Excerpt from About Jersey Cattle: The Butter Breed In 1834 systematic efforts to improve the breed were begun in Jersey, by the Jersey Agricultural Society. A scale of points was drawn up to guide in the selection of animals for breeding purposes. The great and principal aim of the Island of Jersey breeders had always been a good yield of butter, and from the time mentioned above there has been, combined with this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.