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THE GUERNSEY BREED 



their reputation for producing butterfat at the lowest cost 

 per pound. 



In 1909 W. W. Marsh, of Waterloo, Iowa, offered $1,000 

 for prizes for a dairy cow contest to be carried on under the 

 auspices of the Iowa Experiment Station. The owners of 

 dairy cattle in that state vied with each other in securing- the 

 best cows to be had to enter in this contest. At least $2,500 

 is said to have been paid for a cow that finished a long way 

 behind the winner. Mr. Marsh entered three cows himself. 



Dairymaid of Pinehurst 24656 14,562.4 pounds milk, 860.26 pounds fat in one year. 



When the year was ended his cows had produced the three 

 largest amounts of butterfat given by any cow in the contest. 

 They were Dairymaid of Pinehurst 24656, 14,562.4 pounds of 

 milk, 860.26 pounds of fat; Jedetta of Pinehurst 17434, 15,109.1 

 pounds of milk, 778.8 pounds of fat; and Glencoe's Bopeep 

 18602, 18,121.7 pounds of milk, 622.61 pounds of fat. 



The result of this competition was to greatly advertise 

 the Guernseys, and Dairymaid of Pinehurst was in the years 

 1910 and 1912 the leading attraction at the National Dairy 

 Show. 



In 1909 and 1911 a similar contest was carried on in Wis- 

 consin. In two different months a purebred Guernsey led in 

 the production of butterfat, and in another month a Guernsey 

 grade led. The Guernsey grade cows were the sensation of 



