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trade generally cares to pay for. A small quantity, however, 

 added to the milk of the liolstein has a marked improving effect 

 in either cheese or market milk. The fact that the globules of 

 fat are one-nine-thousandth of an inch in diameter instead of 

 one-twelve-thousandth of an inch need not deter any one from 

 choosing such milk as an infant food. The percentage and total 

 quantity of fat fed a child is so much more important than the 







Fig. 28. — Sophie 19th, of Hood Farm. The champion Jersey cow of the -world in 

 butter fat production. She produced in one year 17,557 pounds 12 ounces of milk which 

 contained 999 pounds 2.2 ounces of butter fat. Note deep body and well-balanced udder. 

 (Owned by C. I. Hood, Lowell, Mass.) 



size of the fat globule that the size may generally be neglected 

 entirely. ( See chajoter on Tlolsteins for more of this. ) 



Introduction to America — Jersey and Guernsey cattle were 

 taken to England at an early date and there known as Aldemey 

 cattle, since they had come from the Aldemey or Channel group 

 of islands. As early as 1815 cows were imported from the 

 Island of Aldemey, and in 1818, and again in 1825, animals of 

 this blood were brought to America, either from England or, less 

 likely, from the Islands. These animals were known as Alder- 



