CHAPTER IX 

 THE DAIRY BREEDS OF CATTLE 



REPRESENTATIVES of these breeds are alike milky in 

 their form in every way opposed to beefiness, triangular 

 instead of rectangular, spare not thickly fleshed, long, lean 

 and narrow in head and neck rather than short, broad and 

 thick ; light in the shoulder, narrow and lean in the chine, 

 showing breadth only in the hind-quarters, which like the 

 chine are lean and especially light in the thighs. The 

 size, shape and texture of the udder should indicate great 

 productive capacity. 



JERSEY CATTLE. Plate X. Fig. 44. 

 By M. A. Scovell 



293. The Jersey is one of the leading dairy breeds of 

 cattle. The island of Jersey, eleven miles long and less 

 than six miles wide, lying in the English Channel some 

 thirty miles from the southern extremity of England and 

 about thirteen miles from the coast of France, is its native 

 home. 



294. The use of the term Alderney. In American 

 and English writings there has been some confusion in the 

 use of the term Alderney, as applied to cattle from the 

 Channel islands. In 1844, Colonel Le Couteur wrote an 

 article on the " Jersey Misnamed Alderney Cow." This 

 article was published in the Journal of the Royal Agri- 



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