THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW. 55 



any way. She had only ordinary feed, winter and sum- 

 mer — good feed, of course, and systematically adminis- 

 tered, but nothing to so stimulate her secretion of cream 

 as to impair her subsequent usefulness. Surely a breed 

 to which such immense results are possible is worthy of 

 our most fostering care, and we should jealously guard 

 against sacrificing this possibility for the sake of fancy- 

 color points. A herd of cows that would average five 

 hundred pounds each of Jersey butter a year might be 

 of all the hues of the rainbow without losing popu- 

 larity. 



'' Mr. Motley also reports the following trial with the 

 same cow during the latter part of her previous milk- 

 ing : ' I tried her milk, placed by itself for one week, 

 measuring the milk, and weighing the cream and butter. 

 February 3, 1853, 40 quarts milk gave 10 quarts cream, 

 weighing 25 ^ lbs., and 7 lbs. butter. February 9, 'x>^\ 

 quarts of milk gave 9^ quarts cream, weighing 23 lbs., 

 and 72^ lbs. butter — 5 quarts and i pint of buttermilk, 

 weighing 15 lbs. She calved on the 28th April follow- 

 ing, two months and nineteen days after the trial.' 



" Mr. J. Milton Mackie writes, under date January 

 30, 1870: 'Having lately obtained a set of glass tubes 

 for testing the quality of milk, I have got results as fol- 

 lows : A two-year old heifer (dropped April 2, 1867), 

 which dropped her first calf June 11, 1869, showed 3^ 

 inches of cream on a column in a tube of 1 1 inches 

 (milk and cream together). This is 31*80 per cent, of 

 cream. The milk was poured from the pail as soon as 



