THE ISLAND OF JERSEY.
ITS PROFITABLE CATTLE. Undoubtedly the little Island of Jersey has been enriched by tho prpfit of its cows.(says an English paper). In modern days potato culture and fruit farming have helped, but it is the solid continual profit of the cattle that Has'iiiatle' the" island 'flchr"' Lord 'Birth has.,told us,that, so carefully do'the; tenfl' them there, and so' frugal are they of waste in trodden pastures, that they actually tether. : their; animals, and the children or indoor servants shift them at morn, noon, and night. Gentleness is their, cue, : tho calf is handled, and after a. very short dose of mother's milk has to bo content with skimmer.skillogalec,'.,,,»Siie.:is haltered and fed by hand, and becomes docile and -'gentle,'' and* whcn"*two 'years • old .'yields, I .' indoors, or out, her bucketfuj df'rich 'milk'.' '.' ■ .' '
The' farms are small; a beast, and more often two, to the:!aero' are kept: Then the farmer himself sees to his pasture' and his ■root crop for winter sustcnancoy The'orchards or grass lancUjaro welU tended.' A-good Jersey 'will''make' aYr'average'of? a'-pound' of butter every day' in tho" year.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1024, 13 January 1911, Page 10
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182THE ISLAND OF JERSEY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1024, 13 January 1911, Page 10
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