Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-12-29

The recent sale of number of import
ed Guernsey and Jersey cows has been the
means of drawing more than usual atten-
ton to the former breed of cattle. as a
rival of the Jerseys. The Channel Island
cattle include three breeds, each one care
fully, and even iealouslv. confined to its
own island. and each considered by ITS
friends and owners to he the best The
Jerseys are the best known and need no
description. Their beauty of color, grace
fulness of form, and rich butter produce
ton have made them very popular. The
Guernseys, however, are without doubt.
better cattle than the Jerseys; they are
larger, and Weld more milk and butter on
the average, hut they are somewhat I'M
calmly and coarse in figure. wanting in that
beauty and finenesS of head, face and
neck which the Jerseys possess; their
colors are less attractive, although pleas
ing enough, being of various shades of
yellow orange. brown yellow, and red
mixed in patches with white; they are
rarely sold-colored, and have rather coarse
horns aud limbs. But not having been
fashionable they have not been bred for
fashionable points, and are to-day very
much, in this respect, like what the first
importations of Jerseys were many years
ago. And ii is question if they will ever
become us fashionable as the Jerseys have
been and are, because the lady amateurs
and cOnnoisseurs do not think them so
perfectly elegant" and are not attracted
bv their more homely appearance at the
exhibitions. But the professional breeders
and fancy dairymen are trying to give the
Guerusevs a boom. At the sale referred
to 80 GUERNSEY COWS sold at an average of
1897, and 10 Jersey COWS brought an
average OF 1885. This is running the Jer-
seys very closely.
ALDERNEY CATTLE.
1t is questionable if there is one genuine
Alderney COW in America, although the
name is very commonly used. Alderney
is the third island in size of the Channel
group and the cows hold similar relation
us to size, being very small. But they are
very beautifully formed, slender-limbed
and thn-necked, with fine heads, and, on
the whole, vieng with the deer in grace
fulness. Their milk is very rich, but
small in quantity, and as mixers are only
desirable to supply the light demands of a
private family for milk and cream. Why
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Attorneys is difficult to explain, excepting
for the probable reason that the first i'm
por'atons of Jerseys We're from England,
where the Channel group was, and is now,
often called the "Aderney Islands, " and
where these cattle were known as Alder
neys. AS Americans use better English
than the English themselves, so we should
correct this mistake and no longer mis-
name the Jerseys as Attorneys.
WINTER FEEDING.
My business is making butter winter
and summer, and | have found that to
secure an equal quality all the year the
winter feeding needs to be done very care
fully. For my own information | make
occasional experiments, and for the proof
OF these nothing more is needed than to
weigh the milk pail and the product of the
churn. These tell the whole story, and
yet some persons would have us believe
that the feeding has no effect upon the
quality of the milk, although it may have
upon the quantity. The truth is that the
eam-test glasses are rs accurate test OF
the iced us Il thermometer is of the TEN
perature, and The cream will 90 up and
down with riations of feed, beginning
with straw and buCkwheat bran for the
lowest up to the best clover hay, sugar
beets, and corn or cotton-seed- fol
highest, and color and flavor may be in
cluded with quantity Tribune.