JERSEY CATTLE. IgO' 



this larger size of the Jersc}' butter globule not only does thfr 

 superior flavor but the superior grain also largel_y depend. It can be 

 demonstrated that in the milk of Jerseys these globules are not only 

 larger but more uniform in size. 



4. This breed is thoroughly responsive to in-and-in brcn^ding,. 

 when intelligently carried on for the purpose of intensifying and 

 perpetuating their peculiar powers as butter producers. The leading 

 Jersey cows in America to-day show in their pedigrees much close 

 breeding among their ancestors, and they are better than their 

 ancestors. P^urotas' dam is the oflTspring of full brother and sister. 

 And En rotas' son, Duke of Darlington, the sire of Bomba, was 

 sired by Sarpedon, offspring of the same brother and sister who got 

 the dam of Eurotas. INIarius, the sire of Signal, who has sired more 

 butter cows than any known bull, was out of Lady Mary by her 

 own son. 



This inbreeding not only develops and fixes the desirable charac- 

 teristics of a race, whether for beef, butter or milk, but it gives us 

 just the quality needed for crossing upon the native mixed breeds of 

 a country. The thorough-bred and inbred race possesses an 

 impetus, so to speak, which, when brought in contact with mixed 

 breeds, carries it a long way in its own direction from the first 

 impulse. Consequently we find that the offspring of a Jersey bull 

 and a native cow possesses not only half but three-quarters, and' 

 sometimes seven-eighths of the characteristics of the sire. Moreover, 

 it is a well established fact in cross-breeding that the most favorable 

 results are obtained where the bull belongs to a race whose bodies 

 are smaller than those of the race to which the cow belongs. 



So much for a general and brief statement of the claims which we 

 "•Jersey men" think our favorite breed has upon the community of 

 farmers at large. With respect to the farmers of Maine in particu- 

 lar it would appear that this breed is especiall}- well adapted, either 

 in their purity or as grades, to this region. The broad, level past- 

 ures and the great grain fields of the West, would seem to be the 

 home of the Shorthorn and Hereford ; they are certainly not adapted 

 to do their best in Maine, or in an}' part of New England. The 

 Holstein and Ayrshire, here and everj'where, are the milk and cheese 

 producer's cow. 



But for the pastures of Maine — too hilly for the beef producers, 

 and too far awa}^ from large cities for profitable milk production — it 

 would seem that they were particularl}- well adapted for the pro- 



