PRIZE ESSAYS ON JERSEY CATTLE. 



[As the dairy interest of the State is attracting much attention, and 

 in point of importance is second to no other, the following prize essays 

 on Jersey cattle, taken from volume three, American Jersey Cattle 

 Club Herd Register, will be found interesting, as well as giving much 

 information in regard to this truly valuable breed of cattle, of which 

 as yet in California there is little known.] 



At the annual meeting of the American Jersey Cattle Club, held in 

 April, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the undersigned were appointed 

 a committee for the purpose of procuring and publishing prize essays 

 on the subject of Jersey cattle. The offer of prizes was accordingly 

 advertised in various agricultural journals; and, on or before the first of 

 December, four essays were received, two of which were judged worthy 

 of publication. A prize of two hundred and fifty dollars was awarded 

 to George E. Waring, Jr., and one of one hundred dollars to L. S. 

 Hardin. 



While the committee are of opinion that these essays are, in the 

 main, sound in principle and correct in fact, they do not undertake to 

 indorse or to give by implication the sanction of the Club to all the 

 views and statements of the writers. They submit the papers — with 

 some omissions and slight alterations — to the judgment of the reader, 

 believing them to be replete with interesting and valuable informa- 

 tion on the subject of Jersey cattle, and hoping for them a wide 

 circulation, not only among Jersey breeders and owners, but also among 

 dairymen generally, and all who are interested in improving the various 

 'breeds of cattle in this country. 



J. MILTON MACKIE, 

 R. GOODMAN, 

 DAVIS COLLAMOEE, 

 THOS. J. HAND. 



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