Practical Agriculture. 
5^5 = 279 
lanner. His average annual return has been from 220 lbs. to 
10 lbs. of butter per cow. 
Mr. George Simpson, of Wray Park, Reigate, Surrey, and 
[r. Walter Gilbey, have been two of the greatest patrons and 
iprovers of the breed ; and the Messrs. Fowler, of Bushey 
lid Watford, Herts, and of Southampton, have been the im- 
)rters of this highly appreciated breed of cattle into this country 
r nearly a century. 
The Guernsey breed are of a self-colour, red, or dun, or Guernseys and 
itched with white ; the Jerseys are, smaller, and of a darker Jerseys, 
ive or fawn-colour. 
A marked course of improvement in both breeds has taken 
ace since the Jersey Agricultural Society, founded in 1833, 
ew up a scale of points of merit, from an examination of the 
'St specimens then in the island. This scale originally fixed 
standard of twenty-six points for bulls, and twenty-eight for 
■ws and heifers, and it was amended and the points increased 
number in the year 1849. In 1866 the 'Jersey Herd Book' 
is started, and in 1868 the committee of the Royal Agri- 
Itural Society of Jersey called attention in a report to the 
vantageous results of careful breeding as practised by Mr. 
auncey and others in this country. In a subsequent report, 
December, 1871, the committee acknowledged a yearly 
ant from the State of Jersey of 50/., to be applied solely in 
emiums for bulls, to check the exportation of good animals 
jm the island. 
This remarkable scale of points, by which judges criticise the Scale of points 
lalifications of Alderney cattle, is as follows : — 
Scale of Points for Bulls. 
Article. Points. • 
1. Head, fine and tapering 1 
2. Forehead, broad 1 
3. Cheek, small 1 
4. 'J'hroat, clean 1 
5. Muzzle, fine, and encircled by a light colour .. 1 
6. Nostrils, high and open 1 
7. Horns, smooth, crumpled, not too thick at the base,) 
aud tapering, tipped with black j 
8. Ears, small and thin 1 
9. Ears, of a deep orange colour within 1 
10. Eyes, full and lively 1 
11. Neck, arched, powerful, but not too coarse and heavy 1 
12. Chest, broad and deep 1 
13. Barrel, hooped, broad, and deep 1 
14. Well ribbed home, having but little space between the) 
last rib and the hip | 
15. Back, straight from the withers to the top of the hip 1 
Carried forward .. .. 15 
2 P 2 
