Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1883 — Alderney and Jersey Cows. [ARTICLE]

Alderney and Jersey Cows.

Alderney, Jersey, and Guernsey are small islands in the British Channel, just off the coast of Normandy, France; from which the first, an isle of about four square miles in area, is separated bv only a narrow strait Jersey, about sixteen miles off the coast, is a much larger and more fertile island, being about eleven times the size of Alderney. While the cattle of the thres islands are all believed to have come from one common Norman stock, and pass under the common name of the Alderney breed, the Jersey cattle have been greatly improved by careful inbreeding, and are better milkers as to *quantity, though not as to quality, than the native cattle of Alderney. Few cattle are exported from the latter island, while a considerable number of Jersey cattle are exported to England and this country where nearly all the representatives of what is known as the Alderney breed are Jereeys. It would not be correct to speak of Aldemeys and Jerseys as distinct breeds.