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The daily records of over SOO cows are being sent to the American Guernsey 

 Cattle Club ofiice regularly ; new ones are being started and others completed 

 every day in the year. As all young men and women who enter college 

 cannot for various reasons stand the strain, complete the course, and receive 

 a diploma, so there are cows who have to be withdrawn, and fail to make the 

 requirements and gain the coveted certificate. The first A. R. certificate was 

 issued April 30, 1002, some ten years ago, and for some years the growth was 

 very slow; but now the American Guernsey Cattle Club has over 2,000 

 authenticated yearly records on file in its office. The average milk vield for 

 these 2,019 records is 8,252.98 pounds, and the butter-fat 415.42 'pounds; 

 average per cent, 5.034. As it is the custom with most breeders to enter their 

 heifers with the first calf, to determine their capacity as soon as possible, 

 more of the foregoing records have been started between the age of two and 

 three than any year later. Thus the average yield given does not really give 

 the average record of the Guernsey cow at maturity. A mature Guernsey 

 cow has given 957.38 pounds of butter-fat in one year, while a number have 

 given over 900 pounds. In milk 18,808 pounds has been given, and many 

 give 10,000 to 12.000 pounds and more yearly. One cow now in milk has given 

 in 632 days 30,079.40 pounds milk, over 15 tons, and 1,536.97 pounds or over 

 three-fourths of a ton of butter-fat. She is carrying a calf, and still giving 

 over 30 pounds of milk a day at this writing. For continuous long-distance 

 work, we know of no record that has reached it. It fully demonstrates the 

 persistency of the Guernsey cow both in quantity and quality of product. 



Probably no one thing has shown up the merits of the Guernsey cow and 

 brought her so favorably before the public as the Advancefl Register work 

 she has done. This solid year's work, continued by reentry for two or three 

 years, in many cases has proved her worth in a manner above criticism. 

 The feed records accompanying each milk record in the Herd Register gives 

 fairly accurately the cost of production. 



That prices are governed by the records made, numberless instances could 

 be cited. Two or three instances will be sufficient to illustrate: The famous 

 cow Dolly Dimple has made three yearly records, and while I do not know 

 how prices were made on her offspring, I do believe that she increased 

 steadily in value with her owner. George Washington of Fairfield Farm sold as 

 a calf for $500. He was a fashionably bred May Rose bull out of an imported 

 cow. His dam, Hayes Richesse 2d, made a record of 642 pounds butter-fat, and 

 his sire, King of the May, sired six daughters who averaged 557 pounds 

 butter-fat each as two-year-olds. These results raised the value of George 

 Washington so that when six years old he sold for $3,500. 



BERKSHIRE BREEDING IN NORTH CAROLINA. 

 By A. B. Moore. 



Gentlemen: It makes me feel rather small to come before you and talk about 

 hogs after you have heard that magnificent address by Mr. Bishop. However, 

 if you will just heed the things he has told you, and increase the number of 

 your dairy cows, you will not only need Berkshire hogs, but you will need 

 Poland China and other hogs to feed the milk to. Of all the feeds for making 

 Berkshire meat, there is nothing to equal the milk given by Guernsey cows. 



There is no other animal that gives as great returns for feed as the hog — 

 not necessarily the Berkshire hog, but any good hog. Naturally, we would 

 rather see you use Berkshire hogs than some other kind. The only reason 

 we have selected the Berkshire is that it gives the best returns for the money 

 of any we have ever tried — and we bred Poland China for some six years. 



In the raising of the pig, for the first eight months it is commonly said that 

 he should take on at least one pound per day, or 225 to 275 pounds. Up to 

 . that age every pound of feed given him is well paid for. After the age of 

 eight or ten months, when he fails to put on at least a pound a day, you are 

 spending too much money in maintenance. When you see accounts through- 

 out the State, as frequently in our press, of some one having killed the biggest 

 hog in the neighborhood, one of 800 or 900 pounds, you may know that the 

 last 400 or 500 pounds cost just as much to produce as the first 225 pounds. 



