The Guernsey and Jersey Island Cattle.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 January 1913, Page 4

The Guernsey and Jersey Island Cattle.

Thero camo a time over one hundred years ago—some claim it was nearly two hundred years—when Guernsey and Jersey fell out as neighbours. Guernsey, as the story goes, forbade Jersey to send anv more cattle to Guernsey, the Guernsey farmer claiming they wero too email, that they a detriment, and they would have no more of them. Jersey retaliated by saying: "We prohibit cattle from the Island of Guerney landing on our shores; they* are coanse, ungainly brutes, and we warn you if you bring •any more over here they will be killed." -.->

Someone, it is said, was caught at making an exchange, claiming ho had bought his cattle from the main land. Then Jersey and Guernsey both passed laws prohibiting any cattle of any description coming to either island, no matter where they hailed from.

From that day there lias nover been n live animal landed on either island, except for slaughter, nnd no animal that has ever been exported from the islands has ever been allowed to return. The only exception to this was that Guernsey several wears ago permitted one of their islanders to exhibit hie cattle in England, under severe restrictions fcliat they were to be returned. They tfoon repudiated this ruling, as the hord so exhibited in Great Britain and returned to tho ieland was th« first and only one on tho island to have tuberculosis.—Farm and Home.