JERSEY AND GUERNSEY CATTLE. 



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Saving on two or three exceptional occasions, the Channel Islands 

 cattle had not constituted a feature at any of our great agricultural 

 shows previous to 1871, in which year the Royal Agricultural Society 

 of England, at the Wolverhampton Meeting, effected a final separation 

 between Jerseys and Guernseys. At the great Battersea Meeting 

 in 1862, there was a " large show " of 20 entries, described as 

 "Jerseys, commonly called Alderneys." The Jerseys have now 

 obtained for themselves a permanent place in the Royal Catalogue, 

 whilst the Guernseys only get a section at south country meetings of 

 the Royal Agricultural Society. An admirable display of Jerseys and 

 Guernseys is a characteristic feature of the Royal Counties, Bath and 

 West, and many other shows. 



Photo by G. H. Parsons. 



Fig. 22. Jersey Cow, "Lady Vida." 



First at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show at Lincoln, 1907. 

 The property of Mr. A. Miller-Hallett, Goddington, Kent. 



THE GUEKSSEYS are larger, coarser, and less elegant than the Jerseys, 

 and are generally of a yellow-brown colour patched with white, and 

 are sometimes spoken of as " orange and lemon" cattle ; but, like the 

 Jerseys, they are excellent milkers, and are now being sought after 

 a good deal. Yet are they not refined and graceful in appearance, or 

 indeed equal to the Jerseys in any respect, save that of size, in 

 which they excel. They are also rather large in the belly ; but 

 this, as well as some of the points already mentioned, is rather an 

 advantage to milch-cows ; and the udder is well formed (see figs. 23 

 and 24). 



The following scale of points, as adopted by the English Guernsey 

 Cattle Society, October, 1886, will serve to indicate the main 

 characteristics of the Guernsey : 



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