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tion organized, for promoting this breed of cattle. This 

 association has had a remarkably successful career, and, 

 largely due to its influence, Waukesha County has become 

 the leading county in America for producing Guernseys, 

 while Wisconsin has become the leading state in herds of 

 this breed. Since the organization of these two community 

 breeding associations many others have been started in 

 America, so that now a great movement is taking place 

 in important live-stock centers which must largely benefit 

 individuals and local communities in which they exist. 



Figure 16. Geauga County (Ohio) Holstein-Friesian Association on annual 

 picnic at the Watt Farm. Photograph by the author. 



A well-planned method in breeding farm animals has not 

 been customary with the American stockman. His herd 

 more often than not consists of so-called representatives of 

 more than one breed, and he develops it without plan or pur- 

 pose. The work he does as a breeder makes less efficient 

 and valuable the live stock on the average American farm. 

 One may travel the length and breadth of the United States 

 and find countless examples of destructive breeding of this 

 sort. Operating against a host of such breeders of farm ani- 

 mals is a comparatively small number of men who with 



