CHAPTER XI 



MILCH CATTLE. THE CHANNEL ISLANDS BREEDS. 

 JERSEYS AND GUERNSEYS 



Channel Islands Cattle Exported as "Alderneys" The Jersey Origin 

 of its Excellence Colours of the Breed Association with Druidical 

 Remains How Bred Pure Revival of the Breed Colonels le 

 Couteur and le Cornu The Jersey (Islands) Herd Book The 

 English Jersey Cattle Society Its Herd Book and Influence- 

 American Demand Prices Prominent Breeders Influence of Soil 

 and Climate Noted Strains Jersey Steers Points of Cows and 

 Bulls Quality of Milk Docility and Bad Temper Milk Records 

 The Guernsey Compared with the Jersey Influence of Climate- 

 Guernsey Butter and Beef Prices and Numbers of Cattle Antiquity 

 of the Breed Prominent Present-day Breeders The Alderney 

 Origin and Present Position Smith NeilPs Cow " Doctor." 



Islands cattle were for many years 

 imported into England under the generic name of 

 " Alderney," although the animals from that island have been 

 throughout the least important. The misnomer is supposed 

 to have originated in one of three ways : from Alderney 

 cattle having been the first sent to England ; through English 

 officers being stationed in Alderney, and thus identifying all 

 the kindred breeds by the name most familiar to themselves ; 

 or most probably because the Channel Islands " packets " 

 touched last at Alderney, so that all the cattle, whatever their 

 origin, came by way of Alderney. 



The Fowlers, who were long the great exporters of stock 

 from the Islands, before herd books existed, adhered to the 

 name " Alderney " which they found in common use. This 

 was rather an unfortunate practice in the interests of the 

 legitimate Islands trade, as it enabled dealers in inferior 

 Brittany cattle to get them cleared through Alderney for 

 England as genuine Islands cattle. 



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