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was the dam of Signal ii/o, one of the most notable and 

 prepotent sires of the breed in the last quarter of the nineteenth 

 century. Cows of Signal breeding were greatly in favor and 

 especially notable for being producers of butter fat. 



The Coomassie family descends from Coomassie 1 1874, imported 

 in 1 88 1 by S. M. Burnham. Coomassie was the dam of Khedive, 

 P. 103, the sire of Princess 2d, with a so-called official test of 

 46 pounds 12I ounces of butter in seven days. Tormentor 3533 

 (imp.), one of "the greatest bulls of the breed, was a grandson of 



Coomassie, being sired 

 by Khedive. Many 

 persons have consid- 

 ered Coomassie the 

 greatest cow ever im- 

 ported from the island. 

 In 1885 L.S.Hardin 

 wrote 1 : "Her blood 

 has developed the 

 greatest individual 

 butter maker. Prin- 

 cess 2d, and thirty- 

 one animals with tests 

 of fourteen pounds 

 and over in direct de- 

 scent from her, with- 

 out the aid of any 

 special outcross." 

 The Eurotas family descends from Eurotas 2454, calved in 

 1874. This is also referred to as the Alphea family, for the 

 reason that Eurotas was a granddaughter of Alphea 171. Eurotas, 

 herself a remarkable dam, with a private record of 778 pounds 

 I ounce of butter in a year, was also dam of eight sons and two 

 daughters of exceptional merit. Her son Pedro 3187 will always 

 be regarded as one of the greatest sires of the breed, and through 

 him is a long list of unusual sons and daughters. In 1918 

 Mr. T. S. Cooper, long the owner of Pedro, wrote ^: "With 



1 The Jersey Cow. A pamphlet by the American Jersey Cattle Club. 

 '^Jersey Bulletin, March 27, 1918. 



Fig. 144. Eurotas 2454 (imp.), a Jersey cow 

 remarkable as a great dam and also as a producer 

 of milk. The mother of Pedro. She had a private 

 record of 778 pounds of churned butter in eleven 

 months five days. Owned by A. B. Darling. From 

 photograph by Schreiber 



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