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THE GUERNSEY BREED 



Yeksa 2426 was bred' by I. J. Clapp, Kenosha, Wisconsin, who 

 was the second man to bring Guernseys into Wisconsin, in the fall 

 of 1881. She was born April 12, 1885, and was named after a Turkish 

 nurse who had, shortly before the birth of this calf, come from Syria 

 and been engaged' by Mr. Clapp to care for his little niece. 



Yeksa 2426. 



Yeksa was sold, with her half-brother Puck, to Mrs. Etta A. 

 Foster, Sparta, Wisconsin. Mrs. Foster tested the cow at both two 

 and three years of age, and reported that she made 561 pounds of 

 butter as a two-year-old', and over 600 pounds as a three-year-old; but 

 the reports show that part of the time a pound of butter was made 

 from 11 1-3 pounds of milk, and in light of later test work, the rec- 

 ords may be taken with a grain of allowance. There is no doubt, 

 however, that she was a great cow. Mrs. Foster raised from the pair, 

 which were half brother and sister, one bull and two heifers. The 

 bull was Yeksa's Prince 1943, and the daughters were Queen Vashti 

 6051, A. R. 174, 435.57 pounds fat at 14 years of age, and Bonny T'ean 

 3646. Yeksa's Prince was sold to W. D. Richardson, Garden City, 

 Minn., and Bonny Jean to Nels Martinson, Hutchinson, Minn. 



Queen Vashti was bred to her own sire, and produced Yeksa's 

 Queen, and the cow and calf were sold to A. J. Philips, West Salem, 

 Wis. It would seem as though the blood had been effectually scat- 

 tered, and so it was for a time; but later, through the efforts of the 

 late Fred Rietbrock, much of it was again united in the Helendale 

 herd. Bonny Jean, the oldest of the three calves, was born September 



