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for inspection and approved by them before entry in the Herd Book 

 can be made. No heifer is examined until she has produced a calf, 

 and on the male side the merits of the bull's dam are taken into 

 account. Cattle which are not the progeny of registered parents 

 but which are of sufficiently high merit can be entered as "foundation 

 stock" ; those which are the offspring of registered parents 

 appearing under the heading of " Pedigree Stock." " Highly 

 Commended " (H.C.), " Commended " (C.), are the qualifications 

 appended to the letters P.S. or F.S. (" Pedigree Stock " or 

 " Foundation Stock ") which follow the number given to each 

 animal, so that a purchaser of a registered Jersey from the Island 

 always obtains the Herd Book Judges' opinions of the value of the 

 animal he is buying. On more than one occasion, the Gold Medal 

 in the Butter Test has been awarded to a " foundation stock " cow. 



Demand for Jersey Cattle Abroad. About 1853 a great demand 

 for Jerseys sprang up in the United States, and, to retain good 

 animals to breed from for a time, prizes gained by bulls were 

 forfeited if the animals were not kept on the Island for a year. 

 Another American boom in 1882 was responsible for the taking 

 away of many meritorious cows from the Island at prices ranging 

 between 100 and 1,000. The highest priced bull was Wolseley, 

 sold for 200. During the past few years the demand for Jerseys 

 with butter test records, in America and Australia has again been 

 much in evidence and higher prices than ever have beeu obtained. 

 Many surplus cattle have been sold to Denmark at commercial 

 prices but the bulk of these were not registered in the Herd Books ; 

 France also takes fair numbers. 



The English Jersey Cattle Society. The English Jersey Cattle 

 Society (1878) issued the first Volume of its Herd Book in 1879. 

 It instituted butter test classes at shows in 1886, an example which 

 has been widely followed in other countries. At home the annual 

 contests among all dairy breeds, as at Tring, at the Royal 

 Agricultural, Bath and West, Royal Counties, and British Dairy 

 Farmers Shows, are valuable results of the movement. These tests 

 have done a great deal to stimulate the demacd for the breed, as 

 they have demonstrated its valuable dairy qualities and have proved 

 what is now universally recognised, that no breed gives milk so rich 

 or so suitable for making the highest quality of butter. 



A good idea of the average economic qualities of the breed will 

 be obtained from the milk yields given below, and from the results 

 of tests at the London Dairy Show set forth in the table at the end 

 of this section, p. 71. As showing what is possible with the best 

 animals the following results taken from a single herd are given. 



