. The Guernsey breed. Guernsey cattle. so The Guernsey Breed medium, up-standing horns, and the bull is very heavy in the shoulders and light in the hind quarters. There are numerous other pictures in existence, 80 to 125 years old, purporting to represent so-called Alderney cows, these show annuals varying in color from light yellow through shades of fawn, brown, and brindle to black. This is additional proof that there was, only a few years ago, much less difference in the breeds of cattle on the several islands than writers have ordinarily led us to belie\'e. W'e are re- minded, too, that c
. The Guernsey breed. Guernsey cattle. so The Guernsey Breed medium, up-standing horns, and the bull is very heavy in the shoulders and light in the hind quarters. There are numerous other pictures in existence, 80 to 125 years old, purporting to represent so-called Alderney cows, these show annuals varying in color from light yellow through shades of fawn, brown, and brindle to black. This is additional proof that there was, only a few years ago, much less difference in the breeds of cattle on the several islands than writers have ordinarily led us to belie\'e. W'e are re- minded, too, that cattle in a particular district will vary greatly in color in a few generations. There are se\'eral pictures in the National Gallery, Lon- don, by the Holland artist, Guyp, a celebrated artist of the IStli century. Certain animals in se\'eral different pictures of his show a similarity that suggests they were all painted from a sketch he has made of a cow in the field. Several animals represented are fawn, or fawn and white, or brown and white. Their colors and form would indicate that they were similar to the cattle nf the Channel Islands as seen in the earliest pictures and descriptions that we have of them. This means, if it means aii}-thing, that the cattle of Holland and the Channel Islands had probably a common origin not man_\- centuries ago. The questiou cjf the origin of the breed is not nearly so. Fasciiiatiun 2il 4()b,S, I' S, Dam of two A. \<. Digitized by Microsoft® and one ,\ R. 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 Hill, Charles Lewis, 1869-. Waterloo, Iowa. : F. L. Kimball Co.
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