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any way. She had only ordinary feed, winter and sum- 

 mer^ — good feed, of course, and systematically adminis- 

 tered, but nothing to so stimulate her secretion of cream 

 as to impair her subsequent usefulness. Surely a breed 

 to which such immense results are possible is wortliy of 

 our most fostering care, and we should jealously guard 

 against sacrificing this possibility for the sake of fancy- 

 color points. A herd of cows that would average five 

 hundred pounds each of Jersey butter a year might be 

 of all the hues of the rainbow without losing popu- 

 larity. 



" Mr. Motley also reports the following trial with the 

 same cow during the latter part of her previous milk- 

 ing: *I tried her milk, placed by itself for one week, 

 measuring the milk, and weighing the cream and butter. 

 February 3, 1853, 40 quarts milk gave 10 quarts cream, 

 weighing 25! lbs., and 7 lbs. butter. February 9, 38 i 

 quarts of milk gave 9^ quarts cream, weighing 23 lbs., 

 and ji lbs. butter — 5 quarts and i pint of buttermilk, 

 weighing 15 lbs. She calved on the 28th April follow- 

 ing, two months and nineteen days after the trial' 



"Mr. J. Milton Mackie writes, under date January 

 30, 1870: 'Having lately obtained a set of glass tubes 

 for testing the quality of milk, I have got results as fol- 

 lows: A two-year old heifer (dropped April 2, 1867), 

 which dropped her first calf June 11, 1869, showed 3 J 

 inches of cream on a column in a tube of 11 inches 

 (milk and cream together). This is 31*80 per cent, of 

 cream. The milk was poured from the pail as soon as 



