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give me taffy or something of that kind. He said, " I am not 

 joking. She is giving me thirty pounds of milk a day." I 

 considered that a compliment, because the gentleman was hand- 

 ling good cattle, extra good cattle, in fact I have been to his 

 place when his thirty odd cows, three months in milk, were 

 producing a pound and a half of butter a day average for the 

 whole herd. 



I wish I had been prepared on this subject and I would have 

 given you all you wauted of it. I would not like to quote all 

 the records of the Jersey cows, that would be impossible, but I 

 want to say this: I live in the northern part of the state, just 

 about as far north as you do ; in the southern part of Wisconsin 

 and in the northern part of this state, east of here, there are a 

 great many grade Jersey cows, a great many. These are scat- 

 tered in amongst the dairies; and I have a very large sprinkling 

 of acquaintance amongst western dairymen, and I fail to find the 

 first instance where a farmer has tried a Jersey cow and gone 

 back on her. 



I think I have told you nearly all I know about the Jersey. 



THE KERRY COW. 



(ANSWER TO A QUESTION.) 



These small, hardy and pretty animals are bred almost 

 exclusively by small farmers, living in the mountains and wild 

 glens of certain districts in Kerry, Ireland, and have to be pur- 

 chased with care, mostly in ones or twos. Pure Kerrys are 

 limited in number, but they are now being bred with more care, 

 as the farmer finds that they fetch so much more than ordinary 

 stock. The most approved color is black, sometimes with a 

 little white, especially about the udder. One good point about 

 the Kerry is its comparative freedom from the fatal disease 

 known as the dropping after calving. With a very extensive 

 experience of the breed, Mr. Barker, of St. Ann's Hill, does 

 not remember a single case, although he has suffered serious 

 loss in this way with Jerseys and other varieties. While on the 



