THE JERSEY 



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This record clearly shows that Jersey milk holds a high place in 

 cheese production. This breed, however, finds its most important 

 use in butter making or in the retail milk trade, and comparatively 

 little of this milk is made into cheese. 



The Jersey in crossing or grading may be used to great advan- 

 tage, at least in the latter way. There are many high-grade 

 Jersey herds in the country that are very profitable producers of 

 butter and milk. If bulls of proper breeding and individual merit 

 are used on native cows, very superior dairy herds should result. 



Fig. hi. Silver Sheen 26210, a noted prize-winning Jersey cow of 1893 an< i 

 1894, shown by the late A. T. Dempsey, Columbus, Ohio. Silver Sheen 

 was the dam of Silverine Coomassie 55600, prominent as a sire and 

 show bull in the herd of J. E. Robbins of Indiana. Photograph from 

 Colonel Dempsey 



The Jersey as a beef producer is not worthy of serious con- 

 sideration. The meat is rich in quality and fine of grain, but is 

 too yellow in fat coloring to suit butchers. Jersey steers will 

 lay on flesh fairly well, but do not dress out well in slaughtering, 

 having more offal and internal fat than the distinctive beef 

 breeds. In a breed-feeding experiment for beef at the Michigan 

 Agricultural College the Jersey steer Roscoe at 1161 days 

 weighed 1490 pounds, showing a daily gain of 1.28 pound and 



