84 THE JERSEY 



ent types of pure bred, registered Jerseys on the market, the 

 crossing of which is liable to produce very unsymmetrical and 

 otherwise undesirable animals. Eelief from the situation can- 

 not well take place until the breeders settle upon seme type and 

 size as the goal toward which to select and breed. At present 

 some Jersey breeders contend for a small, beautiful animal and 

 others for a larger, less nervous, even though coarser, beast. This 

 inability to get together on the matter has prevented the extension 



Fig. 31. — A poor rump and fore udder but a good producer for all that. Rosalind of Old 

 Basing. 



of the Jersey to as wide a field as might otherwise have been 

 claimed by it. 



Testing System. — In 1884 the system of making seven-day 

 tests was inaugurated for the Jerseys. These were made in 

 private, and later oath was taken as to correctness. Mature 

 cows producing fourteen pounds or more of butter per week 

 were found and said, thereafter, to be in the fourteen-pound list. 

 These private records, like those reported for the Holstein cows 



