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when this Jersey iRland phenomenon is tlioroughly understood in all her parts, that 

 some ingenious Yankee will discover som'e method of gearing the tail of the cow 

 to her milking machinery, and that in turn to a DeLaval Cream Separator, with 

 a churn and butter-worker attachment, so that the youngest member of the family 

 can, by gently pumping the tail, supply us, on short notice, at the end of the but- 

 ter-worker, with all the fresh golden butter that we may want, even to forty pounds 

 per week. In which case the pumping quality of the tail may become a very im- 

 portant factor. I tell you, Mr. President and gentlemen, you don't know what a 

 jewel you possess in this Jersey cow. She is capable of almost anything. Why, 

 gentlemen, she is the standard of excellence for comparison, for all other milking 

 breed.*; of cattle, and all breeders are attempting to secure a cow that will equal her 

 in butter quality, but they have not been able to do it, and never will, as she occu- 

 pies a plane of excellence so far beyond and above them that they will never be 

 able to reach it; but should any of them perchance approach any ways near her, 

 all we have to do is to give her one more quart of feed, which will act as did the 

 peg on the head of the fabled enchanted horse, and off she goes, and the scales 

 are tipped at forty pounds in seven days. To the Jersey breeders, then, more than 

 to the breeders of any other strain of milking cattle, is due the fact that you must 

 demonstrate by actual test the butter ability of your cow before she has any stand, 

 ing. A few years ago it was thought a great feat for a horse to trot a mile inside 

 of three minutes, but what speed has been reached at this time! Maud S. has made 

 a record of 2:09|, and Jay-Eye-See 2:10. How was this accomplished? It was 

 found, by investigation of the breeding of the horses that made records of 2:30 and 

 under, that thirty-five of them were out of daughters of Seely's American Star, 

 fifteen of which were sired by Eysdyk's Hambletonian, of Messenger descent, eleven 

 by his sons, and two by his grandsons ; and that the daughters of Pilot, Jr , got 

 twenty horses in the 2:30 list, and that the best trotters out of the Pilot, Jr., mares. 

 were by direct male descent from Rysdyk's Hambletonian. And it was further 

 found that when the 2:20 test was applied to sires that had at least two sons or 

 daughters with records that were fast, the Hambletonians monopolized nearly 

 seventy five per cent, of the honors. From this is it not evident that these two fly- 

 ing wonders were not the result of accident, but, on the contrary, could only have 

 been produced by the judicious uniting of the best blood, as proven by actual tests 

 of speed ; and so in breeding Jersey cattle, is it not absolutely necessary that there 

 should be butter tests, coupled with a thorough knowledge of the ancestry, in order 

 that the best results may be accomplished? I think no one will deny this. Hence 

 I would add, in conclusion, that you, as breeders, owe to your fellow breeder the 

 duty of testing your cows and reporting the same, so that they as well as yourselves 

 may have the benefit of the knowledge to use in crossing and breeding. And should 

 you contribute only a dandelion to this garden of rare flowers, you will have done 

 your duty. As you remember that from the lovely though unpretentious pansy has 

 sprung some of the richest plants, and, perchance, some one will cut a flower here 

 and there, and couple it with some rare plant or shrub found sunning itself near 

 the warbling brook of his own meadow, and give to us a flower of such unsurpase- 

 ing worth and excellence that the best and rarest of to-day will seem common by 

 comparison. 



