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should be weeded out, and suggested that the judges 
especially consider this in awarding prizes. It will be 
seen, therefore, that the Jersey has been bred for quantity 
of milk for only about forty years. It was in the seventies 
that it became the fashion, both in England and America, 
to select solid-colored Jerseys with black points, and for 
some time this color craze had a detrimental influence on 
the breed. But it appears that the Agricultural Society 
of Jersey, ever watchful of the future interests of the breed, 
condemned this color craze, and, in 1873, it reports, “‘ Let 
henceforth such fanciful ideas as black tails and black 
tongues be estimated at their proper value, but let the 
large and rich yield of milk be ever the breeder’s ambition 
to procure.” 
The Jersey herd-book was started in 1866, and it has 
undoubtedly had a marked influence on the improvement 
of the cattle in the Island. In America or in England, an 
animal may be registered as soon as born, if its sire and 
dam are registered, or are capable of being registered. 
On the Island, however, inspection is made a conditional 
precedent to registering. The following are necessary con- 
ditions to registration : 
(1) Every animal must be inspected by competent 
judges, and, if it 1s considered fit, it obtains a qualifica- 
tion, namely, commended or highly commended. 
(2) Every bull submitted for qualification must be 
accompanied by his dam, in order that the merits of the 
latter may be taken into consideration in awarding a 
commendation to the former. 
(3) No heifer, although she may be descended from 
registered parents, can be entered in the herd-book until 
she has had a calf, and if at the time of her examination 
she is a poor milker, she receives no commendation. 
