hardiness of its cattle. Like the sister island it has been jealous 

 of the importation of live cattle from any other part, with the 

 exception of Alderney, the cattle of which are a strain of the 

 Guernsey, till recently smaller and darker in colour. By free use 

 of bulls from Guernsey the types have become more alike. The 

 cows are docile, but the bulls, like Jerseys, are irrepressible, trea- 

 cherous and dangerous as they approach maturity, even to the 

 attendants who feed them. They are so massive in the neck that 

 they can only be securely tied by a chain round the horns and 

 through the nose ring, 



Butter Production. Guernsey butter is much deeper in colour 

 than Jersey butter. This has raised the breed in the estimation of 

 dairy farmers in this country, who aim at including one or two 

 Guernsey cows in their herds of Shorthorns or Ayrshires to impart 

 a richer appearance to both milk and butter. An ordinary yield 

 of butter from cows kept in a natural way, is TO to 12 Ib. a week. 

 Hardiness. The hardiness and utility of the breed for practical 

 purposes have been well demonstrated by a breeder as far north 

 as Midlothian, who has kept for 19 years a herd, now numbering 

 about 120, bred from the stock of Mr. P. D. Ozanne, Les Pelleys, 

 Captel, Guernsey. After the first winter, the heifer calves run in 

 the fields with merely an open shelter-shed to retire to at will until 

 they come into profit at two years and three months old. The 

 average annual yield of the herd is 700 to 750 gallons of milk, 

 containing 8 ozs. of butter fat per gallon. 



Herd Book. There are between six and seven thousand cattle in 

 the Island of Guernsey ; about half are cows and heifers in milk 

 and in calf, and over i 200 are entered in the Herd Book of the 

 Royal Guernsey Agricultural and Horticultural Society, in addition 

 to those registered by the English Guernsey Cattle Society. 



THE AYRSHIRE, (i)- Origin of the Breed. The Ayrshire, the widely- 

 reputed Scotch milch cow, sprang from the northern division of 

 Ayrshire, a humid county on the south-west coast. The evolution 

 of the modern improved breed began between 1750 and 1780. 



Value for Milk Production. -The udders of Ayrshire cows that 

 are found winning in the milking classes are practically perfect in 

 form and unequalled in any other breed. The Ayrshire in Great 



( i ) See The Origin and Early History of the Ayrshire Breed of Cattle by 

 John Speir Newton. Kilmarnock, Standard Printing Works, 1909. 



