THE GUERNSEY AND JERSEY ISLAND CATTLE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 457, 17 April 1912, Page 3

THE GUERNSEY AND JERSEY ISLAND CATTLE.

There came 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 any more cattle to Guernsey farmers, claiming they were too small, that they were only a detriment, and they would have no more of them. Jersey retaliated by saying: "We prohibit cattle from the ißalnd of Guernsey landing on our shores; they are coarse, ungainly brutes, and we warn you if you brine any more over here they will be killed." Someone, it is said, was caught at making at exchange, claiming he had brought hia cattle from the mainland. Then Jersey and Guernsey both passed laws prohibiting any cattle of any dsecription coming to either island, no matter where they hailed from. From that day there has never been a live animal landed on either island, except for slaughter, aid no animal that has ever been exported has ever been allowed to return. The only exception to this was that Guernsey several years ago permitted one of their islanders to exhibit his cattle in England, under severe restrictions that they were to be returned. They soon repudiated this ruling, as the herd so exhibited in Great Britain and returned to the island was the first and only one on the island to have tuberculosis. Australian Farm and Home.