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bricks laid with cement. Such a floor gives sufficient foothold 
to the animal, and at the same time resists the absorption of the 
urine ; if laid with a proper fall the liquid quickly runs off. 
The preceding pl.an (p. 217) will show the arrangement of my 
principal piggery, which, it will be observed, has a southern aspect. 
Clapham Park, Bedfordshire, Feb. 7, 1881. 
XVI. — Jerseij Cattle and their Management. 
By John Thounton. 
Nearly two generations have passed away since Col. Lc Couteur 
wrote an excellent paper in this Journal (vol. v. p. 43), " On 
the Jersey, misnamed the Alderney Cow." That paper gives 
full information on many points, but it does not give Col. Le 
Couteur the credit to which he is fairly entitled. It is to his 
efforts that the rise and progress of, and a great improvement in, the 
breed are mainly due. He acted as Secretary to the meetings in 
1833, which led to the establishment of the Jersey Agricultural 
and Horticultural Society, and he continued its officer and 
mainstay for many years. The aim of the Society was to 
improve the native breed by careful selection, and in this way 
a race of cattle " as good as it is beautiful " has been esta- 
blished. Col. Le Couteur lived to receive the honour of knight- 
hood, and to have the further gratification in his old age of 
seeing his work taken up by a competent and zealous successor. 
This was Col. C. P. Le Cornu ; who, in his turn, has lived to 
see three young cows sold in the Island in one week for 200 
guineas each, and to find the English and American public 
appreciating the labour and thought and following the steps of 
the Island breeders. 
There can be little doubt that, by the rich soil and genial 
climate of Jersey, a native breed of cattle, originally of a similar 
character to those of Brittany and Kerry, has been fostered into 
a special excellence, which the pastures of the north-west of 
France and Ireland could not impart. A feeling of the in- 
habitants against the French cattle seems to have prevailed for 
generations. One of their earliest historians, the Rev. Philip 
Falle, as far back as 1734, wrote that " the cattle of this island 
are superior to the French," and Thomas Quayle, in 1812, con- 
sidered that " the treasure highest in a Jerseyman's estimation 
was his cow." The same spirit that now exists among the 
farmers of the Island to preserve the purity of their breed, 
doubtless actuated their forefathers a century ago. Acts of the 
States of Jersey were passed in 1763, 1789, 1826, and 1864, 
