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Jersey Cattle and their Management. 
prizes given by county breeders. It was about this time that 
Mr. Walter Gilbey's name became noticeable as a successful 
breeder and exhibitor ; and for the next four years, until he was 
suddenly compelled by the death of the owner to leave his 
residence and sell his herd, he may be said to have carried all 
before him. His success is, in a large measure, due both to 
management and selection. Being a great advocate for having 
one stall in a London stable kept for the use of a cow, he began, 
years prior to exhibiting, to keep a good " Alderney " for his 
family use. Finding a great difference between one cow and 
another, he gave more attention to the selection of them. The 
taste growing, he kept a larger dairy at his country residence in 
Essex. In time he found a demand for the offspring of these 
animals, as they became famous for their great yields of milk 
and butter. The best and choicest imported animals, regardless 
of colour or price, were sent to him ; and he also made selec- 
tions among herds in his immediate neighbourhood, where Lord 
Braybrooke, Mr. John Archer Houblon, and Mr. Cornwell, had 
long given attention to the breed. He found, particularly among 
the Americans, that the inquiry was mainly for whole-coloured 
animals. Having got the milking properties to the greatest per- 
fection, by sedulously drafting cows with defective udders and 
indifferent yields, he sought to introduce whole colours, not so 
much for his own taste as for that of the public. As Mr. 
Dauncey had studied both milk and colour, Mr. Gilbey selected 
his " Ban," a three-year-old in-calf cow, considered by most 
people the best in the sale ; she cost 81 guineas (the second 
highest price), Mr. Marjoribanks having given 100 guineas for 
Landscape." " Ban " on coming to Mr. Gilbey produced a 
heifer-calf; and for nine months was kept idle in order that 
she might be put to " Rioter," a bull of Mr. Dauncey's, to 
breed a bull for his own stock. The produce was the celebrated 
" Banboy," first-prize bull at the Royal at Wolverhampton, where 
also Mr. Gilbey's cows, " Duchess 14th," bred on the Island, 
was first, and " Milkmaid," bred by Mr. G. A. Fuller, near 
Dorking, third. Banboy, bred right on both sides for milk 
and colour, retained the dairy properties, and imparted whole 
colours to his progeny. With these, however, came a certain 
degree of coarseness, which was obviated by turning the heifers, 
when about nine months old, with a young bull of the same 
age, into a large barn. The animals showed inclinations to 
breed long before they had hitherto been mated, and by mating 
them early, they were set breeding, and their milk-vessels kept 
shapely and perfect. The calves were kept on the heifers for 
six weeks, and gradually weaned ; but calves from cows were 
brought up by hand and taught to feed early, yet not forced. 
