WHAT A JERSEY CAN DO.
That Jerseys are not the pretty playthings that some farmers suppose them to be has been once more demonstrated. At‘the Bath and West; shot;*', at Taunton, one cow, Mr C.C.'Tadway’s Alice,yielded 31b of butter from a days milk in the Jersey Butter Test, or at rate of 211 b a week. She is about five and a quarter years old, and had calved sixty-five days at the time of the trial. The weight of her milk was 391 b 6oz, which would measure about thirty pints, and the quantity required to make a pound of butter 13.121 b, or ten pints, which is not more than half a fair average.’ It requires• twenty-four pints of pure milk to make a pound of butter. Such a cow as Alice must be highly Profitable, as a Jersey’s consump.ion of food is, and the possibillity of such an achievememt as hers, which is not by any means unique shows what may be aimed at in breeding.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1785, 6 November 1895, Page 2
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168WHAT A JERSEY CAN DO. Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1785, 6 November 1895, Page 2
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