90 THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW, 



"In the year 1849, ^^^ Royal Jersey Agricultural 

 Society established a scale of points for Jersey cattle as 

 a guide to the judges in awarding the premiums. 

 Thirty-six points established perfection. No prize can 

 be awarded to a cow having less than 29 points, nor can 

 one be awarded to a heifer having kss than 26 points. 

 A cow having 27 points, and a heifer 24 points, without 

 a pedigree, are allowed to 'be branded, but cannot win 

 a prize. 



" The term ' pedigree ' is employed to signify the off- 

 spring of a prize, or decorated male or female. The 

 'brand' is burned on the horn, and are the letters J. A. 

 S. (Jersey Agricultural Society). 



" Besides the Royal Jersey Society, each parish has a 

 stock-breeders' club ; the clubs hold their parish shows 

 the month preceding the Royal Jersey ; they decorate 

 their prize winners in the same manner by branding 

 with the initial letters of the parish and club, as, for 

 instance, St Saviour's Club, * St. S. C* 



*' A choice cow is sometimes seen whose horns are 

 literally covered with brands, perhaps winning parish 

 and Royal Jersey prizes two or three years in succes- 



" Many breeders will not allow their animals branded 

 on account of the disfigurement it produces. 



"The Guernsey is a larger animal, coarser In the 

 head and heavier in bone; the horns are longer and 

 thicker at the base, not usually crumpled ; the rump Is 

 more apt to assume that peculiar droop which seems a 



