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Report on the Cattle Exhibited at Windsor. 
The first public intimation of a desii'e on the part of English 
breeders of Jerseys to possess a national Herd-book of the breed 
occurred on the occasion of Mr. Simpson's sale at Wray Park, 
Reigate, in the spring of 1878, when the late Lord Chesham, 
speaking from the chair at the luncheon, proposed that breeders 
should unite to establish one. This suggestion was further 
considered at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show at Bristol 
in the same year, and at a meeting held on the show-ground the 
preliminaries were arranged. Mr. Thornton was invited to act 
as honorary treasurer and secretary, and consented to accept those 
offices in the interest of a committee of Jersey breeders, formed 
to bring out the Herd-book by private enterprise. The first 
volume was issued in March 1880, and contained, besides his- 
torical matter, the pedigrees of 973 bulls ; the second volume, 
March 1882, contains the pedigree^ of 850 cows and their 
produce, with additional bulls. Supplements were afterwards 
issued containing birth sheets and accounts of shows and public 
sales. In July 1883, an incorporated Society named the English 
Jersey Cattle Society was established, and by that Society the 
third and fourth volumes have been issued from Mr. Thornton's 
offices, the secretaryship of the new Society having naturally 
passed to Mr. Thornton. The fourth volume, dated October 
1888, brings up the number of registered bulls to 3009, and the 
cows and produce to the close of 1887. The list of members 
contains about 380 names. The Society has annually granted 
considerable sums of money in medals and money prizes and 
butter tests, thereby doing much to maintain the efficiency of 
the breed as dairy stock. Mr. Thornton, in his paper in the 
Journal, Vol. XVII. Part 1. p. 239, says that from 5 lbs. to 6 lbs. 
of butter per week throughout the year is a good average from 
one cow. 
The popularity of the breed may be gathered from the number 
of entries at the Society's Shows. Take, for instance, the 
Kilburn International Show ten years ago, when they numbered 
253 out of a total of 930 of all British breeds put together, 
the Shorthorns numbering 179, and the Sussex cattle standing 
third on the list with an aggregate of 95. Their number this 
year at Windsor was 434, out of a total of 1637 of all breeds 
of cattle. This large number was made up of 30 aged Bulls, 
34 two-year-old Bulls, 46 yearling Bulls (110 bulls of all ages), 
64 Cows calved in or before 1885, 40 three-year-old Cows and 
Heifers, 101 two-year-old Heifers and 119 yearling Heifers (324 
cows and heifers of all ages), thus giving 434 as the number of 
Jerseys entered. The Judges of the male and female sections 
severally have given the following very full reports : — 
