Jersey Meaning

"The resilience of Jersey’s elite is not new (Jersey is perhaps the only place in Europe that had the same government before, during and after Nazi occupation) but it had never previously been described with such forensic force." — 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 3, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN:

"Who's gonna break the news that his lady's runnin loose Yeah it's gettin around I gotta tell him the truth But I don't wanna do it Don't wanna bring him down cause bein down with some Jersey clowns can almost drive you insane […] Tell the boys in the back you've got some room for Dan I'm sure he'd be grateful He's comin home today Who's gonna break the news that his lady's runnin loose Yeah it's gettin around I gotta tell him the truth But I don't wanna do it Don't wanna bring him down cause bein down with some Jersey clowns can almost drive you insane Bein down with some Jersey clowns can almost drive you insane Insane" — 2006, Josh Rouse, “Jersey Clowns”, in Subtítulo, performed by Josh Rouse:

"In illustrating this short article upon the Jersey cow I am happy in securing cuts of five typical Jersey cows of national reputation, each representing a different family of breeding and somewhat different type, but all of great merit, namely: Old Lady Mary, Old Jersey Bell of Scituate, Mary Ann of St. Lambert, Chroma (of St. Hellier breeding) and Bisson's Belle. These cuts give the reader a fair ideal of the well developed Jersey cow. In presenting some of the good qualities of the Jersey cow I would not be understood as presenting her as the only dairy cow. I simply maintain that she is a specially bred butter cow and that she produces butter of the best quality at the lowest cost of production. Her superiority in these regards was made apparent in the competitive test of dairy breeds at the great Columbian exposition at Chicago." — 1896, Homer W. Vail, “The Jersey Cow, the Butter Queen”, in Vermont State Board of Agriculture, edited by C.M. Winslow, Sixteenth Vermont Agricultural Report by the State Board of Agriculture for the Year 1896, Burlington, Vermont, USA: Free Press Association, page 29:

"STATEMENT. The herd of Jerseys herein catalogued has been collected by purchase since the summer of 1880. The animals were bought, with few exceptions, either upon the Island of Jersey or at public auction in this country. The exceptions are a few cows from the fine herd of the proprietor's father, Mr. F. C. Havemeyer, of Throgg's Neck, Westchester County, and a few purchased in dam. In establishing the herd, the object was to obtain one hundred cows of the highest possible excellence, judged by their milk and butter yield, their fitness for breeders (constitution), and their typical excellence as Jerseys, and neither time, pains, nor expense, which could reasonably contribute to this end, have been spared." — 1883, Theodore Augustus Havemeyer, The Mountainside Breeding-herd of Jersey Cattle, Mahwah, New Jersey, Vaux and Company: