48 THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW. 



Rectory, Bucks, with his herd of Jersey cattle. These 

 were sold, some time since, by auction, when sixty-nine 

 head of stock realized a sum of 3136 guineas. For 

 instance, a cow three years old was sold for 100 guineas ; 

 a two-year-old heifer, 60 guineas ; a bull, one year old, 

 60 guineas.' In the same report it is stated 'that during 

 the year one agent alone, Mr. Le Bas, had shipped from 

 Jersey 2041 head, representing a value of £29,000;' 

 also, * That the first-prize two-year-old heifer at the last 

 May show was sold in Jersey for £38 ; and the first 

 prize in yearlings fetched at a sale £42.' While the 

 sales from Jersey for exportation averaged about £14 

 per head, Mr. Dauncey's sale averaged over 45 guineas 

 per head, and his best animals far exceeded the prices 

 fetched for first-prize animals in Jersey, though there is 

 no doubt, other things being equal, that the purchasers 

 of the Dauncey stock (there being no Jersey Herd Book 

 in England) would have preferred imported animals. 

 The conclusion, therefore, is most natural, that Mr. 

 Dauncey, working with material derived only from Jer- 

 sey, far exceeded the Jerseymen themselves in the value 

 of his results. With a Herd Book to help us, with the 

 encouragement of high prices for good animals and 

 good butter, and with ample material to start with, there 

 is no reason why we may not in time produce a stock 

 better than has yet been known. 



'' The early importations of Jersey cattle into this 

 country are most difficult to trace. The animals were 

 then called Alderneys, and the same name was given 



