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THE GUERNSEY BREED 



It is to be hoped that the authorities will shortly apply 

 the tuberculin test to every animal on the island, and if this 

 were done twice and disinfectants intelligently used, I think 

 the disease could be entirely stamped out. I confidently expect 

 to see the scourge again banished from Guernsey. 



As far as I have been able to discover, there is no con- 

 tagious abortion or other serious cattle disease aside from tu- 

 berculosis on the Channel Islands. This happy circumstance 

 should continue, because of the isolation of the islands, to- 

 gether with the marked improvement in the care of cattle. 



Records do not seem to tell when the first public shows 

 were held on the island, but it was certainly as far back as 

 1842. The Royal Guernsey Agricultural and Horticultural 



Alderney II 2215, P. S. King's Cup, Guernsey, 1910. Sire of nine A. R. cows. 



Society have records of the animals winning at these shows 

 since 1852. To this system of shows must be given a large 

 part of the credit for the development of the breed along 

 present lines of symmetry. 



For this reason, even at the risk of making this book 

 somewhat cumbersome, it seems appropriate to include the 

 roll of prize winners at the island shows since 1878, the earliest 

 date that the records of the society show the names of both 

 animals and owners. In Vol. 1 of the Herd Book of this 

 Society, issued in 1882, are the records of a few animals shown 



