What a Jersey Can Do.
: That jerseys are not the pretty play- ' things that some farmers suppose them to be has once more been demonstrated. At , the Bach and West show, at Taunton, one I cow, Mr C. C. Tadway's Alice, yielded 31b i of butter from a day'b milk in the Jersey Butter Test, or at the rate of 211 b a week. She is about five and a quarter years old, and had calved 65 days at the time of the trial. The weight of her milk was 391 b 6oz, which would measure about 30 pinta, r and the quantity required to make a ■ pound of butter was 13-121bs. or ten pints, s which is not more than a fair average i It requires twenty-four pints of pure milk i to make a pound of butter. Such a cow i as Alice must be highly profitable, small [ as a jersey's consumption of food is, and 1 the possibility of such an achievement as ' hers, which is not by any means unique, i shows what may be aimed at in breeding.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 117, 15 November 1895, Page 2
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