THE JERSEY 



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in butter fat made more valuable and better cheese than milk 

 inferior in butter fat. In the Exposition cheese test the following 

 records were secured in a fifteen-day test : 



This record clearly shows that Jersey milk holds a high place 

 in cheese production. It finds its most important use, however, 

 in butter-making or in the retail milk trade, comparatively little 

 being made into cheese. 



Jersey families of distinction are to-day divided into two 

 groups : those more especially of island breeding and those of 

 American breeding quite removed from recent island importation. 

 There are examples, however, in which there is essentially a 

 combination of blood lines from the two groups. There has also 

 been a tendency on the part of some to regard certain lines of 

 breeding as distinct families, although in fact these are more 

 strictly speaking subfamilies. These branch families are perhaps 

 justifiable, but special recognition is sometimes given which is 

 hardly worth while. Some person successfully promotes a line 

 of breeding and then gives a family title to the same, which 

 becomes adopted by common usage. However, the following 

 described families may be regarded as the more distinguished 

 of the many to which reference might be made. 



ISLAND-BRED FAMILIES 



The Golden Lad family descends from Sultane, P. 7 H. C., 

 but derives its name from the bull Golden Lad, P. 1242 H. C., 

 first-prize bull over the Island in 1890. Golden Lad was sired 

 by Sultane 's Favourite, P. 873 H. C. and had for dam Golden 

 Lass 4th, P. 2447 H. C., second prize on Jersey in 1888, a 

 granddaughter of Sultane, P. 7 H. C. and regarded as founder 

 of this family. Many of the most famous of the Island-bred 

 animals trace directly back to Golden Lad. 



