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should be weeded out, and suggested that the judges 

 especially consider this in awarding prizes. It will be 

 seen, therefore, that the Jersey has been bred for quantity 

 of milk for only about forty years. It was in the seventies 

 that it became the fashion, both in England and America, 

 to select solid-colored Jerseys with black points, and for 

 some time this color craze had a detrimental influence on 

 the breed. But it appears that the Agricultural Society 

 of Jersey, ever watchful of the future interests of the breed, 

 condemned this color craze, and, in 1873, it reports, " Let 

 henceforth such fanciful ideas as black tails and black 

 tongues be estimated at their proper value, but let the 

 large and rich yield of milk be ever the breeder's ambition 

 to procure." 



The Jersey herd-book was started in 1866, and it has 

 undoubtedly had a marked influence on the improvement 

 of the cattle in the Island. In America or in England, an 

 animal may be registered as soon as born, if its sire and 

 dam are registered, or are capable of being registered. 

 On the Island, however, inspection is made a conditional 

 precedent to registering. The following are necessary con- 

 ditions to registration : 



(1) Every animal must be inspected by competent 

 judges, and, if it is considered fit, it obtains a qualifica- 

 tion, namely, commended or highly commended. 



(2) Every bull submitted for qualification must be 

 accompanied by his dam, in order that the merits of the 

 latter may be taken into consideration in awarding a 

 commendation to the former. 



(3) No heifer, although she may be descended from 

 registered parents, can be entered in the herd-book until 

 she has had a calf, and if at the time of her examination 

 she is a poor milker, she receives no commendation. 



