158 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



Examinations take place several times in the 

 year in the presence of several judges, and no 

 bull is looked at without its dam. The natural 

 result of years of selection is the maintenance 

 of a very high standard in cows in the island 

 and the elimination of what is so common in 

 England — the tuberculous cow. 



These pretty creatures are treated with 

 much affection by their owners, and many of 

 them are housed at night even in midsummer ; 

 not altogether, though, because a storm might 

 be brewing, but because the owner is afraid 

 that the cow might be milked by some fugitive 

 hand during the night : a fact which indicates 

 that simplicity is not always a striking quality 

 in those who pursue the simple life. 



So kind is the climate here that it is interest- 

 ing to watch how, as the cows are being moved 

 daily (sometimes two or three times a day) 

 to a fresh pitch by means of a tethering pin 

 and chain, the grass begins to grow again at 

 one end of the field as the cows are moving 

 towards the other end. But then the Jersey 

 farmer does not leave everything to Nature. 

 He treasures every drop of liquid manure 

 which drains from the cow-stalls into acemented 

 tank, fills an old oil-barrel with it, mounts 



