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judgment of the author a lack of vitality in the young calves 

 and of good breeding qualities with the cows are the weak- 

 est points of this breed. 



Testing System. In 1884 the Jersey Cattle Club author- 

 ized seven-day butter tests. The first volume of these tests 

 was published in 1889. These tests cover seven days' time 

 and are made by the owner, who afterwards takes oath to the 

 correctness of the results reported. Cows producing 14 

 pounds or over of butter in seven days are admitted to this 

 registry, and such cows are afterwards spoken of as tested 

 cows, or said to be in the " 14 pound list." These early 

 private butter records, while probably in the main correct, 

 are not looked upon by the public with the same confidence 

 as are those made more recently under official supervision. 

 The highest among the private seven-day records is Princess 

 2d, who is credited with a production of 46 pounds of butter 

 in seven days from 299 pounds of milk. If this was normal 

 butter containing at least 82.5 per cent of fat, the milk must 

 have contained 13.7 per cent fat. Since the Babcock test 

 has been in use no cow has been found in this breed testing 

 much over 7 per cent when any quantity of milk is produced. 



In 1903 the Register of Merit was established and the rules 

 were changed to admit records made by using the Babcock 

 test. 



Bulls are entered in two classes. To be eligible to Class A 

 a bull must have a score of 80 points and have three daughters 

 from as many different dams in the Register of Merit. Bulls 

 are eligible to Class B without scoring when they have three 

 daughters entered. There are four classes of cows. To 

 be entered in Class AA a cow must : 



(a) Meet the requirements of milk and fat production. 



