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1870. It is very e\'i(l(.'nt also that but sli;^'!!! attiMitiMii was paid 

 b}" the farmers uf the islands tn diltereiiees in the cattle frnm 

 another of the islands. In searching for inh irniatii in iliat would 

 throw light upon the time when a distinction began to l)e 

 drawn between the two breeds 1 was reminded of the story 

 told of an old woman wdio, wdien she heard smne Daughters 

 of the American Re\T)lution talking abnut their ])edigrees, said: 

 "7"here's a wdiole lot of peo[)le wdu) had better not study their 

 pedigrees: the\- may lind something that thev do not want 

 to know." But it is \'er}' e\-ident that, while, as a matter of 

 local pride, there was not an extensi\'e admixture of the cattle 

 from one island to the other, and, wdiile there were laws pro- 

 hibiting the importation (if foreign cattle, the cattle of any 

 one of the Channel islands were not considered foreign on 

 any of the other islands. 



I have found plenty of references tii the taking of cattle 

 from both Guernsey and jersey to Alderney and from both 

 Guernsey and Alderney to Jersey, and, wdiile I do not find 

 any direct reference to the taking of cattle from Jersey to 

 Guernsey, it is very certain, from the color of many of the 

 cattle on the Island of Guernsey, that there must have been 

 an admixture of Jersey blood not many generations ago. As 



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