THE GUERNSEY BREED 51 



interesting and important as the question of the men who 

 first conceived the idea of breeding and developing a strain 

 of cattle to produce milk, cream and butter of a golden yellow 

 color, which we find most highly emphasized in the Guernsey, 

 and which appears to a more limited extent in the Jersey. 



It is very evident from the scale of points to be given 

 in Chapter III, that the yellow skin which denotes highly 

 colored produce, was prized as early as 1850. Just when the 

 islanders began to prize this 'trait and when particular meas- 

 ures were used to preserve and improve it are unknown. 



