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very wary and deliberate in making a transaction, for iS to 

 2$, and bulls a year old from 15 to 20. Outstanding 

 pedigree animals fetch larger prices for exportation. By the 

 statistical returns of June 1905 there were 6528 cattle in the 

 Island, of which 3538 were cows and heifers in milk and in calf. 

 The cattle entered in the Herd Book number (1905) over 1200. 



The breed, like many of the old Guernsey families, such as 

 the De Garis, Allez, Mansell, and Blendel, has a record many 

 centuries before William, Duke of Normandy, conquered at 

 Hastings. The identical breed is now found in several parts 

 of Normandy ; around Lisieux, William the Conqueror's 

 birthplace, and especially near Isigny, where the cattle were 

 scrupulously bred, the model Guernsey is to be seen alike in 

 every particular to its Island cousins. The richness in cream, 

 and its colour there, as in Guernsey, a sine qua non w r ere 

 points uppermost in the selection of breeding stock. 



The following is a list of prominent present-day 

 breeders in the Island of Guernsey : J. G. Browning, Rose 

 Farm, St Martins ; Gen. de Vic Carey, Le Vallon, St Martins ; 

 J. De Garis, Sea View Farm, Castel ; C. Domaille, La 

 Villette, St Martins ; T. R. Gallienne, Ponchez, Castel ; 

 F. Jehan, Le Chene Farm, Forest ; J. le Page, Birquet, St 

 Saviours ; A. le Patourel, La Ramee, St Peter-Port ; T. le 

 Prevost, L'Etiennerie, Castel ; T. Lucas, Mont Marche, Forest ; 

 J. W. Martel, Preel, Castel; P. Martel, jua, Hunguet, St 

 Andrews ; P. D. Ozanne, Les Pelleys, Castel ; H. M. Ozanne, 

 Lilyvale, Castel ; T. M. Simon, Les Caches, St Saviours. 



For cheese-making purposes, the milk of the Islands 

 cows, owing to the large size of the cream globules, is inferior 

 to the milk of the Ayrshire or Shorthorn. 



A successful Guernsey herd, the property of J. Maconochie 

 Wellwood, is maintained as far north in Scotland as 

 Meadowbank Home Farm, Kirknewton, Midlothian, for the 

 supply of milk of superior quality for a West-end trade in 

 Edinburgh, being driven by cart a distance of ten miles 

 morning and evening, except during the summer months 

 when people are on holiday. It was started in 1891 with 

 22 cows and calves, and it now numbers 116 of all ages. 

 P. D. Ozanne's bulls are imported from Guernsey. The last 

 pair of Ozanne's breed cost about ,30 each. Male calves 

 are sold to the butcher for 75. 6d. upwards ; the heifers are 



