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an animal that would utilize and turn to the greatest good, every 

 leaf, root and kernel he could produce for her. 



Tethered out by ropes, and moved a few inches at frequent 

 intervals that she might feed a little further into the standing grass 

 or forage, she made clean work as she was graduall}' moved across 

 the field and then taken back again to the place of beginning to 

 repeat the process. In such farming there was no place for neglect. 

 The lives of the farmers' family and his animals were united in a 

 common cause. 



Under these conditions and this treatment the Jersey cow became 

 an economist. In those early years, as a thoroughbred she possessed 

 a rugged form, characteristic color, fine legs, large eyes and 

 crumpled horns, and yielded milk wonderfulh' rich in cream. But 

 of far more importance than all these, she had, by force of an 

 isolated position, in consequence of the uninterrupted continuance 

 of the penal laws prohibiting the landing of live cattle upon the 

 island, been bred in the line until she reproduced her characteristics 

 in her offspring with that precision that alone marks the pure 

 thoroughbred animal. 



A breed of cattle possessing such admirable qualities for increas- 

 ing the comforts of home could not long remain strangers in the 

 countries adjacent to their own. Youatt, writing in 1834, speaks 

 of them as being quite common in England at that time. Since 

 then the}- have obtained a stronger foothold, and large numbers 

 have been annually exported from the island to that country. 



Among the first importations of Jerseys to America was one 

 spoken of by Col. Waring in his prize essay on "Jersey Cattle" as 

 having been made by Mr. Richard Morris of Philadelphia in 1817. 

 The most important of the early importations were those of Taintor, 

 Norton, Motley, Henshaw, and Gushing, about the year 1850. 

 Jerseys were first brought into Maine about the year 1855, when 

 Maj. Thomas Harward of Bath imported direct a bull and cow, and 

 Dr. Holmes and W. S. Grant brought animals from Massachusetts. 

 However much public opinion has favored the Jerse}' cow in these 

 later years, it is nevertheless true that she was not well received by 

 the generality of farmers upon her first arrival or for many years 

 thereafter. 



The leading cattle industry of the State had been ox-raising for 

 the purposes of work and beef. In those days every barn in Maine 



