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Percentage of cream from the milk of the entire herd, for each week in the year 1882. 



Butter to a gallon of milk, and milk to a pound of butter, in comparison with its 

 cream percentage as shown by the year's testing. 



The proportion of butter to cream has varied during 1882 from 16J 

 to 18J ounces to a quart. 



Lord Braybrooke's figures are given as an example of an ordinary 

 English herd, which, although about the oldest in the Kingdom, is cer- 

 tainly not above mediocrity, although tlje yield is such as to make it 

 decidedly profitable. The best butter-making. cows in England are un- 

 doubtedly those which have about three-fourths Jersey blood and one- 

 fourth Ked Poll, Devon, or Shorthorn. 



Statistics of an Isle of Wight Jersey herd.hlr. J. E. Fisk, of Bright- 

 stone, Isle of Wight, who has kept Jerseys for a number of years, de- 

 clares his belief that they will produce a larger quantity and better 

 quality of butter than any other breed on the same amount of food. 

 He says : 



I have compared them with other breeds in the island and I am quite satisfied that 

 they are the best butter cows I know of, and not only as to butter, but they will 

 compare favorably with other cows in quantity of milk, and that of a richer quality. 

 Their constitution is not so delicate as is generally supposed. With fair manage- 

 ment the home-bred Jerseys are comparatively hardy, and this can be seen by the 

 general treatment of my herd. The colors of the animals are mostly whole co'lor 

 silver grey and fawn, some being broken. The breed which was originally im- 

 ported into the island was broken, and a whole-colored cow was seldom to be seen. 

 The cows are not housed in winter, but have a yard with an open shed, good straw OK 

 rough hay, and a run on the pasture in the day-time if the weather should be line. 

 As soon as they calvo I house them and feed them on hay and bran mash for several 

 days until they are quite safe over calving, and then they are fed with 6 pounds of 

 corn meal or cotton cake, 1 bushel of mangel-wurzel and hay, and a run on a fresh 

 pasture for an hour or two in the day if the weather should permit, until April or 

 May, when they lie out at night. I continue the meal or cake as long as the cow is 

 milked, and vary the quantity according to the feed tHey obtain on the pasture. 



