DR WATNEY'S CHAMPION COWS 221 



prizes in 1906. The cow, her sire, dam, one grandam, and 

 both grandsires were bred at Buckhold. She gave an average 

 of 484 Ibs. of butter per year for six consecutive years. She 

 has won four gold medals in the butter-yield tests. At the 

 R.A.S.E. in 1904 she gave 112 Ibs. of milk and 5 Ibs. 13^ oz. 

 of butter in the two days' test, fifty-three days after calving. 

 She is descended from ' Maple/ who won one silver medal, and 

 from ' Cleopatra, 5 who won one gold medal. 



"'Sharab' was calved in 1896, and killed in 1905. This 

 cow, her dam, her sire, and grandam were bred at Buckhold. 

 She yielded an average of 540 Ibs. of butter per year in five 

 consecutive years. Her highest yearly record for any one year 

 was 6 1 5 Ibs. of butter. She won four gold medals in the butter- 

 yield tests. At Tring, in 1902, she gave 3 Ibs. 9f oz. of butter 

 in one day, 128 days after calving, and thereby established a 

 record for Jersey cows in England and Jersey at a one-day's 

 test. At the Royal Counties Show, 1902, she gave 56 Ibs. of 

 milk in one day, 73 days after calving. She is descended from 

 ' Sherbet,' one gold medal ; ' Sherry/ one gold medal ; ' Lady 

 of the Isles the 3rd,' one gold medal. 



" ' Blue Bell ' was calved in 1894, killed in 1905 ; bred by 

 Mr S. Baxendale, Bonnington, Herts. She gave an average 

 of 398 Ibs. of butter per year for seven consecutive years. She 

 won three gold medals in the butter-yield tests. She is 

 descended from ' Chestnut the 2nd/ who won four gold medals, 

 and from ' Broom/ winner of the first gold medal given by 

 the E.J.C.S. in 1887 for butter yields. 



"'Violette' was calved in 1897. Living and won prizes 

 in 1906. An Island-bred cow, entered in Vol. XV. EJ.H.B. as 

 a Foundation cow, i.e., pure bred but without pedigree. She 

 gave an average of 512 Ibs. of butter in the three consecutive 

 years she has been at Buckhold. She has won two gold 

 medals in the butter-yield tests. In the Island of Jersey she 

 gave 3 Ibs. and f of an ounce of butter in one day, 67 days 

 after calving. 



" These are four great cows in a great butter herd. For 

 the year ending September 30, 1904, twenty-six cows that 

 were in the herd the full year produced 12,156 Ibs. of butter. 

 The highest individual yield was 619.31 Ibs. of butter, and 

 the lowest (with one exception), 245-17 Ibs. ' Sharab' stands 

 fourth in the list, 'Red Maple' tenth, 'Violette' eleventh, 

 and ' Blue Bell ' twenty-second. So it is evident that the 

 Buckhold herd contains a lot of other superior year-round 

 workers in addition to these gold-medal winners." 



It is the usual practice to regard the Jersey steer as 



