. Cattle. Cattle; Cattle. THE ALDEKNEYS. 139 ugliness is passed over on these accounts; and it is thought fash- ionable that the view from the breakfast or drawing-room of the house should present an Alderney cow or two grazing at a little THE ALDERNEY COW. They are light red, yellow, dun or fawn-colored; short, wild- horned, deer-necked, thin, and small boned ; irregularly, but often very awkwardly shaped. Mr. Parkinson, who seems to have a determined prejudice against them, says that " their size is small, and they are of as bad a form as can possibly be described; the bellie
. Cattle. Cattle; Cattle. THE ALDEKNEYS. 139 ugliness is passed over on these accounts; and it is thought fash- ionable that the view from the breakfast or drawing-room of the house should present an Alderney cow or two grazing at a little THE ALDERNEY COW. They are light red, yellow, dun or fawn-colored; short, wild- horned, deer-necked, thin, and small boned ; irregularly, but often very awkwardly shaped. Mr. Parkinson, who seems to have a determined prejudice against them, says that " their size is small, and they are of as bad a form as can possibly be described; the bellies of many of them are four- fifths of their weight; the neck is very thin and hollow ; the shoul- der stands up, and is the highest part; they are hollow and narrow behind the shoulders; the chine is nearly without flesh; the bucks are narrow and sharp at the ends; the rump is short, and they are narrow and light in the ; This is about as bad a form as can possibly be described, and the picture is very little exaggerated, when the animal is analyzed point by point; yet all these defects are so put together, as to make a not unpleasing whole. The Alderney, considering its voracious appetite—for it devours almost as much as a short-horn—yields very little milk. That milk,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Youatt, William, 1776-1847; Martin, W. C. L. (William Charles Linnaeus), 1798-1864, joint author; Stevens, A. ed. New-York, C. M. Saxton
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