22 THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW. 



Jersey, contributed to the Royal Agricultural Society of 

 England an essay on "The Jersey, misnamed Alderney, 

 Cow," which is here copied, nearly entire, from the 

 Society's Journal, vol. v., p. 43 : 



"The breed of cattle familiarly known throughout 

 Great Britain as the Alderney, and correctly termed, in 

 the article ' Cattle,' of the ' Library of Useful Know- 

 ledge,' * the crumpled horned,' was originally Norman, 

 it is conceived, as cows very similar to them in form 

 and color are to be seen in various parts of Normandy 

 and Brittany also ; but the difference in their milking 

 and creaming qualities is really astonishing, the Jersey 

 cow producing nearly double the quantity of butter. 



" The race is miscalled ' Alderney ' as far as Jersey is 

 In question ; for, about seventy years since, Mr. Du- 

 maresq, of St. Peter's, afterwards the chief magistrate, 

 sent some of the best Jersey cows to his father-in-law, 

 the then proprietor of Alderney ; so that the Jersey 

 was, already at that period, an improved and superior 

 to the Alderney race. It has since been vastly 

 amended in form, and generally so in various qualities, 

 though the best of those recorded at that period gave 

 as much milk and butter as the best may do now. 



" Ten years have elapsed since the attempt was first 

 made by fixed rules to improve the form and quality of 

 the Jersey cow. A few gentlemen, presided over by 

 the then Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General Thorn- 

 ton, selected two beautiful cows, with the best qualities, 

 as models. One of these was held to be perfect In her 



