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yield of butter per 1000 Ibs. live weight was 189 Ibs. per annum,, 

 while that of the Jersey per 1000 Ibs. live weight was 290 Ibs. 



From the mixing of the milks is obtained more butter yield 

 than separately, and estimating the value of the butter at i s. 3 d. 

 per lb., it is shown that the addition of one Jersey to every five 

 Shorthorns causes the butter-making value of the mixed milk to be 

 increased 18,11 per cent. 



J. MACDONALD and J. SINCLAIR. History of Hereford cattle. - 



(London, 1909, rev, ed., pp. xvi-^oi, pis. 31). E. S.R., May 1910. 



A new edition of this well-known work, first published in 1886, 

 revised and enlarged to include an account of the recent develop- 

 ment of the breed. 



J. WILSON. The Evolution of a Breed of Cattle. (Aberdeen- Angus 

 Breed) (Mark Lane Express, 102 (1909), no 4068, p. 293) 

 E. S. R., XXI, Dec. 1909. 



This is an abstract of a paper read before the British Asso- 

 ciation at Winnipeg, 1900. 



The Aberdeen-Angus Breed is used to illustrate the fact that 

 nearly every breed of cattle is the result of crossing several breeds. 

 The races which may be considered as factors in the origin of 

 this breed are the Urus, the black Celtic brought to Britain before 

 the Urus became extinct in the Bronze Age, the brown race of 

 the Romans, and the hornless breed of the Norsemen. In the 

 eighteenth century many large Dutch-flecked cattle were taken to 

 the northeast of Scotland and crossed with the native stock, thereby 

 increasing the size. When in the middle of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury a demand for hornless cattle arose in England, the large 

 horned cattle were crossed with the Norse hornless, finally resulting 

 in the modern Aberdeen-Angus stock. 



ERNEST MATHEWS, ex-Pres. of the English Jersey Cattle Society. 

 Jersey Cattle. The Standard Cyclopedia of Modern Agri- 

 culture, vol. VII, Gresham Publ., London, 1910, p. 189. 



The cattle in the island of Jersey stand out from all other 

 breeds of cattle in two particulars i) that in purity of descent 

 they are facile princeps ; 2) that the milk yielded by the cows con- 



