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bull from the public should forfeit the premium ; the other 
was that all heifers having premiums adjudged to them 
should be kept on the Island until they shall have dropped 
their first calf. If previously sold for exportation, they 
shall forfeit the premium. 
296. History after 1850. — In 1853, the Society began 
to recognize the fact that it was unwise to ship out of the 
Island the best cattle, and urged the breeders against 
selling their best stock to be taken from the Island. In 
1862, the Society reports, ‘‘ To a very considerable extent, 
the business of the society is limited to the improvement 
of our insular race of cattle, which in itself is of the highest 
importance. We, therefore, wish to impress an observa- 
tion on those who study the improvement of their stock 
— beauty of symmetry alone cannot ever be the acme of 
perfection. The latter can be obtained only when good- 
ness and beauty are equally combined.” “‘ It is an estab- 
lished fact that the renown which the Jersey cow enjoys 
is attributable to the peculiar richness of its milk, as well 
as to its docility of temper and neatness of form. Now, 
as this richness is not so marked in some specimens as it 
is in others, it becomes advisable to make such selections 
in breeding as will ensure further amelioration in this 
most essential and highly important point.” 
Up to 1865, there appears to have been little attention 
paid to the quantity of milk which the Jersey gave. The 
quality of milk and the quantity of butter and beauty of 
form seem to have been the only points which the breeders 
had considered, up to that time. But, in that year, a 
committee of the Agricultural Society of Jersey urged 
that the Jersey breeder should pay greater attention to the 
milk-producing qualities of the cow, and that every cow 
with the least tendency to deficiency in quantity of milk 
