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in our cows for creaming and milking habits peculiar to 

 our crumpled-horn race, to hold to that alone, by which 

 means our breed might continue as renowned in the 

 next century as it has been so in the present one. 

 Many have held to that sound advice. 



" I shall be much honored by receiving a copy of your 

 Jersey Herd-Book, and shall, moreover, feel much grati- 

 fied if what I have written shall prove interesting or 

 useful to you. 



" Believe me to be, dear sir, 



'' Yours, very truly, 

 (Signed) ''J. Le Couteur. 



"To Col. Geo. E. Waring, Jr., Secretary, etc. 



" N.B. — We have never had rinderpest or cattle- 

 plague in Jersey." 



We will close this interesting chapter on the Jersey 

 cow by adding the following very thorough and highly 

 sensible and practical essay, by Col. Geo. E. Waring, 

 Jr., Secretary of the American Jersey Cattle Club, and 

 published in the Herd-Register of the Club, Vol. I., 

 1871 ; a work which every breeder of Jerseys should 

 have, and of which Club they should become members : 



" There have been many theories advanced concern- 

 ing the origin of the Jersey breed of cattle, but the 

 WTiter has been unable to find satisfactory evidence of 

 the truth of any of them. It is quite certain that, how- 

 ever this breed may have originated, it has been vastly 



