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a man who is trying to make his living out of marlcet garden- 

 ing, I warrant he won't tell you anything that amounts to 

 much. (Laughter and applause.) 



Adjourned to afternoon. 



Afteenoon Session. 



Mr. Slade called the meeting to order at two o'clock, and 

 said : This afternoon you will listen to a lecture by Mr. 

 Goodman of Lenox, on Jersey cattle. 



JERSEY CATTLE IN AMERICA : THEIR PRESENT AND FUTURE. 



BY RICHARD GOODMAN, JR. 



Forty years ago there were in America a couple of hundred 

 Jersey cattle. To-day there are twenty thousand. And to 

 this twenty thousand head of "registered" Jerseys, we 

 may add at least forty thousand for those entered in the 

 American Jersey Herd-Book, and the pure but unrecorded, 

 and the high grades. Roughly speaking, there may be said 

 to be seventy-five thousand to one hundred thousand Jer- 

 seys in America to-day. Moreover, as these cattle are 

 prolific breeders, come to maturity early, and live long, 

 and as they, as a rule, are in the hands of careful 

 and well-to-do owners, it is certain that the number of Jer- 

 seys in this country is increasing with great rapidity. And 

 while Jersey cattle are very uniformly distributed over the 

 country, Massachusetts has been, and is, one of the strong- 

 holds of their race. Such men as Thomas Motley began 

 their importation forty years ago, and to-day thirty of the 

 three hundred members of the American Jersey Cattle Club 

 are from Massachusetts. There are probably two thousand 

 registered Jerseys in this State which have cost, and would 

 sell for, a million dollars ; and the Herd-Book, unregistered, 

 and iiigh-grade Jerseys are worth as much more. 



The bulk of the butter-making community in this State 

 use Jersey milk ; and more than three-quarters of the high- 

 est-priced butter is made from Jersey milk. Such being the 



