128 JERSEYS. 



COWS. BULLS. 



2 Head 2 



i Eyes i 



8 Neck 8 



i Back i 



6 Loin 6 



10 Barrel 10 



10 Hips and Rump . . . 10 



2 Legs 2 



i Tail i 



5 . . Skin 5 



13 Fore Udder 



ii ... Hind Udder 



10 Teats 10 



5 Milk Veins 



5 Disposition 5 



10 General Appearance and Constitution . 10 



Progeny (for Bulls when exhibited in a 



separate class with their progeny) . . 29 



ioo Perfection 100 



In judging heifers, use same scale as for cows, omitting numbers 

 n, 12 and 14. 



CHARACTERISTICS. 



As indicated above, the all-absorbing trait of the Jersey cow is the 

 uniform richness of her milk in butter content ; the globules are large, 

 causing the cream to separate easily and quickly from the body of the 

 milk ; and the butter produced from it is usually more highly colored, 

 under the same conditions as to food and care, than that of any other 

 breed except, perhaps, Guernseys. In size the Jersey ranks with the 

 small breeds, mature bulls weighing from 1,000 to 1,300 Ibs., cows from 

 650 to 950 Ibs. 



As a family cow to supply cream or butter, or both, for the home 

 table, the Jersey has no superior. For the butter dairy, as a special- 

 purpose cow, she is also excellent, if not queen. 



Landseer's Fancy made 936 Ibs. 14^ dzs. in one year ; Massena 

 made 902 Ibs. 3 ozs.; Matilda, 4th, made 927 Ibs. 8^ ozs. ; more recently 

 Bisson's Belle, 31144 owned by Maury Jersey Farm, Columbia, Tenn. 

 made 1,028 Ibs. 15 ^ ozs. butter in one year, from a yield of 8,412 

 Ibs. 7 ozs. of milk ; and still more recently, and heading the Jersey list 

 for butter yield in 365 successive days, comes Signal's Lily Flagg, 31035 

 owned by Matthews and Moore, Huntsville, Alabama with a year's 

 record of 1,047 Ibs. o^ oz. butter from a yield of 11,339 Ibs. milk. 



These records are phenomenal, of course, and represent high feed- 

 ing and still higher care, but none the less are they important as show- 

 ing the recognized butter value of the Jersey breed. The yield of 

 Bisson's Belle is really most remarkable on account of the small yield of 

 milk reported as producing such an enormous yield of butter. A simple 

 operation in long division shows that it took, in round numbers, a trifle 

 less than 8^ Ibs. (about a gallon) of her milk on an average throughout 



