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Jersetj Cattle and their Management, 
the selection and formation of his herd. He used " Pope," an 
Island bull, in 1826, and occasionally one of his neighbour's 
(Mr. Selbj Lowndes'), but he relied mostly on his own blood, 
weeding and rejecting for upwards of thirty years, when he 
took another direct Island cross. In management he adopted 
the English method of not putting his heifers to service until 
about two years old ; and, on account of the increased price 
of winter butter (by which he made about lOOOZ. a year from 
50 cows), he preferred his cows calving in autumn and winter. 
He certainly created a type which took the public eye, and many 
a breeder now dates his taste for the breed, apart from the 
butter question, from having seen the beautiful deerlike 
creatures in " Dauncey's meadows, when hunting Whaddon 
Chase." 
An eye-witness has left a vivid picture of them : — " Mr. 
Dauncey has been a breeder rather than a buyer, in which 
way he has acquired more size and constitution ; but, together 
with the higher development of these qualities, an unmistakable 
coarseness is apparent. In going through the herd the first 
thing that struck the visitor was their fine size and level looks. 
There were but few of those ragged razor-backed bags of bones, 
so often supposed to typify good milkers ; but most of the cows 
carried some flesh, with thick kindly coats, and other such 
attributes of the hardy healthy animal. Imposing as the 
Horwood Alderneys looked in their standings, they improved 
immensely upon the eye when led into the ring. What with 
their free, graceful carriage and kindly, placid manners, they 
bore about them the very impress of highly-bred but not over- 
bred animals. Long and low, level but not flat, their symmetry 
and condition were equally admirable. No wonder the Squire 
is loth to part with them now that he has fashioned them, as it 
were, all of a family, for to sketch one is to portray the whole 
herd. The same dark pointing of the same sober garments is 
the very livery of the tribe, set off by the gamely-tanned muzzle, 
the bloodlike necks and light deerlike limbs and movements. 
When the coarseness does crop up we note it in a thick, 
ungainly, and often gaudy horn, or yet more in the harsh, 
awkward setting-on of the tail." — Mark Lane Express, Oct. 28, 
1867. 
The late Mr. Duncan's herd, in the same county, was some- 
what similar to Mr. Dauncey's herd. It was bred for over 
thirty years for whole colour, and the animals became rather 
smaller in size. The cows calved mostly in the spring months. 
Mr. Duncan's annual profit in dairy produce was about 23Z. for 
each cow. The average price realised, 40/. Ss., when the herd 
was sold in 1873, fell just below Mr. Dauncey's. It numbered 
