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no one will question but what tliey are best for that purpose. 

 Then the lineage : we find the tribe of Jersey consists of many 

 families noted for their butter qualities, whose pedigrees can 

 be traced through many generations. As there were two bulls 

 belonging to George H, Hitchcock, of Qnincyj on exhibition of 

 the class mentioned, I will speak of them. They belonged 

 to the Rioter Alphea and Stoke Pogis families, noted for butter 

 productions. Oue versed in Jersey matters finds Mr. H.'s 

 bull Burgos', 11,054, (which is his number on the American 

 Jersey Cattle Club Herd Register,) sire was Black Prince of 

 Hanover, 2,878, whose sire was Rioter, 2d, 469. The last named 

 was the sire of Eurotas, 2,454, who made seven hundred and 

 seventy-eight pounds of butter in one year. Black Prince of 

 Hanover's dam was Leda, 799, who was the dam of Phaedra, 

 2,561, who made nineteen pounds of butter- in one week. 

 Black Prince of Hanover was the sire of Lonice, 13,656, and 

 Blossom of Hanover, 13,655, who made each seventeen pounds 

 and eight ounces of butter in one week, on grass. Leda's, 799, 

 sire was Jupiter, 93, and dam Europa, 176, the latter the dam 

 of Eurotas, 2,454. Europa's dam was the great Alphea, 171, 

 who made twenty-four pounds of batter in one week. We 

 could go on with a lengthy account of this family, but it is 

 unnecessary. We will just mention his other bull, who is of 

 the Stoke Pogis blood. His grand-dam Nora of St. Lambert, 

 12,962, when three years old made in one week, in Winter,, 

 fourteen pounds and seven ounces of butter. Her sire, Stoke 

 Pogis, 3il, 2,238, was the sire of Mary Ann of St. Lambert, 

 9,770, who made eight hundred and sixty-seven pounds of 

 butter in three hundred and forty days. He was the sire 

 of twenty-three noted butter cows, and the accounts of the 

 different branches of this family would fill manj' pages. There 

 are also other Jersey families of renown which space forbids- 

 us to mention. 



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