Breeding Up With Guernseys 



With a Few Added Sidelights On The Kind of a Fellow 

 Loch Angevine Is and What Makes Him That Way. 



'''■' /7 '^ EVER a man trained like a 

 l)i professional boxer to become 

 \^ "tops" in his business it's Farm 

 Bureau member Loch Angevine of Henry 

 county, who specializes in pure bred 

 Guernsey cattle. That training started 

 back in 1905 when Loch was going to 

 high school in Cambridge. A good 

 many of the old settlers there will re- 

 member the smiling lad who had the 

 Guernsey herd on the edge of town and 

 used to deliver milk every day to a 

 hefty list of customers. Outside a period 

 of a few years, Loch has been raising 

 Guernseys ever since. If you want to 

 find out what study and specialization 

 can do, just relax and let Loch tell you 

 the story as he told it to us one day in 

 August. 



"My father came to this county from 

 Ohio," said Loch, "He wasn't what you'd 

 call a professional farmer and that 

 showed up one day when he got a sun 

 stroke and had to give it up. He went 

 to teaching then. In the process of set- 

 tling in the county he married May 

 Seaver who was born in Rock Island 

 county. Funny thing, in 1881 my father 

 came to this farm right here and worked 

 when he was young. After teaching 

 school awhile, he became an undertaker, 

 first at Alpha and then at Cambridge. I 

 was born July 3, 1889 and had my grade 

 schooling in Alpha. Then I went to 

 high school in Cambridge and began 

 raising Guernseys and selling milk 

 and cream to people in town. After 

 graduating in 1908 I stayed home a year 

 and took care of my cattle. In the Fall 

 of 1910 I went to Iowa State at Ames 

 and took the 2 year short course in dairy- 

 ing. The Fall of 191 1 I took a job with 

 Wilcox & Stubbs, Des Moines, Iowa, 

 who had 150 Guernseys and delivered 

 milk in the city. I stayed for 3 months 



LOCH AN6EVINE, ESQ. 

 National, state, county breeders honor him. 



LOCH ANGEVINES FARM 

 Giant cottonwoods frame the gate. 



and then came back to Cambridge and 

 continued with my own herd until the 

 Fall of 1913, when I married. I gave up 

 the Guernsey herd and farmed my father- 

 in-law's farm which was about a mile 

 and a half west of the present farm. I 

 stood it without Guernseys for about 

 three years and moved over to this place 

 in 1917 and started building a herd. In 

 1919 I bought the farm and went into 

 the pure bred Guernsey business in earn- 

 est. I've been at it ever since. It's a 

 far cry from the herd I had in the first 

 place. There are less cattle but they 

 produce more milk and cream of higher 

 test on less feed at lower cost than the 

 first bunch. And that's about all there 

 is to tell. Except if you want to talk 



ST. JAMES CHAMPION AJAX 

 Sired record breakers — built a herd. 



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about my wife and the two boys. Ill 

 talk an arm off you about them." 



But, that wasn't all there was to Loch 

 Angevine's Guernsey business. We got 

 a hold of his records and in them is one 

 of the most interesting stories in the state. 

 It's a story of bad breaks, disappoint- 

 ments, stick-to-it-iveness and application 

 of sound dairy practice, animal husbandry 

 and plain every day courage. 



In 1921, Loch and his father went to 

 Moline and bought 2 grade cows and a 

 pure bred bull. He kept the bull only 

 3 months. Says "I just didn't like him 

 very much." Then, with his father he 

 went up to Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin and 

 bought 4 cows and a registered bull, Pet's 

 Dickie of Pleasant View, No. 87026. 

 This comprised the original Woodward 

 Dale pure bred Guernsey herd. Then in 

 1925, Loch's father bought Duchess of 

 Gordondale No. 103977. She bore 

 Cherubs Prince of Woodward Dale No. 

 106651 sired by Cora's Cherub of Shore- 

 wood, No. 58822. 



Cherubs Prince of Woodward Dale 

 had 5 daughters. Their dams had 18 rec- 

 ords averaging 6380 pounds of milk, 293 

 pounds of fat. The daughters had 11 

 records averaging 5393 lbs. of milk and 

 276 lbs. of fat. All records of dams 

 and daughters were made on a compar- 

 able basis, that is over a 5 year period. 

 The net result as Loch says, "Cherub's 

 Prince went to the 'bologney factory.' " 



In 1928, Loch went to Minnesota and 

 bought another bull. Investigator Shore- 

 wood, No. 131686. Only one of his 

 daughters, Rosemary, is in the present 

 herd. As a 6 year old, she was in the 

 "500 pound Club" in 1935. Made 

 450.4 lbs. of fat, average test 4.4 per 

 cent. In D.H.I. A. record from March 1, 

 1935-36, had 483 lbs. of fat at 4.4 per 



"GRANDMA JOSEPHINE" AND KIN 

 The old lady (left), daughter and grandaughtar. 



Lyall. 



WOODW 

 The gram 



