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Canada. England, France, New Zealand, Australia and 

 many other countries can boast of large herds. 



303. Organizations and records. The two organiza- 

 tions which have done so much for the development of 

 the Jersey are the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horti- 

 cultural Society, organized in 1833, and the American 

 Jersey Cattle Club, organized in 1868, whose offices are at 

 324 West Twenty-third street, New York. In 1866, the 

 first herd-book of the Island Society appeared. The 

 American Jersey Cattle Club has published eighty-six 

 volumes of its Herd Register, and the number of registered 

 animals is 479,000, to date (Nov.l, 1915). 



The American Jersey Cattle Club has done much to 

 develop and keep the blood of the Jersey pure in this coun- 

 try. The Club registers only such animals in its herd 

 register as can be traced directly to the island of Jersey. 

 The Jersey Bulletin published at Indianapolis, Indiana, is 

 devoted exclusively to the interests of the Jersey cow. 



Other organizations are the English Jersey Cattle 

 Society, the New Zealand Jersey Cattle Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation, the Canadian Jersey Cattle Club, the Australasian 

 Jersey Herd Society, the Japanese Jersey Cattle Club, 

 and Le Syndicat des Eleveurs de la Race Jersiaise du 

 Continent France. The former has published seventeen 

 volumes of its herd-book; the latter, organized in 1903, 

 has published one volume of its herd-book. 



Literature. John Thornton, History of the Breed of Jersey 

 Cattle, Jersey Bulletin, Vol. 1 (1883); Black, Guide to Brittany 

 (1873) ; Report of Highland and Agricultural Society of Edinburgh, 

 1878; Colonel Le Couteur, On the Jersey, Misnamed Alderney 

 Cow, Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Vol. 5 

 (1845) ; C. P. Le Cornu, The Agriculture of the Islands of Jersey, 

 Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, Journal of the Royal Agricultural 



