CHAP. I. 



GUERNSEY CATTLE. 



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the front, yet she is not thin in the chest like many milch cows, but 

 has a thickness through the heart which indicates constitution. She 

 has a deep full brisket, a fair fullness in the crop, skin of a rich yellow, 

 and milk and butter more highly coloured than those of the Jersey. 

 In size she is nearly a third larger, and apparently also to about the 

 same extent more robust. An unprejudiced person passing judgment 

 on the two breeds from their appearance only, would say the Jersey 

 belonged to the lawn and gentleman's park, while the Guernsey's place 

 was in the rank and file of the hardworkers, where butter-making 

 meant business. The head, horns, and neck of many are too heavy to 

 look well; the udder and teats are often deficient, particularly the fore 



Fig. 23. Guernsey Bull, "Climax" (E. G. H. b. 14). 



Bred by Mr. William Le Ray, Sergentee, Castel, Guernsey. See " The English Guernsey 

 Cattle Society's Herd Book," vol. L, 1885. 



udder and front teats. The udder often appears to be cut away in 

 front, thus giving the teats a backward slant which cannot be called 

 elegant. 



" When we come across a Shorthorn or a Hereford, the first impression 

 on our mind is what a fine beef animal ; when we see a Jersey, our first 

 thought is what a pretty little beast ; but when we meet a Guernsey, 

 the first and lasting impression on our mind'is what a splendid milch- 

 cow ! You see it in the broad golden rim encircling her eyes, in her 

 clean and glossy horns and hoofs ; you see it in the orange-colour of 

 her skin, sometimes so full of yellow dandriff, as to appear as if the 

 animal had been powdered with gold-dust ; you see it in a skin as soft 

 as velvet, in her long head and neck, deep wedge-shape shoulders, in 

 her long prominent milk- veins ; and, finally, you see it in that large, 

 deep, well-filled silken bag, so yellow, and enveloped by a skin so soft, 



