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trade generally cares to pay for. A small quantity, however, 

 added to the milk of the Holstein has a marked improving effect 

 in either cheese or market milk. The fact that the globules of 

 fat are one-nine-thousandth of an inch in diameter instead of 

 one-twelve-thousandth of an inch need not deter any one from 

 choosing such milk as an infant food. The percentage and total 

 quantity of fat fed a child is so much more important than the 



Fig. 28. — Sophie 19th of Hood Farm. 189,758. Long-distance champion Jersey cow, 

 completing her ninth official year's record with a production of 10,360.9 pounds of milk, 

 506 pounds fat. Holds nine-year record of 110,938 pounds milk, 6,354.6 pounds fat, equal 

 to 7,943.2 pounds or nearly four tons of butter. Bred, owned and tested by Hood Farm, 

 Lowell, Mass. 



size of the fat globule that the size may generally be neglected 

 entirely. ( See chapter on Ilolsteins for more of this. ) 



Introduction to America — Jersey and Guernsey cattle were 

 taken to England at an early date and there known as Alderney 

 cattle, since they had come from the Alderney or Channel group 

 of islands. As early as 1815 cows were imported from the 

 Island of Alderney, and in 1818, and again in 1825, animals of 

 this blood were brought to America, either from England or, less 

 likely, from the Islands. These animals were known as Alder- 



