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official records. In the breed-tests conducted by the ex- 

 periment stations in Maine, New Jersey, and New York 

 (Geneva), the Jerseys have ranked amon^ the first, but 

 have seldom been the foremost. As the average of all tests 

 of dairy breeds up to date, we notice that the Jerseys rank 

 after the Shorthorns and the Guernseys in total yield of 

 fat during a full period of lactation, and after Guernseys in 

 the cost of producing one pound of fat; they rank first as to 

 richness of milk produced. In the English milking trials 

 conducted by the British Dairy Farmers' Association, the 

 Shorthorn cows have generally led the Jerseys in the 

 total quantities of fat produced per day, and other breeds 

 have also, on the average, given better results than these. 

 The Jerseys came out victorious in the breed-tests con- 

 ducted at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893; they 

 produced more milk, butter-fat, butter, and cheese, and 

 gave a higher net gain than either of the two other breeds 

 competing (Guernsey and Shorthorn); the Guernseys, on 

 the other hand, led as regards the cost of the food con- 

 sumed. In the breed-test No. i (" the fifteen-day cheese 

 test") Ida Marigold, 32615, produced the largest quantity 

 of cheese, viz.: 70.92 lbs., and Merry Maiden, 69449, the 

 largest quantity of butter-fat, viz.: 30.73 lbs. In breed- 

 test No. 2 ("the ninety-day test") Brown Bessie, 74997, 

 produced 178.12 lbs. of butter-fat. Merry Maiden and Ida 

 Marigold following, with 164.81 lbs. and 164.28 lbs., re- 

 spectively. 



The American Jersey Cattle Club was organized in July 

 1868; the Herd Register of the club, the first volume of 

 which was published in 1871, has been issued in fifty 

 volumes up to date, including in all 52,000 bulls and 134,000 

 cows. Butter Tests of Registered Jersey Cows gives all tests 

 of registered Jerseys where the yield of butter for seven 

 consecutive days was 14 lbs. or more; the latest volume 

 published is Vol. II., New Series. 



The present secretary of the American Jersey Cattle 

 Club is J. J. Hemingway, No. 8 W. Seventeenth St., New 

 York City. 



