This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...the results of careful "breeding as practised by Mr. P. Dauncey, Horwood Rectory, Bucks, with his herd of Jersey "cattle. These were sold, some time since, by auction, when sixty-nine head of stock realized "a sum of 3,136 guineas. For instance, a cow three years old was sold for 100 guineas; a two"year-old heifer, 60 guineas; a bull, one yearold, 60 guineas." In the same report it is stated "that during the year one agent alone, Mr. Le Bus, had shipped from Jersey 2,041 head, representing a value of. 29,000;" also, " That the first prize two-year-old heifer at the last May show "was sold in Jersey for, 38; and the first prize in yearlings fetched at a sale While the sales from Jersey for exportation averaged about, 14 per head, Mr. Dauncey's sale averaged over 45 guineas per head, and his best animals far exceeded the prices fetched for first-prize animals in Jersey, though there is no doubt, other things being equal, that the purchasers of the Dauncey stock (there being no Jersey Herd Book in England) would have preferred imported animals. The conclusion, therefore, is most natural, that Mr. Dauncey, working with material derived only from Jersey, far exceeded the Jcrseymen themselves in the value of his results. With a Herd Book to help us, with the encouragement of high prices for good animals and good butter, and with ample material to start with, there is no reason why wc may not in time produce a stock better than has yet been known. The early importations of Jersey cattle into this country are most difficult to trace. The animals were then called Alderneys, and the same name was given to Guernsey cattle, of which a goodly number were brought over, and they seem to have...