Jerseys

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5963, 24 July 1912, Page 1

Jerseys

(By Professor Sheldon, in Dairying. | Under tho fostering inlluenco of a gtnial clinjute a fertile soil, kind and genorous Iruutment u ud a jealous watchfulness as to purity oi blood, tho Jersey cow lias ripened into what she is : A small gentle, and exceedwinning iaiiiwjul, famous alike for meekness and tor milk, (or butler and for beauty ! The uncommon richness of tholmilk »ho gives, and ilm quantity and quality oi the butler it will yield, u re characteristics acquired by careful breeding through a lung period of time, Butter made from her milk has a higher colour than Unit from the milk rf, perhaps, any other breed, and it has also the. merit oi offing more easily worked and of being iiriner and more wax lik e in , texture. Tlta cream globules are larger in size, and this accounts for the cream moving s e freely - upwards through the milk ; the envelope oi casein—if such it b'--seems thinner, j and to this may be ascribed the J case with which the butter comes out of tho cream in churning; while the t unusual firmness, richness aM <] p |.iv o iir of the butter are due to qualities not yet determined. The cream glolii ules of milk differ in size in the milk of different broods. '.I he globules in Ayroshiro milk are intermediate beI Uvoen those of Dutch and ,ler.-.ev, and i tho following iigures iUiistiate ihe difference between those in Jersey and | iL. Ayrcshiru nulk : Jersey—Average size, l-rVJJLiiuI () i an j inch. I Ayreshire—Average live, I'•JlsUtl, of | an inch. , The Koyal Agricultural and llorliI cultural Society of Jersey, which u U s , eslablished in 1833, Ims'taken a ii ac- ' tivo part in improving the .1e 1: ,..y breed. Shows were Vgun in |s;ii, and prizes -vt-o awarded for pedigree | and upon a fixed scale of points. In 1t66 a Herd Book was (minded u s a result of the efforts oi Mr Charles I'. I* Cornu. Mr John Thornton, who was insmnu'iiUl ii, iorminir the I'.nglish Jersey Cattle Society, has writton the fullest history „[ the breed under the title '•Jersey Cattle ami their Management," originally roii'in •jletl to tho journal of the Royal Agricultural Society 0 i KnMand (1S81). As regards the hlnnd'llerd [look, commenced in lSlifi, he siavs : " Mr Cornu foresaw the necessity ~f some further classifications!' the animals in a show where upwards ' of '•MO were exhibited. His principle w ,s fo sift, as it were, the lar.r,. ~-.,ther rags into 'hreo classes ;"by"lii.dilv commending the best for their ,|unlitv, symmetry un d their constitution and their butyraoeous 0 r millHlowimr properties, commending i 1,.. serond l*sl, and rcicctineV Ihe'VcmaiTider ,„• third-class, and bv examining ' . ln d r3gisterirjg the approved otl's|)rinu', |, r hoped in time to root out the bad animals, so that with six or seven

registered crosses tile animal-, might be bred moi-u lo 11 certainly.