The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29
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uOyS VI SSyS OOulO ioAd,
What They are and the
Gentlemen Farmers Here
abouts Who Herd Them
The Blooded Stock That
Produces Cream Instead Of
Milk.
Alfred VI. Herkness the Ninth
street bazaar man, will this morn
ing, by public cutlery, sell twenty
seven Jersey-or, as he would have
called them a year back, Alderney
COWS and heifers, brought from
Southampton on the steamship
Sorrento. Nowadays there are
very few gentleman farmers there
abouts-men of business whose pet
hobby is the conduct Of a fanciful-
ly stocked farm, producing beetS at
a cost value of one dollar apiece and
cabbages that cost their weight IN
gold-there are but few of these
who do not possess a herd or the
beginning of a herd of Alderney
cattle. In fact, gentleman farmers
have affected these deer-llke I'M
ported kline for years past, but 1t Is
only recently that farmers-the al
fair, who engages in nothing that
does not furnish a prospect of flu
ture wealth-haye taken to the
breeding o. the cattle whose fore
fathers suffered the salty breezes of
the English Channel. Every breed
Ell of Channel cows, no matter how
much an amateur, glorles IN his
knowledge OF their, points, but
there are many who do not know
exactly where the cattle come from
and how they first found their way
to America.
WHERE THE COWS CONE FROM.
All imported cattle, with the
exception of the hardy Scotch Ayr
shires and the big-boned English
Durhams, find their way here from
the Channel Islands. South of the
English coast, clustered in Il deep
bay running into the northwest
coast of France, rises a bunch rocky
islets. But four of these are in
habiteG. But three of them have
had Their names waited Over the
seas. Sark is not noted for It's
cattle nor for anything IN particu.
lar, but one family and its depend.
ents living thereon. Aldernev ha;
for its inhabitants the government
officers Of the Harbor of Refuge anC
IA few fishermen. Guernsey has
thriving seafaring population. Jer
sey has a perfect little colony 0
folks as gentle bred as their cattl,
and that is no sighting compari
son. These little side-channe
islands possess a verdure almos
tropical, a people still clinging t
their ancient forms of eighty dc
cades ago., a freedom from take
and imposts and cattle known an
sought after the wide world over
TO the cattle breeder, not a cor
noisseur, there are three distinC
classes of Channel stock: Alderney
jersey and Guernsey. Authorize
upon the matter claim, howeve
that Attorneys are but Jerseys, tt
latter being the proper name for a
Channel kline, with the eXceptiC
of the Guernseys, and in suppo
of this they claim that all the fiji
cattle found throughout Englar
were brought from jersey, Il
name Alderney only being deriy,
from the fact that the first anima
brought across the Channel cal
from Attorney, which, island no
ever produces but very few catt
The truth of the matter IA be SUI
med up, however, in this, that t
species is miscalled Attorney or
as far rs the Jerseys are concern
and Attorneys can be found,
though differing but slightly fro
the Jerseys, which make up t
mass of the Channel cattle. j
seys, however will be called AID
neys for many a day to come,
though Herkness, the Philadelpl
Tattersall, has taken the new ma
by now placing Jersey instead
Alderney upon his catalogues.
WHO FIRST IMPORTED H COW
The first record of an impol
ton to America of Channel cat
is IN 1917, when Richard Moi
Philadelphia describes a "cow
the Alderney breed imported
short time previously by
Wurtz.' Mr.. Reuben Haines S
sequently got possession of this
imal. No other importations
known of until 1910, when Mic
las Blddle, the great United St
Bank man, had Il herd of Gu,
seys shipped across the sea. 1t
tine-bred stock, and their desct
ants arc still owpa6 and pri1oI