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dairy purposes, a few years since told us that he sent much of 

 his butter to private families in Boston, where he obtained about 

 double the price of good common butter, and that one-half or 

 even less of Alderney milk, mixed with that of the common cow, 

 gave it a color nearly equal to that of the pure breed. "We have 

 had like accounts from others who kept them. 



Alderneys were occasionally imported into America as early 

 as fifty years ago, and in considerable numbers within the last 

 twenty years. The late Mr. John A. Taintor, of Hartford, 

 Conn., was probably the largest importer, having brought in a 

 good many about the year 1850, and later, from which he bred 

 and sold many choice cows and bulls. Other importations have 

 been made into New York, by the late Mr. Roswell L. Colt, of 

 Paterson, New Jersey, and by others into Boston, Mass., Con- 

 necticut, and Philadelphia. They are now considerably kept in 

 various parts of the New England States, New York, New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and a few of the States further 

 south, and west. They are favorites where well known, are 

 increasing in numbers, and bear good prices from $150 to $300 

 each, for cows, depending on appearance and quality. Natives 

 of a milder climate than ours, they are more delicate in constitu- 

 tion, and require good shelter and food. They will not rough it 

 so well as our common cows, or some of the English breeds ; but 

 they well repay all the care given them, and should not be neg- 

 lected. John Lawrence, an English writer, quoted by Youatt, 

 gives an account of an Alderney cow, which made nineteen 

 pounds of butter each week, for three successive weeks, "and 

 the fact was so extraordinary, as to be thought worthy of a 

 memorandum in the parish books." Extraordinary, most truly, 

 for a cow of any breed. 



There is no necessity for telling a story of large quantities of 

 either milk or butter being produced by an Alderney. They are 

 not made for great yields of anything. 



