GUERNSEY-DEVON.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 31 January 1912, Page 8

GUERNSEY-DEVON.

A XBW DAIRY BREED. Mr C Elliott, who is in Christchurch nk now, is visitina New in order to bring under the notice ot larmers a breed of dairy cattle in which he takes an interest and which ho thinks might to be better known than it is. Iho breed is a cross between the Guernsey and .\ortn Devon cattle. It was brought ml" ™.st-t-ucp al-.out.liO years a S o, and Mr. Elliott =avs has been very successful, the animals- are all red in colour, have short horns and are wonderfully pood milkers. For twenty-five years Mr. Elliott managed the estate of Mr. F. B. Mildmay, M.P. for the Totnc«s division of Dcvou, where largo numbers of these cattle have been bred From there they have been sent to different countries, notably South Africa mid Victoria, where the climate is not verv severe. Mr. Elliott has been through Otago and Southland and intends to spend a few weeks in Canterbury. He will then come north, and will "do" the whole of New Zealand. He slated in on interview with the "Lyttelton Times" that ho was not. at all favourably impressed with the herds he had'seen in tno south. He luici not seen any so°d cattle at all. Most of the herds were, composed of polled \n"us and bastard Shorthorns. At Flaxton" in Canterbury, he had seen a hrr-.l of 17.'i cows, but they were all sorts, all sizes and all colours, and I hey did not make a good impression upon him. hi England the practice was to have each herd one colour and tho~e. thaf differed from the prevailing colour were taken out of the herd.