Identifier: livestockcyclope00bake (find matches)
Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
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hich they came.H. The Guernseys. While the Jerseys and Alderneys have the most admirers, especiallyamono- fashionable breeders, from their deer-like forms and general airof elegant lightness, the Guernseys are coming into prominence as beinglaigerrbetter-built, (that is, not so angular,) and better feeders ; for itmu°t be confessed that the Jersey cow, for its size, is a great consumer. The Guernsey cow is also a larger producer of milk, though it isaveiTed by the Jersey breeders that it is not so rich in quality. Jerseycattle, however, vary much in this respect, and it is certain that theGuernsey cows are growing more and more into favor every year as but-ter and milk producing cows. m. The Alderney in Youatts Time. Youatt says of this breed, which he classes with the cattle of Nor-mandy, that they are from the French continent; that the cattle of Nor-numdv are larger and have a greater tendency to fatten ; that others are 679 680 CYCT-OPEDTA OF LTVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR.
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THE JERSEYS, ALDERNEYS AND GUERNSEYS. 681 from the islands of the French coast, but that all of them, wnether fromthe continent or islands, pass under the common name of Alderney.Youatt also adds, on the authority of Mr. Parkinson, who seems to havebeen a prejudiced observer, that, The Alderney, considering its voraciousappetite—for it devours almost as much as a Short-Horn—3ields verylittle milk, but admits the milk to be rich in quality, though itis not richenough, yielding the small quantity she does, to pay for what it costs.If this be true, the Jersey has improved fully as much within the lastfifty years as any othe^ breed. IV. The Jersey of To-Day. Be the statements of the authorities quoted what they may, the Jerseyof to-day is a very different animal from that which they describe. Thatthe Jerseys are large feeders for their size there is no doul)t, and that theygive the richest milk of any known breed is quite as certain. That someof them, at least, give large quantities o

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