334 CATTLE 



High Official Annual Milk Records of Jersey Cows 



milk ; Spermfield Owl's Eva 193934, from November, 1906, to 

 December, 19 16, produced 90,642 pounds of milk — an average 

 of 9065 pounds a year for ten consecutive years ; Pogis Irene 2d 

 146435 at eighteen years of age produced 9930 pounds of 

 milk ; Lucky Farce 298177 produced in one year (commencing a 

 yearling) 14,260 pounds of milk; Jacoba Irene 146443 in one 

 day produced 69.8 pounds of milk; Passport 219742 averaged 

 53.9 pounds daily for three hundred and sixty-five days. 



In the ninety-day test at the Columbian Exposition the 25 

 Jersey cows in the trial, including sick ones, averaged 33 pounds 

 of milk daily, while in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition test 

 25 cows during ninety days averaged 41.5 pounds of milk per 

 day. Up to May i, 19 19, there were in register of merit tests 

 1 1493 cows and heifers of various ages. Yearly records of nearly 

 7000 cows have averaged 7808 pounds of milk each. 



The Jersey as a milk-fat producer is justly famous. An impor- 

 tant feature in connection with Jersey milk is that the fat globules 

 are comparatively large and the cream rises or separates easily. 

 The value of Jersey milk for producing superior butter was 

 recognized over a century ago in England and first attracted 

 Dauncey to the breed. Many fine records have been made in 

 England and on the island of Jersey, but America has led in 

 the testing of this breed. In 1853 the first Jersey butter test 

 was made in this country, Thomas Motley of Massachusetts test- 

 ing the cow Flora 113, when, as a three-year-old, 14 pounds 



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