PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Indiana State Guernsev Cattle Club. 



The annual meeting of the Indiana State Guernsey Cattle Club was 

 held- in Koom 35. State House, January 5, 1905. John Morgan, President. 

 The roll was called and all the members were present. 



The club then elected the following officers for the ensuing year: 



John Morgan President. 



S. C. Reese Vice-President. 



Oliver H. Mills Secretary. 



Amos Mills Treasurer. 



Executive Committee — John Morgan, Plainfield; Oliver H. 

 Mills, Mooresville; Eli Hawkins, Kokomo. 



The Secretary then read from papers on Guernsey cattle, their origin 

 and success as dairy cattle. 



John Morgan then read the following paper: 



GUERNSEY CATTLE IN INDIANA. 



About the'year 1889 I was at a county fair in Tippecanoe County, In- 

 diana, and saw my first Guernsey, a line three-year-old Dull. He was a 

 rangy-looking fellow, with yellow skin and other characteristics of the 

 breed. He attracted but little attention, as every dairyman seemed to 

 cling to the Holstein and Jersey. From 1892 to 1894 I traveled in a large 

 number of the dairy States, selling creameries and purchasing butter. I 

 found that wherever the Guernsey cattle were being tested the results 

 were very satisfactory. But I only found a few herds, some half-breeds 

 and some registered bulls. The color of the butter was so satisfactory 

 that I determined to own a cow myself. I tried to purchase one at differ- 

 ent places, but they were out of my reach. In the fall of 1894, J. Howard 

 Davidson, of Altamont, N. Y„ attended the Indiana State Fair with hi» 

 famous Chicago World's Fair hei"d. Many of his animals took first prizes 

 there, as well as at some seventeen other large State and interstate fairs. 



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