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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



To 



The Report was accepted, and the assignment made 

 accordingly. 



Mr. Hawden, from the committee appointed to report 

 upon Jersey and Guernsey cattle, submitted the following 

 essay ; the portion relating to the Jerseys prepared by him- 

 self, that relating to the Guernseys, by Mr. Bowditch. 



JERSEY CATTLE. 



Nearly thirty years have elapsed since the trustees of the 

 Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture imported 

 Jersey cattle from the Island of Jersey for the purpose of 

 improving our butter-dairy stock, and creating an interest 

 in disseminating a breed so universally esteemed on their 

 native island and in England as a family cow. 



The early importations brought cattle about half the size 

 of the natives ; but their appearance did not secure the 

 favorable opinion of farmers who were accustomed to meas- 

 ure the value of all cattle by avoirdupois. We had not then 

 learned to appreciate the hidden qualities embodied in their 



