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Show HARDINESS OF JERSEY COW She Has Shown Her Ability to Adapt Herself to All Conditions, Climatic Cli-matic and Otherwise. A criticism often directed against the Jersey breed is that the animals are not hardy enough to stand severe weather. Possibly such criticism has as Its basis the fact that the climate of Jersey Jer-sey island, the birthplace of the 1 breed, is rather mild. But the criticism criti-cism has no basis; in fact, Eminent's ""-Bess, ""-Bess, one of the world's most famous cows, was bred, raised and made her Set Purebred Jersey. great record in the severe climate of the Michigan peninsula, and Passport, a Pennsylvania Jersey, which has just broken the milk record of the breed, lived while on test in an open shed during dur-ing a winter when the thermometer at several times registered 30 degrees below be-low zero. Wherever the Jersey cow has gone she has shown her ability to adapt herself her-self readily to all conditions, climatic and otherwise. |