THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW, 3 1 



of our local legislature (which for such ends is quite 

 independent of the British Parliament) was passed, by 

 which the importation into Jersey of cow, heifer, calf, or 

 bull was prohibited, under the penalty of two hundred 

 livres, wdth the forfeiture of boat and tackle, besides a 

 fine of fifty livres to be imposed on every sailor on 

 board who did not inform of the attempt at importation. 

 Moreover, the animal was decreed to be immediately 

 slaughtered, and its flesh given to the poor. Later laws 

 are equally stringent: no foreign horned cattle are 

 ever allowed to come to Jersey but as butcher's meat. 



" Guernsey cattle are not deemed foreign, but there 

 are scarcely over a dozen of that breed in our island. 

 They are of larger bone and carcass, considered to be 

 coarse, though famous milkers, requiring much more 

 food than the Jersey. Our judges at our cattle-shows 

 have discarded both them and their progeny. 



" Those enterprising American farmers who have vis- 

 ited Jersey, and have found a marked difference to exist 

 between the cattle of the Eastern district and those of 

 the Western district, being cursory visitors, may not 

 have been made aware of what I am to state. I believe 

 the type to be the same.^ The difference in appearance 

 is thus accounted for: The north and north-west coast 

 of Jersey is high and precipitous, a bold syenite rock, 

 rising two hundred and more feet from the level of the 

 sea. Its nearest shelter in a westerly or south-w^esterly 

 direction is the island of Newfoundland, or the British- 

 American shore. South-west gales prevail here nine 



