90 THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW. 



"In the year 1849, the Royal Jersey Agricultural 

 Society established a scale of points for Jersey cattle as 

 a guide to the judges in awarding the premiums. 

 Thirty-six points established perfection. No prize can 

 be awarded to a cow having less than 29 points, nor can 

 one be awarded to a heifer having less than 26 points. 

 A cow having 27 points, and a heifer 24 points, without 

 a pedigree, are allowed to be branded, but cannot win 

 a prize. 



" The term ' pedigree ' is employed to signify the off- 

 spring of a prize, or decorated male or female. The 

 * brand' is burned on the horn, and are the letters J. A. 

 S. (Jersey Agricultural Society). 



" Besides the Royal Jersey Society, each parish has a 

 stock-breeders' club ; the clubs hold their parish shows 

 the month preceding the Royal Jersey ; they decorate 

 their prize winners in the same manner by branding 

 with the initial letters of the parish and club, as, for 

 instance, St. Saviour's Club, ' St. S. C 



" A choice cow is sometimes seen whose horns are 

 literally covered with brands, perhaps winning parish 

 and Royal Jersey prizes two or three years in succes- 

 sion. 



" Many breeders will not allow their animals branded 

 on account of the disfigurement it produces. 



"The Guernsey is a larger animal, coarser in the 

 head and heavier in bone ; the horns are longer and 

 thicker at the base, not usually crumpled ; the rump is 

 more apt to assume that peculiar droop which seems a 



