BUTTER RECORDS AT ST LOUIS 



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The results obtained by Jerseys in England at the 

 milking trials of the British Dairy Farmers' Association are 

 shown in the quantity and quality table at page 297, and 

 may be compared with the results also stated of other breeds. 



(See also Appendix J on the Dairy Test at the World's 

 Fair at St Louis.) 



POSITION OF THE FIRST FIFTEEN COWS, ACCORDING TO 

 BUTTER-PRODUCTION, AT ST LOUIS IN 1904. 



The Guernsey is an offshoot of the Normandy breed. It 

 is a larger, stronger-boned, and coarser animal in appearance 

 than the Jersey. It has not been bred with such care, and 

 its outlines are not so regular or symmetrical. Prize-winning 

 animals even go down in the back when standing ; but as a 

 supplement to good milking qualities the sole possession of 

 the Jersey beyond its good looks the Guernsey possesses no 

 mean capacity for beef-production when not giving milk. The 

 meat is not of first-rate quality, on account of being yellow in 

 the fat, like that of a few Jerseys. The largest cows 

 belonging to the original old-fashioned type are to be 

 found in the west of the Island. Cows are docile, but bulls are 

 treacherous and dangerous even to their attendants. They are 

 usually so massive in the neck that it is unsafe to tie them in the 

 usual way. A rope or chain round the horns and through the 

 nose-ring is found much more reliable (Plate LXXIV). 



The colours of Guernsey cattle are more " broken " than 

 those of the Jersey, patches of white appearing on the pre- 

 dominating light yellow, brown, or reddish-fawn. The grey 



