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fat. They would not have one of the “scrawny Jerseys” in 
their herd. But, iny dear sirs, the Jersey makes herself 9 
“scrawny” by putting a large proportion of the food given 
her into the milk pail, instead of upon her back. Therefore 
she is a better dairy cow. Not only does the Jersey cow do 
this, but she converts a wonderfully large proportion of her 
food into cream globules. Therefore she is exactly adapted 
to the butter dairy. “ But,” says my friend who breeds short¬ 
horns, “what is your cow worth when you are thiough milk¬ 
ing her?” The question is unimportant to the butter dairy¬ 
man. If I can lind a cow that, upon the same amount of 
feed, will make annually fifty pounds of butter more than the 
average will make, and if I milk her ten years, I will have 
500 pounds of butter, worth $125, to compensate for the differ¬ 
ence in the value of the carcass, which will not be more than 
fifteen or twenty dollars. “But,” says one, “will the Jersey 
cow do this ?” I believe she will. It must be borne in mind 
that the short-liorn machine is much larger, as a rule, than 
the Jersey machine; consequently much more food will be 
required to overcome its friction, and much more food will be 
consumed in a given time. Hence we do injustice to the Jer¬ 
seys if we compare the product of a 700 pound Jersey with 
the product of a 1,500 pound short-horn. Now, not having 
been appointed to discuss this question, I am not prepared 
to present figures; but any comparison instituted between 
these two breeds should regard the food consumed and not 
the number of animals Again, not only is the quantity of 
the product of the little Jerseys remarkable, but in quality 
it is superior to the butter product of the “beef breeds.” 
Witli the same feed and the same care, Jersey butter made 
in January will be several shades better color than the prod¬ 
uct of the short-horns or natives. In August, with the same 
treatment, Jersey butter will be much firmer than butter made 
from the milk of other breeds. The average Jersey cow will 
give milk more days in the year than the average cow of any 
other breed. A cow in my herd gave us five pounds and three 
ounces of butter during four days in July, 1875. Five weeks 
