. Elementary agriculture. Agriculture. CATTLE 23 early and may become a mother at between two and three years. So the dairyman does not have to feed her long* mitil she more than pays her way. This breed came, in the first place, from Jersey Island, in the English Channel. The island is only eleven miles long by five and a half wide, but it is very rich and productive; and the farms there are very small, sometimes not more than two or three acres. The principal industry is dairying, and the stock has been kept pure by forbidding foreign animals to be brouglit in. The milk is nearly all made in
. Elementary agriculture. Agriculture. CATTLE 23 early and may become a mother at between two and three years. So the dairyman does not have to feed her long* mitil she more than pays her way. This breed came, in the first place, from Jersey Island, in the English Channel. The island is only eleven miles long by five and a half wide, but it is very rich and productive; and the farms there are very small, sometimes not more than two or three acres. The principal industry is dairying, and the stock has been kept pure by forbidding foreign animals to be brouglit in. The milk is nearly all made into butter. The Guernseys. The Guernsey cows, like the Jer- seys, come from one of the islands by that name in the English Channel. They are somewhat larger. Fig. 14. A record coic ( 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 Nida, William Lewis. Chicago, A. Flanagan Company
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