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of these causes; certainly the reduction in pfoduct of at least 

 fifty per cent, is not an unreasonable calculation. 



Notwithstanding this, one of the cows belonging to the So- 

 ciety, four years old, has given from time to time, after calving, 

 fourteen quarts of strained milk per day, of the very richest 

 quality, upon good pasture, without any extra feed. A heifer 

 two years old, with her first calf, has given nine quarts per 

 day, of extraordinary richness, upon the same pasture. 



That the Jersey cow is decidedly a dairy cow, there can be 

 no doubt, and by a dairy cow I mean one expressly for the 

 making of butter; that the butter made from her milk will be 

 of finer flavor and richer color than any other, all who have 

 tried it will admit. For the milkman, perhaps, other cows 

 may be more profitable, as for their purposes quantity is more 

 desirable than quality ; but for farmers in the neighborhood of 

 large towns, where superior butter will always command a 

 very high price and ready sale, they must prove a very desira- 

 ble breed of cattle. 



This breed is, perhaps, more generally known as the Alder- 

 ney, which, however, is a mistake, as the animals were sent 

 more than seventy years ago from Jersey to Alderney, for the 

 express purpose of improving the breed of cattle in Alderney. 



It is very desirable that the stock now owned by the Society 

 should be increased, as fast as possible, and continued in a state 

 of purity, as the trouble and expense of getting them to this 

 country will prevent extensive importations. At the same 

 time the Society made their importation, other gentlemen, inter- 

 ested in the matter, made like importations of cows, and I 

 would recommend that for the present at least, one of the bulls 

 owned by the Society should be kept exclusively for the use of 

 pure blooded Jersey cows, with the express understanding that 

 all calves from this pure stock shall be raised, and a record 

 kept of every such calf. 



The other bull may be used for native cows, with the stipu- 

 lation that all heifer calves shall be raised, and the bull calves 

 killed : in this way we shall best increase the pure-blooded 

 stock, atid improve our native. 



The hpifer calf dropped by " Rrenda" July 9th, and which 



