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bull from the public should forfeit the premium ; the other 

 was that all heifers having premiums adjudged to them 

 should be kept on the Island until they shall have dropped 

 their first calf. If previously sold for exportation, they 

 shall forfeit the premium. 



296. History after 1850. In 1853, the Society began 

 to recognize the fact that it was unwise to ship out of the 

 Island the best cattle, and urged the breeders against 

 selling their best stock to be taken from the Island. In 

 1862, the Society reports, " To a very considerable extent, 

 the business of the society is limited to the improvement 

 of our insular race of cattle, which in itself is of the highest 

 importance. We, therefore, wish to impress an observa- 

 tion on those who study the improvement of their stock 

 beauty of symmetry alone cannot ever be the acme of 

 perfection. The latter can be obtained only when good- 

 ness and beauty are equally combined." " It is an estab- 

 lished fact that the renown which the Jersey cow enjoys 

 is attributable to the peculiar richness of its milk, as well 

 as to its docility of temper and neatness of form. Now, 

 as this richness is not so marked in some specimens as it 

 is in others, it becomes advisable to make such selections 

 in breeding as will ensure further amelioration in this 

 most essential and highly important point." 



Up to 1865, there appears to have been little attention 

 paid to the quantity of milk which the Jersey gave. The 

 quality of milk and the quantity of butter and beauty of 

 form seem to have been the only points which the breeders 

 had considered, up to that time. But, in that year, a 

 committee of the Agricultural Society of Jersey urged 

 that the Jersey breeder should pay greater attention to the 

 milk-producing qualities of the cow, and that every cow 

 with the least tendency to deficiency in quantity of milk 



