. The Guernsey breed. Guernsey cattle. The Guernsey Buked 47 1870. It is very e\'i(l(.'nt also that but sli;^'!!! attiMitiMii was paid b}" the farmers uf the islands tn diltereiiees in the cattle frnm another of the islands. In searching for inh irniatii in iliat would throw light upon the time when a distinction began to l)e drawn between the two breeds 1 was reminded of the story told of an old woman wdio, wdien she heard smne Daughters of the American Re\T)lution talking abnut their ])edigrees, said: "7"here's a wdiole lot of peo[)le wdu) had better not study their pedigrees:
. The Guernsey breed. Guernsey cattle. The Guernsey Buked 47 1870. It is very e\'i(l(.'nt also that but sli;^'!!! attiMitiMii was paid b}" the farmers uf the islands tn diltereiiees in the cattle frnm another of the islands. In searching for inh irniatii in iliat would throw light upon the time when a distinction began to l)e drawn between the two breeds 1 was reminded of the story told of an old woman wdio, wdien she heard smne Daughters of the American Re\T)lution talking abnut their ])edigrees, said: "7"here's a wdiole lot of peo[)le wdu) had better not study their pedigrees: the\- may lind something that thev do not want to ; But it is \'er}' e\-ident that, while, as a matter of local pride, there was not an extensi\'e admixture of the cattle from one island to the other, and, wdiile there were laws pro- hibiting the importation (if foreign cattle, the cattle of any one of the Channel islands were not considered foreign on any of the other I have found plenty of references tii the taking of cattle from both Guernsey and jersey to Alderney and from both Guernsey and Alderney to Jersey, and, wdiile I do not find any direct reference to the taking of cattle from Jersey to Guernsey, it is very certain, from the color of many of the cattle on the Island of Guernsey, that there must have been an admixture of Jersey blood not many generations ago. As Digitized by Microsoft®. 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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