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in the Classes for any breed excepting those breeds which had 
special Classes. 
In this year's Show the Jerseys and Guernseys together 
numbered 575 entries, out of a total of 1637 of cattle of all breeds, 
making thirty more than one-third of the whole. 
The two breeds, although they may have been occasionally 
crossed with each other, are bred to two very distinct patterns. 
The red and yellow colours of the Guernsey, usually with white 
markings and buif noses (although the black nose is sometimes 
seen), are but little removed in character from the colours of some 
of the old Teeswater cattle, the stock from which the modern 
Shorthorn grew ; but the Jersey colours have a strong peculiarity 
not seen in any other cattle of the British Islands. It is in the 
way in which one colour grows through another, especially in 
the so-called whole-colours or colours unbroken by white mark- 
ings ; for example, frosted silver on a black, a dun, or a fawn 
ground. The effect is caused by silver-white hairs, scattered 
thinly over the body, outgrowing at certain seasons of the year 
the closer hair of the ground colour. In the hotter months this 
finer and longer hair is often cast, leaving the ground colour 
clear or nearly so. Hence, in descriptions in show catalogues 
or sale catalogues, when any attempt is made to supply more 
definite particulars of colour than " whole " or " broken," and 
another season has followed that in which the notes of colour 
were taken, the animals do not agree with the descriptions given. 
The same peculiarity may be observed in at least one of the Swiss 
breeds, which possibly has some remote ancestral connection 
with the Jersey. 
Jersey Cattle. 
Very soon after its inauguration, the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England published a valuable treatise " On the Jersey, 
misnamed the Alderney Cow," written by Colonel Le Couteur, and 
contained in the fifth volume of the First Series of the Journal. 
In the twelfth volume, Part II., an article on the " Breeding 
Points of Jersey Cattle " contains tables of the scales of points 
for both sexes as confirmed by the Royal Jersey Agricultural 
Society, June 30, 1849 ; and so recently as the year 1881, Vol. 
XVII. Part I., Second Series, contains an exhaustive paper 
on " Jersey Cattle and their Management," by Mr. Thornton, 
the recognised leading English authority upon the subject. In 
these articles, and in Mr. Thornton's masterly history of the breed 
given as an introduction to the first volume of the English Herd- 
book of Jersey cattle, edited by himself, the best and fullest in- 
formation will be found. 
