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small island, which is only 12 miles long by 6 miles broad, and, what ia 

 most remarkable, it exports every year above 2,000 head of cattle. 



The Jersey cow is specially adapted for the dairy, yielding a quality 

 of milk so rich that no other can be compared to it. But the specialty 

 is butter, and in this it stands unrivaled for quality and profit. 



Description. The head should be small, slender, and lengthy from 

 the eye to nose ; the horns thin and open, not cramped or too curly ; 

 the eye full but not too prominent ; the ear lengthy and broad and well 

 friuged with hair; a broad muzzle should be avoided; the neck should 

 be long, flat, and narrow, with a tendency to rise at the withers, and 

 breadth behind the arm to allow of a full expansion of the lungs, the 

 chest being rather deep than broad. The flat-sided cow is more espe- 

 cially to be chosen as a milker; the hips should be wide, rugged, and 

 high, and the haunches wide and large, drooping toward the tail ; the 

 thigh long and lean from hip to hock, the veins being prominent and 

 easily felt ; the legs slender with flat bone and small, flat feet, the 

 hinder ones having good width between, to afford room for the udder ; 

 a long and thin tail is a great point in breeding. 



This is a general description of the breed, but the Jersey Agricultural 

 Society have a standard of points by which they judge an animal. 



Color. They are gray-fawn and white, yellow-fawn and white, gray- 

 dun and white, gray and white, silver-gray dun, cream-color fawn, &c. 



Age at maturity : Four to five years. 



How long bred pin\> : Five jiumlred years. 



Annual average jjounds of milk : Seven thousand. 



MUk to pounds of butter : Twenty pounds to 1 pound butter. 



Milk to pounds of cheese : None made. 



Product. 



Quantity. 



Meat pounds. 



Milk <lo... 



Cheese 



None. 



750 

 7,000 



Labor : Little or none. 



Method of housing : llonsod at uiglit and tethered by day. 



Feeding: Grass, timiins, &c. 



Breeding: Commence nt abont sixteen months. 



Grasses : Trefoil. Lurerue, clover, rye. 



The following are, some of the famous yields of Jerseys as published 

 by Mr. E. P. Fowler, of Southampton : 



Yield of I utter per week when in full flow. 



Cream test, 32 degrees. 



