. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 326 CATTLE movement on the island. The practice of selection was followed with much care, and the breeders constantly sacrificed animals of inferior quality and value to the butcher. The improvement of the Jersey in England had some bearing on the general development of the breed. Many herds had been formed in England, that of Lord Braybrooke in Essex County (dat- ing back to 1811) being still in existence in 1880, when the first volume of the English herdbook appeared. About 1821 Philip Dauncey of Horwood, Buckingham County, purchased his first J
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 326 CATTLE movement on the island. The practice of selection was followed with much care, and the breeders constantly sacrificed animals of inferior quality and value to the butcher. The improvement of the Jersey in England had some bearing on the general development of the breed. Many herds had been formed in England, that of Lord Braybrooke in Essex County (dat- ing back to 1811) being still in existence in 1880, when the first volume of the English herdbook appeared. About 1821 Philip Dauncey of Horwood, Buckingham County, purchased his first Jersey, and later be- came England's most celebrated breeder. He developed a re- markable herd, and it is stated that he even- tually maintained a dairy of fifty Jersey cows which netted him an annual profit of $100 each from sales of butter. His cows produced large yields of butter and greatly advertised the merits of the breed. The herd was dispersed in 1867, when ninety head averaged something over $200 each. Cattle from this herd were sold to go to different parts of England, Germany, Australia, and Tasmania. Dauncey, it is said, bred with three prime objects in view: first, a large average butter record; second, constitution; third, uniform color of hair, free from white. Among the most celebrated cows owned by him were Brunette, calved in 1833, the dam of fourteen calves; Violet, procured from Colonel Le Couteur in 1845 ; and Negress, a favorite black cow. Pope 652, purchased in 1826 from Michael Fowler, was his first bull and proved a most valuable addition to his herd. Dauncey bred the bull Rioter 746 E, whose grand- son Stoke Pogis 1269 became progenitor in America of the. Fig. 136. A seaside farm on the island of Jersey. The stack in the foreground consists of sea- weed, which is used for manure. From photo- graph by the author Digitized by Microsoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readab
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