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was adopted to be used at the second annual fair held by Jersey 

 Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society. This is the first 

 record of the application of the score card system in judging. 

 The scale of points has been modified from time to time, but 

 has served well to bring about uniformity and refinement com- 

 bined with useful characteristics. 



The plan of registration on the island is unique. " Cows 

 are registered as pedigree stock and foundation stock; bulls as 

 pedigree stock only." Within twenty-four hours after a cow 

 drops a calf the owner must notify a representative of the 

 Department of Agriculture, who must satisfy himself that the 

 calf in question was actually born from the cow claimed by the 

 owner to be its mother. A certificate is then issued showing 

 the birth of the calf. This certificate, together with one from 

 the owner of the sire of the calf, is then filed with the secretary 

 or the registrar. This is called preliminary registration. Ex- 

 aminations are frequently held for the qualifications of these 

 registered cattle. If the young animals are growing into form 

 such as to indicate future high quality they are passed as " com- 

 mended " or " highly commended," and those commended ani- 

 mals are at two years of age entered in full registry under the 

 number and name by which they may be imported to America 

 and transferred to the American Jersey Cattle registry. Re- 

 jected animals may be entered in examination later and, if satis- 

 factory, be approved. 



In the case of males, the dam must be shown and her qual- 

 ities are taken together with those of the little bull, and he is 

 either rejected or passed, according to quality of both (Fig. 27). 

 An individual breeder is not compelled to use fully registered 

 sires, but the pressure has been so strong that most of them have 

 complied with the judgment of the committee of five; have dis- 

 posed of the rejected animals ; and bred to the approved. This 

 system has certainly developed a wonderfully uniform and 

 beautiful breed. On the island little attention was paid to 

 the making of butter records, further than one day tests at fairs, 

 until 1912, when milk and butter record keeping, very much as 

 the Registry of Merit in America, was instituted. 



