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Milk and Its Products 



Fig. 2. Jersey cow. 



Jerseys. Jersey cattle, as the name indicates, orig- 

 inated upon the Island of Jersey, which is the largest 

 ^ _^ one of the Channel Island 



fi i^l^L rou P> a rou P f about 



Jf ,- twenty small islands lying 



l/jt*jHff!^& in the English Channel, 



^1 C^"^_^B near the coast of France, 



but belonging, politically, 

 to Great Britain. There is 

 no doubt that the cattle 

 originally upon the. island came from the mainland of 

 France. For more than one hundred years the people 

 of the Island of Jersey have absolutely prohibited 

 the importation of live neat cattle from any other 

 country, and the blood has therefore been maintained 

 pure for more than one hundred years. Somewhat 

 before the middle of the nineteenth century, dairying 

 began to be an important farm industry upon the 

 island, and the farmers began to give attention to the 

 development of their cattle, both as to production and 

 to form, and the develop- 

 ment has been continuous 

 ever since. 



Jersey cattle are charac- 

 terized by small size, spare, 

 angular forms and curved 

 outlines, dished faces, 

 crooked legs, and often 

 rather crooked backs. They 

 have a rather delicate, nervous organization, and, 

 when carefully handled, are extremely docile and 



Fig. 3. Jersey bull. 



