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Of these two north-eastern dairy herds, one contains nothing but 

 pedigreed Jersey stock, and the other is each year showing an increased 

 quantity of Jersey blood, the larger framed cattle being replaced by 

 heavy butter-fat producers. There are very few herds of crossbred 

 cattle which give an average of 200 lbs. of butter fat per cow per year, 

 while the general run of Jersey herds will average over 300 lbs. per 

 head — or £5 per head in favour of the pure dairy stock. Under noi-mal 

 conditions no raiser of veal can compare in profits with the man who 

 keeps only good dairy stock. Butter fat is always more profitable 

 than veal, and is much more easily handled; and each year of her 

 milking the Jersey cow brings in a profit to her owner which will far 

 overbalance her lighter '' beef-body " value when she is finally passed 

 out of the herd for age. 



As it .takes fully 100 lbs. of butter-fat per year to pay for the 

 grazing and milking of any cow, it is only the quantity above this 100 



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lbs. that the dairy farmer gets his profit from. Since the Government 

 herd tests have demonstrated what breeds and strains of dairy cattle are 

 the heavy butter-fat producers, quite a number of farmers have made use 

 of the information thus obtained. The Jersey Breeders' Club has 



issued a booklet containing full particulars of the tests and yields of 

 milk and butter-fat of the certificated cows and heifers of this breed 

 during the past six years of the departmental tests. As well as giving 

 the quarterly reports of the several competitors, this journal* publishes 

 every September the names and performances of all cows of all 

 breeds that gain their certificates during the previous year. These 

 reports show that in all these pure dairy breeds there are high-producing 

 cattle which dairy fanners should know moi-e about. The information 

 is published for them regularly by the Department, and is invariably 

 given prominence to by all weekly newspapers dealing with rural 



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