64 Milk and Its Products 
Jerseys.—Jersey cattle, as the name indicates, orig- 
inated upon the Island of Jersey, which is the largest 
one of the Channel Island 
group, a group of about 
twenty small islands lying 
in the English Channel, 
near the coast of France, 
but belonging, politically, 
to Great Britain. There is 
no doubt that the cattle 
originally upon fie island came from the mainland of 
France. For more than one hundred years the people 
of the Island of Jersey have absolutely prohibited 
the importation of live neat cattle from any other 
country, and the blood has therefore been maintained 
pure for more than one hundred years. Somewhat 
before the middle of the nineteenth century, dairying 
began to be an important farm industry upon the 
island, and the farmers began to give attention to the 
development of their cattle, both as to production and 
to form, and the develop- 
ment has been continuous 
ever since. 
Jersey cattle are charac- 
terized by small size, spare, 
angular forms and curved 
outlines, dished faces, 
erooked legs, and often 
rather crooked backs. They 
have a rather delicate, nervous organization, and, 
when carefully handled, are extremely docile and 
Fig. 2. Jersey cow. 
Fig. 3. Jersey bull. 
