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Jersey Cattle and their Management. 
Icrior, liquid manure wasted, the market ill-supplied. What 
had been effected? In cattle, beauty of form and flesh had 
been added to milking and creaming qualities, more cattle had 
been decorated than on any previous occasion, and the breed 
had so greatly improved, that many of the animals rejected 
would have been prize-cattle when the Society was formed. 
The price of cattle iiad fully doubled." 
In order to encourage breeding from superior animals, new 
rules were enacted, to the effect that any person withholding 
tlie service of a prize bull from the public should forfeit the 
premium ; that no person should receive a prize for bull, 
stallion, or boar until the animal had remained in the Island at 
least one whole season after the prize had been awarded ; and 
that all heifers having had premiums adjudged to them should 
be kept on the Island until they had dropped their first calf ; 
if previously sold for exportation, they should forfeit the 
premium. Tliese rules became necessary, for prices began to 
increase. When the Royal Agricultural Society of England 
held their show at Southampton in 1844, the Island Society 
gratefully acknowledged the liberal grant of premiums given by 
the Royal for " Channel Islands or crumpled horned cattle," 
and added half the amount of the awards as additional 
premiums to the owners of the prize animals in each class, 
calling special attention to the above new rules. A marked 
difference at this show was observed between the Guernsey and 
Jersey breeds, "the latter being altogether of a more delicate 
and slight form." This difference eventually became such a 
bar to the Judges, that in 1863, a petition — signed by the 
President, Secretary, and officers of the Society, and Mr. 
Dumbrell, of Brighton- — was presented to the Council of the 
Royal Agricultural Society of England, recommending that 
Channel Islands cattle should form separate classes. After a 
lapse of eight years the request was granted in 1871, when the 
Show was held at Wolverhampton. 
The great prosperity of America in 1853 led to animals being 
bought for large sums and sent to the United States ; this 
continued more or less until 1870, when animals were sold for 
higher prices than had hitherto been realized. Thirty-one 
animals were purchased at one time for 995/. for exportation 
to America. The following year Col. Le Cornu sold an extra- 
ordinarily fine heifer for 100 guineas, the highest price that had 
been realised. These sales were viewed with some alarm by the 
Board of Management of the Island Society, who called special 
attention to the impolicy of selling for exportation the greater 
number of the cattle which had obtained prizes. They showed 
that the only means of keeping up the reputation of the breed, 
