Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Derby. 579 
From the Island of Jersey the runibcr of entries sent were 18, a number 
■which may be considered satisfoctory, as at some of the IJoyal Shows durinj^ 
the past few years the breeders and exliibitors on the Island liave been scantily 
represented, while at Hull in 1873 and at Bristol in 1878 there was not one 
simple animal shown by them. 
it is to bo hoped that the awards will be satisfactorily received, as we were 
most careful that quality and richness of produce, with a view to dairy 
purposes, should guide us in placing the animals for honours. Those animals 
which were beautiful ovly in form and colour, but without dairy qualities, 
were passed over. We had, however, few such before us in the ring. 
It will be well if breeders of Jersey cattle will bear in mind that their 
animals should be bred and selected for dairy qualities, and that the question 
of colour of hair (whether whole-colour, fawn, or silver-grey) should after all 
be secondary to those of richness and quality of milk. In the Herdbook 
published in the Island to the end of 1874 the total number of cows registered 
was 1584, and out of these there were only 162 which bad no white mark 
specified — that is to say, only one cow out of every ten was whole-coloured, or 
only a little more than 10 per cent. 
In all breeds it is important to select good sires, but especially is it so in a 
dairy herd. Accordingly, the bull for use in a herd should be chosen not 
alone for the colour of his hair or his good looks, but with regard to his parent- 
age. Something should be known beyond the honours he may have won in 
the prize ring, as the best judges can only select bulls from their general out- 
ward appearance and a few essential good points, such as the yellow colour of 
his skin and its thin silky handling, and an escutcheon of the first order. 
On the Island the importance of selecting sires from the best milking strains 
has never been lost sight of, and this accounts for the breed maintaining for so 
many years its prestige. In the introductory chapter to the English Jersey 
Herdbook, Mr. John Thornton quotes Thomas Quayle's account, written as far 
back as 1812 ; and he mentions the many years during which care had been 
shown in selecting animals for dairy qualities, and says that at that date the 
breed had an advantage over any other in the quality and quantity of cream 
produced from the consumption of a given quantity of fodder ; and in another 
Report in the same book, written in 1839, it is stated : " The Jersey cow was 
excellent, as she has ever been, which has been attributed to the circumstance 
of a few farmers having constantly attended to raising stock from cows of the 
best milking qualities ; which attention, prosecuted for a long number of 
years, in a small country like ours, where such superior qualities would soon 
be known, has led to the excellence of milking and butter-yielding properties 
in the race at large." 
In concluding this Eeport, we would suggest that there should in future be 
an additional Class for I5ulls under Twelve and over Six Months old, as the 
young Jersey bull to turn out with heifers is a most necessary animal in a 
Jersey herd. 
Walter Gilbey. 
C. Stephenson. 
James Ross. 
SHEEP. 
At the Show held at Derby in 1843, sheep were placed 
in three divisions, and prizes amounting to 315Z. distributed 
equally in each. The following Table shows the value of the 
respective prizes, the number of entries, and the various 
breeds : — 
