THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW. 4 1 



have been bred here for several generations with those 

 that have been recently imported. It sometimes seems 

 that the best stock must have already been cleared out 

 from the Island of Jersey. Some herds, said to have 

 been selected with great care and at high cost, have 

 appeared to be deficient in milking quality, and in the 

 indispensable yellowness of skin ; while their solid gray 

 and fawn coloring and the preponderance of black 

 switches indicate plainly enough the standard according 

 to which they were selected. In the case of these herds 

 and of a number of the sales importations, there is an 

 almost universal defectiveness of the forward quarters 

 of the udder, the front teats being carried high up on 

 the forward slope of the bag, and being not more than 

 one-fourth as larore as the hind teats. 



" Now and then, however, an experienced judge, 

 selecting cattle on the island, brings over as good ani- 

 mals as we have ever received — animals on which there 

 are generally broad patches of white, but whose udders 

 are broad, well carried forward, evenly teated, and of 

 the good old texture and size, while the milk mirror 

 and the milk-vein have evidently been an especial ob- 

 ject in the selection. So far as the writer's personal 

 observation has extended, he has never seen a really 

 first-class cow without decided white marks ; and of the 

 six best butter-makers he knows, not one has a black 

 switch or a black tongue. This, of course, proves 

 nothing, for there may be better cows than he has ever 

 seen whose color is uniform, and whose tongues and 



