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small, spare frames ; while' the delicate structure of their 

 bodies looked as if they would be totally unable to with- 

 stand a single blast of northern wind ; and we guessed with 

 great unanimity that they were too delicately constituted for 

 this climate. 



The breeding, feeding, and care they had been accus- 

 tomed to on their native island for so many generations 

 were thought to be almost entirely unlike those to which 

 our native cattle were subjected. Tethering on grasslands 

 is the universal practice for animals, and stables for the night : 

 no animals on the island are accustomed to range upon pas- 

 tures. Under these conditions there is less demand for a 

 large bony structure, — the natural outgrowth when grazed 

 upon rugged hilly pastures. 



The habits and the conditions under which they are kept 

 on their native island have the tendency to give fineness of 

 bone, and delicacy, to their whole structure. 



As time has gone on, the foresight of the trustees in 

 introducing a breed of cattle whose products place them in 

 the front rank as butter-dairy animals, as well as for the 

 family cow, where docility, beauty, and richness of product 

 are combined, has been proved. 



The people were reasonably satisfied with the milk and 

 butter of other breeds, so long as they knew of none better ; 

 but, as the products of the Jersey cattle become known, they 

 are highly prized and sought for. 



As time has Americanized the Jersey cattle, they are not 

 now of the same type of their ancestors when imported 

 more than a quarter of a century ago. The different condi- 

 tions under which they are reared and kept, the climatic 

 changes to which they have been subjected, the different food 

 and the manner of procuring it, — each and all these, having 

 their influence, have physically changed the Jersey of the 

 former type so generally disliked, to one whose symmetry 

 and form are so much admired, and which delights the eye 

 of a cultivated fancy. 



Their size is now fully equal to the native animal, and 

 they are as proverbially hardy, and thrive within the space 

 of more than twenty degrees of latitude on this continent, 

 and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Perhaps no breed has 

 fiver been brought into the State that has more rapidly and 



