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AMERICAN CATTLE. 



Our portraits of the sexes, taken from life, give a correct 

 representation of the true Alderney. They are excellent 

 specimens. 



Plate 17. Alderney Cow. 



She is simply a milking cow, and for nothing else should the 

 race ever be bred. The bulls may be used in crossing on our 

 common cows, to give the Alderney quality and color of milk in 

 the heifers thus descended from them ; but by no infusion of any 

 other blood, can the Alderney cow be improved in the rich, 

 yellow qualities for which her milk is esteemed. Along the 

 coast of Hampshire, in Enghind, she is frequently kept and bred, 

 and many of them are scattered over other counties, but chiefly 

 in individual, or small numbers for family use, to yield the milk 

 and butter so highly prized by nice housekeepers. 



The distinguishing quality for which the Alderney is prized, is 

 the marked richness, and deep yellow color of her milk; yet it 

 is moderate in quantity — eight to twelve quarts a day being a 

 good yield in the height of her season — but that wonderfully 

 rich in cream and butter. A gentleman m New England, who 

 had for many years kept quite a herd of them on his farm for 



