. Milk and its products : a treatise upon the nature and qualities of dairy milk and the manufacture of butter and cheese . Dairying; Milk; Dairy products. fig. 2. Jersey cow. —Jersey cattle, as the name indicates, orig- inated upon the Island of Jersey, which is the largest one of the Channel Island gronp, a group of about twenty small islands lying iu the English Channel, near the coast of France, but belonging, politically, to Great Britain. There is no doubt that the cattle originally upon the island came from the mainland of France. For more than one hundred years the people of t
. Milk and its products : a treatise upon the nature and qualities of dairy milk and the manufacture of butter and cheese . Dairying; Milk; Dairy products. fig. 2. Jersey cow. —Jersey cattle, as the name indicates, orig- inated upon the Island of Jersey, which is the largest one of the Channel Island gronp, a group of about twenty small islands lying iu the English Channel, near the coast of France, but belonging, politically, to Great Britain. There is no doubt that the cattle originally upon the island came from the mainland of France. For more than one hundred years the people of the of Jersey have absolutely prohibited the importation of live neat cattle from any other country, and the blood has therefore been maintained pure for more than one hundred years. Somewhat before the middle of the nineteenth century, dairying began to be an important farm industry upon the island, and the farmers began to give attention to the development of their cattle, both as to production and to form, and the develop- ment has been continuous ever since. Jersey cattle are charac- terized by small size, spare, angular forms and curved outlines, dished faces, crooked legs, and often rather crooked backs. They have a I'ather delicate, nervous organization, and, when carefully handled, are extremely docile and. Fig. :i. Jersey Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wing, Henry H. (Henry Hiram), 1859-1936. New York : Macmillan
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