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dressed out 59.4 per cent, compared with a Shorthorn which 

 dressed out 66.8 per cent. Of six breeds tested the Jersey made 

 the poorest showing. Three Jersey steers fed by two experiment 

 stations reported on by Henry in Feeds and Feeding, showed 

 an average daily gain for 1058 days of 1.36 pound per day, rank- 

 ing ninth among eleven breeds in daily gain, but standing last in 

 per cent of dressed weight. In a steer-feeding experiment con- 

 ducted by the Iowa station with nine breeds, the valuation placed 



Fig. 112. Figgis 76106. This remarkable Jersey cow, at 13 years of age, won 

 the grand championship of the breed at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 

 tion, 1904, in very strong competition; shown by Hood Farm, Lowell, 

 Mass. Figgis has a day's record of 50 pounds 7 ounces of milk, and 

 of 19 pounds 15 ounces butter in seven days. Photograph by the author 



on the Jersey carcass by Chicago experts was $4.50 a hundred, 

 the lowest of the nine, compared with $6.62^ for the Hereford. 

 Jersey families of distinction in America date back now almost 

 fifty years. Among these families the following ten may be 

 regarded as leading ones. Signal, descended from Pansy 8 ; 

 Co omassic, descended from Coomassie 1 1874 ; Eitrotas, descended 

 from Eurotas 2454 ; Tormentor, descended from Angela F. 1607 

 J.H.B. ; St. Lambert, descended from Stoke Pogis 1259 out of 



