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THE CULTIVATOR. 
May, 
LADY OIFFORD. 
Stock Cjtisbanbnj. 
Lady Gifford. 
The above figure is an excellent portrait of a 
mare, noticed in our last, as having been purchased 
by Mr. S. A. Gilbert, East Hamilton, N. Y., of 
Mr. Ingraham, Chester, Yt. We are informed 
that she was bred by Madison Aldredge, of Wea- 
thersfield, Yt.,- was by the well-known horse Gifford 
Morgan, dam a bay mare owned by Mr. Aldredge. 
Her color is a dark chestnut, or brown. She has 
great depth and capacity of chest, and remarka¬ 
ble muscular development, combined with justness 
of proportion, which gives her great bottom and 
power. She has not yet been trained, but her 
natural action is of the right kind, and indicates 
.hat mature age and proper management only, are 
wanting to enable her show speed equal to the best. 
She has great spirit and fire, but withal so much 
intelligence and gentleness that a lady or child can 
safely drive her. 
Alderney breed of Cattle. 
In the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney, 
in the English Channel, a breed of cattle has long 
existed, the cows of which have been much celebra¬ 
ted for the richness of their milk. This breed is 
said to have come originally from Normandy, 
France, where cattle of similar characters are still 
found. In the islands above mentioned, however, 
the breed has been of late years much improved, so 
that it is considered superior to the Norman stock. 
The improvement alluded to, has been produced 
chiefly by an association of farmers in Jersey. An 
account of the improvement effected by this society, 
has been given by Col. LeCouteur, in the fifth vo¬ 
lume of the Transactions of the Royal Agricultural 
Society. He states that these cattle were formerly 
ill-shaped, of poor constitutions, and great consu¬ 
mers in proportion to their weight. The farmers 
had looked only to the production of rich milk and 
butter, and the consequence was, that, though the 
cows gave good returns in this respect, they were 
less profitable than they might have been, had they 
possessed other valuable qualities, the union of which 
would not have detracted from their dairy produce. 
But these defects, we are told, have been in a great 
degree remedied. Col. LeC. observes —“ By hav¬ 
ing studied the habits of a good cow with a little 
more tendency to fatten than others, and crossing 
her with a fleshy well-conditioned bull of a stock 
that was also known to produce quantity and quali¬ 
ty of butter, the next generation has proved of a 
rounder form, with a tendency to make fat, without 
having lost the butyraceous nature.” 
For determining the comparative excellence of 
animals, the society have a “ scale of points” for 
bulls and another for cows, as follows:— 
Scale of Points for Bulls. P’ts. 
Art. I. Purity of breed on male and female sides, 
reputed for having produced rich and 
yellow butter,. 4 
II. Head fine and tapering, cheek small, muz¬ 
zle fine and encircled with white, nos¬ 
trils high and open, horns polished, crum* 
