THE FAMOUS JERSEY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 472, 8 June 1912, Page 7

THE FAMOUS JERSEY.

Some indication of the esteem in which this breed is held is the growing demand for anything with Jersey strain. Rightly, those who keep cows esteem the qualities of the purebred animal and such is the potency of the blood that for several generations a strain of Jersey will mark itself unmistakably by, firstly, indication oc superior brain power, secondly by the richness of the milk yield. A story indicative of the intelligence of the Jersey is told. A number of animals were turned out in rough country during a recent very bad winter; there were eight Shorthorns, six Polled Angus, six Hereford and nine halfbred erseys In the spring only five Shorthorn could be mustered fallen over a cliff, 1 had got jammed between logs and starved, 3 Polled Angus were missing and 4 Hereford could not be found, while only one of the Jerseys was hurt and that one limped through having, apparently, got its foot jammed between logs and having dragged it away. All the beasts were in very low condition, but the Jersey had come through best of all. Those who rear this breed can testify to the ease with which a Jersey can be trained, and later taught to lead either on foot or horseback, compared with a calf of any other breed. The matter of the high butter fat test and the quality of the milk yield is beyond question—and compared with the weight of food consumed the Jersey is incomparably superior to any other breed of cattle. In other words the return per head off, say, the grazing of 50 acres will be very much greater with Jerseys than with any other breed.