. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. CHAPTER III. BuEEDS OF Cattle [conliiuieil) -. Jerseys, Longhorns, ;, Devons, Sussex, Polled Breeds, Kerries, 'Welsh. Channel Island Cattle—Probable Origin—Qualities—Great Milking Powers—Longhorns-Bakewell's Herd—Not as a rule R^markahle for Milk—But Capable of Improvement in this Respect—Instances—Herefords—Recently Modified in Colour—Characteristlics— Devons—Two Types-Richness of the Milk—Sussex Cattle—Probably an Offshoot from the Devons—An Improving Breed — Polled Breeds
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. CHAPTER III. BuEEDS OF Cattle [conliiuieil) -. Jerseys, Longhorns, ;, Devons, Sussex, Polled Breeds, Kerries, 'Welsh. Channel Island Cattle—Probable Origin—Qualities—Great Milking Powers—Longhorns-Bakewell's Herd—Not as a rule R^markahle for Milk—But Capable of Improvement in this Respect—Instances—Herefords—Recently Modified in Colour—Characteristlics— Devons—Two Types-Richness of the Milk—Sussex Cattle—Probably an Offshoot from the Devons—An Improving Breed — Polled Breeds —Galloways —An^s or Aberdeen Cattle—Norfolks and Suffolks —West HiglJand Cattle—Kerries—Their many Good Qualities—Irish Cattle Generally—Welsh HE Jersey and Guernsey cattle have been known for a long time past as " Alderneys " and as " Channel ; The former of these terms is merely adventitious, and not suffi- ciently descriptive. Happen- the shipping point for all lands of the group, viz., Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and only so because it is nearer than the others to the coast of England, Alderney gave its name a long time ago to all cattle coming that way, whether from the other islands or from the main- land of France. The latter term is more correct as well as more descriptive. But the term " Jer- seys " is now taking the lead of the others, partly because the island of Jersey is the largest of the group, and partly because its cattle are the most fashionable. There is, indeed, so little practical distinction between the cattle of the different islands, that the concrete name of " Jerseys " may well, for simplicity's sake, take possession of all of them. There is, it is true, some difference in size between the Guernsey and the Jersey cattle, the former being somewhat the larger and coarser; but as the latter are the more nearly exact embodiment of what the
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