THE GUERNSEY BREED 245 



Natural Color of Various Lots of Butter. 

 Source of Cream Breed of Cows Shade or Color Value Quality of Color 



June 15, 1899. 



Whitney Factory ..Mostly Holstein ...No. 3x eq. 85 c. c.. .Orange. 



June 15. 



Geo. C. Hill & Son, Guernsey herd No. 5 x, nearly No. Old gold, with an 



Rosendale, Wis. 6, 150 c. c olive cast. 



June 21. 



Burchard Farm . . . .Jersey herd No. 3 x eq. 85 c. c. . .Lemon and orange. 



June 28. 



The same Jersey herd No. 3x eq. 85 c. c.. .Lemon and orange. 



June 28. 

 Ex-Gov. Hoard's .. .Guernsey cows ....No. 5 eq. 125 c. c... Olive, lemon and 



gold. 



December 7. 

 Geo. C. Hill & Son. Guernsey herd ....No. 3x eq. 85 c. c...Same quality of color 



March 15, 1900. 

 Geo. C. Hill & Son. Guernsey herd ....No. 2x eq. 60 c. c... About the color of 



banana meat. 

 April 2. 



O. T. Howard Holstein herd No. 1 eq. 15 c. c.. . .Almost white.- 



Ft. Atkinson, Wis. 



April 12. 



Burchard Farm Jersey herd No. 2x eq. 60 c. c. 



June 4. 



O. T. Howard Holstein herd No. 2 cq. 50 c. c. 



June 15, 1900. 

 Whitney Factory. . .Unsalted butter ...No. 2x eq. 60 c. c. 



Salted butter No. 3^ eq. 85 c. c. 



x for plus 



"The fall drop in a line of Wisconsin creameries does not go 

 below No. 2 until the ground hog days, and then it is a long time 

 going down towards No. 1. The whitest butter is produced' and most 

 artificial color is used in the spring just before sunshine and pastur- 

 age commence, and then the gain in color does not come all at once." 



Mr. Fitch, in writing me at the time the above Guernsey 

 sample was sent, March 15th, 1900, said: 



"The color has fallen to 2% on the scale, and this would just suit 

 me, as it is for table use. It is as high a color as could be sold' in 

 Manchester, England." 



In judging of the color of milk, it must be remembered 

 that the color value of Guernseys giving 5 per cent milk 

 would be increased as compared with 3 per cent Holstein milk 

 by the factor of 5/3 over the table color values of butter; 

 whereas for cream of the same richness, the comparative color 

 values would be as stated for butter. Thus Holstein milk 

 might often have less than one-fourth the color of Guernsey 

 milk. 



James M. Codman, of Brookline, Mass., who visited the 

 Island in 1871, and made an importation at that time, more 

 than any other person has called attention of the breeders 

 to the value of this breed characteristic, and the results ob- 



