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fat. They would not have one of the "scrawny Jerseys" in 

 their herd. But, my dear sirs, the Jersey makes herself 

 "scrawny" by putting a large proportion of the food given 

 her into the milk pail, insteacl of upon her back. Therefore 

 she is a better dairy cow. Not only does the Jersey cow do 

 this, but she converts a wonderfully large proportion of her 

 food into cream globules. Therefore she is exactly adapted 

 to the butter dairy. " But," says my friend who breeds short- 

 horns, "what is your cow worth when you are through milk- 

 ing her ?" The question is unimportant to the butter dairy- 

 man. If I can find a cow that, upon the same amount of 

 feed, will make annually fifty pounds of butter more than the 

 average will make, and if I milk her ten years, I will have 

 500 pounds of butter, worth $125, to compensate for the differ- 

 ence in the value of the carcass, which will not be more than 

 fifteen or twenty dollars. "But," says one, "will the Jersey 

 cow do this ?" I believe she will. It must be borne in mind 

 that the short-horn machine is much larger, as a rule, than 

 the Jersey machine; consequently much more food will be 

 required to overcome its friction, and much more food will be 

 consumed in a given time. Hence we do injustice to the Jer- 

 seys if we compare the product of a 700 pound Jersey with 

 the product of a 1,500 pound short-horn. Now, not having 

 been appointed to discuss this question, I am not prepared 

 to present figures; but any comparison instituted between 

 these two breeds should regard the food consumed and not 

 the number of animals Again, not only is the quantity of 

 the product of the little Jerseys remarkable, but in quality 

 it is superior to the butter product of the "beef breeds." 

 With the same feed and the same care, Jersey butter made 

 in January will be several shades better color than the prod- 

 uct of the short-horns or natives. In August, with the same 

 treatment, Jersey butter will be much firmer than butter made 

 from the milk of other breeds. The average Jersey cow will 

 give milk more days in the year than the average cow of any 

 other breed. A cow in my herd gave us five pounds and three 

 ounces of butter during four days in July, 1875. Five weeks 



