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ance of our climate. The trustees have found no reason to 

 question the correctness of the opinion entertained by many 

 eminent farmers, both here and in England, that the excellence 

 of this breed, in these very essential particulars, must render 

 its introduction an important service to our agriculture. They 

 feel assured that this society could not well render a more im- 

 portant service to the community than by bringing this opin- 

 ion to the test of a thorough experiment. 



Report of Mr. Motley. 



I beg leave to submit the following report in regard to the 

 breed of Jersey cattle. In making this report I shall speak of 

 the full-blood animals belonging to the society, and also the 

 full-blood and grade animals belonging to myself. They are 

 all in fine health and condition ; and I consider the fact fully 

 settled now, that they can bear our winters quite as well as 

 any other breed of cattle. I have raised calves dropped in 

 each winter month, and they have all done well without any 

 other shelter than a tight boarded barn, without clapboards or 

 shingles save on the roof. From an experiment made about 

 the middle of November last with a herd of thirteen cows for 

 one week, viz., — 



Nine full-blood Jersey cows and heifers from two to eight 



years old ; 

 One grade Durham cow thirteen years old ; 

 One three-fourths Ayrshire cow five years old ; 

 Two half-blood Jerseys two years old, — 



it gave the result of a pound of butter from seven quarts of 

 milk, on the following feed — about twenty pounds of hay and 

 one peck of carrots per day. From the above herd one cow 

 dropped a calf within thirty days after the trial, and the others 

 are to calve in May and June next. 



The quality of the milk is most excellent, and quantity very 

 fair, and they hold out longer, so far as I know, than any breed. 

 The butter made from the milk of Jersey cows will always 

 command the highest price, and is of a rich gold color and fine 

 flavor, even in winter. 



