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of a light creamy or grayish shade. In registering Jerseys it is 

 necessary to specify whether the tongue is white or black, or the 

 switch white or black, these being identification marks. Where 

 color is made a point of importance in the breeding of a herd, a 

 dark fawn, shading to light along the backbone and the lower 

 limbs, meets with much favor, though solid colors of light fawn 

 also are very popular. The most experienced and able breeders do 

 not place primary emphasis on color, always making it secondary 



Fig. 107. Eminent 69631, imported by T. S. Cooper & Sons from the island 

 of Jersey. Sold at the Cooper auction in 1905 for $10,000, to George E. 

 Peer of New York, who soon after sold him to A. M. Bowman of Vir- 

 ginia for the reported price of $12,000. This bull is noted as a sire and 

 show animal. Photograph from Mr. Cooper 



to the more important features, color being a fancy point and 

 of no intrinsic value. In conformation the Jersey is lean and 

 muscular, the general outline representing the dairy type. The 

 head is lean, should be fairly short, broad between the eyes and 

 muzzle, with some dish of face, and with deep, strong lower jaw. 

 The horns vary in style, but those of the bull should be short 

 and strong, curving around forward and upward and slightly 

 inward, while those of the cow should be smaller and perhaps 

 longer, with more curve. A white or amber-colored horn with 



