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the milk of every pure-bred Guernsey in the herd, and have 

 continued to do so to the present. We began to keep yearly 

 fat records in 1892. 



Yearly records of the Ellerslie herd, owned by Levi P. 

 Morton, were carefully kept ; and under date of February 16, 

 1893, Superintendent W. M. Cottrell reported to Hoard's 

 Dairyman that the average yield per head for the 62 cows and 

 heifers that had had a year's work completed was 6,119.75 

 pounds of milk. The individual records over 6,000 pounds 

 milk were as follows : 



Pounds 

 10,316 

 9,102^ 

 8,687^ 

 8,39824 

 8,321^ 

 8,295j4 

 8,252J4 

 8,014 

 7,803^ 

 7,530^ 

 7,496 

 7,473^ 

 7,27834 

 7,244& 

 7,133^ 

 6,96354 

 6,908^ 

 6,964^ 

 6,907J4 

 6,718}* 

 6,464^ 

 6,434 

 6,398 

 6,424^ 

 6,393^ 

 6,340 

 6,302^ 

 6,239^ 

 6,211 

 6,135 

 6,1603/4 

 6,129*/ 2 

 6,074 



In August, 1893, the Morton barn was unfortunately 

 destroyed by fire and only one cow of the original herd 

 escaped death. Records were again kept of the new herd, of 

 which the following is a list that includes every animal that 

 completed a year's work in 1896, and only such cows as did 

 complete such records are given : 



Yearly Records of the Ellerslie Herd, 1896-7. 



Average Total 



Age Pounds milk per cent pounds 



Name of animal years in one year butter-fat butter-fat 



Imp. Bretonne 3660 9 11,218.8 602.9 



Buda 7178 6 8,559.0 6.96 602.7 



Quibble 6017 6 10,548.0 5.8 545.3 



