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[Entered nocordiuK to Act of ComrreBa.lE t.bo year 1881. by the Karat New-Yorker, in the office of the librarian of Congress at, Washington.] 
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OUR ANIMAL PORTRAITS. 
A Herd of Jersey Cattle. 
We have mncli pleasure iu presenting our 
readers with a fine picture of a group of Jersey 
cattle. All the animals represented, except the 
one on the left, belong to Mr Simpson of Wray 
Park, Reigate. who had the group photo¬ 
graphed. “Prince Albert Victor” occupies 
the elevated position; ••Her Majesty" is in 
the background on the right; " Alice Gray” is 
next and faces front; “Luna’ is in the fore¬ 
ground ; “Jersey Lily" on her right, and 
“Young Panzy " oorurdes the extreme^ left. 
writer says, “ the milk of the latter usually 
yields a larger percentage of butter, and that 
of a better quality than the milk of any other 
breed." Does he forget the Guernsey, or is he 
not acquainted with itB merits ? I am informed 
by those who have kepi both breeds for years 
side by side, and on the same food, that the 
Guernsey generally surpasses the average Jer¬ 
sey in richness of milk, and high color for 
butter, especially in the Winter. Single indi¬ 
viduals equal each other often, but the general 
average in in favor of the Guernsey. She also 
possesses another advantage over the Jersey— 
when dried off, she fattens, more easily and 
rapidly, and makes a better quality of beef. 
As to abortion, the writer docs Dot state one 
thine which I lrvve found vantageons in all 
rule, it has a chance to get well, and the fe¬ 
male, kept back a proper time, never again 
aborted with me, but bred regularly a strong, 
healthy, thrifty offspring, as long as I wished 
her to keep breeding. ». 
STOCK ITEMS. 
Ponies in Gkeat Britain.—Wo fiud a list 
of no less than six different breeds of ponies 
in England, varying iu bight from the size of a 
good Newfoundland or St. Bernard dog, say 80 
inches, (7j hands) up to one of 58 inches 14J 
hands. Anything above the latter we believe 
does not come under the head of Pony. The 
various breeds named are the Shetland, the 
W elf-h, the New Potest, the Exmoor, the Dart- 
else. Moreover, the ponies are so hardy, they 
can usually shift for themselves without care. 
Winter as well as Summer. These ponies orig¬ 
inally are generally rather coarse in their 
points, bnt good travelers and workers, and 
very enduring. The late Prince Albert, we 
have been told, was the means of considerably 
improving the ponies in some of the districts 
of the south of England, by sending down from 
hia stables in London tine, compact, Arabian 
stallions to serve the mares. 
In some of the Indian territories of America, 
as far north as Canada, down south to Florida 
and Texas, large herds of ponies are grown 
up wild. Those in Canada subsist in the 
Winter, chiefly like the deer and moose, on 
browse, moss and even to some extent, we are 
A HERD 
O.E JERSEY CATTLE.—Suggested to our Artist by a Colored Plate in Sheldon’s Dairy Farming. F-ig. 106. 
Doubtless all admirers of the famous Jerseys 
will take pleasure in examining our artist’s 
faithful representation of their favorites. 
JERSEY AND 
GUERNSEY 
TION. 
COWS.—ABOR- 
In replying to a correspondent, page 71, about 
the quality of Holstein and Jersey milk, the 
kinds of domestic animals, and that is. not to 
permit the aborter to take, or even go near the 
male for at least three months, and it is some¬ 
times better that the time should extend to six, 
nine, or even twelve months. After abortion j 
the womb is iu a feverish aud unhealthy state 
for sometime, and totally unfit for a strong, 
healthy conception. By following the above 
moor, and the YorksMremoor. These are all 
tough, serviceable animals, and quite as useful 
as the larger eoi ts of horses for various pur¬ 
poses. 
The advantage of breeding ponies, which is 
done iu large numbers in Great Britain, is, 
that they can be reared on waste, lands of so 
poor a soil, that they are able to sustain little 
told, on lichen, when hard put to it for waut 
of other sustenance, or to vary their fodder. 
English Imtoutation of Wool —From 
foreign countries and its own colonies, the 
chief of which is Australia, England import¬ 
ed in 1878, 395.461.286 pounds of wool; 
1879,411,106,627 pounds of wool; 1880, 460. 
