Jerseys.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 203, 29 February 1896, Page 2

Jerseys.

The Jersey is the butter breed of the world par excellence, and its reputation in that respect has been jealously guarded by the farmers of the Channel Islands. The purity of the breed, which with them is synonymous with the production of plenty of butter milk ricii in butter fact, has been secured by as ingenious a system of registration as the world has ever seen. By it provision is made for the registration not merely of pedigree in the usual acceptation of the term, but aleo on pedigree founded on milking records. Space does not permit of a full explanation of the elaborate system which prevails in Jersey, but some adaptation of it i* urgently needed m connection with Ayrshires. If the Jersey is the butter dairy cow, the Ayrshire is most decidedly the cheese dairy cow, and every means should be taken for perfecting her in the production of sound milk. Efforts have been made in this direction from time to time, but something more definite and thorough is necessary than baa yeC seen .the light. We believe the question of adopting new regulations for the Ayrshire Herd- book is being discussed privately, and before long some scheme will, we trust, be placed before the public.—* Farming World