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the cattle, as tame as dogs from their daily handling 

 and feeding fastened to the chain, gave no trouble. 

 They were brought over in the Channel cutters, the 

 other cargo usually consisting of cider. One boat was 

 thirteen days out, and the captain, running short of 

 water, tapped the cider casks. The cows enjoyed it so 

 much that for three days they would drink nothing 

 else. The steps by which system and method have 

 been introduced into the cult of the Jersey herd belong 

 to the history of the English Jersey Herd Society 

 and the Royal Jersey Agricultural Society. The pedi- 

 gree herds have multiplied until there is not a county 

 in England where they may not be found, and the 

 produce are scattered in twos and threes in the paddocks 

 of half the country houses in England. But it is in 

 Jersey itself, not in the 'adjacent island* of Great 

 Britain, that the most suggestive results of the posses- 

 sion of the Jersey herd are to be noted. Note the 

 cultivated area : twenty-nine thousand acres, or eleven 

 thousand acres less than is owned by one nobleman in 

 Norfolk. Add the same amount of uncultivated 

 ground, and we have the total available raw material for 

 agriculture in the island. This maintained in 1880 

 nearly eleven thousand Jersey cattle, two thousand two 

 hundred and sixty-one horses, three hundred and forty- 

 six sheep, five thousand eight hundred and forty-four 

 pigs. The total population was sixty thousand, half of 



