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not, however, wedded to the dogma that color influences 

 the dairy qualities of the cow, either by increasing or dimin- 

 ishing the flow of milk, or in any way affects her butter 

 qualities, although color is fancy, and often has a marked 

 influence on the prices of Jerseys. 



Having bred sixty-seven animals, the progeny and descend- 

 ants of one cow, and having solid and party-colored animals 

 in nearly equal number, raised and kept under like con- 

 ditions, we can discern no difference in their product which 

 would appear to be in the slightest influenced by color. 



Jersey cattle are to be found in the State of nearly every 

 color, if we except red ; and there are also to be found in 

 large numbers several thousand that are pure-bred, and 

 nearly if not quite as many grades. 



Well authenticated statements are to be found in the 

 annual Transactions of the Agricultural Societies, of the 

 large yield of milk and butter from the Jersey cow, with 

 weekly newspaper statements of their large product. 



Their rapid increase, not only in the State, but in the 

 whole country, is the true index of their estimation as the 

 cow especially for the butter-dairy. 



In conclusion, I will add that tlie efforts made by the 

 trustees of the Massachusetts Society, and by private 

 individuals, to import and encourage the breeding of Jersey 

 stock, both for the purpose of improving our common cattle, 

 and especially for improving the product of the butter- 

 dairies of the State, will be fully appreciated by practical 

 farmers, wherever the Jersey is given a trial, also affording 

 the best facilities of procuring superior animals at much less 



price than those imported. 



0. B. Had wen - . 



GUERNSEY CATTLE. 



Guernsey cattle take their name from the Island of Guern- 

 sey, — one of the Channel Islands belonging to England, but 

 lying near the coast of France. 



The island contains about twenty-four square miles, and 

 has a population of about twenty-five thousand. 



The farms are, with one or two exceptions, very small ; but 

 on almost all of them a few choice cattle are bred, in color 

 not unlike the fawn-and-white Jersey, only rather inclining 



