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the winters are severe, in the milder Mississippi Valley, and in 

 the warm south and southwest. The Jersey is the most popular 

 and common of the dairy breeds in America. 



Organizations for promoting Jersey cattle have long existed in 

 America and on Jersey Island. The Royal Jersey Agricultural 

 Society, founded in 1833, assumed supervision of the breed on 

 the island, and in 1866 pubhshed the first island herdbook, since 

 which fifteen volumes have been issued to 1905. The American 

 Jersey Herdbook, published under the direction of the Associa- 

 tion of Breeders of Thoroughbred Neat Stock, with headquarters 

 in Massachusetts, was the first organization to promote Jersey 

 interests in America, and published six herdbooks, the last ap- 

 pearing in 1878. The Enghsh Jersey Cattle Society was organ- 

 ized in the seventies, and up to 1905 had published sixteen 

 volumes. The Maine State Pure Blood Jersey Cattle Associa- 

 tion, chartered in 1875, published its first herdbook in 1876 and 

 Vol. VIII in 1898. The American Jersey Cattle Club was organ- 

 ized in 1868, and in 1871 published its first volume, since which 

 time, up to January, 1906, some sixty volumes have been issued, 

 registering nearly 200,000 head. In 1903 the New Zealand Jersey 

 Cattle Breeders' Association published their first herdbook. 



