412 THE ALDERNEY tATTLE. 



tender ever to be attended to by the British 

 farmers, particularly by those in the northern parts 

 of the island; yet they will always be esteemed and 

 encouraged by the noblemen and gentlemen of the 

 country, not merely on account of their elegant 

 appearance, but because the milk produced by the 

 Cows is richer than that of any other breed. 



tThe Alderney cattle have a somewhat distant 

 esemblance to Deer. They are, in general, fine- 

 boned; their heads are small, and their horns short. 

 In general, they are of a light red or yellowish 

 colour; and wherever there is any white upon their 

 body, it appears as spots upon a coloured ground, 

 and not, as in the greater part of cattle, as the 

 ground upon which the other colours are spread. 

 The Cows seldom exceed the height of four feet. 



Some of the Cows give from three to four gal- 

 lons of milk per day ; and the produce, in butter, 

 of a good Cow, has been reckoned frpm 200 to 

 about 320 pounds in a year. In Jersey, in the year 

 1799, the value of a good Cow and Calf was about 

 fifteen pounds. 



Although in the southern parts of England the 

 Alderney cattle will bear the winter out of doors; 

 yet, from custom, they are always housed in the 

 islands, and fed upon straw. They are sometimes 

 used for ploughing ; but it is said that their greatest 

 use in Guernsey and Jersey is in carting, and they 

 are found to answer best in bad roads of the hilly 

 country. They are easily fatted at any age, but 



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