Milk and its products; a treatise upon the nature and qualities of dairy milk and the manufacture of butter and cheese . ngin the English Channel,near the coast of France,but belonging, politically,to Great Britain. There is Fig. 2. Jersey cow. no doubt that the cattleoriginally upon the island came from the mainland ofFrance. For more than one hundred years the peopleof the Island of Jersey have absolutely prohibitedthe importation of live neat cattle from any othercountry, and the blood has therefore been maintainedpure for more than one hundred years. Somewhatbefore the middle of the ninete
Milk and its products; a treatise upon the nature and qualities of dairy milk and the manufacture of butter and cheese . ngin the English Channel,near the coast of France,but belonging, politically,to Great Britain. There is Fig. 2. Jersey cow. no doubt that the cattleoriginally upon the island came from the mainland ofFrance. For more than one hundred years the peopleof the Island of Jersey have absolutely prohibitedthe importation of live neat cattle from any othercountry, and the blood has therefore been maintainedpure for more than one hundred years. Somewhatbefore the middle of the nineteenth century, dairyingbegan to be an important farm industry upon theisland, and the farmers began to give attention to thedevelopment of their cattle, both as to production andto form, and the develop-ment has been continuousever since. Jersey cattle are charac-terized by small size, spare,angular forms and curvedoutlines, dished faces,crooked legs, and often n t ^ Fig. 3. Jersey bull, rather crooked backs. They have a rather delicate, nervous organization, and, when carefully handled, are extremely docile and. Jerseys and Guernseys 65 gentle, but they are easily disturbed by ill usage, audunder such unfavorable conditions, the males particu-larly, often become ill-tempered and color, they are fawn, shaded through the variousshades of gray to black, often more or less spottedwith white. The tips of the horns, muzzle, tongueand hoofs are black. In England and in the UnitedStates, Jersey cattle with no white markings havealways been favorites, and this has had a consider-able influence upon breeders upon the Island ofJersey, but there still remain a considerable propor-tion of animals more or less spotted with white. Jersey cattle yield moderate amounts of milk richin butter fat, the percentage of fat running ordi-narily from to 6 in cows in full flow of fat globules are also large and highly colored,giving the butter a very attractive appearance
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