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nearly the same in either case, and will pay the taxes and for the care of 

 the animals ; but there is one very important source of profit that is not 

 reckoned, and that is the extra value of the progeny, which is shown by the 

 followingtable, tobe$lT,424 48. 



There must be no mistake made in procuring a Jersey bull calf. 



Although, as a breed, the^^ are twice to three times as valuable for butter 

 as common cows, yet any farmer who buys or uses a Jersey bull, because 

 he is a Jersey bull, will sorely repent his venture. 



Buy a bull only from the very best families of Jerseys, They are cheaper 

 than the gift of an average good one. 



The idea that it costs more to keep Jersey cows than common cows, or 

 that Jersey cows will not take on flesh, for beef, as readily as other breeds, 

 is true in one view, and very erroneous in another and more correct one. 



"What a Jersey eats, beyond a limited amount, increases the quantity and 

 richness of her milk, not her flesh, and the amount of flesh she carries is 

 proportionally less for any extra feed, because it does not make flesh, but 

 increases tlie batter globules in her milk. Again, any other breed can be 

 readily dried oflT at any time, and being dr}', or giving but little milk, and 

 that of poor quality, they readily take on flesh, but a good Jersey is " dried 

 off " with great difficulty, and herein she greatly excels all other breeds. 

 Hundreds of Jerseys, milking twelve to sixteen quarts at their flush, hold 

 out so evenly, that they will give many more quarts of milk, and of double 

 the richness, in a year, than eighteen to twenty-four quart cows, of other 

 families, that are dry several months of the year. 



It is the experience of every breeder of Jerseys that, being tZr?/, they will 

 take on flesh as fast, with a given quantity and quality of ieed, as other 

 breeds, not exclusively beef producers. 



They are not good for beef, simply because they are good for butter. 



From Jersey cows, a farmer in New England can make a pound of butter 

 worth thirty-five cents, with a less quantity of food than they now use to 

 make a pound and one half of beef worth nine cents. 



If farmers think there is some error in these statements, they will, like 

 sensible men whose prosperity depends upon the result, sit down and figure 

 out the results for themselves. 



Those who talk loudest against them, will hold on to a cow in their herd 

 that has a little Jersey blood in her ; and if they put a price on her, it will 

 be from half as much again, to double that of the finer formed cow stand- 

 ing beside her, guiltless of having any Jersey blood in her veins. 



If there is an animal to be had any better than the bull any one is now 

 using, it ought to be secured at once. So with cows, but by all means change 

 at once for a better, any bull, however' good. 



It is not claimed for any of the tables herewith presented, that they show 

 absolutely the value of any cow to any farmer, but only that they are rela- 

 tively correct. Every man who consults them, must make his own adjust- 

 ments as to cost and receipts on any cow he owns. It is clear, that adding 

 a very little to the cost of keeping, and deducting a very little from the 

 price of butter, will show that any 200 pound butter cow brings her owner 

 in debt, each year. Again, there are probably hundreds of cows kept for 

 the dairy, that will not make two hundred pounds of butter in one year on 

 the same feed Jersey Belle of Scituate, had when she made seven hundred 

 and five pounds of butter in one year. It may be said that no allowance 

 is made for any accidents to which a cow is liable — to abort, to have a calf 

 die at birth, to injury, &c., and the thought is present that the loss on the 

 poorer animal is not so much, in that case, as on the better ; but the better 

 is no more liable to such a case, and the loss is nearly the same proportion- 



