50 A COUNTRY READER. 



beautifully-shaped and graceful cow, a cow that 

 gives a supply of milk rich in cream and of an 

 exquisite flavour. 



The Jersey cattle are like deer in appearance, 

 with limbs light, head fine and thoroughbred, 

 and muzzle light, with tongue, and roof of the 

 mouth black. Perhaps there is no breed of cattle 

 so much admired for grace and good looks as a 

 herd of pure-bred Jersey cattle. 



Owing to the care that the breeders of the 

 Jersey cattle have taken to keep this breed 

 free from mixture, the Jersey cattle are probably 

 the purest bred cattle in the world. 



The milk of the Jersey cow is specially rich 

 in making butter. Whereas it requires three 

 gallons of the ordinary milk to make one pound 

 of butter, it only requires two gallons of milk 

 of the Jersey cow to make one pound of butter, 

 and the butter that is made from this milk is 

 most delicious. 



As with the Ayrshire, so with the Jersey cow- 

 she will not fatten. So, if a Jersey cow from any 

 cause does not give a paying quantity of milk, 

 she is practically valueless, because she cannot be 

 turned into profitable beef. 



The Guernsey. In another of the Channel 

 Islands the breeders have bred the Guernsey 

 cow. This cow is larger in size than the Jersey 

 and fattens more readily. She also gives milk 



