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states. In Ohio there is the Ohio Jersey Cattle Club, with about 

 218 members in 191 7, and in addition ten local clubs scattered 

 over the state. Wisconsin has twenty local Jersey clubs. 



Polled Jersey cattle have been bred in America for many years, 

 and in 1895 the American Polled Jersey Cattle Company was 

 incorporated at Springfield, Ohio. In 19 19, at the annual meeting 

 of the company, the name was changed to the American Polled 

 Jersey Cattle Club. Originally polled Jerseys are supposed to 

 trace back to a polled cow of unknown breeding named Funston, 

 calved about 1880 and the foundation of the polled type. Later 

 pure-bred polled Jerseys were found, so that to-day most if not 

 all of the cattle found in the polled register are hornless and 

 meet all the requirements of the breed except the horns. About 

 twelve hundred polled Jerseys have been registered, but no polled 

 herdbook has been thus far published. Some very excellent cattle 

 of this class have been bred, but polled Jerseys have not met 

 with much public favor. 



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