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AMERICAN CATTLE. 



Our portrait of the bull much resembles that of the cow, but 

 showing an arched neck, and the more masculine appearance 

 common to his sex. 



Plate 18. Alderney Bull. 



The chief foreign writer on Alderney cattle, is Mr. Le Couteur, 

 a native, and, if living, a resident on one of the Channel Islands. 

 They are the cattle of those Islands ; kept and bred with scrupu- 

 lous care to their purity of blood, and the preservation of their 

 distinctive qualities. The people of the Islands have laws regu- 

 lating the introduction of foreign cattle among them, and the 

 exportation of their natives abroad. It is estimated that upwards 

 of four thousand cattle of the pure breed are annually exported 

 from the Channel Islands. 



Their mode of keeping them is quite systematic, and their feed 

 somewhat peculiar. Parsnips, of which the Islands yield great 

 quantities, are much fed to them in winter and spring, as thev 

 are thought to promote, in a high degree, their flow of milk and 



