92 THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW. 



" Some are neat and deer-like ; odiers are larger and 

 heavier, approaching die Guernsey type. 



"The island being small and rocky, the pasturage 

 scanty, very few cattle are bred, and, as a consequence, 

 the breed does not receive the care and attention that 

 is given on the other islands. 



" It is as a dairy animal that the Channel Islands cow 

 puts forth her claim for consideration. 



'' Cominof into notice after several of the leading 

 British breeds had acquired a world-wide celebrity, her 

 advocates had to contend with the prejudice of English 

 stock-growers and dairymen, who could not be made to 

 believe that anything not English bred could have 

 merit. And forsooth, this stock, French bred, with true 

 John Bull antipathy, they at once decided must be 

 worthless. But latterly this feeling towards their 

 French neighbors has been wonderfully modified, and 

 as the entente cordiale is now firmly established, Anglo- 

 Norman cattle, among many other products from across 

 the Channel, have found favor in England. The Eng- 

 lish dairymen have been induced to try them, and find- 

 ing they produced more and better butter than the 

 much-vaunted English breeds, have looked at the pound 

 sterling side of the account, and, per consequence, have 

 substituted the despised little Channel Islander for the 

 queenly Short-Horn." 



We will close this chapter by giving the views of one 

 of ' our best American breeders of the Jerseys, Mr. 

 Charles L. Sharpless, of Philadelphia, on the Mirrors of 



