Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . from competent authorities,the Jersey standard of perfection—first, for the reason that any breedshould be judged by the standard of its breeders, and secondly, becausethese statements can only be found originally in the herd books, and likeauthoritative publications which are not accessible to the majority o/readers. XXIV.
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . from competent authorities,the Jersey standard of perfection—first, for the reason that any breedshould be judged by the standard of its breeders, and secondly, becausethese statements can only be found originally in the herd books, and likeauthoritative publications which are not accessible to the majority o/readers. XXIV. Prom a Practical Stand-point. From the practical stand-point of a person not a breeder of high-casteanimals, the writer has found that slight imperfections, in the make upof farm animals, do not militate against them unless they are intended as THE JERSEYS, ALDERNEYS AND GUERNSEYS. 6yy breeders of pure stock of the highest type. In fact, few animals of abreed attain perfection closely, and almost none absolutely, according tothe standard. As a milking cow, a Jersey or cow of other milking breedmight be of the best possible standard and yet fail essentially in someother important points. Such a cow would be just as valuable for theowe purpose of milk as tlje WELSH ox. This is a very fine breed of longhorn cattle. Their color is generally black, with occaBionally a fewwhite hairs in the coat. The docility of the breed is remarkable. When no bull is present, a strangermay go with perfect safety into the midst of any herd. The cows are very profitable as milkers andbutter-makers, yielding a net profit of $120 to $180 vet cow annually. So in any other particular the person, whether he be a breeder or simplya fancier, must study the characteristics and the points of an animal, andthen make up his mind whether in the one case it is worth the moneyasked for it, or in the other case whether it would be more profitable tosell rather than to keep. CHAPTER ^ED CATTL
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