CHAPTER IX 
THE DAIRY BREEDS OF CATTLE 
REPRESENTATIVES of these breeds are alike milky in 
their form — in every way opposed to beefiness, triangular 
instead of rectangular, spare not thickly fleshed, long, lean 
and narrow in head and neck rather than short, broad and 
thick; light in the shoulder, narrow and lean in the chine, 
showing breadth only in the hind-quarters, which like the 
chine are lean and especially light in the thighs. The 
size, shape and texture of the udder should indicate great 
productive capacity. 
JERSEY CaTTLe. Plate X. Fig. 44. 
By M. A. Scovell 
293. The Jersey is one of the leading dairy breeds of 
cattle. The island of Jersey, eleven miles long and less 
than six miles wide, lying in the English Channel some 
thirty miles from the southern extremity of England and 
about thirteen miles from the coast of France, is its native 
home. 
294. The use of the term Alderney. — In American 
and English writings there has been some confusion in the 
use of the term Alderney, as applied to cattle from the 
Channel islands. In 1844, Colonel Le Couteur wrote an 
article on the “‘ Jersey Misnamed Alderney Cow.” This 
article was published in the Journal of the Royal Agri- 
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