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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan 



JERSEY COW, FLOEA. 



Among the efforts made to introduce better 

 milch cows to our farms, both for milk and for dai- 

 ry purposes, tlic Mdeniey, or Jersey cows, have taken 

 quite a prominent place ; but their possession has 

 not become general ; a fow enterprising persons, 

 only, having purchased them, who can afford to ex- 

 periment, and lose, it' such should be the result, 

 without ha\ing the loss materially affect their other 

 operations. In many cases they have proved ex- 

 cellent, but not in all. 



Mr. Lawrence, in his general treatise on cattle, 

 gives as a general description of the cows, that 

 they are Ught red, yellow, dun, and fawn-colored ; 

 short, wild-horned, deer-necked, Avith a general re- 

 semblance to that animal ; thin, hard, and small- 

 honed ; irregular, and often very awkwardly shaped. 

 He thinks they are among the best milkers in the 

 world, as to quahty. He had been assured that an Al- 

 derney cow that had strayed from her owner, made 

 nineteen pounds of butter a week, each of the three 

 weeks she was kept by the finder ; and the foct 

 was held so extraordinary, as to be thought worth 

 a memorandum in the parish books. This product 

 however, has been equalled, «e believe, by some of 

 the common, or native cows of New England. The 

 reports in the transactions of our country agricultu- 

 ral societies have frequently shown a product of one 

 pound of butter, from /our quarts of milk. 



Before coming to a conclusion of their true value, 

 we think they must become more common on our 

 forms, so as more generally to learn their qualities. 



both for milk and beef, and their adaptation to our 

 climate, and pastures. In the meantime, we are 

 iiappy to cxjiress our obhgations to those who are 

 wilUng to breed and test them. 



The cow from which the above engra\'ing was 

 taken, is the property of Jonathan French, Esq., 

 of Roxbury, who has furnished us the subjoined 

 account of her. 



Flora, the Jersey cow, is four years old last Sep- 

 tember, and weighs nine hundred pounds. She 

 was imported, September, 1854, direct from the 

 Jersey Islands ; was then with calf, wliich was 

 dropped last March. 



The largest quantity of milk she has given in any 

 one day, was thirteen quarts. As much of the 

 milk as was required for the use of the family to 

 make up the deficiency of another cow, was reserved 

 and the balance made into butter, givuig, for sever- 

 al weeks, nine to len pounds ! After cahdng, she 

 was sick and did not produce the quantity, or qual- 

 ity of milk, wliich may be expected from her when 

 fullv acclimated. 



A Greenland Lady's Dress. — This consists of 

 seal-skin stockings with the fur next to the foot, 

 and of such length as to reach above the knee. 

 Over these is drawn a pair of seal-skin boots, with 

 the fur outside, so that the boots are in truth a 

 seal-skin of double thickness, with the fur outside 

 and inside too. The pantaloons are of seal-skin, 

 something in the form of old-fasliioned knee breech- 

 es. A jacket of seal-skin, fur inside, fits close to 

 the body. The outer habihment is a loose jurrah 



