The Guernsey Breed 



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Often families visit back and forth from the island with their 

 friends in America. 



While a few of the cattle are pastured, nearly all of them 

 are tethered, and this is done by the use of iron tether pins 8 to 

 10 inches long, with a chain about 16 feet long and containing 

 a swivel attached to the chain or to the rope around the horns. 

 The animals are moved every two or three hours and only 

 about three feet at a time. They are thus unable to trample 

 down any of the fresh food with their feet, and in this way 

 it is possible to do successful tethering along side of vetches 

 and oats that will often be five feet high and that I did see 

 above my head in 1913. 



Many of the farmers cut these grain crops and draw them 

 to the barn or to racks in the fields and use them as soiling 

 crops. Very limited amounts of grain are harvested and 

 threshed, but the yield is very good indeed. I saw a small 

 field of winter wheat on the Island of Alderney that yielded 

 upward of 50 bushels per acre. 



The Island of Guernsey abounds in many places of in- 

 terest for those who delight to delve into the antiquities of a 

 country. There are several cromlechs and Druidical remains 

 on the island. A Mr. Lukes, who was greatly interested in 

 the study of the ancient inhabitants of these islands, dug 

 under some of these cromlechs and altars and collected the 



La Foss Farm, Guernsey. 

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