CHAPTER VI. 



THE JERSEYS, ALDERNEYS AND GUERNSEYS. 



I A FASHIONABLE BREED. II. THE GUERNSEYS. III. THE ALDERNEY IN 



YOUATT'S TIME. IV. THE JERSEY OF TO-DAY. V. CROSSING THE JERSEYS. 



VI. THE JERSEY DESCRIBED. VII. MILK MIRRORS. VIII. GUENON'S 



THEORY OF MILK MIRRORS. IX. THEIR PRACTICAL UTILITY. X THE 



ESCUTCHEON MARKS. XI. GOOD MILKERS IN ALL BREEDS. XII. VALUE OF 



HEREDITY. XIII. INFLUENCE OF GOOD DIGESTION AND ASSIMILATION. XIV. 



THE MILK VEINS. XV. THE UDDER AND TWIST VEINS. XVI. MR. SHARP- 



LESS' OPINION. XVII. SYMMETRY ESSENTIAL WHATEVER THE BREED. XVIII. 



THF JERSEY NOT A DAIRY COW. XIX. SCALE OF POINTS FOR JERSEY COWS AND 



HEIFERS XX. RULES IN AWARDING PRIZES. XXI. SCALE OF POINTS FOR 



JERSEY BULLS. XXII. ESTIMATING THE VALUE OF POINTS. XXIII. COLOR 



AND SIZE. XXIV. FROM A PRACTICAL STAND-POINT. 



I. A Fashionable Breed. 



Within the last fifteen years, the Jersey, Alderney and Guernsey cat- 

 lb, second in importance of the short-horned breeds of Great Britain, 

 have acquired great celebrity, not so much for thequanityof the milk 

 they p-ive, as for its exceeding richness in cream, and the excellence of 

 the b-itter made therefrom. Those originally brought from the islands 

 of Jersey and Alderney are now called Jerseys, just as all Dutch cattle 

 have been called Holsteins, while the Guernsey cattle are kept separate 

 and distinct, under the proper namo of the island from which they came. 

 H. The Guernseys. 



While the Jerseys and Alderneys have the most admirers, especially 

 amono- fashionable breeders, from their deer-like forms and general air 

 of elegant lightness, the Guernseys are coming into prominence as being 

 laigerr better-built, (that is, not so angular,) and better feeders ; for it 

 mu°t be confessed that the Jersey cow, for its size, is a great consumer. 



The Guernsey cow is also a larger producer of milk, though it is 

 aveiTed by the Jersey breeders that it is not so rich in quality. Jersey 

 cattle, however, vary much in this respect, and it is certain that the 

 Guernsey cows are growing more and more into favor every year as but- 

 ter and milk producing cows. 



m. The Alderney in Youatt's Time. 



Youatt says of this breed, which he classes with the cattle of Nor- 

 mandy, that they are from the French continent ; that the cattle of Nor- 

 numdv are larger and have a greater tendency to fatten ; that others are 



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