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Practical Agriculture. 
their milking and creaming properties, but were originally Ill- 
formed and ungainly in appearance ; the redeeming points 
having always been the fine head, crumpled horns, and capa- 
cious well-formed udder. In proportion to their size, the 
Alderney cows give more milk of richer quality than those of 
any other breed ; the best having been found to yield 10 lbs. 
to 14 lbs. of butter per week. And since the improvement of 
the breed in symmetry and beauty, it has become highly sought 
after for dairies in the vicinity of what may be called fashion- 
able towns, and for ornament as well as profit in villa paddocks 
and gentlemen's parks. In the large city dairies the Alderneys 
are not in such repute as Shorthorn and Dutch cows which 
give large quantities of milk of lower quality, and which, when 
di'afted, fatten with greater rapidity. 
•The Field' on A Writer in ' The Field ' says — ' At the present time there is 
th! b'^'°d^ °^ doubt that in England, where the principles of selection 
^ ' have so long been successfully applied to horned stock and 
sheep, finer specimens of the Alderney have been produced than 
in their native islands. 
" For many years the farmers of the Channel Islands, while 
sternly prohibiting any importation of bulls, have made the 
rearing of heifers for the English market a profitable part of 
their business ; but it is only within a comparatively recent 
period that they have learned from English breeders the advan- 
tages to be derived from a careful selection in obtaining 
symmetry as well as milk. 
English " Amongst English breeders who have shown what could be 
breeders. done towards obtaining the best points of a milking cow by 
applying Bakewellian principles of selection, Mr. Philip 
Dauncey, of Horwood, near Winslow, Bucks, occupies, or rather 
occupied, the most distinguished position. For nearly half a 
century he devoted his attention to obtaining great milking 
qualities, symmetry, constitution, and a uniform fawn colour 
without white. His success placed him at least hajf a century 
in advance of the Channel Islanders. 
" Mr. Dauncey produced a breed much more hardy than the 
original Channel Islanders ; his stock lying out on the pastures 
throughout the year. The imported Alderneys are delicate 
and, on first introduction, require slight shelter in the cold 
weather ; but they soon afterwards become acclimatised." 
One of the best herds maintained purely for profit was that! 
of one hundred Jersey cows belonging to the late Mr. Jamei 
Dumbrell, of Ditchling, near Brighton. Another breeder o: 
Alderneys, who bears a name almost classical in the history o: 
agriculture, is Mr. C. II. Bakevvell, of Quorndon, near Derby 
who has a small but select herd which is managed in a profitabL 
