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Show MAKE-UP OF JERSEY CATTLE Breed Attracts Notice by "Dairy" Type of Their Bodily Conformation Conforma-tion Some of Characteristics. (By R. M. GOW.) The characteristics which mark the present race of Jersey cattle are known to have been notable and prominent prom-inent in the breed at least one hundred hun-dred and fifty years ago, so that now they have become thoroughly "fixed," sure to be inherited by their progeny, thus affording the breeder a sure foundation foun-dation for further development. The main external characteristics of the Jerseys are the beautiful softness of the various tints of fawn and gray in their coats of hair; their gracefully formed deer-like limbs; their neat, incurving in-curving horns, large limped eyes, small heads and delicate noses; their bright, attractive and intelligent faces; their soft yellow skin, long tails and Eurotas, 2454. Record for One Year, 778 Pounds of Butter. well-developed switches; their full, rounded-out udders, straight backs, and the fine proportions of their general gen-eral conformation. The Jersey cow looks the high-bred lady of the cattle race. Well-developed male animals should weight from 1400 pounds to 1800 pounds, and females, from 750 to 1200 pounds. Above all else, Jerseys .attract .at-tract notice by the "dairy" type of their bodily conformation, by their large and well-formed udders, and prominent milk-veins. In color they are of various shades of soft fawn, from red to silvery, with more or less white, broken color being unobjectionable unobjection-able except from the standpoint of individual in-dividual taste. |