3IO DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND PLANTS 



SCALE OF POINTS FOR JERSEY COWS 



HEAD, SEVEN POINTS Counts 



A. Medium size, lean ; face dished, broad between eyes and narrow between 



horns 4 



B. Eyes full and placid; horns small to medium, incurving; muzzle broad, with 



muscular lips ; strong under jaw 3 



NECK, FIVE POINTS 



Thin, rather long, with clean throat ; thin at withers 5 



BODY, THIRTY-THREE POINTS 



A. Lung capacity, as indicated by depth and breadth through body, just back of 



fore legs 5 



B. Wedge-shaped, with deep, large paunch ; legs proportionate to size and of fine 



quality . .* 10 



C. Back straight to hip bones 2 



D. Rump long to tail setting and level from hip bones to rump bones .... 8 



E. Hip bones high and wide apart; loins broad, strong 5 



F. Thighs flat and well cut out 3 



TAIL, TWO POINTS 



Thin, long, with good switch, not coarse at setting-on 2 



UDDER, TWENTY-EIGHT POINTS 



A. Large size and not fleshy 6 



B. Broad, level, or spherical, not deeply cut between teats 4 



C. Fore udder full and well rounded, running well forward of front teats ... 10 



D. Rear udder well rounded, and well out and up behind 8 



TEATS, EIGHT POINTS 



Of good and uniform length and size, regularly and squarely placed 8 



MILK VEINS, FOUR POINTS 



Large, tortuous, and elastic 4 



SIZE, THREE POINTS 



Mature cows, 800 to 1000 pounds 3 



GENERAL APPEARANCE, TEN POINTS 



A symmetrical balancing of all the parts, and a proportion of parts to each other, 

 depending on size of animal, with the general appearance of a high-class 

 animal, with capacity for food and productiveness at pail 10 



Total 100 



