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The Jersey Belle of Seituate, 
The most, famous living butter cow to-day is 
Jersey Belle of Seituate,” the property of Mr. C. 
O. Efims, of Seituate, Mass., dropped in 1871, and 
bred by Mr. E. D. Sohier. She is now nine years 
old, or will be on the 10th of next month (July). 
She is a beautiful cow of a rich-yellow-fawn color, 
within a year or two, so that unless this wonderful 
cow excels her own record, she will be forced to 
accept a second or even a lower place. 
Mr. Darling’s “ Eurotas ” yielded within an ounce 
a day of the highest weekly yield of “ Jersey Belle 
of Seituate ” during one tested week last year. This 
year s® far she has not done quite so well, but is 
making a high average. When the Ellms’ cow be- 
which was in the sixth generation. We have in the 
pedigree of this cow several instances of close in- 
breeding. Stated in the ordinary form, giving the 
dam’s line, it is as follows : “ Jersey Belle of Scitu- 
ate,” 7828, by “Victor,” 3550; dam, “Jennie,” 
7827, by “ Victor,” 3585; g. dam, “ Minnie," 7823. 
imported in 1860. “Jennie” and her famous daugh¬ 
ter were therefore by the same sire, while “ Vic- 
shading into a darker tint upon the head, diversified 
and mapped out with considerable white. She is 
above medium size, weighing 950 pounds when in 
Tier best condition, and really represents exactly 
such an animal in appearance, as well as character¬ 
istics, as may be, and frequently is, produced by the 
direct cross of the Guernsey and Jersey breeds. 
One of the best uses, by the way, to which inferior 
or unregistered animals of either Guernsey or Jersey 
blood can be put is to mingle their blood. Cross¬ 
breeds develop, with great uniformity, the excel¬ 
lencies of both of the parent breeds. In the case of 
“Jersey Belle of Seituate,” it is a question, which 
probably can never meet with a solution—how 
much of her rare qualities does she, or does she 
not, owe to a remote Guernsey cross ? Her butter 
Is of as rich a color, and very much the texture and 
degree of firmness (or rather lack of firmness when 
■compared with average Jersey butter) as the high¬ 
est colored Guernsey product, and this high color 
is held throughout the winter. The engraving we 
give is a faithful copy of an admirable photograph. 
The Ellms’ cow we have said is to-day the most 
famous butter cow living. We mean to intimate 
that she holds that position only until some rival 
shall be fully attested to yield more than 22 pounds 
13 ounces of butter in a week, or more than .705 
pounds in a year. Some cow will surely do this 
came famous she was unregistered, but believed to 
be perfectly pure. Many of her ancestry had been 
recorded in the American Jersey herd-book. Her 
dam, “Jennie,” 7827, was then unregistered; her 
granddam, imported “ Fannie,” 7823, was unregis¬ 
tered. So were her sire, “ Victor,” 3550—who was 
also the sire of “Jennie” above named—his sire 
tor’s” sire, “Pilot,” and dam, “Minnie,” were 
very closely bred, one being by “ Dick Swiveler,” 
and the other by “Dick Swiveler, Jr.;” besides, 
“Pilot’s” dam, “ Nellie,” was by “ Czar,” and her 
dam, “ Dove,” also by “ Czar,” and out of imported 
“Duchess,” 548, the dam of “Minnie” before 
mentioned. We give here the pedigree in full, im- 
Pilot, 3549. 
Dick Swiveler, jr. 
276 
Nellie, 7825. 
Minnie, 
7826 
C Dick Swiveler, 74. 
) Duchess, 548. 
[ Pilot, 3549. 
Victor, 
3550 
[Minnie, 7826. 
Fannie ,7823 
f Dick Swiveler, 74. 
( Twilight, 977. 
( Czar, 273. 
* Dove, 7824. 
(Major, 75. 
f Flora, 113. 
Dick Swiveler, jr. 
276 
Nellie, 7825.. 
Dick Swiveler, 74. 
Duchess, 548. 
,, . ' ( Colonel, 76_ 
Major, 75.j Countess, 114.. 
Flora, 113. 
( Czar, 273. 
) Duchess, 548. 
j Colonel, 76... 
i Countess, 114 
f Dick Swiveler, 74 
( Twilight,TCI . 
f Czar, 273.. 
^ Dove, 7824, 
(Major, 75.. 
| Flora, 113, 
Major, 75.. 
Flora, 113. 
( Czar. 273. 
( Duchess, 548. 
5 Colonel, 76... 
i Countess, 114 
5 Colonel, 76. 
( Countess, 114. 
“ Pilot,” 3549, and dam, “ Minnie,” 7826. “Pilot’s” 
dam also, “ Nellie,” 7825, and her dam, “ Dove,” 
7824, were neither of them registered. To secure 
therefore the registration of this one cow, it was 
necessary to register seven other animals, one of 
ported animals in italic. Breeders of cows in this 
country are putting in practice the lessons in close 
breeding thus forced upon them, and we mistake if 
within the next ten years greater progress will not be 
made in “ butter breeding ” than ever. There is, of 
