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Perhaps the most remarkable test up to 191 8 was that of the 

 three-year-old-cow Vive La France 3 196 16, owned in Oregon, 

 that produced 12,744.8 pounds of milk in three hundred and 

 sixty-five days, testing 892.63 pounds fat. Sophie 19th of Hood 

 Farm occupies the greatest place of distinction among Jersey 

 cows as a long-distance performer, for in eight periods of 

 lactation up to 1919 she has produced a total of 5787 pounds of 



fat, or more than three 

 tons of estimated butter. 

 About January I, 19 16, 

 Secretary Gow of the 

 American Jersey Cattle 

 Club stated 1 that the 

 average per cent of fat 

 in the milk of 4295 

 official annual tests was 

 5.34 per cent, which is 

 probably slightly higher 

 than would prevail un- 

 der average conditions, 

 when tests were not con- 

 ducted. In reporting on 

 the results of tests in 

 age classes Mr. Gow 

 stated that 1528 two- 

 year-old cows averaged 

 352.75 pounds fat, 769 

 three-year-olds averaged 396.10 pounds fat, 539 four-year-olds 

 averaged 448.80 pounds fat, and 1461 cows five years old aver- 

 aged 479.40 pounds fat. These records are extremely creditable 

 to the breed and give ample evidence of the capacity of the 

 Jersey as a producer. 



Jersey milk in cheese production is used to but a limited 

 degree. At one time it was thought that milk of average butter- 

 fat content made a better cheese than that of richer quality. 

 However, the investigations in the working dairy at the \\'orld's 

 Columbian Exposition at Chicago demonstrated that milk rich 



1 Hoard's Dairyman, December 24, 1915. 



Fig. 142. Agatha's Oxford Noble, P. 4S50 H. C. 

 First-prize bull over Jersey bulls from tested dams, 

 191 2. Owner, J. H. Perree, Oaklands, island of Jer- 

 sey. From photograph by the author 



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