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| | The Alderney Cow |
 | | The term 'Alderney Cow' found in literature from Tobias Smollet to A.A.Milne, indicates a small, fawn, dairy cow, once popular in England with the landed gentry and prosperous farmers, often used as a house cow and yielding delicious rich milk and yellow cream. |
 | | This meant the end of the true Alderney type and the last calf of true Alderney blood was born on July 16th 1927. |
 | | Any pure Alderney cows, therefore, taken off the island to Guernsey in 1940, when the Channel Islands were occupied by the German army, would have been at least 13 years old and none of these survived the evacuation to return to Alderney after the war. |
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