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and pink nose usually crop up in the offspring, which retains a 
coarseness at once detected and rejected by the Island judges. 
About forty years ago, when the duties were altered, and 
later, French cattle were shipped to England with the Island 
cattle, and passed off as Jerseys. Hearing of this, the Island 
breeders became very vigilant. One man was reputed to have 
made about 1800Z. by this traffic ; for in Brittany cows could 
be bought at about 5Z., and they were sold here, according to 
their merit, for 15Z. and upwards. Even now Brittany cows 
may be purchased along the coast about St. Malo for 8/. to 10/., 
and much resemble inferior Jerseys. The udder is not so good, 
nor is there such a generally well-bred appearance as in the 
Jersey. The quarantine of French cattle, now enforced at 
Southampton and other ports, is sufficient precaution against 
this trade being continued. 
Mr. George Culley, the great Northumbrian authority on 
cattle, in his ' Observations on Live Stock,' 1807, considered 
the Alderney breed scarcely worth the trouble of naming at all, 
as he imagined them too delicate and tender ever to be much 
attended to by British farmers. " They were only to be met 
with at the seats of our nobility and gentry, upon account of 
their giving exceeding rich milk to support the luxury of the 
tea-table." Yet he admits having seen some useful cattle bred 
from a cross between an Alderney cow and a Shorthorn bull. 
It is only of later years that the breeds have been kept pure, for, 
as previously shown, at their first introduction it was the custom 
to keep one Alderney to two or three dairy cows, to enrich the 
milk and colour the butter. Even now, in some parts of the 
country, this practice is still continued ; for some epicures con- 
sider both the cream and butter made entirely from the Alderney 
to have a fatty greasiness in flavour, distasteful to the refined 
and delicate palate. Much, however, of this may depend on the 
manufacture of the butter and the taste of the consumer. 
The herd at Audley End, Mr. Selby Lowndes', Mr. Daun- 
cey's in the south of England, and the Rev. John Hill's in 
Shropshire, are among the very few herds that have been kept 
pure for upwards of half a century. To Mr. Philip Dauncey is, 
however, due the honour of bringing the breed into greater pro- 
minence ; creating a demand for it and setting the fashion for 
whole colours. He went to reside in Buckinghamshire in 1821 
and kept a Suffolk cow, but seeing a " little lemon-fawn cow 
with white round her nose," near Watford, which took his fancy, 
he purchased her. The Suffolk gave 21 quarts a day, the little 
lemon-fawn cow, " Pug," 11 quarts, yet her butter yielded 10^ lbs. 
against 10^ lbs. from the Suffolk. His choice of a breed for dairy 
was soon made. Many interesting anecdotes are told regarding 
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