant breeding operations for productive Jersey dairy cattle in 19th-Century Maryland as Jerseys produced milk components at a far lower cost had greater nutritional value had greater fertility and fewer calving problems as well as much better temperament. Included are two dittoed TLS from the American Jersey Cattle Club to Charles Belvin concerning the registration of prize cow “Miss May†subsequently bred with “Thoroughbred Jersey Bull ‘Bismarck of Torrington’ owned by Dr. Jas. McKee and W.C. Stronach†with certification from 1882 included.Lizzie Belvin was apparently actively involved in caring for the Jersey’s and included here are bound-in manuscript note indicating “On the 2nd of Feb. 1884 a swelling was observed on the neck of May. After using some ointment it was found next day to be better.†Although discovered having convulsions the next day they used treatment of kerosene on the neck and even while 6 months with calf was producing milk within a few days. The other dated 1890 and laid-in notes that “I was fixing to give the medicine to calf in her. I read a little further & send you the book read on page 92 in here I have marked -- give the eggs in a pint of hot milk now and tonight. . . Lizzie.†Worldcat locates 1 copy of 1st work Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center; 2 copies of 2nd AAS State Lib. of Mass. & 1 copy of 3rd UNC - Chapel Hill. Printed by John Cox; American Jersey Cattle Club; J.H. Walker, Lizzie Pullen Belvin, paperback