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recommended that one superior breeding animal be kept in each 
parish ; and in 1838 it enacted several rules which were useful in 
the development of the Jersey breed. 
178. Inspection of Jersey cattle. —On the Island of Jersey 
the high standing of the breed is preserved by a system of inspec- 
Fic. 46.— The Jersey cow ‘* Tormentor’s Lass.’’ Dairy type. 
tion which is made a conditional precedent to registration. The 
following are the necessary conditions to registration : — 
(1) Every animal must be inspected by competent judges, and 
if it is considered fit, it obtains a qualification, namely, com- 
mended 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 
