No. 4.] THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. Ill 



Articles. Points. 



14. Tail fine, reaching the hocks, and hanging at right angles 



with the back, 3 



15. Hide thin and mellow, covered with fine, soft hair, . . 4 



16. Hide of a yellow color, 4 



17. Legs short, straight and fine, with small hoofs, ... 3 



18. Arms fnll and swelling above the knees, .... 3 



19. Hind quarters from the hock to point of rump long, wide 



ajjart and well filled up, . 3 



20. Hind legs squarely placed when viewed from behind, and 



not to cross or sweep in walking, ,.....* 



21. Udder large, not fleshy, running Avell forward, in line 



with the belly, and well \ip behind, .... 5 



22. Teats moderately large, yellow, of equal size, wide apart 



and squarely placed, 5 



23. Milk veins about the udder and abdomen prominent, . 4 



24. Growth, 4 



25. General appearance, 5 



Perfection, 100 



No prize shall be awarded to cows having less than 80 points. 



No prize shall be awarded to heifers having less than 70 points. 



Articles 21 and 23 shall be deducted from the number required for 

 perfection in heifers, as their udder and milk veins camiot be fully 

 developed. 



We have thus far dealt only with open-air cultivation, 

 but there is another phase, still more interesting, in which 

 everything is grown under cover. Until the glass-houses of 

 Jersey and Guernsey have been visited, no one can fairly 

 appreciate the possibilities of intensive gardening. Origi- 

 nally erected for the purpose of growing grapes, they now 

 coml)ine that with the raising of all crops grown in the open 

 air. These glass shelters are of the simplest construction, 

 in most cases mere frames of glass and wood, sometimes 

 heated, but oftener not. But they yield enormously, crop 

 after crop, throughout the entire season. Hardly is one out 

 of the way than another takes its place. Before the potatoes 

 are out of the ground, beet or l)roccoli is set between the 

 rows, etc. The whole island of Guernsey is dotted with 

 them ; here mere lean-tos against the sides of the buildings, 

 there more substantial structures in the fields, or again 

 rising tier upon tier up the steep hillsides. The grape crop, 

 of which the annual exportation from the island of Guernsey 



