3 14 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY . 
JERSEY CATTLE. , 
Read before the State Agricultural Convention, February, 1873. 
BY JUDGE GEO. E. BRYANT. 
At the request of your honorable secretary, and stimulated by 
the owner of one of the largest herds of horned cattle in central 
Wisconsin, w T ho felt, as he expressed in a letter to me, that “some 
one ought to talk about this breed, which among those who knew 
them, had so many friends, and which were only lied about by those 
who knew nothing about them,” I have prepared this paper. 
The breeders of Jersey (misnamed Alderney), have been 
grievously abused by your society. This may seem to you harsh 
language, but the truth must be spoken. • It is wrong for you to 
give to the “Short-Horn” a higher premium than you do to either 
or any other breed, and it is because your officers have been influ¬ 
enced by, or are breeders of these ponderous animals, that this has 
been done. Again you are wrongfully negligent in your selection 
of judges for these various breeds; you give one committee to 
Short-Horns, and one to all other breeds, and when judges remark 
that they know nothing of the qualifications of this breed, and 
that the more Durham and the less Jersey there is in them the better 
it suited them,” you. cannot help seeing that they are very poor 
men to be placed in that ring. A man may be a very good judge 
of Short-Horns and a very poor judge of Jerseys—and particularly 
so, when he takes pains to manifest his disgust and contempt for 
the breed; and here let me urge that you ought to give all breeds 
a fair show in the ring, or no show at all ; have a fair and competent 
committee, or none at all; a like premium, or none at all. I speak 
plain in this matter, Mr. President, not because I have any preju¬ 
dice against the ponderous Short-Horn, the beautiful Devon or 
the fast increasing in popularity and numbers, Ayrshires, but 
because I think you ought to mete out equal justice to all breed¬ 
ers in the ring. 
From the Island of Jersey, in the English Channel (and not 
from the state of the Camden and Amboy railroad company), 
