I20 BREEDS OF CATTLE 



pete with other breeds in actual production of butter fat 

 for a year's time. Their color is variable, ranging from 

 light fawn to heavy dun or black. Breeders have never 

 paid so much attention to color as they have to form and 

 performance, but broken colors are very undesirable. 

 Black at the extremities is desirable. In form the Jerseys 

 are pretty cattle. The cows have neat heads, and very 

 fawnlike necks. The eye is large and prominent, and the 

 ear is neatly carried. The shoulders are slight, the back- 

 bone prominent, the barrel of liberal size, the udder large, 

 well shaped, and proportioned, with the teats well placed 

 and of convenient size. The good animals are quite uni- 

 form as to type. The bulls display a great deal of vigor, 

 and are very active and highly organized. This latter 

 characteristic makes them undesired. by some, because if 

 not carefully handled, they may become vicious. 



The principal weaknesses of the breed are lack of size, 

 and consequent lack of constitution. Some of the Ameri- 

 can bred cattle, however, have sufficient size and as good 

 constitutions as any other dairy breed. 



GUERNSEY CATTLE 



Guernsey cattle were developed on the Island of Guern- 

 sey, a sister island to the Island of Jersey. Guernsey is 

 smaller than Jersey, and not nearly so many cattle can be 

 produced on it. While Guernsey cattle were introduced 

 into America at an earlier date than the Jersey, they were 

 not so popular, due to the fact that they were not ad- 

 vertised so much during the earlier days, and could not be 

 produced on the island fast enough to fill the demand. 



Their development, while similar in essentials to the 

 development of Jerseys, differs in some respects. The 



