SUPPLEMENT. 741 



PORTRAITS OF BRITISH PRIZE CATTLE— Contimied. 



SI. JESSEV CATTIiC:. 



Jersey heifer and caZees.— ^The portrait represents a heifer with calves of the Jersey 

 breed, taken by instantaneons photography by Messrs. Scheiber & Son, of No. 818 Arch 

 street, Philadelphia. Their sire was bred by Mr. E. Gibrout, St. Lawrence, Jersey, and 

 was winner of his parish prize when about ten months old, having had at that age ac- 

 corded to him twenty-eight out of the thirty-one points in the Jersey scale; then winner 

 of first prize, as three years old, at State Fair at Utica, September, 1870, heading the 

 prize herd. He was sold to Mr. E. Delafield Smith at |600. It will be seen in the 

 sketch that the fore legs of the older calf or heifer cover one another. Her proper left 

 fore leg touches the ground behind the other, and an awkward appearance of width in 

 the two legs, which are hardly distinguishable above the knee, is thus explained. 



Jerseii cow Velveteen. — The portrait represents Mr. John Cardus's Jersey cow Vel- 

 veteen, which took the first prize in the cow class, and not that of Dorothy. Mr. Car- 

 dus sent three animals (of six entries! to the show, and was awarded fir^t prize lor Vel- 

 veteen in the cow class ; second prize for Snowflake in thes heifer class, under three years, 

 but over two years old ; and first prize for Dorothy among the young heifers. Velveteen 

 was seven years old in June last. She was selected in the Islaud of Jersey by Mr. E. P. 

 Fowler for exportation to the United States, in June, 1879, then two years old ; she is by 

 Grey Prince (168), Jersey Herd Book foundation stock, out of Valentine (734), bred by 

 Mr. Le Brocq, St. Peter's Jersey. She was not, however, allowed to go to America, for 

 Mr. C. B. Dixon (late of the Vinery, Shirley, Southampton) picked her out from some 

 twenty or thirty others in the Southampton Docks, and rescued her Jrom expatriation, 

 and after breeding two calves for him, Mr. Cardus bought her in the autumn of 1879. 

 She calved in July, 1880, a heifer calf. Vixen, who took the first prize at the Koyal Ag- 

 ricultural Show at Derby, in 1881, in the heifer-calf class, and was highly commended at 

 the Dairy Show, Islington, in 1882. In July, 1881, she produced Victress, who tookfirst 

 prize at the Eoyal Counties Society's Show at Winchester, in 1883, and was highly com- 

 mended at the Eoyal Agricultural Show at Beading, in 1883. In 1882 she calved pre- 

 maturely a ball calf, killed; and this year, 1883, she produced a heifer calf. Velvet. 

 Vixen, her calf of 1880, was by Dairy King (211), and her calves of 1881, 1882, and 1883, 

 by Baron Lionel (994), son of Dairy King. 



Jersey cow Alice. — Alice was 2 J years old at the time the portrait was taken; she was 

 bred by Mr. F. Le Brocq, St. Peter's, Jersey. 



Jersey cow Longueitille Belle. — The portrait is a very successful representation of the very 

 beautiful Jersey cow bred by Mr. Laurens, of Longuevillc, St. Saviour's, Jersey, and exhib- 

 ited by Mr. James Blyth, of Woodham, Stanstead, Essex, at the Eoyal Agricultural 

 Society show, where she was highly commended in her class, being then a three-year old 

 in calf, having previously calved in August, 1880. 



Jersey cow Coomassie. — This cow (the property of Mr. S. M. Burnham, Saugatuck, 

 Conn.)is numbered 1442 in the "Foundation Stock" of the Jersey Herd Book, and 

 11874 A. J. C. C. H. E. She was calved in 1871, and won five prizes on the Island in as 

 many successive years, 1876-1880inclusive— firstinthoyoungoow class, then as an "old " 

 cow, and the last three times as the "champion," besides four first parish prizes from 

 1874 to 1876. She brought with her from home the following remarkable butter record ■ 

 In sev^n days in 1878, 14 pounds 15 ounces Jersey, equal to 10 pounds ll ounces Ameri- 

 can; in 1879, 14 pounds 11 ounces Jersey, equal to 16 pounds 7 ounces American; and in 

 1880, 14 pounds 13 ounces Jersey, equal to IG pounds 9 ounces American. It should bo 

 added also that the photograph was taken four months after calving, when her milk pro- 

 duction was past its height. — Albany CvUivnter, U. S. A. 



Ouernsey bull and cow. — The portraits represent a bull and cow of the Guernsey breed 

 shown at Tunbridge. The bull is Squiieof Vauxbelets, exhibited by Mr. James James, 

 of Les Vauxbelets, Guernsey, takingthe prize as the only hull in its clas?. The cow has 

 been unfortunately misnumbered by the photographer. Perhaps the owner may recog- 

 nize her from her very satisfactory engraving. Wo presume that she is a prize cow in 

 class 60 or 01 of the Tunbridge Wells show. The engravings cannot represent in colors 

 yellow and white which characterize the breed, but they can at any rate illustrate the 

 form and beauty of the animals, and the milk-like appearance of the cow. Thry were 

 in classes remarkable for number and excellence. 



Guernsey cow Elegante. — The above is a plate of a Guernsey cow, now well known 

 among Guernsey breeders — Elegante, No. 592 (No. 198 in the island registry). Theen- 

 graving conveys a very accurate idea of her in iill respects except color. Her colors are 



